Emile Hirsch Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets

23^rd November 2014

Fact: Actor Balthazar Getty celebrated the launch of his wife's new clothing line by inviting guests including Demi Moore, Emile Hirsch and Marisa Tomei to a dinner party at their Los Angeles home. The former Brothers & Sisters star gathered family and friends to fete designer Rosetta Millington's latest line, which went on sale on net-a-porter.com on Friday (21Nov14). Other famous faces in attendance included Moore's daughters with Bruce Willis, Rumer and Scout, Alex Pettyfer, Rebecca Gayheart and Soleil Moon Frye.

16^th May 2014

Fact: Actor Emile Hirsch has introduced his baby son Valor to his fans after sharing a cute photo of the tot on his Twitter.com blog on Wednesday (14May14). In the accompanying caption, he wrote, "Valor at 6 months... Thank God for mama!" The star welcomed his first child with an unidentified ex-girlfriend in November (13).

26^th November 2013

Quote: "I was there for a year but it wasn't supposed to be a year; it was supposed to be, like, a weekend, and I just kind of somehow... hustled myself one or two days at a time and then the days really add up and before I knew it, I was just a fixture in the corner of the house... We just had a great time watching movies." Actor Emile Hirsch on the year he spent living with pal John Goodman.

22^nd November 2013

Quote: "We're definitely going to make him look like himself in the movie, no matter what. It's not gonna be a biopic where suddenly he's on Weight Watchers." Emile Hirsch will be piling on the pounds in order to play larger-than-life funnyman John Belushi in a new biopic.

7^th April 2011

Fact: Into The Wild star Emile Hirsch has made his directorial debut by taking charge of Daft Punk's new video for Alive. The quirky promo features a dance-off between two rival Venice Beach, California skateboarders.

13^th January 2010

Tweet: "The last 48 hours have been the most intense & physically grueling experience of my life." Actor Emile Hirsch on his charity climb to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.

29^th November 2008

Quote: "I didn't want to overgay it. I didn't want to come across as a caricature. I went to the gay and lesbian section of Borders and got a s**tload of books." Actor Emile Hirsch on the research he undertook to play gay activist CLEVE JONES in HARVEY MILK biopic MILK.

11^th May 2008

Quote: "I look like Dennis Quaid's INNER SPACE action figure, circa 1995, which is an upgrade for me. They just redressed those Inner Space toys and stuck my head on it." Actor Emile Hirsch on his SPEED RACER action figure.

10^th May 2008

Fact: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL pin-up Zac Efron was among the actors considered for the role of SPEED RACER in the hit new film of the same name. Into The Wild's Emile Hirsch eventually landed the role.

9^th April 2008

Quote: "He told me that people in my generation really need to have the courage to stand for something. I took that to heart - the idea of young people taking more responsibility." Emile Hirsch recalls what his Into The Wild director Sean Penn taught him.

21^st December 2007

Quote: "Most of the places we were going, you just couldn't drive any of the trucks there. So it was about finding a good tree stump when you weren't shooting." Actor Emile Hirsch didn't spend much time relaxing in his trailer on the set of Sean Penn's recent movie INTO THE WILD.

9^th November 2007

Quote: "It was gruelling at times. It was freezing, too, but Sean was there right behind me with the whip!" American actor Emile Hirsch reveals Sean Penn's directorial style, on new movie INTO THE WILD.

6^th October 2007

Fact: Into The Wild's Emile Hirsch and HAIRSPRAY's Nikki Blonsky will be honoured with Rising Star Awards at the 19th Palm Springs Film Festival in California in January (08).

18^th September 2007

Quote: "I almost got a T-shirt that read I survived Sean Penn." Emile Hirsch on coping with the rigours of shooting IN THE WILD for director Penn, who made the young actor get in shape, hike and kayak for scenes in the real-life wilderness movie.

22^nd March 2007

Fact: Actor Emile Hirsch is in final talks to recreate 1960s Japanese cartoon hero SPEED RACER in a new Hollywood movie to be directed by brothers LARRY and Andy Wachowski.