I never realized until I was in my 40s that I was Gordie because I was Gordie.' He added: 'I guess I want to be a writer so that makes me Gordie. And Jerry is unbelievably funny, and really easy to get along with, and is guileless. 'And I went, "Oh my God, that totally makes sense." River is smarter than all of us and wiser beyond his years than any of us are. And Teddy is filled with anger and rage." 'Corey was such a pain in the a** and I said to Rob, "Why did you cast him?" And Rob said, "There was no other actor who was as angry as Corey was.
'One of the reasons I believe Stand by Me is so enduring is that Rob cast four young boys who were our characters,' Wheaton said. Wheaton, who has also been seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Big Bang Theory, opened up in the Yahoo interview about how the film's prescient casting decisions helped cement its legacy as a classic. The film, which also starred Corey Feldman and the late River Phoenix, showed the travails of four young boys in Oregon as they headed out on a hike over Labor Day weekend of 1959 to find the body of a local boy who had perished after he was struck by a train. 'And I cannot ignore the reality that it was that sadness, that isolation that I think gave me what Gordie needed to come to life and I think Rob Reiner saw that.' So when I watch Stand by Me now, I cannot ignore the unbelievable sadness in my eyes. We both have a brother who is the golden child. 'Gordie’s experience very much reflected my experience,' Wheaton said. Wheaton said that his traumatic childhood put him 'in exactly the right place to play Gordie,' a character whose parents were distant to him months after his older brother died in a car accident. 'And through a combination of an incredible emotional abuse from my father and a lot of manipulation, using me, from my mother, it really put me in that place.' My mother coached me to go into her agency and tell the children’s agent, "I want to do what mommy does." 'My parents forced me to do it, my mother made me do it. 'I didn’t want to be an actor when I was a kid,' said the Burbank, California native.
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