ARRIVALS: A Breakout Role ? And A Bright Future ? For Noah Segan, Looper?s Kid Blue
In the cinematic world of Rian Johnson, where friends are collaborators and cast and crew a part of a close-knit filmmaking "family," actor Noah Segan is a constant. But after appearing in Johnson's debut film Brick and his follow-up, The Brothers Bloom, Segan received what he calls a "gift" from Johnson — one of the smartest rising writer-directors of his generation — in the form of what's sure to be his breakout role: The finely-tuned, gun-obsessed futuristic cowboy Kid Blue in Looper, a "gat man" eagerly hunting down rival Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who's so fraught with seriocomic human frailty he only grows more sympathetic as he becomes increasingly unhinged.
To Segan's credit, he shines in the role Johnson tailored for him, inspired by Segan's own offscreen cinephilia and the actor's favorite movie — the obscure Warren Oates Western Kid Blue, his signature on Twitter, Tumblr and the film community for years. As Gordon-Levitt's steely Joe attempts to change his fate by confronting his future self (Bruce Willis), Segan's eager-to-please Kid Blue illustrates a pained parallel course of desperate self-determination gone wrong. For the actor, who considers Brick the start of his bona fide career and also appeared in Deadgirl, What We Do Is Secret, and Cabin Fever 2, Looper could and should be the catalyst for Hollywood to take note.
As he and the Looper crew took Fantastic Fest by storm, Segan spoke with Movieline about his uniquely personal relationship with Looper and director Johnson, the compelling complexities of Kid Blue, that one time he was on Dawson's Creek, and why no industry honor could match the feeling of being welcomed as family at the best movie theater in…
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