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THE PERFECT ROLE
In some ways, the character of Ender is like Butterfield himself. The London native has been acting since age 7. He got his first big chance in cinema by landing the role of a son of a Nazi concentration camp commander who befriends a Jewish boy his age in the touching film "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas."
"Ender's Game" is a nearly 20-year-old novel, and director Gavin Hood wonders if a big reason that sci-fi crazy Hollywood hasn't made a film of it before now was that producers were waiting for that "perfect" actor to play the title role. Ender is "highly intelligent and deeply compassionate, but he also has within him the capacity to be very aggressive," said Hood, who also directed "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." "This tension between Ender's capacity for great compassion and his equal but opposite capacity for aggression required that we cast an actor with great emotional range. Asa Butterfield has that range."
At 16, the thin, pale Butterfield had to act opposite the likes of Hollywood legends such as Harrison Ford and Sir Ben Kingsley. So even though Butterfield sees few parallels between his acting career — which began early in his childhood — and Ender being groomed for military life, there is one.
"People mature at different ages," Butterfield said. "Ender is very advanced for his age. I don't think that is any reason, however, for him to be called on to do the things he has to do in this film. There's a big difference between being more mature than your peers and being asked to do things which no one your age should be asked to do."
Although reviews for the film, which has already been released in the U.S. and Britain, have been mixed, Butterfield has been praised for his performance. One reviewer wrote that the film is "driven by Butterfield's terrific performance."
Will the box office be good enough to warrant making sequels to the film? Butterfield isn't sure, but he has learned to be cautious. And unlike Ender Wiggin, he's not had second thoughts about the career that he chose when he was quite young. Working with directors like Scorsese and Hood settled that for him.
"As of now, acting is all I ever want to do," he said. "I might have a change of heart. But meeting the people I have been able to meet, having the experiences I've been lucky enough to have, like flying in the air 12 meters above the ground with Cirque du Soleil trainers for this movie, all the other wonderful experiences I've had on sets, I definitely think that this is the life for me."
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