For veteran actor Hal Holbrook, visiting the Nashville Film Festival this past weekend marked something of a homecoming: He actually maintains a home in McLemoreseville, Tennesee, with his actress wife, McLemoreseville native Dixie Carter. It’s a small town – “Two gas pumps and a cannon,” as he affectionately describes it – but “it’s a place far away from Los Angeles” that “gives us a whole different view of life when we’re able to come here and enjoy the wonderful, wonderful kind of people that live here.”Unfortunately, his wife couldn’t be with him Saturday night when he was honored with a NaFF Lifetime Achievement award before a festival screening of That Evening Sun, the filmed-in-Tennessee drama in which Holbrook gives a career-highlight performance as an aging farmer who won’t give up his pride or his property.
“Dixie’s off filming a TV pilot, which we both hope will work out,” Holbrook explained. Still, she clearly was there in spirit as Holbrook delivered a brief but heartfelt acceptance speech: “I’m so happy that we were able to make this film in Tennessee – a home that I have adopted, where I have been adopted into a family, a real family, the best family I’ve ever known in my life, the Carter family out of McLemoreseville.”
As for the film itself, “Hopefully, That Evening Sun gives us a picture of people that you might be familiar with here in Nashville, but maybe someone in New York City won’t have any prior experience with. So it’ll give people a chance, maybe, to sort of broaden their brains a little bit about the big country we’re living in, with all the different kinds of people living in it.”
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