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
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.
'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.
good joking
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.
dreams
I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.
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.
cool mind
I wouldn't mind doing my own film on the big screen. That'd be cool.
dad teaches
My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.
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.
Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
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.
best girl life pictures quite scares scariest seen though
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.
based time work
I'm based in L.A., mainly. I'm pretty much there a lot of the time doing work.
bit car choose maybe money
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.
absolutely spectrum takes
I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.