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Casting Vincent Kartheiser in THE UNSAID

Kartheiser, who plays Tommy, was a late addition to the cast of The Unsaid, after a series of searches in Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Chicago and Vancouver had failed to come up with a young actor who, as producer Tom Berry puts it, could �play both a romantic lead and also be potentially violent, be a killer�.

The young actor, who hails from Minnesota - not far, in cultural terms, from the film�s Kansas setting - was suggested to Campbell by a friend and cast immediately. Kartheiser made his movie debut in Untamed Heart (1993) but, more recently, has marked out his territory playing edgy outcasts. What one reviewer called his �androgynous beauty� often in sharp contrast to his true self, notably in such indie flicks as Another Day in Paradise and Crime and Punishment in Suburbia. The same is true here.

�There�s a close-up of Vincent�s eyes at a certain point, an extreme close-up,� says McLoughlin. �The way he looks, there�s something like an animal - like the way you talk about a shark�s eyes going dead before the kill.�

For all his background in horror movies, McLoughlin has, he says, always believed in working more closely with his actors than with anyone (or anything) else. �He�s one of the few acting directors,� agrees Kartheiser. �He�s really supportive and takes his time.�

McLoughlin is happy to field the compliment. �I work very hard at being an actor�s director,� he insists. �I have the highest regard for actors: it�s the toughest job.� But he stresses that this is more a necessary part of the directing equation, rather than a legacy of time he himself spent in front of the camera as an actor.

�My greatest mentor was Frank Capra,� he says. �He taught me so much about the human condition and the positive side of people. Capra once said to me, �It�s a people-to-people medium�. If you care about the people up there, you care about the film.

�My background has been doing a lot of humanistic stories as well as a lot of scary movies. In this kind of feature, you put that in sparingly - just enough so you can like the characters and enjoy being with them. Then, when all hell breaks loose, you�re with them.�


Courtesy of Preview Online.com


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