Then there was an audition call for it - that was actually just luck.”įate may have played a role in him landing the part of an 1870s Harvard student who embarks on a treacherous journey with a buffalo-hunting guide (Nicolas Cage), in a film that exposes an obscure, dark incident in US history. “I just stayed on it and pestered them as much as possible. He emailed around to see who had the rights and discovered that director/co-writer Gabe Polsky was almost ready to film the adaptation. “To connect a lot of crazy dots, the next morning I saw the first screening of ‘Moonlight’ and a Q&A with Barry Jenkins.” When the director hired him years later for the 2021 Amazon Prime miniseries “The Underground Railroad,” Hechinger read some revivalist western novels on set for research … including John Williams’ 1960 book, “Butcher’s Crossing.”
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“I was working behind the scenes on ‘Tramps,’ they put me in one scene and I got cut, but it was technically the first thing I’ve ever acted in.” Yet that trip ignited a bizarre series of events that helped launch his career. “It was my first time going to a festival to see something that I was a part of,” the actor recalls. 9 Gala premiere of “Butcher’s Crossing,” his first lead role in a feature. Six years later, in one of several full-circle moments, the breakout star of HBO’s “The White Lotus” and Sony/Marvel’s upcoming Spider-Man Universe entry “Kraven the Hunter” returns with the Sept.
The last time Fred Hechinger was in Toronto, he came to see a film that left his acting on the cutting room floor.
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