Hi Cousin Paul,
This has been the worst summer of my life, only 11 years old. Last summer, the first summer of the new millenium, I should have been starring in a real super hero movie, and it has been the biggest summer movie of the year even: the X-Men!
As you know two years ago, when I was 9 years old, I started modelling in fashion shows. Because I liked it very much my mother took me to a theatre agency, to there kids section. Very soon I was asked to star in several tv-commercials and music videos. I was acting in an awesome Pokémon-Playstation commercial and I starred in a Cranberries video among others.
Most of the time I have been picked for my roles because I can very well play a sad boy, having dark short hair and being pretty skinny. In most of the videos I am playing therefore a pitiful kid, that has to scream and whine, and that what was going to be my role in the X-Men as well. I would have played a young X-Men that had been in a concentration camp in the Second World War. Then to think I would have played alongside other super-hero-actor veterans like Captain Pickard from Star Trek (Patrick Stewart) and Cat Women from Batman (Hailie Berry). I would have been right there in super-hero-heaven, being part of all the powers-beyond-belief, of righteous spirits and world savers. The only thing that is in super-hero-heaven now is my hope of ever being one. Now I am not a X-Men but a Xed-Men.
Devon Vella, Lindsay (Canada)
