Thirty-five years after his breakout performance in Rob Reiner’s classic coming-of-age film “Stand By Me,” Wil Wheaton is opening up about how the abuse he faced as a child brought power to his onscreen work.
Wheaton, 48, spoke with Yahoo! Movies on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the release of “Stand By Me” and reflected on his experience as a child star.
RELATED: Wil Wheaton Gives Touching Advice To Young Girl: ‘We Didn’t Choose To Be Nerds’ “I didn’t want to be an actor when I was a kid,” Wheaton said. “My parents forced me to do it, my mother made me do it.
My mother coached me to go into her agency and tell the children’s agent, ‘I want to do what mommy does.’ And through a combination of an incredible emotional abuse from my
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