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Warning: This story contains spoilers for “Walk“Now in theaters.

Let’s set the scene: a group of 50 young men, all from different states and counties, walk side by shoulder in a terrifying summer heat. The boys have no idea where they go, their bodies slowly excludes, everything they say are followed at all times that America is watching. The only goal of their mind is to walk until there is only the last man standing.

It is a totalitarian society that Richard Bachman created a “long walk,” his first novel, now played film. With an intimate look inside masculinity and male friendship, “a long walk” was resonated with more generations during the last 46 years, which shows the loss of young people in horrible circumstances.

While the “long walk” follows the story of Raymond Garranti (Cooper Hoffman) and Peter Jonson (David Jonsson), and they are desperate to change prizes and are desperate to change prizes and are desperate to Change the prizes and that they are desperate to change the rewards.

One of the walkers, Stebbins (Garrett Wareing), Immediately separated from other walkers, avoiding close to the other competitors in the victory attempt. As Stebbins starts to examine the point and authority behind the walk, soon realizes that he might have more in common with his competition than he can trust.

She talked freely Variety About the originally audition for the role of Barkovich, why Stebbins chooses to come out of the competition during the final moments of the film, and why “a long walk” brought a lasting impact since its release in 1979. years.

How did you attach to “long walk?”

At first I’m auditioned for “long walking” five years ago when it was a completely different team. I just remember that I fell in love with this story then, and when I saw that the film came around, it was just abolishing the excitement in me again. Originally, I am intended for the role of Barkovica, and rich in Delia, our director for casting, and then asked me for whom I wanted to be played potentially in the film. They got me a new reading script and I found myself drawn to Stebbins. One thing led to another, and I finished the tape for Stebbins. I got my friends from Ransa Canyon “to go out into the desert to shoot him with me and we shot at my audition we walk in the desert.

Stebbins is at the very beginning, Stebbins is the one who all the other boys will either win for a walk or will get the first ticket. They have their opinion and think of him at the beginning of the walk and those feelings make very clear. Where is his head space like ganging all other competitors about him talk as they openly about him?

I think Stebbins doesn’t come from the place to want to hurt these guys. He will win this race in his mind and to win, he had to beat there. I found this space with Francis (Lawrence) based on us to be kept and does not come from a place of hate or anger. Comes from place only conservation. If he starts loving these guys and start knowing something about them and they will still get along, they will only hurt him. He will win this walk in his mind. He is held to meet them because he does not want to hurt and hurt them in the process.

The book Stebbins is a very polarized character. Throughout the entire waiting, he makes small conversations with other boys, but it also laughs when one kills them. In this version, we can see a more subtle version in which it is constantly in combat or flight regime and is very withdrawn from everyone around it.

The book is quite brave. Francis led from the site of unification and Kamaraderie where all these guys, Stebbins turned on, they don’t want to see each other see how they die. On the set is that Grandma found a place together to give more hearts to these characters, and I really like how we eventually find the truth and love in Stebbins.

On the scene after Olson die, the remaining walkers learn that he was the only one who had a wife back home. The remaining competitors make this pact that whatever wins that it will support its usable financial assistance, and Stebbins is immediately in any way to help any possible with the rest of the boys. Is that a turning point in which it is slowly starting to realize that worries of the remaining walkers?

The moment for me came a little earlier. That’s the moment when Tressler (Samuel Clark) holds this radio and every singing ‘fuck a long walk, fuck Major!’ all around. When we filmed it, everyone fell into it. I also remember as Garrett and Stebbins, I just started laughing because it happens a little different with everyone. At that small moment, Stebbini began to see these boys as comrades, not opponents. He is a surprise that it is at that moment throughout the whole film.

And it’s such a vulnerable moment for him, because he feels like she’s told that she is fucking to her father, who was discovered that it was at the end of the film. When they are down to the final three, Stebbins announces that he wanted to use his desire to be invited to his father’s house for tea. It feels that before he dies, he realizes that he will never be a father and does not want to be like him in any form or form.

I think maybe he came into it stupid, thinking he would get it out of it. But then the whole walk learns, that’s perhaps something else. Finally, we have changed because of what we experience.

At what time towards the end Stebbins realizes it won’t win for a walk?

I feel like Stebbins could walk, but I believe he starts to see that there is nothing needed to be a winner in his soul. He sees them sharing Rai and Pete and I think he almost sacrificed himself to let them together have the final moments together. I really realized that by the end of that monologue at the end of the film, when it allows them to continue forward. Although it gets sick and physically carried him, the love that Stebbins sees between the two boys, he is able to be in peace and said it was glad that it was two in the end.

“The long walk” echoed the audience for almost 50 years. Why do you think this book talked to teenagers and continues to have a lasting impact on multiple generations?

There is something we can all refer to the story. Although this is a brutal walk that we see that these guys go through, it is also a lesson to appreciate what we have while we have. Everything is temporary in life, but if we can have beautiful experiences and share them with others during this temporary experience, can that be enough? We see how many these boys like to love and get to know each other, and that teaches us a lesson just by making a member of the audience to appreciate what you have while you have. We have been walking long since we were born in the correct moment we die. This is what is a lesson here for me, to treat others to respect and kindness, to honor the desires of fallen and that this dream is about better future. We are all together.

This interview is arranged and condensed.