Adam Kempenaar from Filmspotting sent us excerpts from a roundtable discussion with John Cusack at the Chicago International Film Festival. Cusack discusses Grace is Gone, a new movie where he plays a widower taking his daughters on a road trip after learning his wife was killed in Iraq. If it sounds like this role is off-type for him, it is. Especially when you consider that the 80’s most swooned over slacker’s main draw was to “get into the head of a real believer, someone who has put a lot of his energy and time and faith into needing to believe that the country has a righteous purpose…”

Thanks to Adam Kempenaar for the coverage. His highlights with John Cusack follow after the jump.

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