Sometimes you just read something and it makes sense and it clicks instantly and you feel connected to it and you have an emotional response to it immediately. I knew that I wanted to do it when I read it. I read it a year and a half before I even auditioned. MANN: It’s the greatest role that has ever come across my lap. Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is probably the one I can talk the most about sincerely. You don’t want to talk about all of those, trust me. By the time he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17, he was a successful commercial actor in and had guest-starred on one episode of Nickelodeon’s iCarly.ĮMMA BROWN: You’re in a million movies coming out. “They needed someone, so I went to the theater director’s office and I said, ‘I think I’m perfect for it.'” Mann was hooked and his other extracurricular activities-swimming, hockey, participating in triathalons-fell to the side. “I taught myself to do a backflip and walk on my hands, just as a random talent,” he explains over the phone from his home in Silverlake, L.A. In Me & Earl & the Dying Girl, Mann stars as an aspiring filmmaker with Connie Britton as his mother, Nick Offerman as his father, and Olivia Cooke as the titular dying girl.īorn in Portland and raised in Dallas, Texas, Mann’s first role was a court jester in his sixth grade production of Sleeping Beauty. In The Stanford Prison Experiment, based on the infamous ’70s psychological experiment by Philip Zimbardo, Mann is part of an ensemble alongside Michael Angarano, James Frecheville, Ezra Miller, Tye Sherdian, Callan McAuliffe, Ki Hong Lee, and Billy Crudup. Both are set to premiere at Sundance next week and feature impressive young casts. The two films Mann is most excited about, however, are probably The Stanford Prison Experiment and Me & Earl & the Dying Girl.

There’s Welcome to Me with Kristin Wiig, and The Preppie Connection, which recounts the barely-believable true story of a cocaine smuggling ring at a New England prep school. Although the 23-year-old actor has only appeared in a handful of films to date, he has 10 films currently awaiting release. Thomas Mann’s upcoming filmography is a little overwhelming. STYLING: SEAN KNIGHT. GROOMING: DANIELE PIERSONS FOR EXCLUSIVE ARTISTS MANAGEMENT USING ORIBE HAIR CARE. THOMAS MANN AT L&E OYSTER BAR IN SILVERLAKE, LOS ANGELES, DECEMBER 2014.

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