Time to check in with this irresistible „Outsider!”
SUPERTEEN:
What was it like when you got the official word you were an Outsider?
HAROLD PRUETT : I was supposed to find out at five o’clock on a Wednesday. I was in Santa Monica . . . I started walking ’cause I was dropped off. I was supposed to call my friend. I just started walking ’cause I wanted to find out, walk the rest of the night and be happy . . . I passed my skateboard shop and went in. I was looking at skateboards, then went out and called my (answering) machine. It said. „We confirm you on The Outsiders.” I went in and I bought a skateboard from Santa Monica to Hancock Park where I lived. It was great . I had music going in my head. It was just one of those things. I would have been neat in a movie, but it was done in real life!
ST: We heard you had actually tested for The Outsiders movie, too. Is that true?
PRUETT: I was up for the role of PonyBoy Curtis. Even though I was too young for the role, testing with Emilio Estevez and Patrick Swayze was a great experience.
ST: Do you feel a pressure on yourself that people will compare you with Tom Cruise because he played your character, Steve Randle, in the movie?
PRUETT: No, first because he wasn’t in (the movie) a lot and secondly because comparisons can be taken in two ways and I can probably take it in a ……. a series. Everytime has to be a little better. You learn little tricks from the show before.
ST: Music is a big part in your life, too . . . why?
PRUETT: I was raised with music with my mother’s old jazz albums when I was growing up. It can alter the way I feel more than anything else I can think of. Music and I have always clicked.
ST: Do you identify with your character, Steve Randle?
PRUETT: Yes . . . because I feel we both do things for other people instead of ourselves.
ST: What do you like to do in your spare time?
PRUETT: I work with music, write, play pool and toss Twinkies into my neighbor’s yard.
ST: What kind of clothes do you like to wear?
PRUETT: I have about five pairs of 1940s pleated slacks. I like that look, but I’m not into color coordination and I do funky things with socks.
ST: Do you like to travel and which was your favorite country?
PRUETT: Yes . . . England. While I was shooting a film in Yugoslavia ..................(INCOMPLETE ANSWER)
ST: What annoys you the most?
PRUETT: Is bothers me when people go to clubs and are overly loud - people with a ’70s look, huge bellbuttoms, huge Spandex trying to grab attention.
ST: Who has influenced you the most?
PRUETT: Sting has been very inspirational in the way of going further and pushing myself and not to be narrow minded in thought and have more opinions and to be open, to look at things in three different ways.
ST: Are you an „outsider?”
PRUETT: Well I wouldn’t actually call (myself) an „outsider,” but I can relate to what it is like because I never was in a public school. I was tutored while working on warious sets and shows that I was doing and we moved a lot, so I had a limited amount of friends when I was growing up.
The end of the article is missing unfortunately.
SUPERTEEN:
What was it like when you got the official word you were an Outsider?
HAROLD PRUETT : I was supposed to find out at five o’clock on a Wednesday. I was in Santa Monica . . . I started walking ’cause I was dropped off. I was supposed to call my friend. I just started walking ’cause I wanted to find out, walk the rest of the night and be happy . . . I passed my skateboard shop and went in. I was looking at skateboards, then went out and called my (answering) machine. It said. „We confirm you on The Outsiders.” I went in and I bought a skateboard from Santa Monica to Hancock Park where I lived. It was great . I had music going in my head. It was just one of those things. I would have been neat in a movie, but it was done in real life!
ST: We heard you had actually tested for The Outsiders movie, too. Is that true?
PRUETT: I was up for the role of PonyBoy Curtis. Even though I was too young for the role, testing with Emilio Estevez and Patrick Swayze was a great experience.
ST: Do you feel a pressure on yourself that people will compare you with Tom Cruise because he played your character, Steve Randle, in the movie?
PRUETT: No, first because he wasn’t in (the movie) a lot and secondly because comparisons can be taken in two ways and I can probably take it in a ……. a series. Everytime has to be a little better. You learn little tricks from the show before.
ST: Music is a big part in your life, too . . . why?
PRUETT: I was raised with music with my mother’s old jazz albums when I was growing up. It can alter the way I feel more than anything else I can think of. Music and I have always clicked.
ST: Do you identify with your character, Steve Randle?
PRUETT: Yes . . . because I feel we both do things for other people instead of ourselves.
ST: What do you like to do in your spare time?
PRUETT: I work with music, write, play pool and toss Twinkies into my neighbor’s yard.
ST: What kind of clothes do you like to wear?
PRUETT: I have about five pairs of 1940s pleated slacks. I like that look, but I’m not into color coordination and I do funky things with socks.
ST: Do you like to travel and which was your favorite country?
PRUETT: Yes . . . England. While I was shooting a film in Yugoslavia ..................(INCOMPLETE ANSWER)
ST: What annoys you the most?
PRUETT: Is bothers me when people go to clubs and are overly loud - people with a ’70s look, huge bellbuttoms, huge Spandex trying to grab attention.
ST: Who has influenced you the most?
PRUETT: Sting has been very inspirational in the way of going further and pushing myself and not to be narrow minded in thought and have more opinions and to be open, to look at things in three different ways.
ST: Are you an „outsider?”
PRUETT: Well I wouldn’t actually call (myself) an „outsider,” but I can relate to what it is like because I never was in a public school. I was tutored while working on warious sets and shows that I was doing and we moved a lot, so I had a limited amount of friends when I was growing up.
The end of the article is missing unfortunately.