Shon Greenblatt
Want to make Shon Greenblatt too happy? Give the guy a gun and let him orchestrate some down-and-dirty-deeds. "I’ve always wanted to play the bad guy," explains the twenty-one-year-old actor. "I get such a kick out of being ruthless." Which is exactly how Greenblatt comes across in Newsies portraying an up-and-coming crime lord named Oscar Delancey who’s perverted, vicious, and, well, your basic rotten slob. "I wanted to do a real sleazy type of guy," says the New York native with a wicked smirk, "but this was a Disney movie, so…" If this kind of gangster stuff flips Greenblatt’s burger, what could possibly make him freak? "My greatest fears are having to do a love scene – for obvious reasons – and doing another movie like Freddy’s Dead: the Final Nightmare," says Greenblatt. (You may remember him as the film’s main punching bag.) "Freddy taught me lots of lessons about special effects and getting wet. It was very painful, horrible, and tiresome to do." After finishing Freddy, Greenblatt took a safer role as a young hunk in There Goes My Baby, a coming-of-age story set in 1965 with Dermot Mulroney and Rick Schroder. With two big movies due out this spring, it looks as if Greenblatt’s career is set. "In my eyes I’m still struggling," he says. "I still feel like I’m just two steps ahead of the kid who got off the bus this morning."
- Malissa Thompson