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Dave Matthews hits new note as film actor

February 14, 2005

By NANCY MILLS - DAILY NEWS WRITER

021405.jpgDon't worry, Dave Matthews is not quitting the Dave Matthews Band and going Hollywood.

"To ever leave the band to pursue a solo career exclusively would be absurd to me," he says.

That's including a solo movie career.

In his first major acting job, the gravel-voiced Matthews plays Otis, a lonely pet- shop employee who charms animals with music in the family drama "Because of Winn-Dixie," which opens Friday. It's based on Kate ­DiCamillo's best-selling young adult book about a girl and a dog she adopts.

"I didn't have to stretch too far to put myself in my character's situation," says Matthews. "If things in my life had not unfolded the way they did — if the disappointments and obstacles had been different — I think I could have been outwardly more similar to Otis."

Matthews, 38, became a connoisseur of disappointment and obstacles while setting up shots as a bartender in Charlottesville, Va., before he started his band.

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Puppy love: Matthews' film career finally takes off
December 2nd, 2004

in issue 0348 of the Hook - BY HAWES SPENCER

120204.jpg Dave Matthews will soon launch his film career with a supporting role in an earnest puppy-dog tale set in a small town. But the musical superstar's big-screen debut isn't in the production-troubled remake of Where the Red Fern Goes. That film is going straight to DVD.

Instead, Matthews' theatrical debut arrives-- complete with a new Dave song-- in Because of Winn-Dixie, slated for release in February.

Based on the best seller by Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie is about a lonely girl who adopts an orphaned dog and names him for a nearby grocery store. In the family drama to be released by Twentieth Century Fox Matthews plays Otis, a shy ex-con.

While Fox officials have been closely guarding production details, in a year-ago interview in Rolling Stone, Matthews, who lives in Seattle and Albemarle, called the picture a "small spectacle."

"I always said that if I ever did a part in a movie, I would refuse to play music, but I realized that this is the perfect part for me," the bi-coastal Matthews told the magazine. "I got to write some songs and, in a way, try not to be myself."

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Wet Fern: Dry eyes rare at Matthews debut

May 8th, 2003

BY HAWES SPENCER EDITOR@READTHEHOOK.COM

a050803.jpgLast Saturday, just a block from New York's Ground Zero, the world's most eagerly awaited phoenix, a troubled film enjoyed a rebirth of its own. Where the Red Fern Grows, the motion picture debut of Dave Matthews, drew a solid ovation and moistened several hundred eyes at its May 3 premiere.

"I cried the whole way through," said Megan Lewis of Westchester County, following the screening at the Tribeca Film Festival. Although acquainted with one of the film's producers, the 40-something audience member says she didn't realize how well the 36-year-old rock star could act.

"I was a little bit skeptical, but he pulled it off," said Lewis. "Dave Matthews did a great job-- so subtle, so understated."

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