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 Freddie Highmore
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Most child actors tend to go by on their cute looks alone. As a result, very few child actors manage to have their careers survive into their adulthood. However, there are those rare child actors like Natalie Wood, Jodie Foster, Haley Joel Osment, and Dakota Fanning, who manage to show at very young ages a real gift for acting and performing. One of these actors is London-born English actor Freddie Highmore. He has already made a significant mark in Hollywood with roles as Peter in Finding Neverland and as Charlie Bucket in the Tim Burton adaptation of the Roald Dahl children’s literary classic Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Highmore pushes even higher with his first starring role in the drama August Rush, in which he plays the title character, a musical prodigy who uses his talents to help him find his birth parents. The film has him alongside much older acting greats running the gamut from Keri Russell to Jonathan Rhys Meyers to Terrence Howard to Robin Williams. When we first sat down with the 15 year-old actor, we first asked Freddie whether he had a lot of musical experience prior to playing such a role. “I played the clarinet beforehand,” Highmore replied, “But, no, I learned how to play the guitar for the film and learned how to conduct and play the organ for that scene. About six months beforehand, I started all that, preparation for it, because I wanted to be able to learn how to play it for real and actually be able to play the songs so they could use me for the whole time.” The actor also discusses his excitement for conducting an orchestra in front of a large audience in one of August Rush’s most pivotal scenes. “It was fun, it was great ‘cause the sporting artists were there and they were musicians, so they could play a little bit of the piece and stuff, which was good,” Freddie describes, “I mean, sometimes, I would, after they turned off the backing track or it would be cut, I would try to carry on for a bit and hold it all together and conduct and try and play along. I mean, you know, it was a good laugh.” We asked Freddie whether playing the role of a child prodigy conductor had any bearings on his own musical taste. “A bit, I mean,” he claims, “I guess it sort of broadened my view of music and also especially getting to play and conduct it and I don’t know. I mean, for a time afterwards, it was this thing where I was practicing quite a lot the conducting. It turned to be one of the hardest challenges of doing the movie. And so, you know, sometimes I’d listen to music and I’d start conducting the beat of it and stuff like that.” Also asked was whether the actor still plays any musical instruments. “A bit, actually,” Freddie says, “Jonathan Rhys Meyers actually got me a guitar at the ... |
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