In Disney’s high school dramedy Prom, newcomer Thomas McDonell plays an archetypal bad boy straight out of a John Hughes flick — sensitive, rebellious, and enticingly misunderstood. In real life, the 24-year-old former art student seems such the antithesis of the typical teen idol that you could call him the Judd Nelson of the Tiger Beat set. (His follow-up to Prom: Playing the young Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows.) Surely, McDonell’s the only Disney star in history that can make legions of tween girls scream with one brooding glance and say he’s performed Ionesco on stage in Scotland. So how did McDonell shoot into the spotlight so quickly — and what’s Jackie Chan got to do with it?
To find out where his Hollywood story begins, you’ve got to go to China — or rather, Shanghai, where NYU student McDonell found himself studying abroad a few years ago and, on a whim, got himself cast in Chan’s The Forbidden Kingdom. Then came a small role in Joel [...]
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