He bonded with Moretz, saying he found working with someone his age “far less nerve-racking than acting with someone like Sir Ben Kingsley - who’s amazing. ![]() Getting to that emotional state was difficult, but then having to come back out of it and going in and out and in and out, then going and doing math and coming back and having to cry again, doing that for hours on end it’s hard work.” “The crying scenes were sort of mentally draining,” Butterfield says by phone. No studying, however, could prepare Butterfield for the emotional demands of playing an orphan sustaining himself in a Parisian train station. That helped when Scorsese gave him “homework” as well - movies to watch to familiarize himself with the early-film era that concerns “Hugo,” and other movies that inspired the director. “I started off going to this acting club when I was about 7 I ended up getting into an agency, and one of the first things I got was ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.’”īutterfield considers himself “a pretty good student,” currently immersed in photography and music (he plays piano, guitar and drums) as well as the usual subjects during the one-hour-of-work, one-hour-of-school on-set schedule. ![]() I’ve had a lot of great experiences,” says the Londoner. My life’s changed completely because of acting stuff. “Seven years ago, if you had said I was going to become an actor, I would have laughed at you, basically. Now he heads a cast that features Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law and fellow acting prodigy Chloë Grace Moretz in Martin Scorsese’s Thanksgiving release, “Hugo.” No one’s more surprised than he. When he was cast a month later, after a series of callback auditions, he says, “It was like a dream come true - except I never really had that dream.”Īsa Butterfield has already starred in the disturbing Holocaust film “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” and worked with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. But then, “I thought, ‘What do I have to lose?’” “I wasn’t in any way certain I was interested,” Horn says. Producer Scott Rudin saw the show and invited him to audition for “Extremely Loud.” Horn’s big break stemmed from his appearance on “Jeopardy!” during Kids’ Week, when he won $31,800. Anyone except his dad he considers to be frightful, strange.” He’s afraid of machinery, especially if it’s loud or dangerous. he’s quite a fearful person, and, of course, he’s had a lot of grief. In finding his way into portraying Oskar, Horn discovered some intersections between himself and his character. ![]() It’s the first time the self-possessed actor sounds like the 14-year-old that he is. “Gosh, I’m sorry to give away any of the plot,” he quickly adds.
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