Sunday, 27 September 2009 16:00
Cool!FILMCATCHER INTERVIEW with me!
Caroline Hagood: Your talent and breadth of experience would be impressive for any age, but to have delivered 25 strong performances in films and television by the age of 10 is astounding. You must have a talent and energy secret stored away somewhere. Do you have any advice for other young actors?
Quinn Lord: My advice would be to just have fun and do what you like to do. Maybe it’s hockey, baseball, soccer, playing music or acting. It’s all fun, and sometimes people are better at certain things; I stink at skating, but I’m going to keep trying!
CH: Getting a role in a film like Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" at such a young age is also pretty special. What are your thoughts on this production?
QL: It’s a really fun film with an enormous amount of talent; I’m just lucky to be a small part of such an amazing, wild ride of a film. Lots of people are talking about it and can’t wait for it to come out. I’m a huge Monty Python fan so just to meet director Terry Gilliam was amazing! He has a wild imagination and the better technology gets, the more he gets to show everyone what cool stuff is in his head!
CH: You've mentioned that you love "The Goonies." Was that the film that caused you to gravitate towards acting?
QL: I love so many films and have so many favorites. "Army of Darkness" is one of my favorites, as well as "Goonies," "Gremlins" and a lot of 80’s films. I would love to work with Bruce Campbell; he’s pretty cool; I bet it would be a lot of fun. Oh yeah, of course I have to add "The Hole," "Trick ‘R Treat" and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus." They are all awesome films!
CH: You've worked on a number of horror and science fiction projects. It's almost as though your childhood games of make-believe have been replaced by movies. How does your imagination play into your performances?
QL: Well, I have a wild imagination and that helps me really get into the characters that I play. You are right that it's like playing make-believe games, but you follow a script and are video taped. It’s so cool. I like experimenting with my video camera. I once attached my camera to my chest and video taped my hands while walking around like in a first person shooter game. When my mom saw me with a plastic knife and a camera attached to me, she said, “What the heck are you doing”? She ruined the shot so I said, “Mom when you see me walking around with a camera and a knife, don’t say anything”, she laughed really hard and said, “Do you know how wrong that sounds”? It was very funny.
CH: I just got a great mental picture of that. I'll try not to disturb you when you have the camera and the knife.
Do you tend to admire other child actors or older actors? Who is your biggest role model right now?
QL: I admire all actors of any age. Everyone is learning; even the very best actors are trying to challenge themselves. That’s what I like: challenging myself, so the harder the role, the more fun it is. I really want to do an emotional role and make the audience feel sad and cry, that’s my next challenge for myself. Some of my role models would be Ben Stiller, Tom Cruise, Jake Gyllenhaal, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
CH: I'm sure you would make the audience bawl with those acting skills of yours.
Where do you see your career going in the future? What projects do you have lined up?
QL: I just finished a movie called "Second Chances" with Melissa George, and then spent a lot of time at the Toronto International Film Festival where I got to see the two films I was in, “The Hole,” directed by Joe Dante, and “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” directed by Terry Gilliam.
Who knows what my career will be in the future. Hopefully I will still be acting and doing some directing and producing, but when I go to college I might totally change my mind and want to be a physicist or video game designer or something; so I don’t really know yet. I’m only 10 so I guess I have some time to think about it. Right now, I’m having so much fun that I would say I will be acting until the day I die, and then come back from the dead and do a little bit more!
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