Justification for Actor

When choosing our actor we wanted a boy looks about 17, but also still looks innocent, however, we didn't want him to look too angelic as his actions in the play break the law.
Looking at child and teenage actors in other thriller films, they look their age but don't look too cute. A perfect example of this is Damien from The Omen.

 

He is still obviously a young boy, but his dark features ensure that he doesn't look like a harmless character because he becomes posessed by the devil.

 

However, despite our character breaking the law, he is actually fighting for the greater good and so is represented as a positive character; because of this, we want him to appear kind and with good intentions. Similar to the boy in The Shining, our character should be kind looking.

The boy doesn't have bright blonde hair and blue eyes but doesn't have dark hair and piercing green eyes like Damien.

 

Nick, we think, is a mix of the two and he has quite a mature face so we can clearly see his age. This helps to communicate his Autism as the audience will realise there is something slightly strange about a boy in the top end of his teenage years wearing childish pyjamas.