Two child actors, both named Trevor Wright.

Friday night we watched The Social Network. I think what made the movie for us was this:

The B. U. Guy in Bra was masterfully acted by Trevor Wright. It's not just the coincidence of his name being the same as Trevor's that makes it awesome. It's the history behind the two Trevor Wrights (which was documented so well and so sarcastically by the beloved Mitch Mallory in Schooled Magazine).

It's not known by many, but Trevor (my husband Trevor) was for a short time a child actor. His extensive and prolific career included such roles in Kirtland visitor center movie (the back of his legs are shown), an episode of the TV show Everwood (he was cut out), and some random boy in a BYU Production called "Call of a Story" (neither of us have even seen this). His most famous role was boy #2 in the Disney Channel original movie, The Luck of the Irish.

His friend told me this before we started dating, and I think I said yes when Trevor asked me out because I wanted to date a Disney Channel original movie star. Or a Disney Channel original movie extra, whatever you want to call it. And that was before I knew he still gets royalties from it. His Oscar-nominated performance is below. Skip ahead to 9:13 and 9:36. 

One time in high school after his acting career had ended, he and his friends decided to google his name because I guess there isn't that much to do in Alpine or something. Anyways, they found that there was another, slightly more famous actor named Trevor Wright. This Trevor Wright had made it big as a child actor, landing a coveted role in MXP: Most Xtreme Primate. Isn't it every child actor's dream to star in a movie with an animal who can do something usually only humans can do? 

Because this Trevor Wright seemed pretty awesome and into himself, with his own fan page and everything, they checked out his roles on imdb.com and discovered that Trevor Wright was taking credit for being in The Luck of the Irish. So being the bored high schoolers that they were, they called up Trevor Wright's agent and, pretending to be an agent themselves, threatened legal action if he didn't stop taking credit for my husband's hard work as boy #2. 

For a long time my husband and his friends joked about the other Trevor Wright and the imdb incident. Until one day when they were up at the Sundance Film Festival and actually saw Trevor Wright. Not only did they go up to talk to him, but they told him how they were such big fans and how they loved his work in MXP and asked if they could get a picture with him. From the slightly confused/freaked out look on his face, I don't think he was used to being a.) recognized as someone famous, b.) having fans, or c.) taking pictures with strangers who claimed to be fans. I think all this was new to him, despite having his own fan page and everything. 

So when we saw that the B. U. guy in Bra was Trevor Wright, we were happy that his acting career has continued to thrive. Too bad my husband didn't continue acting. Because then maybe he could have been an extra in a movie that actually played in theaters. And because then maybe he could have a fan page like this:

If you don't believe this breath-taking story of the two Trevors, here is the Schooled magazine article: