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M O V I E by Caylie Howard | photos courtesy of IMDB
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eed Taylor is taking the acting world by storm with his new movie, The Sneakover. Taylor, 13 and a Castle Hills resident, plays the lead role of Henry Hudson. His character has just moved into the area, and his father is a film collector of rare movies. “I love rare movies, too.” Taylor informed us.
In the movie, a group of local kids invite Reed’s character to a movie club. They ask him to bring an extremely rare movie with him, but he accidentally forgets the movie at his home. So late at night, Henry and the group sneak out of the house and travel across the entire neighborhood to sneak into Henry’s house to retrieve the movie. Once the movie is retrieved, they must find their way back to the home of
the movie club, all without crossing paths with the unfortunate McGuffin brothers – the bullies of the neighborhood. “It ends up being kind of like The Sandlot or The Goonies – one of the kinds of movies with a bunch of kid hi-jinks.” Taylor’s father said. Taylor said his role as Henry Hudson was a lot about making new friends, meeting new people, and interacting with others in the film club.
When asked if filming took place during the school year or during the summer, Taylor jokingly said, “It took place in the summer, sadly.”
“The directors and crew were super nice. I loved working with them. They really helped.”
Reed says that his favorite part of filming was a scene where he was talking to five different people in a large group and got to give a motivational speech. While the movie doesn’t have an official release date, the premiere will be December 30th in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is where the filming of the movie took place. 28 | LIFE IN CASTLE HILLS | DECEMBER 2020
“The audition process was very nice. My grandma actually volunteered to take me all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma for this one audition, which I thought was really nice.” Taylor said. “I think it went great.” He added.
During filming, Taylor stayed in a hotel for three weeks. Taylor’s mom, dad, and grandma alternated on staying with him since Taylor’s mom and dad both work.
Taylor started his acting career at a very young age. In first grade, he signed up for a school play at his elementary school and fell in love with it. From then on, he continued to sign up for the school plays and did at least one play each year while he was in elementary school. While in elementary school, he attended acting classes at Encore Kids. But after his fall play in the 5th grade, he started attending Studio 7 Acting School. One
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