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‘He’s Going to Rule Hollywood Someday’
Fred Hechinger is your favorite film critic’s favorite young character actor, graduating to his first lead role.
When Hollywood looks at his toothy grin and cherubic features, it tends to see either a malevolent creep or an endearing dork, which is the role Hechinger plays in this month’s Hell of a Summer, a coming-of-age comedy hidden inside a summer-camp slasher flick. There’s still that existential fear that it could all end, but over the years you learn to trust that if you give it enough focus, your choices will arrive at something intentional, or at least worth sharing.” He isn’t the kind of actor who has a master plan for his career, but he does hope to star in a rom-com one day, or a musical. On the walk over, he recalled how his co-star Matthew Finlan, an amateur spirit hunter who hosts a web series called Ghosting, coached the rest of the cast through a Ouija scene.
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