Post by Erika on May 5, 2008 2:57:31 GMT -5
Come in here to chat about our favorite star of the show and post any interviews, videos, etc that you find that don't necessarily relate to his role as John Connor.
Thomas is in this month's Nylon Magazine, here's the little article that they wrote about him (click on photo thumb to take you to the scans I made that are in our gallery!)
Thomas Dekker’s life would probably be much easier if he just relied on his teen-dream looks, but the 20-year old star of Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles says he wants more than a career as an empty-headed cover boy. “there’s the frustration of knoing that the whole world thinks I’m another Zac Efron,” Dekker ays. “I respect actors like that, who can be so perfect, but it’s a full-time job, and I don’t want to pretend I’m some ideal celebrity because that doesn’t exist.”
Dekker, who made his name as Claire Bennet’s boy next door Zach on HEROES, also has the May release of an album, Psyanotic, that he “solely composed, wrote, mixed, and mastered,” to distract him from the perils of Hollywood and is still working on the third, as-yet untitled, film he’s written and directed. He calls it a “gritty look at the underworld of young Hollywood,” and it stars Megan Fox, Rumer, Willis, and Shiloh Fernandez (Willis and Fenandez are also his co-stars in From Within, which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.) As if all this weren’t enough, Dekker is also currently filming My Sister’s Keeper, which is based on teh bestselling novel of the same name by Jodi Picoult, and is being directed by Nick Cassavetes (and also stars Alec Baldwin and Cameron Diaz.)
Fortunately, Dekker has the benefit of an unconventional upbringing to ground him: “My father would take me up to the top of this mountain at dawn, and there were all these wolf packs. I’d try to match the sound of hte wolves, and now I sing sort of like a banshee, a kind of wild singing,” he says. “The way I grew up helps remind me that this is my job, but my personality doesn’t begin and end with this industry.”
Thomas is in this month's Nylon Magazine, here's the little article that they wrote about him (click on photo thumb to take you to the scans I made that are in our gallery!)
Thomas Dekker’s life would probably be much easier if he just relied on his teen-dream looks, but the 20-year old star of Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles says he wants more than a career as an empty-headed cover boy. “there’s the frustration of knoing that the whole world thinks I’m another Zac Efron,” Dekker ays. “I respect actors like that, who can be so perfect, but it’s a full-time job, and I don’t want to pretend I’m some ideal celebrity because that doesn’t exist.”
Dekker, who made his name as Claire Bennet’s boy next door Zach on HEROES, also has the May release of an album, Psyanotic, that he “solely composed, wrote, mixed, and mastered,” to distract him from the perils of Hollywood and is still working on the third, as-yet untitled, film he’s written and directed. He calls it a “gritty look at the underworld of young Hollywood,” and it stars Megan Fox, Rumer, Willis, and Shiloh Fernandez (Willis and Fenandez are also his co-stars in From Within, which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.) As if all this weren’t enough, Dekker is also currently filming My Sister’s Keeper, which is based on teh bestselling novel of the same name by Jodi Picoult, and is being directed by Nick Cassavetes (and also stars Alec Baldwin and Cameron Diaz.)
Fortunately, Dekker has the benefit of an unconventional upbringing to ground him: “My father would take me up to the top of this mountain at dawn, and there were all these wolf packs. I’d try to match the sound of hte wolves, and now I sing sort of like a banshee, a kind of wild singing,” he says. “The way I grew up helps remind me that this is my job, but my personality doesn’t begin and end with this industry.”
