He ate people in Sin City, saw dead people in 'Carnivale,' and was eaten (by alligators) in Bully. So how come we find the 28-year-old indie darling so charming? Here, the young thespian tells us what he finds less than adorable.
Steve Garbarino
February 28, 2008
Nick Stahl’s career began opposite Mel Gibson in The Man Without a Face. Since then, his own brooding visage has become known, most notably in darkly psychological movies, from Larry Clark’s Florida-set, true-crime saga, Bully (in which his sadistic sandwich-maker is murdered by his friends) to the award-winning In the Bedroom, to his fleet-footed cannibal-monster, who collects trophy heads of his female victims in Sin City.
Sci-fi lovers, of course, know him best as the unlikely hero of T3, the third in the Terminator series. The sweetness and sourness came together like perfect salad dressing in HBO’s “Carnivale,” in which his life-giving (and taking) character could be perceived as either Satan or Christ. Sundance isn’t new to him—he’s had films premiere there seven times now—but he returned this year with Sleepwalking (co-starring Charlize Theron) and Quid Pro Quo (with Vera Farmiga). And there’s so much more on his plate, which we hope doesn’t include someone’s hand (see Sin City). Like Lazarus, you can’t keep a good man—or actor—down. —Steve Garbarino
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