European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Profile Anthony Michael Hall with Molly Ringwald in sixteen Anthony Michael Hall stars As the nerd by Vernon Scott United press International Anthony Michael Hall May be the Best 17year old actor in movies at least he gives that impression under two circumstances when he works with director John Hughes and with 18yearold actress Molly Ringwald As he did in his two Best sixteen candles and the breakfast nobody plays adolescent nerds and geeks with More Hall seems to have then polished to a High gloss the role of Pencil necked a High school kid too shy to say i to a pretty coed and to awkward to make any athletic How much of Halls performances reflect the kid actor himself How much is pure Talent even Hall is he tangled his Way into the publicity offices of Universal studios recently wearing beat up red and White sneakers and a red sweatshirt with Stanford emblazoned on suffering the requisite number of teenage skin eruptions and a mop of Blond hair falling in his is a somewhat arrogant new yorker who dislikes Southern California because nobody gets out of their Hall flopped Down behind a desk and sorted through some publicity photographs of his new weird a comedy in which he again assays the role of a sympathetic i dont like this he told his i really hate he was assured the offending photograph would never see the Light of Hall dislikes being lumped in with the so called brat a group of talented Young movie newcomers that includes ally Rob Judd Sean Emilio Estevez and the lanky Hall muttered something about transitory careers and suggested that he had set a course that would keep him going in movies for a Long time to the Only one Ive worked with More than once is he i like those actors but in not part of the Hall Doest hang out with the others adding that they were involved in too Many including he said he feels More comfortable in the new York environment where i can get into Peoples faces and they can get into then there is John Hall has been involved in four of Hughes in addition to sixteen candles and the breakfast he was directed by Hughes in weird science and appeared in National lampoons which Hughes would Hall be As effective an actor without Hughes How would i know he my Only other picture was six i guess theres a special chemistry Between me and we work real Well from the first Day on sixteen candles i knew we had something special John is really in touch with the thoughts and attitudes of kids growing he opened Peoples eyes that teens Are a very special time with All the pressures and things that Are Hall says celebrity and the sophisticated demands of film work have not distanced him from his own i Only work every three months or the rest of the time i hang out and act like an i exist As an actor if i want in touch with what is going on around me with people my its Nice to have Young people Tell me in right but they can be obnoxious it All depends on How they approach most of the time we make a connection and its Hall said he hoped he represented other teen agers the Geek i play says what its like to be 14 years Ive known Guys like the ones i kids say they identify with or they have a brother like audiences have been thrown a stereotype of a High school nerd for a Long time and made jokes about sometimes it has to be fairly Hall thinks he portrays adolescent losers with compassion and honesty even though he apparently is anything but a nerd or a at least he Doest think of himself in those in science he plays a nerd who uses computers and other High tech equipment to build himself an Ideal female Kelly this Guy is older than Ive played said who lives with his parents in new York i look different in the Guy is More hip and kind of a Wise 20 stripes Magazine August
