Young J.J. Abrams in SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
Monday, May 4, 2009
A couple of months ago I was watching TV late at night and caught a bit of some late '80s-early '90s movie I didn't recognize at first. It featured an intense young actor playing a bratty, tantrum-throwing college student, and he seemed strangely familiar to me. I didn't feel like I'd necessarily seen him in another movie, but I definitely knew him from somewhere. Did we go to high school together or something? It was driving me nuts. Things got even weirder during one scene where he was looking through a yearbook and exclaimed, "Hey, there's Greg Grunberg!" Greg Grunberg? The guy from Heroes?
Eventually I recognized the movie as1993's Six Degrees of Separation. I went online and soon learned that the angry college kid was one other than J.J. Abrams, future co-creator of Lost and Fringe and the director of the Star Trek reboot due in theaters next weekend. Early in his screenwriting career had a brief sideline as an actor, with Six Degrees being his most notable role. He was childhood friends with Grunberg, and has worked him into many of his Hollywood projects over the years.
Abrams was quite funny in the film, as you can see in the selection of clips below. (That's him cursing out his dad in the first clip.) He should think about doing some more acting if this whole superstar writer-producer-director thing doesn't pan out.
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Eventually I recognized the movie as1993's Six Degrees of Separation. I went online and soon learned that the angry college kid was one other than J.J. Abrams, future co-creator of Lost and Fringe and the director of the Star Trek reboot due in theaters next weekend. Early in his screenwriting career had a brief sideline as an actor, with Six Degrees being his most notable role. He was childhood friends with Grunberg, and has worked him into many of his Hollywood projects over the years.
Abrams was quite funny in the film, as you can see in the selection of clips below. (That's him cursing out his dad in the first clip.) He should think about doing some more acting if this whole superstar writer-producer-director thing doesn't pan out.
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