AMERICAN ALIEN ENTERTAINMENT SETH ADKINS INTERVIEW BY BRIAN KURE.
PRESENT: SETH ADKINS, SUSIE ADKINS & BRIAN KURE.
13. How do you do school? Public? Private? Home school?
My teacher sends me homework. A lot of work!
14. And who helps you with that?
Well, it's like a team effort. (laughs) So, like probably all of
Southern California helps me.
15. Are you a difficult student?
Noooo. I think the teachers are difficult. (laughs)
16. What about your friends that are not actors? How do they
treat you?
Well, I've been doing this my whole life and I've gone to the same
school. The whole school is used to it. Everybody knows. They don't
care. If I do a movie premier and it's on TV, they come and say 'you
did a good job in that movie, Seth. You did a real good job'. They
don't get jealous. There's only a couple that do. My real close
friends are happy for me.
17. Do you want to be an actor in the future?
I want to do it as long as I can -- but you might not get like the
famous actors. So, if you want to do it real bad you may want to have
a job already and then you can do acting on the side. But if you just
did acting and didn't get like the superstars, it would be hard to
pay for your family 'cause you wouldn't know when your next job's
gonna be.
18. If you went to college?
If I went to college I'd want to be like Sam Walton that owns all the
Wal-Marts. (laughing) To be a millionaire like him. Or, a doctor.
19. Violent movies. Violent music. Violent video games. Do you think
sometimes movies are a little too violent and can make people become
violent?
Sometimes movies can be a little violent. I try and stay out of
movies that are violent or have things in there that kids shouldn't
see. My dad's a middle school principal and his kids watch stuff. I
don't really want to do stuff like that anyways.
20. You get to decide what you do and don't do?
My mom and I. I'll want to do some stuff but my mom won't think it's
right for me to do. So, I'll say okay. (laughs)
21. If you could write a movie, what would you want it to be about?
Probably a movie that's funny, like one of those everyday families
that they used to have. I'd like to make a movie like that because
there's not a lot of stuff like that anymore. It's usually killing
and stuff like that.
22. Who would you want to star in it?
Meryl Streep and (laughing) Drew Carey... And some other good actors.
(laughing)
23. Those names sound familiar. What are you working on now? I heard
you were riding horses or something.
Oh, yeah. I might do a movie called 'The Ponderosa'. It used to be
called 'Bonanza'. It was a cowboy story. I hope I get to do that. I'll
be Little Joe Cartwright. I go on the horses like every other day.
24. What's the most important rule when you go up to a horse?
Probably not to spook it, to come from the front so it will see you.
If you come from the back and touch it, it might get scared and step
on you.
25. What kind of advice would you give a kid that comes up to you and
says, "I really want to do what you're doing. How do I do that?"
Well, if they really did want to do it, they'd have to really, really
want to do it. Your family makes sacrifices for you. If you did do
it, you'd have to get headshots done which costs a lot of money.
Then, you'd have to go to LA and get an agent and that's sometimes
hard when you're just starting out in the business. You should try
some stuff where you live, if you don't live in California. See if
acting's what you really want to do.