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Lucas adds Southern charm to 'Sweet Home Alabama'
By Alisha Davis (CNN Headline News)
(CNN) -- Southern hospitality proved very inviting at movie theaters over the weekend. The new romantic comedy "Sweet Home Alabama" had the best debut ever for a movie in September, raking in $37.5 million dollars over the weekend on its way to the top spot at the box office. I sat down with one of the movie's stars, Josh Lucas, to get "The Scoop"... Alisha: Josh, you've been a pretty busy guy lately! First you were in the Oscar-winning film "A Beautiful Mind," and now "Sweet Home Alabama." Lucas: Yes, it's been an amazing time, a wonderful time. Alisha: And what drew you to this role? You're a Southerner, so was it the Southern appeal? Lucas: I had just finished "A Beautiful Mind" and I had this beautiful script laid in front of me, which reminded me of my childhood. So I was like, "Yes, this is what I wanted to do." And it was so different from "A Beautiful Mind" that I was just totally attracted to it in the beginning. And of course, the chance to go work with Reese Witherspoon didn't hurt. Alisha: So where exactly are you from in the South? Lucas: I'm from Arkansas. [I] lived as a kid on two beautiful islands off the coast of Charleston, the Isle of Palms and Sullivan's Island, so I had such a relationship to the beginning of the movie when the kids were running around on the beach, chasing each other...and the lightning. Alisha: You don't have much of an accent anymore, but you have a very heavy accent in the movie. Lucas: It's hard as an actor to get work if you don't have the ability to do a broad American accent, so I spent easily two years with a coach to get rid of my Southern accent. Ironically, the coach was the woman who they hired to do this movie...completely coincidental. So it was basically, "Look, here you go, let's bring all these sounds back." Alisha: And you've got "The Hulk" coming up next, right? Lucas: I just finished "The Hulk," which was truly the most incredible experience that I've had yet as an actor because of the director, Ang Lee, who is just absolutely a beautiful, soulful artist. He took a massive corporate comic book movie and brought this very, very artistic soul that he has to it, and I think the two combined might make something incredible.
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