‘Coach’ Star Craig T. Nelson says life on the farm is crucial to finding ‘American Values’
Craig T. Nelson He was fixing on TV and movie screens since the 1980s, but before that he lived a simple life in the cabin outside the network in northern California.
“It was a search for meaning. And I lost it in Hollywood,” he told Fox News Digital.
In the early 1970s, Nelson tried his hand at a stand-up comedy. He was an early member of the Groundings and even appeared in the comedy store.
But in 1973 he left the world and, with his mother’s legacy, decided to buy a country near the Shasta Mountain in Northern California without electricity or running water, and there he began building a cabin with his young family.
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Craig T. Nelson left Hollywood before he even started his career to live a life out of a network in northern California for several years. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
“And that was a seven -year journey of absolute struggle, he had never built anything before,” he said.
A friend gave him a book about construction cabins that “showed me the weakness and lack of the character I carried, which lacked patience. And I have no knowledge of how to do it. And so I had to learn. And you learn with my family.
He continued, “and in the end it was done. It was done with the community, it was done with the help of people you would usually not go and or ask for help. And I learned, and so I was an trainee of the plumber. And he was a geodet. as a kind of actor. “
Nelson did just that, becoming a household name Movies like “Poltergeist” And later his sitcom, a “coach”.
Nelson, with her “coaching” teammates Kenneth Kimmins, Shelley Fabares, Jerry Van Dyke and Bill Fagirbakkes. (ABC camera archives/Disney general entertainment content via Getty Images)
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Taking these types of risks he did in his life and career helped Nelson connect with his character in the new movie “Green and Gold”.
80-year-old star like Buck, who is fighting a farmer who will lose everything when he boldly bet Green Bay Packers going all the way to the Super Bowla. While risking, his granddaughter, played by Madison Lawlor, seems to leave the farm and continue his music career.
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Nelson connected with his character through their struggle to find success.
“Early career is all about it. It is, you know, avoiding bankers, really, hanging out in a collection of people and finding a way to talk to them, which gives you some insight into how malicious it can be,” Sasa said laughter . “The fight, I mean, is where you can certainly find identification, at least in terms of different jobs that I had to do to just capture myself and make a living while trying to become something I had no idea what I was trying to become.”
Nelson’s own fighting in his early career made him feel related to the fighting for survival that farmers face. (Bob Riha Jr./getty Images)
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“It’s the beauty of dream realization,” he added. “But imagine, I think even generally, the families have inherited this wonderful wealth and tradition, and there are many myths about it. But I think he is trying to continue this and the type of pressure that puts someone on attempt and let it work, especially now where they do is difficult[ies]. I think it’s all so recognizable. “
Nelson said that the agriculture “in my family’s blood is safe”, returning in the mid-1800s, and felt a deep gratitude to farmers through his work on film, saying that their hard work goes to “feeding our country and trying to make life in this .
“I think the fight is where you can surely find identification.”
“And the margins on which they live are so small. And so you identify with the struggle, and the beauty of this is that there is humor and there is respect and there is a sense of community and … American values, traditional.”
“Spend a few weeks on the farm and, you know, you will quickly find out where your heart is lying,” he added.
In his role as farmers in “Green and Gold”, Nelson praised the work that farmers do, saying: “There is a sense of community and … American values.” (Childe Productions)
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Nelson also believes that “green and gold” is a little love letter to America.
“We hear so much about what we lose and what we need to repeat again. And everything is there. It really is. It’s just a need for a sound plate,” he said. “There must be a resonance that we hear and listen to. And I think we witness people, farmers themselves and shooting a movie in Wisconsin and the DOOR district and getting to know them and get to know their families in a certain degree and what they go through, I think not only is the empowerment, but for sure been inspiring. “
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“Disbelief” Star also got the opportunity to live his dreams as a lifelong fan of Green Bay Packers when he sang a national anthem on Lambeau Field on January 5th.
“I am such a fan, you know, I really did. And players, man, it’s amazing. I went aside and cold … but you don’t feel., Screaming and they are packed, and it’s like: ‘My God, Lambeau Field, “he said with excitement.
Nelson had the honor of singing a national anthem at Green Bay Packers match at Lambeau Field. (Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
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On the other hand, through many of his ups, downs and dreams, his wife Doria came true, with whom he married in 1987.
Thinking about theirs Almost 40-year marriage, Nelson said that one of the keys to their success was: “Realizing that I have a friend who has my own personal interest in my heart. And I have to learn to listen.”
“Spend a few weeks on the farm and, you know, you will quickly find out where your heart is lying.”
He continued his praise, saying, “You see, I am married to someone who is so extraordinary that she confuses as I constantly discover things about her that are magical. [She has] A sense of wonder of life that only intrigues me. I have a completely different view. I mean, I can be there. I can go with her and I can tolerate such things. And I say I tolerate for a while, but then I have to go alone and become very desperate and start thinking. And I do it primarily to get out of any kind of reality. But she keeps me focused and keeps me in love. “
Nelson has three children from his first marriage to Robin McCarthy, and has more grandchildren and great -grandchildren with whom he does his best to go step, or as he said, “Don’t keep up.”
Nelson and his wife Doria Cook-Nelson have been married since 1987. (Joshua Blanchard/Getty Pictures for Paramount Pictures)
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“You know, because in 80 I don’t move so fast and I’m not so threatening, so I don’t have it for me. You speak quietly and wear a big stick? I can barely pick it up,” he joked.
But Nelson said he was finding a relationship with multiple generations in his family.
“It’s so intriguing that I am able to talk to them with what they are going through and I hope to hear myself. If I have some kind of communication skills that will give me a sphere for a while,” he said, adding that it is difficult to “break” phone addiction.
“I’m married to someone who is so extraordinary that he confuses as I constantly discover things about her that are magical.”
“I don’t have that because I’m not raised with that, so I don’t understand it. However, I understand,” he said, jokes that “steal their phones” and look at them “they go into some kind of decompression and jerk for their phone.”
Nelson joked that in 80 he couldn’t always keep up with his grandparents, but he likes to connect with them. (Justin Lubin/NBCU Photo Bank/Nbcunersal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
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And then when they complain that they are not communicating with friends, he said with a laugh, “Yes, that’s why you talked to me here!”
“Green and Gold” is in cinemas on January 31.
