Lucas Hedges on Bel Powley, His 'Ratatouille' Crush, and 'The OC' Kiss | Screen Tests | W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, 'Manchester by the Sea' actor Lucas Hedges talks about his celebrity crushes: Faye Dunaway in 'Bonnie and Clyde', Katharine Ross and Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate', Bel Powley, and the chef from 'Ratatouille' that the protagonist Alfredo Linguini falls in love with. Hedges also shares his ability to memorize child actors' birthdays, his obsession with IMDb, his secret skills, his pet peeves, and his favorite love scenes from 'The OC'. At 20, Lucas Hedges is the youngest nominee at this year's Academy Awards, and his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea has earned him comparisons with Timothy Hutton, who was also 20 when he was nominated for Robert Redford's Ordinary People in the same category Hedges finds himself in this year, Best Supporting Actor. The son of filmmaker Peter Hedges, who is best known for writing the Leonardo DiCaprio drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape and directing the Oscar-nominated Pieces of April, Hedges has quickly proven himself a versatile young actor, wry and youthfully sarcastic in Manchester, a part he had to audition for at least five times, and brooding and devastating for his stage debut in Anna Jordan's Yen, now off Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. What was the very first thing that you auditioned for? The first thing I ever auditioned for was a movie called Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. And, this is kind of a secret, but it came down between me and the one other kid f