After nine seasons of playing the eldest son on ABC sitcom The Middle, West Chester native Charlie McDermott is hoping his acting career has just begun, writes Ellen Gray for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
As the show enters its final season, McDermott looked back at his character and his own future in a recent interview.
“I would like to keep acting,” he said, adding that acting is so spontaneous it can be hard to plan out a future in it. As for his character, McDermott said that even after eight seasons, Axl is still an enigma to him.
“I think, generally, he makes decisions that I disapprove of,” he said, “but he’s fun, too, in that aspect.”
McDermott started his acting career when he was 13 with a small speaking part in The Village, directed by Willistown’s M. Night Shyamalan. His next part was a well-reviewed role in the 2008 film Frozen River.
However, he said, “I’d been doing theater and stuff, making my own little movies, since I was 5 or 6.”
He also co-wrote, directed, and starred in a 2015 film ImagiGARY, which he filmed in West Chester.
Read the entire interview in the Philadelphia Inquirer by clicking here.
