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Courtesy of Steve Dietl
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Michael Angarano takes charge in Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment, which opens July 24.
Decades after the
Stanford Prison Experiment, Dr. Philip Zimbardo's 1971 study on the psychology of imprisonment, we continue to see incidents — from Guantanamo Bay to Abu Ghraib — that demonstrate the systemic influence on individuals in social situations.
"To this day, we talk about what happened in those six days and how we're seeing it on television news and in the papers every day," actor Michael Angarano told
SF Weekly. That's why docudrama
The Stanford Prison Experiment, starring Angarano, Ezra
Miller and Billy Crudup is so important in 2015. But how did the baby-faced, 5'7" actor, best known for playing Roberta Guaspari's violinist son in
Music of the Heart, young William in
Almost Famous, Jack McFarland's son on
Will and Grace and the young hero in
The Forbidden Kingdom, get cast as a sadistic prison guard?
SF Weekly spoke to Michael Angarano about playing against type, being hounded by paps and dancing like a 13-year-old girl.
