Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon (born August 27, 1994) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Mason Evans Jr. in Richard Linklater's film Boyhood, for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.[2] (wikipedia)
I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.
I never watched a frame of the film until it was finished.
The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.
I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.
My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.
I was raised to be some kind of artist.
It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.
I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.
I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.
I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.