Overview

• In a GQ interview published Aug. 19, the 22-year-old discussed missing Philip Seymour Hoffman's guidance as his own career expands.
• He called his late father his favorite actor and said he longed for his advice even as the thought of being judged by him felt terrifying.
• Hoffman said he once planned to avoid acting and considered fashion at Central Saint Martins before Paul Thomas Anderson persuaded him to audition.
• He debuted at 17 in Anderson’s 2021 film Licorice Pizza and has since built a small slate of screen and stage work.
• In The Long Walk, a Stephen King adaptation directed by Francis Lawrence and co-starring David Jonsson, he plays a grieving son, noting personal parallels after even trying to botch his audition; the film opens Sept. 12.