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 Freddie Highmore
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Child actors are that rare combination of serendipity and natural skill that make each one of them unique, regardless of their time in the spotlight. One child actor currently that delivers plenty of both is Freddie Highmore. He has showed off his skill in films ranging from Finding Neverland to Charlie And The Chocolate Factory to August Rush. Highmore makes his most incredibly unique foray to date as a child actor as twins Simon and Jared Grace in the film adaptation of the children’s book series The Spiderwick Chronicles. When we first asked the now 16-year-old actor what motivated him to play twins, Freddie expressed in no uncertain terms that it was an opportunity simply too good to pass up. “It was always the objective to play two ends and I got lucky that I got the opportunity of doing the film,” Highmore states. The actor also shared with us whether or not playing twins made the regular everyday challenges and demands of working on a big-budget film that much more difficult. “Logistically, you know, in getting the technicalities down, it took a lot of rehearsal especially in the scenes that they’re there at the same time and in the same shots,” Freddie notes, “I guess, working with everyone, it was a working process. I think we’re all pleased with the result and it was great to see the finished film and it all matched together.” “They were two very different people,” he adds, “It was interesting to work with that and see genetically they are the same person and so, various events and changes that factor as they’ve grown up, and they grow up apart to the situations at the time of the film and it was interesting to work with [director] Mark [Waters] and a few other people, just to get that down and that difference between them.” We also asked Freddie whether or not viewers will mistakenly believe now that he has a real-life twin brother upon seeing The Spiderwick Chronicles. “A few people have seen the film and said, oh, I thought it was going to be like that, but who knows,” Highmore replies, “Maybe, you never know how believable it is. I hope so.” He also notes that playing twins is a lot more complex than it looks. “Lots of the time, they had doubles,” Freddie recalls, “They had various big gang of them, like ten sort of various people at different times. Doing the voices, they sometimes had to have other people reading it. But sometimes, I had the shot with my other self, there was almost nothing there and I had to react to whoever was filling in the space of the lines, where I’d do the voiceover beforehand, but I think it would be harder for Sarah [Bolger] and other actors in those situations to sort of know what to expect.” A native of London, England, Freddie states that he was more focused on getting the twins’ characteristics down effectively, rather than coming off believably American enough. “For ... |
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