![]() ![]() Like many Hollywood love stories, this one started on a movie set. I was 17 and that really was a wake-up call." He and Elle met on set So the first time I was seeing myself perform was in these wide release movies that I wasn’t doing a very good job in."Ī post shared by Max Minghella the other hand, Max admitted he was "pretty douchey kid in school." That is, until his friend Josh brought him back down to Earth: "I was on the phone, rolling calls the entire drive, and I never spoke to him or acknowledged him or said, 'Thank you for picking me up,' and we got out of the car, and he just lost it on me. He also told Esquire,"The first couple of things I did, I’d never acted before. "That was the singular thing that got me interested." That play changed my life in so, so many ways," he said. "I really didn't have any interest in being an actor at all. ![]() Max previously told DuJour magazine back in the day that when he saw Kenneth Lonergan's play, This Is Our Youth, as a teenager, he was inspired to act. One play in particular inspired him to be an actor It also rescued me from a lot of bad career decisions." Touché, Max! Touché. But I'm so grateful for the experience-whatever motive I had to go, it definitely was a great thing. I've always been a terrible student, but they really hoped that I would be better, and I kind of hoped for them.It was, in retrospect, an apology, probably, for being a high school dropout and becoming an actor young and naively. "I hadn't finished school in England, so I didn't have the qualifications to go to university in England unless I went back to school…The most logical way to continue my education was to do it in America and just take the SATs," he dished to Interview about how he ended up attending the New York City Ivy.Ī post shared by Max Minghella asked why he decided to continue pursuing his education, he candidly (and hilariously) admitted, "Honestly, probably the guilt of having very academic parents. It wasn't long before the actor headed to Columbia University to study history. Max has often discussed growing up in an immigrant household-with his father's side being Italian and his mother's side being Chinese-and how he felt it made him closer with his parents. More specifically, the multi-hyphenate was born in the Hampstead area of London. Uhm, hi Minghella family? Adopt me pls?!? He grew up in London but studied in the United States As for Max's older sister, Hannah? Well, she just so happens to be the head of motion pictures (!!) at Bad Robot, a role she earned after serving as the president of TriStar Pictures and TriStar Television, per Deadline. He too left his mark in the entertainment industry as an Oscar-winning director behind movies like The English Patient, Cold Mountain, and The Talented Mr. A post shared by Max Minghella father, Anthony Minghella, sadly died in March 2008 at the age of 54. ![]()
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