The Hard Mile and The Long Career of Matthew Modine

In this episode with Matthew Modine, we discuss Matthew’s most recent film, Hard Miles, released in 2024 and screened at STUDIO 9, and Matthew talks about the wild ride that his career has been from Vision Quest to Stranger Things. Matthew talks about mentorship, family, fame and his plans for the future. As one of the most unique actors of his generation, Matthew shares intimate details about how he became the actor that he is and why he cares so much about what that means.

 

 

Matthew Modine

Matthew Modine is an American actor. He rose to prominence through his role as U.S. Marine Private/Sergeant J.T. “Joker” Davis in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987). Other films include Birdy (1984), Vision Quest (1985), Married to the Mob (1988), Gross Anatomy (1989), Pacific Heights (1990), Short Cuts (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Oppenheimer (2023). On television, he portrayed Dr. Don Francis in the HBO film And the Band Played On (1993), the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds (2007), Ivan Turing in Proof (2015), and Dr. Martin Brenner in Netflix’s Stranger Things (2016–2022).

Recent projects include star turns in four feature films, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Hard Miles, The Martini Shot, and Retribution opposite Liam Neeson. He also has three award winning documentary features, Downwind, Accidental Truth, and Sludge, the multiple award winning feature Foster Boy, Miss Virginia, Wrong Turn; the Netflix Original feature film, Operation: Varsity Blues and Modine’s much anticipated return to the Netflix global phenomenon, Stranger Things, Season 4 which reunites him with co-star Millie Bobby Brown. In addition, he has returned to writing and directing with a new experimental short film, I Am What You Imagine, which is currently screening at film festivals across the globe.

His most recent film, Hard Miles, was screened at STUDIO 9 with a live Q&A in June 2024.