Nicholas Hoult Talks ‘Skins,’ Working George Miller and James Gunn and His Fears of Failure as a Child Actor

Nicholas Hoult opened about his fear of succumbing to the fate of child actors after his break out role in the 2002 Hugh Grant dramedy About a Boy, revealing that “everyone [back] then, even as a kid, everyone talks to you about how child actors stop working, their life goes off the rails and [how] it doesn’t work out as adults. You have this kind of fear of what’s to come.”

The 36-year-old British actor reflected on his almost three decade career as a mainstream star during a “In Conversation With” talk event at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah on Monday.

Hoult began the talk by detailing his childhood, revealing that he lived in a household that loved musical theater and acting. He briefly talked about his first audition as a 5-year-old for Philip Goodhew’s 1996 film Intimate Relations and then talked about his time working on Paul…