I'm starting to feel sorry for this kid. Ok, he's barely 14 years old and already a respected actor - so I should hate him, but looking at the roles Kodi Smit-McPhee has taken in his short yet already commendable career is enough for me to pat him on the shoulder and say "there, there.. chin up!"
The young Aussie rose to fame alongside Eric Bana in the emotional family-drama Romulus, My Father a film where he played a young boy who had to deal with a pretty grim family life. He then went on to what's been his most recognised role to date, as "the boy" in the monumentally depressing post-apocolyptic road-movie The Road. Add to that his role as a terminally-ill cancer-patient in Matching Jack and his recent role in the US version of the Swedish film Let the Right One in (where he plays a lonely companion to a hungry little vampire girl) and you've got yourself the new Haley Joel Osment.
Let's pray for his sake that he isn't. (Ok, that's not fair. Haley was a damned impressive actor back in the day. But let's face it, he got type-cast something awful).
However, with all the emotionally-straining roles he's already undertaken, it wouldn't surprise me if he started seeing dead people.
For God's sake... give the boy a role in Nanny McPhee 3 or a voiceover for a talking animal or something!
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