![]() The siblings' first film, which they co-wrote and co-directed, won two awards at the Brooklyn Film Festival, including the Coen Brothers Directors Award for Duo Filmmakers. In addition to working with Hollywood's elite players, Jackson - along with his brother Richard - runs his own production company. They all kind of know each other," Jackson says. He says he also appreciated working with the ensemble of veteran actors - Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Amy Irving and Ben Kingsley - who all appear in "Tuck." "It was really exciting. "Working with Al Pacino was probably one of the coolest things," he says. Besides "Tuck," he recently appeared in the critically acclaimed film "Insomnia" as a murder suspect. Since then Jackson has been busy writing scripts and directing, as well as trying his hand at roles on the big screen. Jackson, right, says he tried to make Alexis Bledel's first film experience a fun one. "We don't have a lot of years to live so whatever we have we should enjoy it." I hope people walk away asking questions," he says. "The movie deals with things like death and aging. The story takes place in 1914 but its themes are timeless, he says. Other than that, Jackson says the script stuck closely to the book. In the book there is no romance," he adds. "The main difference was in the book Winnie was 10 and in the movie she's 15," Jackson says of the screenplay's version of "Tuck." "Part of the movie is the romance between Jesse and Winnie. The film is based on the popular 1975 Natalie Babbitt children's novel with the same name. "Since it was her first movie I tried to encourage her. ![]() She was excited and in awe of the other actors," Jackson says. He plays opposite Alexis Bledel (from WB's "Gilmore Girls") in her big screen debut. "He's basically a very optimistic, joyful type of guy who really wants to enjoy life," Jackson says of Tuck, whom he compares to a "Peter Pan character." Jackson, left, on the set of "Tuck" with Sissy Spacek. ![]()
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