Richard Linklater’s new coming-of-age film was shot in pieces over more than a decade. Here’s a look at how its stars changed, grew, and aged during that time.
Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Ellar Coltrane in Boyhood
IFC Films
Richard Linklater's made movies about being young before — his 1993 comedy Dazed and Confused is one of the great films about high school. But he's never done anything like Boyhood, his new feature opening in select theaters on Friday, July 11. In fact, no one has.
Linklater worked with stars Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, and Lorelei Linklater to shoot the movie a few days out of every year for 12 years. There are no special effects, no makeup tricks, no new actors taking over for younger ones — Boyhood captures real time passing and how that affects both the characters (all members of a normal Texas family), as well as the people playing them.
Here's a peek at how the Boyhood cast changes over the course of the film.
The star and center of Boyhood, Ellar Coltrane was a 7-year-old unknown actor when the film started shooting. Now, he's 19. Boyhood follows his character Mason Jr., a Texas kid whose parents are divorced, from first grade through high school graduation, and in doing so, captures Coltrane growing from a child to a young man.
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