gritty

The motel, which stands at Hollywood Boulevard and Serrano Avenue, is a 1960 throwback whose neon sign rises over a gritty stretch of Hollywood Boulevard.

“Instead of fancy, polished ships, we chose to go in more of the gritty, cargo-ship route.”

Depicting his character’s tendency for violence early in the gritty film’s production was not easy for Hackman.

Inside Santa Ana’s Yost Theater last Saturday night, the thick bass of gritty reggaeton beats turned the crowd into one sweaty, shimmering mass of limbs.

“I think we can play grittier,” Close said.