Brit teen in Spielberg's Tintin film
LONDON: British teen actor
Thomas Sangster has been chosen to play Tintin in a big screen adaptation of
comic adventures of the fictitious young Belgian
reporter.
Seventeen-year-old
Sangster, who has appeared in films as 'Love Actually' and 'Nanny McPhee,' was
picked by Steven Spielberg, who is directing the first in a trilogy of
Tintin
films, reports said
"I loved
Tintin
when I was younger," Sangster was quoted as saying by the British press. "I
didn't read any of the books but I really got into the (television) cartoon. I
wasn't good at reading when I was younger but the cartoon was a good memory for
me," he added.