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Hang around long enough and life becomes a time warp. As Jon Voight tells it, he just sort of blinked, and a best friend's kid ended up becoming a co-star.
"I never did a movie with James Caan, even though we talked a lot about it. But I've now done two movies with Scott Caan," says Voight, who plays a brutal high school football coach in Varsity Blues opposite sensitive quarterback James Van Der Beek and bad-boy pass-receiver Caan.
"I visited Jimmy's house one day and little Scotty was, like, 11. And all of a sudden, I'm in Enemy Of The State and there's Scott all grown up. And I'm like, 'I know you!' and he's like, 'I know you too!'," the 60-year-old Voight says, laughing. - Jon Voight on starring with Scott

My best friend in the world is my son Scott, who's 21 now and working on a picture with Will Smith and Gene Hackman. But when he was getting into this business, he wouldn't let me make one phone call, not one little piece of help. I respect that. I didn't want him to get into this crazy business, because I figured one nut in the family was enough." - James Caan's words on his son

Caan performed all of his own stunts in the film, taking hit after hit. "It was the most fun I've had making a movie yet. I was like a little kid on the field. When you're young you imagine playing football in front of a bunch of fans screaming, and we got to do that. It was like a dream." - Scott on making 'Varsity Blues'

"(Director) Tony Scott was going for a double joke by pairing Scott and I. First there's the sons of actors thing, but also the Mutt and Jeff size thing. He's so tiny and I'm so big." - Jake Busey on acting with Scott in 'Enemy Of The State'

Scott Caan, an actor himself, grew up assuming that his dad and Sonny Corleone, The Godfather's over-amped hothead, were one and the same. "See," Scott says, "after he got shot in the tollbooth, what happened was he changed his clothes and went home. To me, that's just watching my dad up there. That's him. You know, he's got a temper and he thinks he's Italian."
In less serene days, remembers the actor's 19-year-old son, Scott, "he'd go to the store for a pack of gum, and he'd come back four days later. With 19 packs of gum." - talking about that guy, who's his dad, who was in those Mafia movies, you know, what's his name…

Last April, on hiatus from the WB show's first season, Van Der Beek (with his newly died black 'do) experienced a taste of celeb-mania in the normally laid-back college town of Austin, Tex. "I had a scene in a restaurant where I was eating with these guys (fellow "Blues" actors Scott Caan, Paul Walker, Ron Lester, and Eliel Swinton), and we had to leave," Van Der Beek tells EW Online. "There were people buzzing around, coming over, leaning over Scott to shake my hand, taking pictures, and at that point, it was like, 'Let's get out of here,' so we basically rushed out. A day or two later, we finally shot that scene." - James Van Der Beek, talking about shooting a scene for Scott's upcoming movie 'Varsity Blues'.

Jon Voight, who worked with Caan on "Enemy" and the upcoming football drama "Varsity Blues," recalls the odd experience of meeting Scott on the set: "I hadn't seen him since he was 6 or 7 years old, when I was talking about doing a movie with his father. When we saw each other, we both said 'Hey, I know you.'" According to Voight, Scott's resemblance to his dad goes beyond the broad-shouldered physique that the elder Caan showed off in "The Godfather": "Scotty has his dad's work ethic. They both try not to rehearse so much, so they can keep that spontaneous quality in their acting." - Like father, like son!

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