![]() ![]() #THE OUTSIDERS C THOMAS HOWELL MOVIE#Once you do a movie for $20 million and it’s unable to hit the screens, then people start to chalk you up as that." When I accepted that role we thought it would be Oscar bound on many levels. It was supposed to be a six-month dream, but it turned into a twelve-month nightmare and it ended up going into litigation and never came out. "The role that killed my career was a movie I did with Elizabeth Taylor, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, called Young Toscanini. If you look on the Internet some people say, “Oh that’s the role that killed Tommy Howell’s career."īut according to the actor, this wasn't the movie that harmed his career. I was surprised at the mixed reactions.It was a pretty harmless movie, especially by today’s standards. I had just come off of The Hitcher and that was a long dark three months. When discussing the controversy surrounding Soul Man, he said: However, in his 2011 interview with The AV Club, the actor took a different view. RELATED: 12 Child Actors Who Succeeded In Hollywood As Adults However, his career did take a steep decline after 1986, and this is partly thanks to one particular movie, the grotesquely racist comedy, Soul Man. The role opened the door for several other popular movies of that decade, including Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, and The Hitcher. This isn't to say his movie career faltered just after The Outsiders. If all had gone well, Howell would have experienced the fame that many of his co-stars attained, but things didn't quite work out that way. Today, the movie is recognized as a coming-of-age classic, being more than just the launchpad that gave many young actors their taste of fame. RELATED: Tom Cruise And Rob Lowe Got Into A Fight While Making 'The Outsiders' As Ponyboy Curtis, he displayed a rare sensitivity for somebody so young, and he outshined many of the young actors, including Cruise and Lowe, who earned their big break in the movie. Adapted from the best-selling teen novel by SE Hinton, the 1983 movie gave Howell his first leading part, and he truly made the role his own. Next up for Howell was a role in Francis Ford Coppola's highly acclaimed The Outsiders. RELATED: The 10 Highest Paid Movie Child Actors Of All Time So, what happened to Howell's career? He hasn't exactly disappeared off the radar, but he certainly hasn't become the movie star he might have been. Despite the promise he showed as a young actor, he struggled to attain the roles that were offered to many of his peers. Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Tom Cruise are just a few of the actors who went on to bigger and better things after early movie stardom, but unfortunately, Howell's career didn't take off in the same way. Howell seemed destined for long-term movie stardom, akin to those other stars from the 80s who are still just as relevant today. After making his Hollywood debut in Steven Spielberg's classic 1982 movie ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, the talented teen actor went on to star in many other popular movies of the eighties. ![]() Thomas Howell, was one of the rising young stars of the 80s. Christoper Thomas Howell, better known to many as C. ![]()
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