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RIVER
PHOENIX SPEAKS
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| Magazine
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LA
Youth, October 1988 |
| Written
by: |
Greg
Mooradian |
| Provided
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LA Youth Website |
LA
Youth reporter Greg Mooradian interviewed actor River Phoenix
in the fall of 1988. At 18, he had already appeared in six
major films, including "Stand By Me" and "Mosquito Coast."
He later died of a drug overdose.
You spent much of your childhood
in South America, and your family has moved some 40 times
in the past 20 years. When and where did you have the opportunity
to be trained as an actor?
I've trained myself through experience.
Acting school for me has been working on the sets of different
films, and I've basically learned through trial and error.
What do you most clearly remember
about your time in South America, and what do you feel you
learned from that experience?
I remember living in colonies, sharing
my life with a lot of people, going to plazas and singing
with my sisters to hundreds, sometimes a thousand people...
We were putting out a message that changed their lives in
some way.
Where do you see yourself
five or ten years down the road?
Whatever I'm doing, I hope it isn't
a selfish involvement. I'd like to put together a volunteer
group that would tour high schools and give seminars about
subjects the education system won't teach, information that
people should be exposed to so they can start deciding what's
right and wrong.
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