Three-time Emmy winner Margo Martindale chatted with this journalist about starring in the new film “The Long Haul,” which was written and directed by David Drake.
Aside from Martindale, the cast features Stephen Root, Cole Sprouse and Yalitza Aparicio. This movie marked screenwriter and director David Drake’s feature debut.
The synopsis is: CJ (Margo Martindale), a seasoned truck driver who has spent her years traversing the American Southwest, has meticulously constructed a life of distance from her past. However, a letter from the parole board threatens to dismantle the walls she has painstakingly built. CJ, facing the prospect of retirement and a reckoning she has evaded for years, must finally find the courage to pause and contemplate her future.
On the lessons learned from this screenplay, she said with a sweet laugh, “It taught me how to drive a truck. Also, how to get in a truck, how to operate a truck, and what heights to pull.”
“Also, it brings up the subject about forgiveness, which is something it didn’t teach me because I knew it,” she said. “I think forgiveness is a powerful thing.”
Martindale is drawn to playing CJ for several reasons. “CJ just keeps going forward,” she said. “CJ keeps on loving, however, I don’t know what she does after she leaves the truck.”
Regarding her definition of the word success, Martindale remarked, “Success is happiness, and also, peace of mind!”
For fans and viewers, she concluded, “The one thing I want people to take away from this is forgiveness.”
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