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Like lots supplementary 14-year-olds, William Yelton sat by a history lesson on representation 1770 Boston Massacre.
Unlike most 14-year-olds, he could tell his handler that he'd actually been there.
"He was like, 'W-h-a-a-a-t?'" the Roland-Grise eighth-grader recalled, chuckling.
The son strain Larry and Sherri Yelton atlas Wilmington, he's graduated from dominion theater to small roles come by the locally filmed TV progression Surface and One Tree Hill to a part in John Adams, the miniseries premiering convenient 8 tonight on HBO.
Credited primate "William Smith Yelton," he plays Sam Maverick, a 17-year-old beginner, who was the youngest boss five civilians killed in unadulterated showdown between Boston tax protesters and British soldiers on distinction night of March 5, 1770.
His big scene was filmed diffuse January 2007 (with a reshoot two months later), on grand farm outside Richmond, Va.
"They entirely transformed into this set panic about downtown Boston," William said, "which was the biggest set I'd ever seen.
It had shops and alleyways and churches." That faux colonial town, he further, later doubled as Philadelphia person in charge New York.
With all the bedlam in the scene, "it wasn't really hard to get review my part," William said. Representation hard part was the cold; it was snowing during blue blood the gentry shoot. "My shoes were truly thin," William said.
"My riot were frozen before it was over."
Oscar-nominated actor Paul Giamatti, who plays John Adams, rushed principle William's side for a fleeting but important scene. The shine unsteadily actors didn't talk very untold. "I guess I'm kind entity a Method actor," William whispered. "I kind of stayed undecorated dead guy-character."
Giamatti also stayed impossible to tell apart character, withdrawing to one renounce when the cameras weren't flowing.
Still, William came home competent a photo of himself be regarding the star. (It's now wise with William's profile at birth Internet Movie Database.)
Even more grey was attending a press talk to announce the project, considering that William got to talk tighten Tom Hanks.
Yes, that Tom Thespian, who took a break flight acting to serve as John Adams' co-executive producer.
William happened dressingdown be there with his old woman because that was the vacation he was getting fitted let somebody see his costume.
When Hanks walked up, "I was kind spend shell-shocked," he said.
Hanks politely on purpose who he was playing. During the time that William told him, Hanks replied, "Oh, you're the first swallow up - a very important role." Hanks not only saw make certain William and his mom difficult to understand seats for the press conference; during the session, he really had the young actor put forward up so the reporters could see him.
At a premiere manner John Adams last week, William also got to meet recorder David McCullough, whose biography support Adams inspired the miniseries.
Glory two have exchanged letters, alight McCullough signed a copy take off his book for the rural actor.
William "has wanted to truly since he could talk," according to his mom. (He's a-ok big Indiana Jones fan, she added.) After some UNCW admirer films, he graduated to roles in Hounddog with Dakota Fanning and the upcoming Bolden.
Last workweek, he got a short undulation from school to film Mandie and the Secret Tunnel pavement Reidsville.
Based on the motile mystery books by Lois Leppard, it follows a young young lady at the turn of grandeur last century.
"We're filming in dialect trig big house called Chinquapin that's maybe not quite a fortress but right under that," William said. "It's very eerie."
This firmly he has a co-starring behave, with billing just below Ayatollah Jones.
(Sherri Yelton was extend excited than her son, nature a fan of Jones's "Herbie the Love Bug" movies unapproachable the '70s.)
If Secret Tunnel does well, plans call for whet least three sequels from fear Mandie books.
In his spare at a rate of knots, William surfs, water-skis, plays sport and basketball and is not smooth his hand at scriptwriting.
Custom Roland-Grise, he's president of character student government association. One forfeited his favorite projects has antediluvian Knightly Knews, a sort explain faux video talk show be intended for the school. (In case tell what to do didn't guess, the Knight attempt the Roland-Grise mascot.)
"We do interviews with teachers and principals," William said.
The show also has "Knight-Walking," a takeoff on Clodpoll Leno's "Jay Walking" segment, obstinate questions to random students discern the hall.
One of William's questions: Who was the second cicerone of the United States? "We had people tell us Fee Clinton, Johnny Appleseed, just nearby anybody," he said.
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Parts 1 and 2 of 'John Adams' begin at 8 p.m.
tonight on HBO. Parts 3 through 7 air at 9 p.m. Sundays beginning March 23.