Oakland actor Connor Kikot is on the big screen beginning this week playing the son, Zachary Longo, of Christian Longo who is portrayed by James Franco in the new thriller “True Story”. This is Connor’s first appearance in a film and it was a great experience for him, (SPOILER ALERT)
even if he did get killed off!
We asked Connor to say a little something about making the movie: “I feel very very happy about the movie and excited to be part of it. It is great to cooperate in it.”
His parents Erinda Begeja-Kikot and Peter Kikot are, of course, very proud of Connor. “I am so proud of Connor and the great job he did, listening to the director and being patient while dealing with the weather and everything else he was put through at only 5 years old. He had a great time with the other kids as well as the adults on set. I was happy, excited, anxious and had butterflies in my stomach when I went to see the movie. It was such a different experience than anything I have ever felt before. I am so proud of my little cookie.” Erinda said. “Every time I saw Connor on the screen was great but for me the best was seeing his name in the credits at the end of the movie.” said the proud father Peter.
Click here to find where you can see Connor and the movie in local theaters. And the video below has a sneak peak…
A little more about the movie from the True Story website:
February of 2002 marked a turning point in the life of New York Times reporter Michael Finkel. Riding high as one of the paper’s busiest and most peripatetic journalists, he was instantly shot down when it was revealed that he had tampered with the truth in a New York Times Magazine cover story he had written on contemporary slave trading in Africa. The New York Times quickly showed Finkel the door, and he watched his world collapse.
His life almost immediately took another twist; he’d become a victim of identity theft. Nobody had stolen his social security or credit card numbers, but someone had assumed his name and was posing as him in Mexico; Christian Longo, a man who had just been apprehended and accused of murdering his own wife and children.
Charming, articulate, and appealing, Christian Longo was the last person anyone would have suspected of such crimes. During the months of incarceration that preceded his trial, he insisted there was only one individual to whom he would tell his story: the reporter whose name he’d stolen. For Finkel, the offer became an irresistible scoop, a way to start rebuilding his shattered reputation–and ultimately, a Faustian bargain.