“To get to do that movie as an eighteen-year-old was a dream,” he says of the film’s Hangover-like comedy. Mann landed a few small parts on television and a role in 2010’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story, opposite Emma Roberts, Zach Galifianakis, and Keir Gilchrist, but it was the boisterous 2012 teenage party movie Project X that brought him his first major attention. It was supposed to be temporary and then I got my first job, so I stayed.” “I think my mom just saw that it was what I really enjoyed doing and I had opportunities coming my way so she agreed to let me go for a little bit and try it out. “I don’t even remember what I said, but it must’ve been pretty convincing,” he laughs. Miller’s family moved out West as well and let Mann live with them, which helped assuage his own parents’ worries. Mann, now twenty-five, spent his early commercial earnings on his first car, which he used to drive out to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen with his friend Logan Miller, who had just been cast in the Disney series I’m in the Band. “It’s not something that seems possible until you start doing it and then I was like, Oh, you can actually make good money.” “I was always into movies, but I don’t know if there was one moment where I was like, This is what I have to do,” he recalls. Raised in Dallas, Mann performed in school plays and local commercials as a child but saw acting as mainly a hobby at first. This year will likely shape up to be just as busy as the last-for starters, Mann joined the cast of Nicole Holofcener’s next film, The Land of Steady Habits, for Netflix, in January-but for now he is content to take some time to himself as his career continues to ascend. “Or I’ll live in my storage unit until I figure something else out.” “I worked almost all year, so now I’m just going to go back to LA and find a place to live,” he said last December, while in New York making his professional stage début in the Off Broadway run of Dead Poets Society. Technically, he was “between apartments,” but it’s indicative of Mann’s packed schedule that he was able to give up his home in Los Angeles last year with little difficulty. In 2017, the prolific actor Thomas Mann, star of Project X and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, will be seen in FX’s cult hit Fargo, the studio blockbuster Kong: Skull Island, and Andrew Haigh’s new film Lean on Pete, but he spent the beginning of the year homeless.
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