Lucas Hedges

Not only has it been nominated for an Oscar, but despite its youth it has become a guarantee of opting for the Academy Award in the category of best film, as has happened with four productions in which it has been present: “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, “Manchester by the Sea”, “Lady Bird” and “Three Billboards on the Outskirts”.Lucas Hedges prefers difficult and unconventional characters.

Born on December 12, 1996, New Yorker Lucas Hedges is born to poet and occasional actress Susan Bruce ( Picture of April ) and Peter Hedges , Oscar nominee for Best Screenplay for Grown Up . When he was 11 years old, he made his film debut at the hands of his father, who asked him to play the dance partner of one of the young actresses in Como la vida misma .

At 16, he was given a supporting role by the very personal Wes Anderson in Moonrise Kingdom , where he was the leader of the boy scouts who chased a couple of boys who had run away from their camp. The filmmaker was so pleased that he asked him again to give life to an episodic assistant in The Grand Budapest Hotel . “At that time he did not think about developing a career as an actor, but he was looking only for emotions. That has come later, when I have learned the important things in life”, he commented.

In any case, she already had a certain reputation in Hollywood when she studied Drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts, from which other stars such as Jada Pinkett Smith have emerged . In the true-based thriller Kill the Messenger , she played the son of a daring journalist, played by Jeremy Renner .

The other young actor with the most pull today, Timothée Chalamet , took the role he was up for in Christopher Nolan ‘s Interstellar . In turn, he snatched the role of Casey Affleck ‘s nephew , who has to break the news of his father’s death, in the solid drama Manchester by the Sea . For his work, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Role, although he lost to Mahershala Ali , an actor from Moonlight . He transcended in some media that after the ceremony he went to the party organized by Madonna, but they almost kicked him out because photographs were prohibited, and he took the opportunity to immortalize himself with celebrities like Mick Jagger .

His work on that film, directed by Kenneth Lonergan , had impressed Julia Roberts . When the veteran star found out that he was the son of the director and writer of the film she had signed on, Ben Returns , she insisted that she play her son, with a drug problem. “Working with my father was intense, because every time he gave me directions he reminded me of when I had disobeyed him as a child,” she commented in an interview. “But I think we’ve made a good movie, which is what makes me proud.”

He had previously made peace with Chalamet, whom he became friends with when they filmed Lady Bird together , where he played the gay friend of a young woman from a humble background ( Saoirse Ronan ) who is preparing to go to university. “We both discovered that we shared the ties of two young New Yorkers,” he said of her rival.

Lucas Hedges has also given life to the son with whom the divorcee Mildred Hayes ( Frances McDormand ) lives after the death and rape of her sister, in Three Billboards in the suburbs . He has had as a mother another big star, Nicole Kidman , in Erased Identity , where she plays a boy sent to a therapy program with the aim of curing his homosexuality.