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HONEY BOY — Alma Har’el Interview

November 13, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HONEY BOY — Alma Har’el Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. The first thing I wanted to talk to Har’el when we spoke on October 10, 2019, was how tender the film. This despite portraying the harrowing, real-life childhood and adult struggles with anger and addiction of the film’s writer and co-star, Shia LeBeouf. Entwining parallel stories of LeBeouf’s… Read More »

Tagged With: addiction, alcoholism, child actor, childhood trauma, emotional triggers, father-son relationship, mime, PTSD, semi-autobiographical

Ursula Meier Finds A Brother for SISTER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Ursula Meier Finds A Brother for SISTER

Ursula Meier knew she had found her muse in Kacey Mottet Klein when she discovered him in 2008, casting him in her film HOME. When I spoke to her on October 29, 2012, we talked about his evolution as an actor, and how she managed to keep that unselfconscious quality that he had shown in… Read More »

Tagged With: 12-year-old, Academy Award, child actor, child neglect, cinema, class system, director, drama, film, Golden Swann, Kacey Mottet Klein, moral relativity, movie, narrative, neglect, petty theft, siblings, ski lodge, Swiss Cinema, Ursula Meier, writer

Rider Strong has CABIN FEVER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Rider Strong has CABIN FEVER

The hazards of going from child actor to adult actor are legion. It’s one of the topics that came up when I chatted with Rider Strong no August 28, 2003 about CABIN FEVER, which is anything but a kiddie flick. Despite having given two performances the day before as Benjamin in the touring company of “The Graduate,”… Read More »

Tagged With: cabin, child actor, Eli Roth, fake blood, horror, killing, narrative, Rider Strong, THE GRADUATE

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