“And he looked like this 70s dirtbag hippie, and I was like, Ah, absolutely.
Everything about this guy.
Pine says the entirety of the climbers wardrobe felt right for the character.
Chris Pine.
The T-shirt, the shorts, these weird f—in boots with the weird socks… he explains.
So that was the genesis of that, like a 70s dirtbag rock-climbing hippie.
He has his own Jake Gittes detective suit.
Annette Bening, Chris Pine, and Danny DeVito in ‘Poolman’.Vertical
Jake Gittes is fromChinatown.
I have this great floppy Japanese straw hat that I bought once and loved.
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Pine says he put in a lot of research to play the titular poolman.
Learning about being a poolman was difficult, he says, sarcastically.
Its something I trained endlessly for.
I lost weight, I gained weight, lived with my own poolman for months.
It was worth it.
I learned that from my poolman, he laughs.
It really made me giggle a lot.
I had this whole idea of how he cleans the pool, and its like ballet.
Poolmanalso starsAnnette Bening, DeWanda Wise,Stephen Tobolowsky,Ariana DeBose,Jennifer Jason Leigh, andDanny DeVito.
The film hits theaters May 10.
