Garrett Hedlund: 'Country Strong' Opens Today!

Garrett Hedlund grins as he arrives at a screening of his new movie, Country Strong, at AMC Village 7 on Thursday (January 6) in New York City.

The 26-year-old actor plays a songwriter named Beau Hutton in the film, which also stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Leighton Meester!

“I mean, country, it was the only thing we listened to on the farm with the one radio station,” Garrett told MTV News. “You try to veer from it and you to go to rock and then to rap, and then country on this film kind of pulled me back home.”