Child actors

That's Jeff Weideman, who's a great young actor. I like him a lot. Looks like a young Brad Pitt. Here come the McConaughey. Here's McConaughey. So, Matty McConaughey comes in, and basically, the guy... I love that he takes his character so seriously, because he came at me with all these questions, like, real questions about Rick Peck and where he was coming from, his relationship, and fought for his character throughout the whole process of making the movie.

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Young actor who plays the character Tru. And he really just, I was amazed when he came in and auditioned. He was on fire for this sequence too, man. Here we go. That must be an old French mine. It's a remnant from colonial Indochina. This jungle must be full of them. Hey! Don't you get it? He's messing with our heads. That's what all that playing God stuff was about. He's trying to get us to act good, save the movie. He ain't playing God.

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Yeah, this was back in L.A., shooting on the stages. You really worked with that young man. Yes, he was amazing. He was a natural, but he needed you. Well, Brandon Soo Hoo, he's a really great young actor. It's his first movie. He came in, he just nailed it in the audition. Just a hell of a turnaround, man. The audience goes crazy for this bit. And he did not hold back on the switch.

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And these two absolute giants in terms of their ability and their intellect and their talent feeding each other, it just was pretty extraordinary to witness. From my standpoint, the ability to be so unselfish, and by that I mean, as Catherine mentioned, with the other young actors, but also...

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I think the integrity of the whole picture depended on the performances or the non-performances of these young actors. I mean, if you didn't believe the situations that they were in and you didn't read it into their faces, because oftentimes they were not speaking, they were just stunned staring in the background, then you would have no passion for them when the submarine—when they lose control of the reactor. And they're so unique looking and so— They impelled you to care.

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Ron Howard

Josh Ryan Evans plays the young Grinch. Terrific young actor. And he spent some time with Jim Carrey, who had already begun developing the character, of course, in rehearsals. But it was really fun on these days to see

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rampant nepotism in the casting. He was quite young then. How old would he be? 12? No, I think he was 13 there, but just 13. And he's coming up 17 now. So when we came to do his ADR, his voice had broken. So he couldn't use his own voice. We found a lovely young actor in England who was able to match his performance pretty well. Probably still sounds a little young, actually.

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It was interesting to shoot this moment because most of the time Jim was really in the bed and his character was really restrained and he saw those two guys, those two young actors coming in and improvising and

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Andrew Niccol

And this is the same doc we just left from Ukraine, but dressed differently for West Africa, obviously. It had to be redressed overnight, I think, as well. It's amazing what you can do with dirt and bark and different extras and a few tree trunks. And this is the entrance of Andre Jr., played by this talented young actor, Sammy Ratibi.

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James Mangold

And Logan was in a very special moment in his own life, and he's a very gifted young actor, and we were really lucky to find that combination. Maybe I don't like the idea of men like you on the loose. It's man's nature to take what he wants, Ted. That's how we were born. Well, I make an honest living. Might be honest, but I don't think it's much of a living. You must be hurting bad for money to take this job.

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Rob Cohen

There is a certain amount of comedy, and the family story is continuing. Here, the romance, the attraction of the young actors is beginning to surface. And I said to Isabella, the more you talk about the truth of your life, the crazier you sound, and to give Maria as much to play against as possible.

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