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An Article that I found about him
Tyrone Savage brings a droll, nonchalant style to his role as Young Isaac, the film's on- and off-screen narrator.
"I saw Young Isaac as a streetsmart guy, kind of like an Artful Dodger. He knows what's going on," says Savage, who genuinely identified with his character. "We're both young, obviously, but we've matured quickly, because we've lived in really advanced worlds: He lived around math and really famous people, and I've lived around actors."
By actors, Tyrone Savage means his father, Booth Savage, and his mother, Janet Laine Greene--unquestionably fine role models were he to continue in the family business. Born in Toronto on May 15, 1985, Savage saw early the backstage side of show business, whether it was on-set with Mom for The Beachcombers in Vancouver or when Dad was working on Hot Shots. "It's not as glamorous as it's made out to be," he soon realized, but by age 8 wanted to see if he had what it takes. "I went to a lot--a lot!--of auditions and didn't get anything." Finally, the famine became a feast: a guest shot in a 1985 episode of Goosebumps turned into a regular series role in Wind at My Back. Yet despite steady network-TV employment and the opportunity to star in films like Isaac Newton, Savage is virtually certain that his career plans preclude acting. He has seen firsthand the roller-coaster life of the actor: "one moment you're on top of the world and the next you're not getting any work." Even though filming in Ireland, he says "was the best time I've ever had," and having a regular series is a bonus, "I'll stick with it until end of Grade 8, but when high school comes I think I should stop. It'd be really weird to take high school while you're acting. High school's too important." Savage has his sights set high in another field entirely. "I want to be a fighter pilot or an aerospace engineer," he says, toward which goal he has joined the Air Cadets. "I've always wanted a career in the military. Right now, in the cadets, it's another kind of showmanship, I guess--how well you can perform on drill, in parade." A solid student in French, mathematics and science, he intends to enroll at the Royal Military College, although long before then, at age 16 precisely, he vows, "I'm going to get my pilot's licence."
When not being tutored on the Wind at My Back set, his local school is Tottenham Public School, where he has excelled at Extended French, math, science and English. To keep fit and competitive, he plays hockey, soccer, hurling ("it's the Irish blood sport--nasty, nasty!"), bikes off-road and runs the 2400 metres. |
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