Seventeen-year-old Tye Sheridan made his acting debut in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, playing one of Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain’s sons. The next year, he co-starred opposite Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon in Jeff Nichols’ Mud. Now, in David Gordon Green’s Joe, adapted from a novel by Larry Brown, Sheridan adds another acting heavyweight to his roster of co-stars, starring opposite Nicolas Cage‘s ex-con title character as an eager-to-work kid looking for roots not provided by his own itinerant family and alcoholic father. I recently had a chance to speak to Texas native Sheridan one-on-one, about his new movie, the key to a good Malick impersonation and what he thinks of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. The conversation is excerpted over at ShockYa, so click here for the read.
