AMERICAN ALIEN ENTERTAINMENT SETH ADKINS INTERVIEW BY BRIAN KURE.
PRESENT: SETH ADKINS, SUSIE ADKINS & BRIAN KURE.

1. How did you get into acting?
I started somewhere else actually. I did some commercials there. One
year we wanted to take a trip, so we came out to LA. We went to
Disneyland, so my mom just sent out a couple of resumes to see what
we'd get back from agents. We got a lot of responses. And we got in
a car accident that year so my mom couldn't work. We came out here
then and did it for a while and just had good luck. We started doin'
it until this time.

2. What was the first thing you got out here?
It was a pilot called 'Little Monsters'. At the last minute they
pulled the plug, but I still 'got it'.

3. Did you get an acting coach or take classes?
Well, after I got 'Little Monsters' and that didn't work out, my
brother was going to this place called the Casting Network. Different
casting directors come and they teach you, like they give you little
sets of sides and you go out for a couple minutes with you and
another person and you memorize it and act it out -- when you go back
in they call the people up and you read your sides.

(Susie) His brother was going to Casting Network. She offered to
audition Seth as a favor. She had him do a scene and when she got
done, she said, "I'm casting a movie in two weeks and I just
found the little boy for the lead". Two weeks later he booked the
movie. It was called 'The Stir'. It was a real good learning
experience for him. It's a good thing he had that before working with
Meryl Streep in 'First Do No Harm'.

4. How old were you when you first came to LA, Seth?
I was eleven. (thinks / laughs) I was three. (laughs) Oh, no!! I was
six! (laughs) Ohhh!

5. There's a movie called Titanic.
Yeah. I was seven, I think. It was a long time ago. I liked doing
that. It was a lot of fun. Everybody on the set was nice. We had a
great time. Leonardo and Kate Winslet were real nice to me and good
to me.

6. Did you have to stay in the water all day?
No. When they'd say cut I'd go upstairs. They heated the soundstage

7. Can you sum up the experience working on the movie
called 'Geppetto'?
I liked doing that. I was Pinnochio in it. I played with Drew Carey,
Julia Louis Dreyfuss, Brett Spiner, and Usher. It was a lot of fun!
Everybody on it was really nice.

8. How'd you get ready for each day on 'Geppetto'?
I had three hours of make-up each day. It was pretty tough to do the
make-up. It was kind of a pain. After a while the make-up was real
hot, 'cause it was in the summer. I was just sweating all the
time.

9. What's been the hardest part for you working in the movies?
The hardest thing is probably when you don't get a part and you
really, really want it. That kind of stinks.

10. How do you handle that?
Well, you're kind of sad when that happens. You wish you got it. You
wish you did better. But there's always something better for you in
the long run.

11. What's the easiest part? Or, funnest part?
The easiest part? The funnest part? Probably when you're on camera
and doing the movie. It's a lot of fun.

12. Tell me about 'When Andrew Came Home'. There's a pretty emotional
scene at the end. Is that hard for you? Is that easy? How do you do
that?
Well, I just think of something sad. I try to get there. And when I
do get there I just keep thinking that thought when I'm doing my
lines in the movie.