“But that’s the town to be in if you want to be in theatre.” “Moving by yourself to New York City, from smalltown Ohio at 17, was terrifying,” he recalls. At 17, he enrolled in a New York conservatory. Children’s and high-school theatre followed, accompanied by trips to New York to see Broadway shows. He was just three years old when he first watched Singin’ In The Rain (“Seeing Gene Kelly dancing in the rain with an umbrella was huge”) and a couple of years older when he insisted to his parents that he join a dance class. I remember sitting down with Steven, very early on in rehearsals, and telling him, ‘I was born to do this.’ This was meant to be.” “The movies that I grew up with were the old MGM films with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, and West Side Story, and Steven Spielberg movies like the Indiana Joneses. The way Faist tells it, their collaboration was fated. ![]() “That was very, very sweet,” he says of what can only be this young actor’s latest pinch-me moment involving one of cinema’s most legendary filmmakers. He excitedly thrusts part of a tea set in front of the camera, sent by producer Kristie Macosko Krieger and Steven Spielberg to mark the Bafta nomination for his supporting role as Riff in West Side Story. Mike Faist is speaking to Screen International from outside Columbus, Ohio - where he is visiting family members - when he breaks off to find a gift he received.
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