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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to high school with Ethan Hawke, he already had made more than one relatively successful movie before going to CMU.[/quote]
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"Hawke obtained his mother's permission to attend his first casting call at the age of 14, and secured his first film role in Joe Dante's Explorers (1985), in which he played an alien-obsessed schoolboy alongside River Phoenix. The film was favorably reviewed but had poor box office results. This failure caused Hawke to quit acting for a brief period after the film's release. Hawke later described the disappointment as difficult to bear at such a young age, adding, "I would never recommend that a kid act."[/quote]

Are you trying to contradict me?  Ethan started appearing in local professional theater in middle school and made another short film that was released in 1988, when he was a senior in high school.  Short break or not, he had made a well reviewed movie with River Phoenix while still on high school.  Dead Poet’s Society, which launched his career, was  released less than year after he graduated from high school.  CMU had nothing to do with his success, he was already a young star when he arrived there..[/quote]

He was also heavily recruited by CMU.

As was Jerry Stiller’s kid and Tom Cruise’s kid [/quote]

Great...one would think that much like athletics that a theatre school would also look to recruit talent.

It's kind of missing the forest for the trees when the list of successful and known CMU alumni is fairly extensive.

Check out the list.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_School_of_Drama

Not to mention other Tony award winning actors, writers / producers, etc.

Though it is safe to say as is with any Arts program, there are far more folks that don't go anywhere due to the nature of the industry.  Again, no different for Julliard.[/quote]

😂 Talent?  I mean, maybe.  But truly they’re nepo babies whose parents bring enormous star power to attract STRIVERS like OP. [/quote]

Did PP mean Ben Stiller's kid?  Ben Stiller's kid went to Julliard.

I don't think either school is "unknown" in the theatre/acting world.  The CMU drama acceptance rates are sometimes as low as 0.5% and as high as 2%.

It's a bit silly to claim that someone that wants to attend an acting program at Julliard or CMU is a striver.[/quote]

Ben Stiller IS Jerry Stiller’s kid.  🙄[/quote]

He didn’t attend CMU[/quote]

Neither will OP’s kid. [/quote]

Luckily for them.[/quote]

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