The Sneakover Movie

THE Sneakover M O V I E

by Caylie Howard | photos courtesy of IMDB

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

day, after an acting class, the coach of the acting class said, “We need to get this kid an agent.”

“And then it all took off from there.” Taylor said. He then proceeded to audition for the Campbell Agency. He got that and then started getting auditions. “It was really great.” He said.

Taylor said that a very challenging part of portraying his role as Henry was having to cry during a scene, which was something that he had never had to do before. He said that his older co-star in the movie really helped him. Taylor said that he had to really go back to a dark time in his life. For him, it was thinking about the death of his dog, Red. Taylor said that it took him 10 minutes to get into “the zone.”

Taylor is a lover of all animals but has a soft spot for dogs. His family has four dogs in their household. His dad said that anytime they visit a shelter, they always come home with a new dog.

Taylor has been a resident of Castle Hills his entire life. His dad, Robert, and mom, Tica, built their house in 2004 and moved from Plano in 2005. Taylor has an older brother, Luke, who is 17. Reed says that his brother is very supportive of his acting career. He says that his brother even enjoys running lines with him. “He is very nice.” Taylor said of his brother.

Reed said that he really enjoyed his time on set. “The directors and crew were super nice. I loved working with them. They really helped.”

Taylor said that we can expect a lot of jokes and puns in the movie. Taylor’s dad said that Reed is really good at playing humorous roles. The humor in the movie is what Reed said he is most excited for people to see in The Sneakover.

The humor in the movie is what Reed said he is most excited for people to see in The Sneakover.