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...matter how well they pout and grin, there's one thing all child actors have to be able to do: relax. If you place an ordinary kid opposite Mel Gibson or Susan Sarandon and yell "action," he'll get as stiff and shaky as a screen door in a gale. Rory and Kieran Culkin, younger brothers of Home Alone star Macaulay, don't know from stiff. In this month's Igby Goes Down, in which they play the same prep-school rebel at different points in his life, they seem as at ease on camera as most people...
Rory, 13, who plays Gibson's son in the sci-fi blockbuster Signs, sits down for lunch at a fancy Manhattan restaurant and promptly chugs a can of Red Bull energy drink. He then asks his mother to leave, sticks the lemon wedge from her Coke in his mouth and assumes an amiable but bored expression. Interviews, he makes clear, are not scary. Not much seems to intimidate Rory, including his brothers' careers. He says it's a nonissue that they're in the same business: "We don't talk about it. We talk like any other brothers would...
...acting, the seams in their work," he says. That's why they're so good. In their films, they look like real kids shuffling through normal ups and downs: when Kieran, as Igby, gets the news that his inheritance will be small, or when Rory informs Gibson he had to kill the family dog, it's easy to forget you're watching drama and not something like real life...
Working opposite Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson was a dream job for Vietnamese actor Don Duong. Too bad it might be his last. Duong's role as a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) commander in the blockbuster war film We Were Soldiers has perturbed Vietnam's censors. Authorities may bar Duong from acting for five years for taking part in the movie, which is banned in the communist country because it paints the North Vietnamese as merciless killers. Duong is guilty of "distorting the history of Vietnam," according to Ho Chi Minh City Culture and Information Department officials, who dislike the movie...
Signs There's something spooky in the field next to the farmhouse where Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) lives with his two kids (Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin) and his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix): gigantic crop circles. Are they an elaborate prank or the harbinger of an alien race's intervention? Given M. Night Shyamalan's earlier hits (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), you can forget prank. The writer-director wants you to believe in signs, from beyond the grave or the solar system, from the Bible or a good man's troubled heart - for Graham is still in mourning...