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on Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles, told the DGA Theater audience that they started with a central star and then built a film around him — which sounds rather routine until you consider the fact that their star was a 34-year-old unknown amateur actor named Zack Gottsagen who was born with Down Syndrome in Boynton Beach, Florida.
“It was one of those moments when I met him and it was like: ‘This guy is just a beautiful soul and somebody I want to connect with and be around,” Nilson said. “Then we learned that he wanted to be an actor and had been studying acting his whole life.”and Gottsagen himself. LaBeouf recounted how anxious he was to build a rapport with Gottsagen when they first met during a loud ride in the back of a truck. The anxiety melted away when Gottsagen simply reached over and held LaBeouf’s hand.
Schwartz said the model for the character was the actor playing him: “A lot of the character is based on Zack’s real life things he loves, he really loves wrestling, he loves adventure.”
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