{"id":20109,"date":"2021-04-01T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20109"},"modified":"2021-08-11T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T16:10:11","slug":"interview-matt-salinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/interview-matt-salinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Matt Salinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 400px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23ededed&amp;d=april21&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=26&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Movie producer and actor Matt Salinger is also literary co-executor for his father, novelist J. D. Salinger (1919-2010). Matt\u2019s most recent acting gig is The Ice Road, shot in Canada with a 2021 release and starring Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne. We reached Matt by telephone post-production to discuss his work and his dad\u2019s attachment to Maine.<\/p>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p>What was it like working with Liam Neeson in the icy wastes of Canada during COVID?<br \/>\nI had a small part. In The Ice Road I\u2019m in three small scenes. Very much a supporting part. I hadn\u2019t been in an action movie in twenty years, but then it\u2019s not an action part. I play a suit. Well, I come pretty close to some action in the end. I have one scene with Liam. He\u2019s out on the ice doing what Liam does, for pretty much the whole movie. Liam has really carved a niche for himself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">See the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminiscences of performances future, and of his father, a celebrated Maine summer person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20402,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109\/revisions\/20402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}