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Scott wolf3/3/2023 ![]() A virtue of the way he grew up and from various experiences in his life, he never trusted that people were going to stick around when things got hard. ![]() “I want to talk about some fun stuff, too! I feel like I should be paying you $140 an hour.”īut he obliged. Pressed to talk more about what he meant and what he was going through, he laughs and sighs. In an interview with ABC News, he talked about going through his own dark spell and bad patterns of behavior when he met his wife, Kelley, in 2002, saying that she “saved him.” But, while, generally speaking, happy, he has been through his fair share of tough shit. In 2014, Wolf starred in the indie movie 37: A Final Promise, about a depressed rock star who vows to kill himself on his 37th birthday, only to have plans complicated when he meets and falls in love with a woman.ĭuring the press he did for the film, he was adamant that he’s never hit a point as low as his character suffers. And there was much attention paid to his celebrity. With a knowing smile, he insists that he enjoyed the spoils of his fame when it was all happening. “The way my mind works is you can have like 98 people say, ‘I don’t know whether you’re the next Tom Cruise or the next George Clooney.’ And then two people say, ‘He’s like a wooden fool who should be a plumber.’ Those are the ones you remember.” The dimples make a triumphant return when Wolf is reminded of this. Wolf joined Jeff Bridges and an entire Teen People’s issue of hot young stars in the cast: Jeremy Sisto, Ryan Phillippe, Ethan Embry, and Balthazar Getty.Ī 1996 Entertainment Weekly profile of Wolf spent its first few paragraphs debating whether it was more appropriate to call Wolf “the next Tom Cruise,” given his good looks and magnetic personality, or “the next George Clooney,” considering his TV-to-movies trajectory. In this case, there was The Evening Star, a sequel to Terms of Endearment that would see Wolf trade in the intense drama of Party of Five to play a hunky underwear model dating Shirley MacLaine’s granddaughter, and White Squall, a mid-’90s Ridley Scott movie primed to be one of those mid-’90s Ridley Scott massive hits. Wolf was reaping the benefits of being the new hot thing: a Laurel Canyon address where he could bunk in luxury with his younger brother, exclusive parties, and primo movie castings. “It just felt safer to not feel stuff, because stuff felt scary,” he says. The house was not as safe as a house is supposed to feel for an 8-year-old, which Wolf was at the time, finding himself playing referee to his older and younger brothers. His parents divorced when he was young, so he grew up in a house, he says, “that had maybe more than your average dysfunction.” His stepfather “wasn’t Man of the Year in any of the years we lived with him wasn’t even nominated.” His mother, who has since passed, was an alcoholic. And he can also see exactly why it was the path he was always supposed to take. Now he knows why he never opened himself up to the idea. The truth is, he had never really considered it. It wasn’t that he was shunning the idea of acting to be reasonable, or stifling a creative itch in order to be responsible. ![]() That had as much to do with it as anything.” “It was my high school girlfriend, who I had an engagement ring on layaway for and was making payments on. “To be honest, I was dating a girl,” he says. It’s at this point in recounting his biography that Wolf starts giggling and his dimples concave to such depth they could be officially classified as craters on a topographic map. He studied finance, because it seemed like the practical thing to do. He’s been sneaking night caps there over the last few days with his brother, who lives in New Jersey near where they grew up, just outside the city. When he walks into the speakeasy-like second-floor bar at New York’s EDITION hotel, not so much fresh off a Comic-Con blitz in support of Nancy Drew as having survived it, he grins at the leather-and-maple decor. For Wolf, that’s starring against type in Inside Game, out Friday, as a womanizing, drug-dealing go-between man in the infamous NBA scandal involving a referee who tipped off bookies on games he officiated. He’s also doing the thing former teen idols aren’t supposed to get to do, or, at least, that we almost never let them do: play the part that excites them, that casts them in a different light, that possibly sets them up for a new phase of their career. He has his own “party of five,” so to speak: the three kids he’s raising with his wife, life coach Kelley Wolf, in Park City, Utah. It’s a harsh truth that teen idols grow up, and Wolf turned 51 this year.
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