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Vincent Kartheiser: Angel Baby
Vincent Kartheiser is not your average WB star. He has shot heroin. He has shot people. He killed his friend and drank his blood for the love of Satan. And now he wants to kill his father.
But don't let his onscreen personae fool you. In real life, the 22-year-old sweet-mannered actor is just a self-proclaimed "five-foot-six midget white boy from Minnesota," who misses his family back home.
Although his creepy roles--such as the bloodthirsty madman in Ricky 6 and the drug addict/murderer in Another Day in Paradise--have given Hollywood the heebie-jeebies, Kartheiser has also done more than a dozen films sans straitjacket. An actor since the age of six, he has starred in everything from indies like Heaven Sent to more mainstream flicks like The Indian in the Cupboard and Alaska (opposite Charlton Heston and Thora Birch).
Still, those sick and twisted roles keep coming back to him. Up next is Kartheiser's first regular TV role: On the WB's cult hit Angel, he plays Connor, the son of the title character (David Boreanaz). The twist? A few months ago, Connor was a newborn. This week, he returns from another dimension as a full-grown demon hunter who's on a mission--to kill daddy.
Which got us wondering...
No offense, but is David Boreanaz really supposed to be afraid of him?
"I'm watching my first episode, and they're all talking about what's to come, something very dangerous--the destroyer. And then I appear, this little Peter Pan gone bad. And even [costar] Amy Acker is like, 'Yeah, I don't look so thin now, do I?' "
We hear his upcoming fight scenes are intense. Has he done physical roles before?
"A lot of them. When I was young, I went straight into action films. But this is different. I've never played anyone who really knows what they're doing in a fight. And now I'm like Jackie Chan, whooping people's butts three or four at a time."
Must be pretty exhilarating.
"Yeah. Except during filming, they do stuff to me, like yell, 'Cut! Cut!' And they pull me aside and say, 'Okay, try not to be so feminine.' It's so bad. I'll catch myself running in a scene, and my arms are up above my head as I run. Like I'm a transvestite running from the police on Sunset Boulevard or something. Or running from Eddie Murphy."
He's always the crazy guy. What's up with that?
"I don't get it! I'm such a nice guy. Not to mention I'm 105 pounds soaking wet with a rock in my pocket. But for some reason, they always pick me for the really intimidating characters."
Has he always wanted to be an actor?
"It's always something that I was doing. My friends who are actors will say, 'In school, I was the class clown' or 'People always told me I'd be a great actor.' For me, I never really sat in my bed dreaming of becoming an actor, because I just was. I never went to school; I was homeschooled. Acting was more a way of life, not that unattainable dream."
Speaking of unattainable dreams...what's David Boreanaz like?
"He's very nice, a good person. And he has a wicked sense of humor. David loves to wait until they're about to say action and then say something ridiculous to you that's out of character. He's just trying to fuck you up. This one day, we're doing this one scene where I've just been purged, and I'm a six-year-old boy, and I'm very down and low. And David's grinning, 'So, you watch any movies this weekend?' ...'Action!' He has a dry sense of humor."
Now that he has a regular TV gig, is he prepared to start getting recognized more?
"It is what it is. But what freaks me out is that it can last forever. Not that I'm at that stage. But I did a movie with Charlton Heston (Alaska), and we traveled through Europe together, and this guy couldn't go anywhere. We would come out of the hotel, and literally hundreds of people in Berlin would chase us down the street. It was that week I realized I don't want to live my life that way. I don't want to be a big fucking deal. The big deal is what we give to other people. The other stuff just floats away in the wind."
Courtesty of E! Online
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