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Walk of Fame Honoree Christian Slater on ‘Dexter: Original Sin’ as a ‘Redemption Tour’: ‘I Kind of Lost What the Point of Acting Was’
Christian Slater reflects on his long career, films like "Heathers" and jokes about "Gleaming the Cube" to his Walk of Fame ceremony on June 9.
When Christian Slater was 16 years old, he trained with professional skateboarder Stacy Peralta for the 1989 film “Gleaming the Cube,” an iconic-to-a-certain-demographic action pic in which he played a skater solving the death of his brother. It’s been a long, heralded journey for the actor and one that, by his own admission, was far from an “even, flowy ride.” At 8 years old, he was appearing on a daytime drama and by 10 he was making his Broadway debut opposite Dick Van Dyke in “The Music Man.” He shot to fame with star-making turns in films like “Heathers” and “Pump Up the Volume” while appearing in a string of box office hits like “Interview With the Vampire” and “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.” He transitioned from teen heartthrob to leading man with seeming ease thanks to bold choices such as “True Romance” and “Untamed Heart.” Raspy but self-assured, Slater’s vocal skill (and killer delivery) earned him comparisons to Jack Nicholson early on and has become so recognizable that “If I Had Legs” filmmaker Mary Brownstein calls it “one of the most iconic out there.” It was what the director required when casting the actor as Charles, an absentee husband mostly heard on the phone arguing with Rose Byrne’s suffering mother.
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