Brad Renfro dies

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Brad Renfro found dead in his apartment. He was 25. He played the kid in The Client.

From EW.com:
Brad Renfro, the former child actor who starred in movies like The Client, Sleepers, and Apt Pupil, was reportedly found dead at his Los Angeles home on Tuesday. No cause of death has been announced, but the 25-year-old Tennessee native had struggled with substance abuse problems in recent years, including an arrest for heroin possession in 2005.

After rising to fame acting opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in the 1994 John Grisham adaptation The Client, Renfro worked steadily for a decade, including a stint as Huck Finn in Disney's 1995 feature Tom and Huck. More recently, he appeared in the independent films Bully and Ghost World, and he is said to have a part in the upcoming adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Informers.
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I knew him since he was 14, (I worked at the agency where he was repped), but lost track of him a few years ago. He was somewhat troubled (obviously), but a real nice kid. I always felt that he needed someone in his life to straighten him out - he was not a bad person, just so freakin' lost. And he never came across that person who could straighten him out. I hate to say this, but I'm not exactly surprised he ended up this way. Talented actor too. A sad day. May he rest in peace.
 
when I go, please have Ian McKellen write my obituary...

"I first caught sight of Brad Renfro when he was kicking a footbal around with Bryan Singer on the half-built set of Apt Pupil in Hollywood. He was a kid having fun and that's how I shall always remember him. But he was more than that. He was a proper actor and when we worked together he was determined to be accepted as such. On set, he was blusteringly confident although it was obvious he would have benefited from training as an actor. Yet, as Todd, the disturbed teenager in Apt Pupil, he tapped into an inner demonic world and carried the film on his young shoulders. He longed to belong in the alien world which perhaps in the end overwhelmed him. He was only 25 and it is dreadful we shan't see all that he might have achieved." - Ian McKellen
 
Man, that sucks. He was a talented kid...and starred on a movie I really love...Ghost World.
 
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