[It must be weird to watch a feature film about your youth and to see an actor playing the teenager you were 30 years ago.] It is so surreal an experience, ... It is really difficult for me to assess the film. I don't know how to explain it, but I do believe the director got the spirit right. |
One of the first things he said to me was, 'I used to ride your skateboards in the '80s.' Heath wanted to do this film because there was something in him from his childhood. |
That article caused such a ruckus in Hollywood that a number of studios wanted to buy the story rights, as well as a number of life rights, |