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 Chad Faust
Interview By: Dan Deevy
You have to ask yourself, what type of actor would be willing to walk into an independent project for basically no money and play a character that not only horribly brutalizes a woman, but then ultimately becomes the victim of a man on man ass rape? An incredibly courageous, smart one, that’s who! At the young age of 27, Canadian born actor Chad Faust has enjoyed a steady career working in film and television appearing in movies like Mandy Moore’s hit film Saved!, Nearing Grace with Everwood’s Gregory Smith and Jordana Brewster and on television in favorites like Smallville, CSI: Miami and his regular role on the sci-fi channel’s The 4400. As good as his work was on all of these projects, none of them could have possibly prepared viewers for his most recent turn in Rosario Dawson’s intense drama, Descent. “I think I’ve always taken some kind of pride in the fact that I feel I’ll do anything if it’s to tell a meaningful story,’ he explains. “In acting class I’ve always been the first one to get naked or whatever the challenge is; I feel you’ve just gotta do it. And this was one venue where it told me to step up and prove that.” Beyond the obvious challenge that tackling this role entailed there was also a deeper meaning that drew the actor in. “The reason I was so drawn to it was I immediately understood the character and that frightened me,’ he admits. “It frightened me how much I understood his motivations and it wasn’t that I have the inclination to be a serial rapist or anything of that nature, but I understood his need to get his power this way. He felt completely disempowered by everyone in his life and I just understood that this was how he dealt with it. He was not even aware of it himself that that’s what he was doing or why he was doing it. But I immediately understood it and so I felt like that was a story I had to be a part of.” Deciding to accept a challenge is one thing, but jumping into it can be a completely different affair. “I kind of took it on in sort of a numb fashion I think,’ he begins. “I knew I was gonna have to walk into an inner war. I knew in my mind it was gonna happen but I hadn’t totally conceded what that was gonna be and so we just did it before we had time to think about it.” When all was said and done and the process had begun it wasn’t long before Chad began to feel the emotional effects of it. “I definitely had an emotional reaction to it while we were doing it,’ he says. “I had a couple of times were I just broke down thinking, ‘oh my god I ... |
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