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Nick Stahl, the smart kind of hot
Interview, Sept, 1998 by Laurence Dumortier
Stahl says he was baffled by the aesthetically driven marketing of the film, which plastered every other billboard in L.A. with his airbrushed face alongside those of costars Katie Holmes and James Marsden. ("The poster made us all look alike!" he marvels.) But the actor seems determined to ignore the emphasis On physical beauty that actresses have always endured and that is now increasingly felt by their male counterparts. Stahl declares, "I try to avoid the sweet-ass roles. I don't consider myself anything of the kind, and there's no point in pretending I am."
Later this year, Stahl gets gritty. In Terrence Malick's much-anticipated World War II epic, The Thin Red Line, he plays an Iowa farm boy stuck in the battle of Guadalcanal and coming to terms with the reality of killing. Although he acted in the film with John Travolta, Sean Penn, and Nick Nolte, Stahl reserved his awe for the experience of working with the famously reclusive Malick: "He's such an intriguing person. He can be quite abstract, but when he's filming he's incredibly acute. It wasn't like any other film I'll ever do, I'm sure." Stahl has no fears of seeing his face on billboards for this movie, which is set for a holiday release. "I imagine the marketing will have to be more complex, there are so many characters and story lines," Stahl says, then pauses. "I'm curious to see how they package this war flick under the Christmas tree."
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