Gran Torino: Next Door (The Hmong Experience) 

My late father was a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, my family grew up watching almost all of his classic cowboy movies, my fav was The good the bad and the ugly. Watching any of Clint’s movies reminds me of my dad. Miss you dad.😢

imma lose when he officially goes, but he will forever be in our hearts and screens

I've watched the movie multiple times and you can tell that the Hmong actors were... amateurs. But IMO that "amateur feeling" we got from the actors was really really really powerful. It made the movie feel more "real", it made the movie feel less like a big Hollywood production with snooty high-paid actors bitching about the size of their dressing room while getting paid millions of dollars. The Hmong acting was far from bad or unacceptable so don't get me wrong. As an audience member, I enjoy seeing unknown up-and-coming young actors get big roles in movies and tv. The TV show Breaking Bad for example, the only actor I knew before the show was Brian Cranston ... the rest of the cast, while they had acting experience, where relatively unknown at the time they made BB. Its that "new face" feeling that audiences like. I think Eastwood understands this concept of using unknown actors. You still need a bigger movie star to bring people into the theaters and to shore up the important, emotional scenes. But the un-said star of the movie was the amateurish feeling, the "home-made" feeling, the "reality" that was delivered by the Hmong actors. I think more movies should be made this way. Employ up and coming actors more and more and stop feeding us these snooty, over-paid, self-important snobs.

Great interview!! Really enjoyed watching. Thanks.

The Left wouldn't allow this movie today. Let that sink in.

Every single American civilian should be forced marched into [ Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia ] to see the damaged their tax paying dollars did to these innocent people. I'm from Greece. The U.S. dropped bombs on little girls in Greece, before they butchered [ Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia ]. Really not many Americans to admire or respect, so the best part about this movie is about the Hmong. But didn't explain how the French left and in 1963, the Americans arrived and they made the Hmong fight against each other. And not one word about how the USA Bombed Laos. Gosh. Most bombed country in the world is Laos. Sheesh. The United States dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years, U.S. spent over $3billion doing this and Laos wasn't even fighting in the war. And Cluster bombs look like little balls, so to day the children pick them up to play with them and Kaboom, the bomb explodes. Anthony Bourdain Really, Really Hated Henry Kissinger. “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. The Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy. - Henry Kissinger, Former National security Advisor.