The Rock, Johnny Knoxville and other stars from "Walking Tall" did their press junket interviews over the weekend and CHUD was on hand to capture what they had to say:

The Rock
About his role in the "Get Shorty" sequel entitled "Be Cool" - "I took the role because it was a great opportunity to work with great actors, take a role that you wouldn't necessarily expect me to play - being a bad guy, being gay, poking fun at myself and raising my eyebrow to John Travolta like, 'I got talent!'  It's a lot of fun...there's no action in the movie.  It's fantastic because again, you get to test your comedic timing off some really, really good actors".

With "Spyhunter", he'll start in July - "GM is making us this amazing car that breaks off into a boat into a three-wheeler into a motorcycle.  It's really incredible". His pet project "King Kamehameha" looks hopefully to begin shooting next year - "There's no rush for that for me.  As an actor, I just want to be ready.  The script is ready and they're just working on it and tweaking it and making it right, so there's no rush".

In between those "There's a comedy that I'm excited about that I might do after Spyhunter called Skiptracer and it's from the writer of Big Daddy, Stevie Franks.  It's very, very funny.  It's an action-comedy with a lot of comedy.  It's a two-hander, so it's a buddy movie and my buddy is a nine year-old girl...They were talking about Keisha Castle-Hughes because we're of the same descent, but I think she's a little older".

Johnny Knoxville
The oft-beaten up actor talked about his part in the Farrelly Bros. comedy "The Ringer" - "I don't know if you know the premise, but I fake like I'm mentally challenged and enter the Special Olympics because I have to pay off this guy's surgery.  My uncle has to pay off his bookies, so he convinces me to do it, which on the surface sounds like it could be mean-spirited, but it's not because all the mean stuff happens to me...it was tough because we had to find a balance where it wasn't hard to watch.  You don't want to watch someone - over-the-top - for an hour and a half, so we had to make it subtle and I think we did.  Apparently, they had a screening last night and it went great".

He's also done the John Waters film "A Dirty Shame" - "It's about a town full of sexual deviants and they battle the neuters for control of the town and I play the head sexual deviant. It's one of the naughtiest and funniest things in years and he's so sweet and brilliant. My thing is I go down on every girl in town".

What else is he involved in? "Lords of Dogtown.  It's based on the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys.  Catherine Hardwicke, who directed Thirteen, is directing it.  I took a small role in that.  I had an idea for a film which I'm producing with the Linson's at Paramount.  I wanted to do a movie where it's a turf war between two hot dog vendors.  It's a comedy.  It's just an excuse.  I'll be starring in it, too".

Ashley Scott
"I just finished a movie called Into the Blue with Paul Walker and Jessica Alba - I did Dark Angel with her - and Scotty Caan and Josh Brolin. It was awesome!  It was really great.  I learned how to scuba dive and got certified and swam with sharks.  I'm petrified of sharks, so it really helped me conquer that.  I play a character named Amanda and she's just a tricky little trickster.  She's a lot of fun - a totally crazy party girl that is sneaky.  It was really good and was a lot of fun".

For all the interviews in full, click here.

Thanks to 'Smilin Jack'.