#Diary of a wimpy kid cast movie

His steadily mounting weight played only a small part in his development. Presumably what caught the eye of casting directors was Capron’s sweet-faced, youthful presence. Early casting coups-“cutesy kid” walk-ons in films like “Bride Wars” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”-were likewise organic. Raised in Rhode Island by protective parents who, he says, knew “jack shit about Hollywood,” Capron came to his leading-man aspirations independently, inspired by after-school theatre classes and Jimmy Stewart performances. More frequently, he’ll look down at his phone and find Instagram messages from old Rowley fans: “I liked you better when you were fat.” The presiding impression that Capron casts these days is hardy, well nourished-a resting air of strength that he nevertheless struggles to internalize. Last seen in a 2018 arc on the television show “Elementary,” the twenty-three-year-old maintains a tight, wiry frame, with veins taut from bench curls and a face winnowed to a stern definition. Such adjectives no longer apply to Capron.

#Diary of a wimpy kid cast movie

I’m in a movie my entire sixth-grade class goes on a field trip to see. “Every critic is specifying that I’m fat: ‘chubby,’ ‘overweight,’ ‘moon-faced’-‘cherubic,’ if we’re getting a little artsy with it,” Capron said, the clipped repetition agitating the gentle hum of his voice. Packaged alongside the disappointment of each negative review was the unexpected confusion of being identified by body type-a queasy sensation heightened by the red warning lights of the Washington Monument visible through the window. It wasn’t until Capron settled into his Washington, D.C., hotel room to scroll eagerly through Rotten Tomatoes that his confidence began to dip.

Robert Capron wasn’t thinking of himself as a “fat kid” on the day that Roger Ebert described the eleven-year-old as “pudgy.” Instead, riding high during the national press tour for his first big supporting role-Rowley Jefferson in 2010’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”-the young actor felt like a star on the rise.