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                <p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Trace Adkins summed up his role in the new film "The Lincoln Lawyer" in his own succinct way when he gathered friends and media for a screening of it recently.</p>
                <p>"I'm in it at the beginning and the end and there's a buncha crap in the middle," Adkins said with a smile of the movie, which opened Friday.</p>
                <p>He's on screen about 3 minutes, but it's another solid step in the country singer's second career with a handful of parts slated for later this year.</p>
                <p>While short, Adkins' scenes are humorous, memorable and key character development moments for star Matthew McConaughey's character, a defense attorney who operates his practice out of a Lincoln. Adkins plays a biker in the film who has engaged McConaughey to represent a member of his gang.</p>
                <p>McConaughey, a country music fan, invited him to try out for the role, but it wasn't given to him.</p>
                <p>"I had to go read for it," Adkins said last week. "And I really appreciate the fact that the director Brad Furman told me, `I didn't know who you were. You got the part because you won the part.' I appreciated that. But it kind of hurt my feelings at the same time. I thought I was a bigger deal than that. What do you mean you don't know who I am?'"</p>
                <p>Once he got the part, Adkins said McConaughey made sure he was able to make the best of it.</p>
                <p>"He was very generous and he went to rehearse with me before we did the scenes," Adkins said. "I went over to his trailer and he said, `Let's rehearse these scenes, let's do this and let's do that.' I thought it was very gracious to do that. Here's an old guy that don't know what I'm doing. He took me under his wing and helped me out."</p>
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