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Kodi Smit-McPhee [1996-0] Australian
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Actor


Kodi Smit-McPhee is 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. 

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I'm always working with amazing people. They're just kind of put in my path. Amazing
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You shouldn't fight change. You should be absolutely open to change.
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New Orleans is awake all night, and every night is a party.
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The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.
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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.
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Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.
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I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.
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I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.
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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.
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I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
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When I know I'm not doing any auditions, I go to the skate park on my scooter or my bike.
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I like everything from hard-style techno to rock n' roll.
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My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.
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I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.
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In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.
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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.
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Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.
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My favorite genre is comedy.
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I've been joking that 'On the Road' is the prequel to 'The Road.' I don't know if that's a very good joke.
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My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
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I'm based in L.A., mainly. I'm pretty much there a lot of the time doing work.
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I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.
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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.
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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.
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I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.
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I think 'Paranorman' was a great adventure.
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'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.
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I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.
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I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.
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'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.
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Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film.
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My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me.
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Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
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I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life.
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My sister's an actor as well.
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I really like driving cars. I love car games.
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If I could choose any car in the world, I'd get a Lamborghini, but I think that's a bit too much money. I'll start off with maybe a V8 or something.
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I wouldn't mind doing my own film on the big screen. That'd be cool.
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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.
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I think I would play Batman. I love Batman.
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I think everyone has been different once in their life.
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I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.
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I think I'm the best fit for characters that have a lot going on inside.
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I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.
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