Should Have Been A Big Star
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IMDB_Vits — 11 years ago(November 14, 2014 05:56 PM)
http://www.stumpedmagazine.com/interviews/thomas-f-wilson/
CHRIS NEUMER: Im not mentioning the trilogy. Im staying true to my word. Last question for you: You had an inordinate amount of success very early in your career, how did that shape your perspective on things?
THOMAS F. WILSON: Ill tell you what Ive come up with, and Ill be honest with you, Chris, we can talk about it now, why not?
CHRIS NEUMER: We dont want to, thats why not.
THOMAS F. WILSON: How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am. That has been a great, great gift to me. Being known as something else than what I am by everyone I come across in life has forced me to strengthen the sense that I have of myself. Now in this middle part of my life, Ive got to tell you, winds come, storms blow, and I have problems, but I feel pretty rock solid. Does that make sense?
CHRIS NEUMER: Yeah. And I tell you this in the most non-strange way, given how many interviews Ive done with people in Hollywood, there arent many people who look at things from a very grounded perspective. People who can look at the bad times theyve had and draw positive things from them for when theyre up. Not many people are grounded. There arent very many people who think in terms of, lets say, positive humanism. It makes perfect sense to me, its just amazing more people dont feel the same way.
THOMAS F. WILSON: Honestly, Chris, the great part about me and I dont mean it with any offense, I dont care what people think of me. (laughs) People say, How do you want to be remembered? I tell them, I dont care IF people remember me. I really dont. I have every bit of confidence that my children will remember me with great love and charity
CHRIS NEUMER: They better, or theyre out of the will.
THOMAS F. WILSON: Or my wife and friends. Some people like the way I work, others dont. I wish them all well, but I dont care.
CHRIS NEUMER: It seems freeing.
THOMAS F. WILSON: I think it is. It hasnt come without cost, without the pain of being on the other side. Being a young man in my late twenties, thinking Ill never escape this. Everywhere I go, every plane Im on, every restaurant Im in but I really couldnt care less.
CHRIS NEUMER: You should probably take comfort in the fact that youre not on that WB reality show, [The Surreal Life] the one with Corey Feldman and the other passed their prime actors.
THOMAS F. WILSON: Thats exactlythats the opposite of what Im about. Hey, you can do whatever you want. Sometimes I dont even understand myself because so many other low level celebrities like myself will go around and embrace that as their identities. Theyll got to the restaurant and say, Hey, does this face look familiar?