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The Young Actors In "Earth To Echo" - Film
The Young Actors In "Earth To Echo" - Film
By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist
The Young Stars of Echo
Regroup And Have Fun
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Courtesy of Relativity Media
“Earth To Echo” is a new film from
Relativity Media and stars a youth cast of which years from now fans will say I
remember when. The film is very similar to the 80’s blockbuster “ET.” Although
the project’s writers, producers and director are quick to dismiss the comparison;
all of the essentials for comparison are there. The young cast consists of Teo
Halm, Brian “Astro” Bradley, Reese Hartwig and Ella Linnea Wahlestedt, most of
whom are fairly new. Halm plays Alex the best friend of Tuck. He has had a hard
life being orphaned at a young age and going through a series of five foster
families. When he hooked up with Tuck and Munch he finally felt a since of real
bonding with a couple of friends. Halm started acting at age nine on stage and
has a couple of movies forthcoming. Tuck is the leader of the group and is
played by Brian “Astro” Bradley who convinces his two buddies Alex and Munch to
go on an adventure of a life time while he videos it. Bradley started in music
as a rapper. His YouTube single video “Stop Looking At My Momz” went viral
snatching up over 500,000 hits. This put him on the map and got him appearances
on Good Day NY, MTV’s The Seven and a feature on Fuse TV. He eventually
finished seventh on The X Factor with a record deal and started making TV and
movie appearances.
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| Top L-R: Brian "Astro" Bradley, Ella Wahlestedt Bot L-R: Reese Hartwig, and Teo Halm |
Reese Hartwig plays Munch who is the comic
relief of the film. Like his cast mates he started young at ten years-old doing
commercials, voice over, movie and TV appearances. He even says he wants to be
a plastic surgeon. His screen focus is on comedic acting such as his idols Jim
Carrey, Chris Farley and Will Ferrell. Rounding out the pack is the only girl
in the bunch Emma who is portrayed by Ella Wahlestedt. The Stockholm, Sweden
native moved to the USA with her parents at age six. Stints of being a level 7
gymnast, modeling and landing roles on TV and movies followed. Many know her as
Caroline on Lifetime’s hit serried “Army Wives.” In this movie Wahlestedt plays
the cute, middle class, uppity, popular girl in school who eventually gets sucked
up into the guy’s adventurous night out.
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| L-R: Astro, Ella, Teo and Reese |
The cast had such good chemistry on
screen; did that rub off in real life off set? Halm speaks up and says, “We’re
really good friends now and think we always were especially when we got started
because it was all of our first big production and we had a ton of collective
nervousness. I think that definitely helped us bond.” Astro simultaneously has
a music career going how does he plan to juggle that with acting? He voices his
thoughts, “Music is still my main thing. Acting is something that I trying out.
I know some people will think I’m crazy when I say “trying out,” because this
is a major film but I love them both equally. I have one more film to shoot
right now then I’m going to take a break because it’s a lot of work. Its fun to
actually shoot and be on set but the promotional tours and stuff you really
have to be prepared for that.”
Wahlestedt may have the most television
experience of the bunch so what is the difference for her between working film
and TV? She smiles, “TV series are structured and you know what things you are
going to do that day. It’s all timed out as opposed to a movie set . You might
spend a couple of hours on one scene getting different angles or it might go by
like a breeze, it all depends. I think with movies you have more freedom which
is nice. We talked to the director and he was open to suggestions.”
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There was a scene where the gang reunited
a year later that actually was shot a long while after the base movie had been
shot. The cast did look older. Was that due to make-up or real life aging?
Hartwig chimes in saying, “I think we definitely change a lot by then.”
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