The Academy of Cinema and Television is always on the look-out for good information to pass on to its students. We came across an article that includes an interview with the director and youth star of the new film “The Water Horse.” The interview is very revealing for parents and children desiring to one day work in film. For instances when the young star was ask the question, “Alex, what was the hardest part of making this film: the swimming or the green screen work?” Child star Alex Etel answered, “The green screen work because it was weird trying to speak to a tennis ball on a stick.”   Here is a portion of the beginning of the article, if it intrigues you, you can click and read the full piece at moviesonline.com.

MoviesOnline sat down recently with director Jay Russell and actors Alex Etel and Ben Chaplin to talk about their new movie, “The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep,” about a young Scottish boy, Angus (Etel), who finds an enchanted egg. Taking it home, he soon finds himself face-to-face with an amazing creature: the mythical “water horse” of Scottish lore. Angus begins a journey of discovery, facing his greatest fears and risking his life to protect a secret that would give birth to a legend.

“I was really excited by the chance to show Angus’s friendship with Crusoe,” says Alex Etel. The young actor, acclaimed for his starring role in Danny Boyle’s “Millions,” plays the boy who finds Crusoe and raises the magical creature from birth to adulthood over the course of a few weeks. For Russell, that relationship parallels an important aspect of Angus’s life. “The relationship between Angus and the Water Horse is of great importance, because as the creature grows, it really becomes a quite beautiful metaphor for the relationship Angus once had with his father,” notes the director. “Crusoe helps him grow from a young child towards maturity. That’s the simplicity of this story; it’s just a wonderful way to tell the story of a child growing up and accepting the realities of life.”  Read the full article.

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