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Article: Emile Hirsch: emboldened by Brando and fostered by Foster, this young actor is a heavyweight in the making.(Interview)
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- April 1, 2004
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With his stirring movie debut in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) opposite Jodie Foster, Kieran Culkin, and Vincent D'Onofrio (his interviewer here), Emile Hirsch, with his soft eyes and hard-to-forget talent, established himself in indie-filmmaking circles as the teenage drama king. (Fans of TV's Project Greenlight will recall that he was the kid everyone wanted to cast as the lead in The Battle of Shaker Heights, but just couldn't reel in.) Now 19, Hirsch is broadening his body of work and his audience with his first studio comedy, The Girl Next Door. And later this month, Hirsch will be back in the art house with The Mudge Boy, a drama that, D'Onofrio ...