Kodi Smit-McPhee
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Kodi Smit-McPheeis an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as The Boy in The Road, Owen in Let Me In, Norman Babcock in ParaNorman, Alexander in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Nightcrawler in the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse. He will also play Will Burrowsin the upcoming film adaptation of the novel Tunnels...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth13 June 1996
CountryAustralia
interviews
Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.
dreams
I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.
dad teaches
My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
directing favorite love movies reason
I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style.
based time work
I'm based in L.A., mainly. I'm pretty much there a lot of the time doing work.
feels stuff
I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.
boy brought director family john love michael royal scottish works zealand
'Slow West' is a film that I did with Michael Fassbender in New Zealand and Scotland. The director was John McLean. It's a film set in the 1800s. I play a young Scottish boy brought up in the royal family. I fall in love with someone who works on our land.
asked auditions bigger dad kept liked
When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
everybody guess love pan peter
It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.
vampires
Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.
mom places
In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.
films movies
I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.
basically films vibe whereas
I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.