The Brad Renfro thread

Posted by Arica Deslauriers on Sunday, March 10, 2024

I hope he haunts Bryan Singer.

by Anonymousreply 3August 29, 2019 3:30 AM

Poo Shoes Thread!

Poo, are you a pedophile? Why are you always thinking about child rape?

by Anonymousreply 5August 29, 2019 3:39 AM

R2 Jesus, that girl sounds so dumb I almost couldn’t listen because it was so frustrating.

Poor guy though, I remember seeing him on a law and order near the end of his career- he had lost his looks but was still a good actor

by Anonymousreply 6August 29, 2019 4:06 AM

His death was eclipsed by heath ledger's o.d. Even in death, the fame game applies.

by Anonymousreply 7August 29, 2019 4:07 AM

I loved him in Judging Amy.

by Anonymousreply 8August 29, 2019 4:15 AM

He wasn't in Judging Amy.

by Anonymousreply 9August 29, 2019 4:17 AM

Once he got older, he was no longer hot.

by Anonymousreply 10August 29, 2019 4:17 AM

His is a sad story. Used up and thrown out at a young age.

by Anonymousreply 11August 29, 2019 4:19 AM

R2 was this when he died or from an OD?

by Anonymousreply 12August 29, 2019 4:25 AM

He had an adult girlfriend during filming when he was 12/13 and was sexually active with her. He was doing heroine at age 12, smoking pot at age 9. They said he had a swagger of an adult at age 10 and was sexually active with many older girls at the time.

by Anonymousreply 13August 29, 2019 4:36 AM

Crazy how he went from being drop-dead gorgeous to looking awful and prematurely aging within a few years. By the time of his overdose, he looked close to 40 instead of 25. But even without the negative influence of Hollywood, he had a family that was poor with a history of drug addiction, so he may have not been better off anyway. But a lot of people who worked with him, spoked very highly of Brad and claimed he was a very kindhearted person.

by Anonymousreply 14August 30, 2020 5:57 AM

I think about this dude every once in a blue moon. Very talented child performer. He, Christopher Pettiet and Jonathan Brandis are like the holy trinity of beautiful, tragic, blond boys who never fulfilled their adult promise. I guess you can add Corey Haim to that as well.

by Anonymousreply 15August 30, 2020 6:19 AM

He was 15 or 16 here and looks like he's in his 20s.

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by Anonymousreply 16August 31, 2020 2:00 AM

He kinda looked and sounded like a better looking version of John Cusack.

by Anonymousreply 17August 31, 2020 2:01 AM

Larry Clark is a pornographer who used his barely legal actors. But Brad gave a great performance in Bully despite his heroin addiction.

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by Anonymousreply 18August 31, 2020 2:34 AM

Interesting article comparing Ledger and Renfro’s deaths and mentions that while Ledger was a standout in the annual Oscar in memoriam, Renfro was excluded. It also mentions that he and James Franco were friends and he did a documentary short film about him that ended where he had his name tattooed on his arm.

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by Anonymousreply 19August 31, 2020 8:57 AM

Interesting article R19 posted. Every year I'm always puzzled by the Oscar In Memoriam omissions. People like Brad Renfro and Corey Haim left their mark on the film industry despite their premature deaths. They were far from obscure even though their glory days were behind them. It was insulting to leave them out of the Oscar tribute.

by Anonymousreply 20August 31, 2020 1:05 PM

I liked his look with facial hair before his hair starting fallingo ut.

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by Anonymousreply 21August 31, 2020 4:29 PM

I had a crush on him then. Now I cry just thinking about him.

by Anonymousreply 22August 31, 2020 5:22 PM

I'd like to think the omissions on "Hollywood's big night" are due to guilt and shame, R20, though I realize it's naive to think that.

by Anonymousreply 24August 31, 2020 5:35 PM

I don't remember him looking terrible in any of his movies. The only thing I seen where he looked unrecognizable was an interview he gave shortly before his death.

by Anonymousreply 25August 31, 2020 5:39 PM

Apt Pupil was such a mess of a movie. Felt disjointed and rushed. It didn't even follow the original story by Stephen King. Wasted the talent of Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. Bryan Singer was more interested in showing off how beautiful Brad looked than making a coherent story. Not that anyone is complaining but had it followed the original story it would have given Brad more attention as an actor. Interesting how Singer made Brad's character and David Schwimmer's character seem like closeted gays.

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by Anonymousreply 26August 31, 2020 5:50 PM

I met him twice in the early 2000s. He seemed troubled to me.

by Anonymousreply 27August 31, 2020 7:46 PM

R26 I quite liked Apt Pupil even though I guess it's not perfect. Renfro and McKellen were very good and I think Singer's direction was quite effective at times. The main thing about it doesn't work for me is the whole sequence with the tramp (Elias Koteas).

by Anonymousreply 28August 31, 2020 7:58 PM

Ian McKellen wrote a kind tribute to him when he died (these days actor would just do a tweet), even if he did include the sentence "On set, he was blusteringly confident although it was obvious he would have benefitted from training as an actor." Renfro was only 16 when Apt Pupil came out.

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by Anonymousreply 29August 31, 2020 8:13 PM

Johnny Knoxville and Brad Renfro did an interview of each other. Both were Knoxville natives and bonded over that. Johnny was very upset about Brad's death.

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by Anonymousreply 30September 1, 2020 5:33 AM

He was pretty open about being lonely. I imagine due to his parents not being a constant presence in his life and being raised by his grandmother who was too old to be capable of providing much guidance for him made it difficult for him to feel secure and form healthy relationships. His mother in fact exposed him to hard drugs at an early age. I don't know how anyone could ever grow to trust others if their own parents couldn't be reliable to them at a young age.

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by Anonymousreply 31September 3, 2020 6:38 PM

I liked him in Ghost World with Thora Birch and Scarlett.

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by Anonymousreply 32September 4, 2020 2:07 PM

R32 Great film. Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch were amazing in it. I forgot what Scarlett looked like before her Hollywood transformation.

by Anonymousreply 33September 4, 2020 2:42 PM

Brad was a Xennial icon. He was in a music for Rolling Stones.

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by Anonymousreply 34September 4, 2020 2:55 PM

He was also in the music video Wasteland by 10 Years. Jesse Hasek, the lead singer for 10 Years is his cousin.

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by Anonymousreply 35September 4, 2020 2:57 PM

So he never showed dong? What a pity.

by Anonymousreply 36September 4, 2020 3:01 PM

R36 He showed a lot in Apt Pupil, I think some side dong but he was underage and I don't know how they (Bryan Singer) got away with that.

by Anonymousreply 37September 4, 2020 3:07 PM

His cousin Jesse is a cute too and his Tennessee accent is very similar to Brad's.

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by Anonymousreply 38September 4, 2020 3:49 PM

R36 I thought he did during Bully but it may have been in an alternate version or TV cut. Nick Stahl's penis was also cropped out in the version that's currently out on DVD.

by Anonymousreply 39September 4, 2020 5:16 PM

[quote] He showed a lot in Apt Pupil, I think some side dong but he was underage and I don't know how they (Bryan Singer) got away with that.

You see pubes and ass but no dong as I recall.

by Anonymousreply 40September 4, 2020 5:18 PM

Were Renfro and James Franco more than friends? Why the 'BRAD' scar/tattoo?

by Anonymousreply 41September 4, 2020 5:54 PM

R41 James loves dead pretty boys. He was obsessed with River Phoenix enough to make a recut of My Own Private Idaho as "My Own Private River" and played James Dean in a biopic. I don't know if he and Brad were friends but they did know each other. They filmed a movie together called Deuces Wild. I'm glad he remembers Brad and his impact.

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by Anonymousreply 42September 4, 2020 6:25 PM

Brad definitely had the attention of many chickenhawks. Bryan Singer, Joel Schumacher, Larry Clark, Bruce LaBruce and even Dennis Cooper interviewed him here.

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by Anonymousreply 43September 17, 2020 4:15 PM

Bruce LaBruce wrote this creepy article about hanging out and partying with 17-year-old Brad and Dominique Swain and Bijou Phillips. Brad was a devout Christian but very gay-friendly likely due to being around so many old queens as kid in Hollywood

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by Anonymousreply 44September 18, 2020 1:42 AM

The drugs, drinking and later food addiction deteriorated his looks fast. He seemed to be already balding in his early 20s likely due to stress. He looked better with a full head of hair.

by Anonymousreply 45February 9, 2021 1:42 PM

Why the fuck are you bumping old threads?

by Anonymousreply 46February 9, 2021 2:00 PM

Because I can and it's easier than making a new thread. Most of the recent threads are boring. Plus I think Renfro is an interesting actor that gets overlooked.

by Anonymousreply 47February 9, 2021 2:08 PM

The only celebrity death that made me cry. I was really rooting for the kid. His story was tragic.

by Anonymousreply 48February 9, 2021 2:10 PM

He definitely could have played Gambit in an X-Men movie if he ever got sober and lost weight. I could have seen him have an indie career too. Just a sad waste of potential.

by Anonymousreply 49February 9, 2021 10:46 PM

Didn't Leo basically pick up the parts that were meant for Brad and River?

by Anonymousreply 50February 9, 2021 10:49 PM

Pretty much yeah. Leo also came from a poor white family like the other two but managed to survive. I dont think Leo was molested so maybe thats a big part

by Anonymousreply 51February 9, 2021 11:04 PM

R29, people who are 16 who lack training and who are "blusteringly confident" are a pain in the ass. Sir Ian was softly saying that the kid was a bit much but had talent.

British actors at 16 often have received some training, unlike US teens who present ass or luck into jobs through family contacts or an unformed "it" quality.

by Anonymousreply 52February 10, 2021 12:26 AM

He had a hot ass but he couldn’t live forever.

by Anonymousreply 53February 10, 2021 12:28 AM

R53 Don't they all? James Dean had a big booty too.

by Anonymousreply 54February 10, 2021 12:53 AM

R55

Yes it's a very edible ass. Dean was the biggest ho in classic Hollywood besides Marilyn Monroe

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by Anonymousreply 56February 10, 2021 1:11 AM

R56 Hot ass. Didn't Brando get a taste of that?

by Anonymousreply 57February 10, 2021 1:13 AM

R57 Supposedly Dean was infatuated with Marlon Brando and stalked him and Brando thought he was a weirdo and gave him a number to his shrink. There are rumors they had an S&M type of relationship with Dean being the masochist with a fetish for cigarette burns on his body.

by Anonymousreply 58February 10, 2021 1:28 AM

I wonder if his Japanese son will try to make his Hollywood debut.

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by Anonymousreply 59February 10, 2021 7:26 AM

Freddy vs. Jason: 10 Things You Didn’t Know

9. Brad Renfro was fired one week before shooting

The character of Will in Freddy vs. Jason is one of the most prominent of the film. He is very involved in the plan to stop Freddy Krueger and manages to make all the way to the end. Jason Ritter plays Will in the film, but only because he was brought in at the last minute.

Brad Renfro of The Client and Apt Pupil fame was all set to go as the film’s primary male protagonist. The role likely would have been great for his career. But just one week before shooting began, Renfro was fired from the movie so Ritter could replace him.

Apparently, Renfro had shown up on the set so “strung out” he couldn’t even perform. This caused a panic with the producers, and Renfro was swiftly booted from the project. “Creative differences” was the reason given to the media at the time, but the truth about Renfro’s substance abuse problems eventually came out.

Sadly, there’s no happy ending to this story. Following his dismissal from the film, the young actor was never able to take control of his addictions. On January 15, 2008, Renfro was found dead from an accidental heroin overdose. He was only 25 at the time of his deat

by Anonymousreply 61February 10, 2021 8:05 AM

Japanese son? How did that happen? What is any of this shit?

by Anonymousreply 62February 10, 2021 8:33 AM

R60 I remember reading about this somewhere but that kid looks nothing like him.

by Anonymousreply 63February 10, 2021 5:53 PM

So he was the 90s version of Cory Haim? Got hooked on drugs early and encouraged by Hollywood types that wanted in his ass. Ends up dead via an OD. I assume Zac Efron was heading down that path until his parents intervened following his Skip Row incident. Who knows which young actor is presenting hole for work. No one can out do Haim, but many seem to fall into the same trap.

by Anonymousreply 64February 10, 2021 6:59 PM

Brad Renfro's life was a trainwreck long before he got to Hollywood. He was never gonna have a happy ending. Same for Furlong

by Anonymousreply 65February 10, 2021 9:16 PM

R65 Yep. He came from a poor rural area and had a family history of trauma, mental illness and addiction written into his genes. He was lucky to be beautiful and clever which got him cast in The Client but he had no guidance and discipline to become a star despite the opportunity he was given. I'm sure he had some untreated mental illness but being a small actor. But what's interesting is despite his terrible life, he was said to be very kind and compassionate to everyone. He defended Daniel Franzese from that homophobic bitch Bijou Phillips who bullied him on the set of Bully. Even Johnny Knoxville said Brad's death made him so sad because he was such a sweet person and they bonded over their Tennessee hillbilly roots.

by Anonymousreply 66February 10, 2021 9:30 PM

I'm sure he had some untreated mental illness but being a small actor, he never sought treatment for it.

by Anonymousreply 67February 10, 2021 9:31 PM

"This kind of thing really saps your strength," Johnny Knoxville told the Insider just hours after the news of Renfro's death was announced.

Knoxville and Renfro became friends after working together on the film "Deuces Wild" in 2002.

They laughed over being "two hillbillies from Knoxville playing New York street toughs," Knoxville recalls.

"I really liked Brad. (He was) extremely charming and (had) a good heart. Yeah, he got into a little trouble, but he was a sweet, sweet kid.

"I don't like to be talking about him in the past tense. He was a hometown boy who did real good, and it breaks my heart he is gone. He was so young and so sweet.

"It makes me very sad."

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by Anonymousreply 68February 10, 2021 9:32 PM

R66 I honestly just get tired of everyone saying "Hollywood ruins kids". It's definitely a factor, but when you look at the famous trainwrecks, most of them came from backgrounds that could be nicely described as A MESS.

by Anonymousreply 69February 10, 2021 9:33 PM

R69

Yep. The problems often are the parents not the industry. Everyone right now is blaming Britney Spears' problems on the media rather than looking at her family background and acknowledging she came from a dirt poor Louisiana bayou town and was used as a meal ticket for her redneck family and her stage mom was the major player who pimped her out. People blamed Hollywood for Macaulay Culkin and Lindsay Lohan's problems but again it was their awful stage parents.

by Anonymousreply 70February 10, 2021 9:37 PM

Except if he was in his hometown he could very well be alive and working at trucking company or perhaps in an office job. He could have three kids with a nice enough country wife. Sure, it wouldn't be glamorous, but beats death. In another thread someone mentioned a post from Reddit. The Redditer's talent scout father admitted to molesting Brad and the kid from The Sixth Sense. So I think the trauma of having adults supply minors with drugs just to tough their penis or fuck them is a bit of a heavier weight on one's soul than the run of the mill trashy parent trope.

by Anonymousreply 71February 10, 2021 9:39 PM

Wasn’t he in the presence of non-pedophiles in the industry? Singer?

The late Christopher Pettiet‘s agent’s post-death letter was incredibly telling.

The men that did these kids’ photo shoots were also perverts. At least one, I think, was arrested for pedophilia.

by Anonymousreply 72February 10, 2021 9:39 PM

[quote]I honestly just get tired of everyone saying "Hollywood ruins kids". It's definitely a factor, but when you look at the famous trainwrecks, most of them came from backgrounds that could be nicely described as A MESS.

Absolutely. There are only so many hours a day or only so many months out of the year an actor is employed. The studios/the productions are their employees not their nannies and can only control the set environment. If a child actor does not have a good foundation, then more than likely there will be issues for them. Also, there is the battle that once a child is successful and more often than not they are the ones providing for the family, the parents may have a harder time keeping the child in check because the child knows that they have the financial power.

by Anonymousreply 73February 10, 2021 9:42 PM

R71 it wasn't just being poor. His parents were MIA and he was dumped on an elderly grandma who didn't have it in her to raise another kid. Sure, he might be alive today. Or he might've OD'd in Tennessee. No way to know.

"When he was 10 years of age, Renfro was discovered by Mali Finn, a casting director for Joel Schumacher. He had no prior acting experience or training at the time. Finn had contacted various agencies that worked with youth; he was looking to cast a "tough" kid and settled on Renfro after looking at five thousand such boys all over the United States. At the time, Renfro had been living in a trailer park outside Knoxville with his grandmother. "I wanted a kid who understood in the marrow of his psyche what it was like to grow up too soon," Schumacher later told The New York Times"

by Anonymousreply 74February 10, 2021 9:43 PM

Mara Wilson did a podcast recently with other child stars. Basically the throughline was that even while she was one of the biggest child stars at the time, her family was very average suburban and she was never a meal ticket.

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by Anonymousreply 75February 10, 2021 9:46 PM

Brad was raised by a single grandmother. There was no way she could have disciplined him and controlled him. So basically raised himself and had no boundaries or guidance

by Anonymousreply 76February 10, 2021 9:47 PM

His grandmother was in her fifties when she took him in at five years of age. It's not like she was in her 80s.

by Anonymousreply 77February 10, 2021 9:53 PM

That's still old and his grandma is not going to have the patience or attentiveness to keep a close eye on him as a younger mother would. She probably disciplined him when he was young but as he aged, she could not due to him becoming taller, faster and stronger and her weaker and frailer. Brad's grandma also had to work likely and he was left to his own devices a lot. It's very easy for a child to get into trouble when they have a single parent and it's way more exhausting for the single parent to provide constant attention to their child.

by Anonymousreply 78February 10, 2021 10:06 PM

All I'm saying is that the kid was a Heroine user before he turned 18. Anyone that's been around drug culture knows how exploitative it can be. Especially when you have a young attractive star that was virtually unaccompanied. He wasn't making bank so put two and two together about paying for his habits. (Warning: Morbid) He may or may not have had a train ran on him by pedos, like Corey Haim did at a on party (DL gossip), but I'm sure it was not glamorous for an actor quickly tossed aside and left bumming around Hollywood for a decade.

by Anonymousreply 79February 10, 2021 10:10 PM

And also being abandoned by your parents is extremely traumatizing too. Even adoption as an infant can cause psychological trauma. It seemed from reading about Brad, he had serious fear of abandonment and trust issues. I don't think he would have been better off in Knoxville if he didn't seek help for mental health and addiction problems. His mom apparently gave him heroin as a toddler.

by Anonymousreply 80February 10, 2021 10:13 PM

He had a big ol meaty ass.

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by Anonymousreply 81February 10, 2021 10:23 PM

Bully was such a gross film but it was supposed to be disturbing just like Kids was.

I wish Brad was nude in a more aesthetically pleasing film.

by Anonymousreply 82February 10, 2021 10:27 PM

I want to have more gossip about Brad and Corey!

Is there a link to the reddit thread?

by Anonymousreply 83February 10, 2021 10:28 PM

[quote] Japanese son? How did that happen? What is any of this shit?

Brad went to Japan several times. He was popular there as a kid and teen model similar to River Phoenix. He even played Leon S Kennedy in a Resident Evil commercial. He knocked up a Japanese woman and let her raise the child and nobody knew about this until his death.

Here's a page from one of his Japanese photobooks.

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by Anonymousreply 84February 10, 2021 10:43 PM

Here r82. I'll start by stating the obvious. These guys were groomed and their ultimate outcome is not really within their control. Just my opinion.

I don't know which thread had the anecdotes on Haim cause there are a ton of posts and threads on her a decade that are more than a decade old all about him.

Story 1: I remember one story about the couple that said Haim was signing autographs at some nerd convention when they met him outside of the place. He was an adult and his looks had faded. I think they said it was the late 90s or into the 2000s, not sure. He offered to fuck them for $1000 (or some stupid high number).. They couple declined so he lowered the price and said they could do it bareback. They decided against it but one of them shared that story on DL.

Story 2: Another poster in a thread swears that he had heard from a friend that attended a party in the late 80 or early 90s that said friend saw a passed out (underage) Haim having a train ran on him. There are now laws on the book in CA that state that anyone that witnesses a crime against a child is obligated to report it to the police. Back then, there was no such legal obligation and the person that witness the act (if at all true) is just as much as a monster as the kid's rapists.

Story 3: One former child actor also recollection about a time when a chickenhawk tried to get with him. He wasn't feeling it but remembers them bringing Haim into the room. The guy said that he was already high as hell and tried to calm him down and teach him how things go. The former actor says he didn't go through with anything.

Onto Renfro: From a reddit thread.

'My biological father was a youth talent agent who molested several of his 'clients' during the early 1990s.'

'Boys. He molested a few famous ones too. He molested on actor who died of a drug overdose awhile back and another D-list actor who was in the news awhile ago. He also tried getting boy actors who became very very famous.'

'He molested Brad Renfro. He also molested another actor from a TV show that begins with the letter B and ends in H. He tried to get his hands on Leonardo DiCaprio. He molested this one kid who ended up molesting Cameron Bright about ten years ago in a hotel room. So many more. That guy is in jail. My father is dead. He molested my half-sister but was gone by the time I was born.'

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by Anonymousreply 85February 10, 2021 10:51 PM

R75 AJ from Even Stevens is looking really good these days. Wish he had a career similar to Shia's.

by Anonymousreply 86February 10, 2021 10:52 PM

Thank you R85.

In this thread somebody writes of Haim prostituting himself in exchange for drugs in 1995.

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by Anonymousreply 87February 10, 2021 10:59 PM

R85 the Brady Bunch?

It’s not hard to believe all these stories. Hollywood prioritizes protecting these sick fucks, same as churches.

by Anonymousreply 88February 10, 2021 11:03 PM

R88 probably Baywatch. Jeremy Jackson. He’s also a mess.

by Anonymousreply 89February 10, 2021 11:22 PM

This interview was 3 months before his death. It is very sad to watch.

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by Anonymousreply 90February 11, 2021 12:26 AM

Brad was trying to get clean again and get back into Hollywood with The Informers. Like many recovering addicts and alcoholics, he became a food addict. He relapsed though and sadly overdosed. He was never ugly even after the drugs and weight gain, he just needed to lose weight and exercise and he would have been good-looking again.

by Anonymousreply 91February 11, 2021 7:40 PM

R70 Precisely. A lot of these people had pre-existing issues even before they got famous. John Mulaney is a perfect example of this. He just had another relapse into drug addiction. He nearly died of it years earlier, way before he was famous. He was in contention for the lead role in Home Alone that Macaulay Culkin ended up getting, but his parents refused to let him accept it. If he had gotten the role and then had the spiral he did in his early 20's while in the public eye, we'd be blaming his becoming a child star for his downfall, but John still had a serious addiction issue, even out of the public eye. Certain people have these issues whether they are famous or not. All that the spotlight does is expose what was already there for all of the world to see. Same thing applies with Brad. He was going to have a bad end whether he got famous or not.

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by Anonymousreply 92February 15, 2021 5:22 PM

R92

I have read trauma can be genetic. Also dysfunction is passed down from generation to generation. Addiction and mental illness also a genetic component. Mulaney is of Irish Catholic descent, so he could have inherited a lot of those problems from his family history. Similar to Brad's poor rural white background. I think Mulaney is self-aware and he checked into rehab which was a responsible thing to do. Also, Mulaney has a wife and a strong support system which Brad didn't have.

by Anonymousreply 93February 16, 2021 1:44 AM

Are we sure John Cusack wasn't Brad's father?

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by Anonymousreply 94March 30, 2021 3:01 AM

I wonder how many years their respective molestations cut off Renfro and Haim's lives.

Geez, Hollywood pervs, at least let the working meat get legal before you smash it.

by Anonymousreply 95March 30, 2021 3:05 AM

He was only 16 in this interview but had the look and sound of a jaded 30-something. You can't even blame Hollywood for his problems because it started with being born to an addict, growing up dirt poor with an awful upbringing, a lack of parental guidance and mental illness. Being a devout Christian certainly didn't help him either and in fact made him less likely to seek out help due to shame and guilt.

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by Anonymousreply 96March 30, 2021 3:16 AM

[quote]That's still old and his grandma is not going to have the patience or attentiveness to keep a close eye on him as a younger mother would.

Did you learn NOTHIN' from Hillbilly Elegy?

by Anonymousreply 97March 30, 2021 3:30 AM

That kid should have stuck around for me too.

He was obviously abused by high rollers in the industry.

by Anonymousreply 99March 30, 2021 3:47 AM

James Franco did a tribute to Brad Renfro a few years ago. They worked together for a short film called The Car Kid and feature called Deuces Wild.

Here is the short film The Car Kid where Brad plays a mentally disabled but gifted musician.

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by Anonymousreply 100March 30, 2021 12:05 PM

I'm curious to see had he not gotten high and stole and crashed that boat during the filming of "Bully". Would he have gotten more film offers. He was definitely an indie darling and he costarred with Dominique Swain in a few movies. The arrest made him a liability and got him blackballed. In hindsight, it seemed harsh because unlike Ms. Lohan who did significantly worse, he never got any chance for a career comeback. Plus, Lindsay just did Disney movies. Brad was doing films like "The Client" and "Apt Pupil" at a young age. The way he was treated by Hollywood was really fucked up and how they ignored his death. James Franco is a creep but at least he tried to revive Brad's memory.

by Anonymousreply 101August 6, 2021 5:39 AM

DL pedos still picture him as a 14 year old.

In true DL fashion.

by Anonymousreply 103February 9, 2022 8:49 PM

Christopher Pettiet, Jonathan Brandis, Renfro were all involved with convicted pedophile, Bob Villard.

by Anonymousreply 104March 19, 2023 8:38 PM

Christopher Pettiet‘s agent made some bizarre comments about him. He was probably fucking him as a kid.

by Anonymousreply 105March 19, 2023 8:38 PM

The message from his manager.

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by Anonymousreply 106March 19, 2023 8:39 PM

The message is from Bob, his manager, the pedophile.

by Anonymousreply 107March 19, 2023 8:41 PM

Each one of his clients killed themselves except Leo.

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by Anonymousreply 108March 19, 2023 8:43 PM

Well, a bunch of his child clients.

by Anonymousreply 109March 19, 2023 8:43 PM

Tobey is also still alive.

by Anonymousreply 110March 19, 2023 8:44 PM

This kid was fucked up way before he got to Hollywood. He would have turned out the same way, you just wouldn’t have had a news article about it.

by Anonymousreply 112March 19, 2023 8:45 PM

Acting Coach Arrested for Child Molestation

Los Angeles: On March 2, 2005, around 9:45 a.m., detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Registration, Enforcement, and Compliance Team (REACT), Van Nuys Area, arrested 57-year-old Robert David Villard, a talent manager and acting coach for young, aspiring actors. The arrest took place without incident at the Van Nuys police station. Villard was arrested on a felony warrant charging him with nine counts of violating Penal Code § 288(a) (Lewd Acts with a Child Under 14).

The LAPD’s Sexually Exploited Child Unit (SECU), Juvenile Division, is handling the current investigation that began in September 2004, when a 17-year-old boy reported that Villard had molested him when the boy was 13 years old. That investigation culminated in today’s arrest.

Villard’s bail has been set at $900,000. His arraignment is scheduled for March 3, 2005.

Because of Villard’s contact with young people, investigators believe there may be more victims. Anyone having any information regarding Villard is encouraged to contact the Sexually Exploited Child Unit at 213-485-2883. On weekends and during off-hours, please call the 24-hour toll free number at the Detective Information Desk at 1-877-LAWFULL, 1-877-529-3855.

A photograph of Villard is available at Media Relations Section. For further information, please contact Captain Sharyn Buck, Commanding Officer, Juvenile Division at 213-485-2801.

This news release was prepared by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Section, which can be reached at 213-485-3586.

by Anonymousreply 114March 19, 2023 8:47 PM

Renfro was on a trajectory towards a bad end before he was an actor.

by Anonymousreply 115March 19, 2023 8:58 PM

R102 He's not a striking resemblance, but definitely looks biracial. Probably has an even mix of Brad and his mom.

I wonder if Brad's son has any current connection to his estate or his family.

I'm curious if the media has ever reached out to him about Brad, or if he himself has sought out answers about the father he never knew.

Or, does he see Brad as a sperm donor who knocked up his mom and just wants to be left alone to live a private life?

by Anonymousreply 116March 19, 2023 9:09 PM

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