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"Out" Magazine Vincent Kartheiser



PARADISE FOUND "Vinnie was the first kid I saw, the only kid I saw. Right away, I knew he was the kid." Larry Clark, the photographer turned filmmaker (Kids was his debut), is gushing about Vincent Kartheiser, the young star of his second feature, Another Day in Paradise. Though barely 18 when Clark cast him as Bobbie, a budding junkie thief and heartbreaker, Kartheiser not only holds his own in a cast of seasoned scene-stealers headed by James Woods and Melanie Giffith but becomes the knockout film's soulful center of gravity. Acting since the age of nine, racking up a slew of preteen and teen roles from The Indian in the Cupboard to Alaska, Kartheiser was more than ready for his first "adult" role but probably didn't anticipate that preparing for it would involve hanging out with speed freaks and junkies. When we catch up with them, the director is still bubbling over with enthusiasm for the resulting performance, but the actor, a veteran who has already moved on to a part as a Satan-worshiping murderer in the forthcoming Ricky Six, plays it cool.

LARRY CLARK: "I was thinking of casting a nonactor because none of the Hollywood kids I knew where right, but since Vinnie was from Minnesota, he didn't carry any of that baggage. He didn't know from Bobbie."

VINCENT KARTHEISER: "Larry and I talked a lot about Bobbie's past. We came up with the idea that he had been beaten as a child by his father and ran away from home at 12, went to the streets, started stealing stuff. He hustled a bit in his past, never heard from his parents."

CLARK: "In the end, you could read Bobbie's whole history in Vinnie's face, and his acting amazed me--especially his scenes with Jimmy [Woods]. When Jimmy is really being Jimmy to the max, it's hard to stay with him, and I don't know too many actors who wouldn't step back. But Vinnie never fucking backed down. A lot of the crew would freak out when that happened, but I was in heaven. It got so real it was past acting." KARTHEISER: "Some of the scenes were so amazing that once the cameras stopped, everyone clapped. [Pause] What was the most difficult scene to pull off? Every single one of them."

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