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Max Minghella: he could be the second chapter in the next movie dynasty--that is, if he can get through midterms first.(Interview)
In Terry Zwigoff's new film, Art School Confidential, Max Minghella plays a wayward student who hatches a grand plan to make it big as an artist and win the heart of the most beautiful girl in school. Based on the popular comic strip by Daniel Clowes (who also collaborated with Zwigoff on 2001's Ghost World), the film is a stylized, cheeky send-up of both the art world and celebrity culture. With a brilliant supporting cast that includes John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston, and Sophia Myles, Minghella--the son of Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella--is in fine company. But it's the 20-year-old London-bred actor's breakout performance, all calculated ambition and white-lightning drive, that remains the film's bona fide centerpiece. Here, Peter Sarsgaard checks in.
PETER SARSGAARD: Where are you?
MAX MINGHELLA: I'm outside a bus stop in North London, right where I grew up. I'm on my way to meet my dad for dinner. I can see the hospital where I was born. This has been memorable already.
PS: [both laugh] So, how have you been?
MM: I'm good. I'm on leave from school at Columbia University for spring break. I should be in Cabo San Lucas, but unfortunately I'm in London. Are you in New York?
PS: I am. How's school going?
MM: It's been a little intense ...
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