Noah Hathaway Had To Win His Function In The NeverEnding Story Twice

In an oral historical past about “The Neverending Story” for Leisure Weekly, Noah Hathaway talked about getting solid as Atreyu. He informed EW, “My casting has a complete backstory as a result of there was a special director hooked up earlier than Wolfgang [Petersen]. They did a type of worldwide searches to solid the function and so they noticed one thing like 50,000 youngsters [laughs].” As a result of the film ended up altering administrators partway via casting, this meant that Hathaway needed to audition many instances earlier than getting the half. The truth is, regardless that he had been solid as Atreyu by the preliminary director, when Petersen got here on board, he nonetheless needed to re-audition.

“They let me go and began the entire casting course of once more and I needed to audition for Wolfgang and two producers. Lastly, after like three or 4 extra [auditions], I acquired employed once more,” defined Hathaway. To some, this may appear to be destiny that each administrators noticed him as the proper match for the half, however Hathaway resisted giving in to that concept. He stated, “I do not need to say it was ‘meant to be’ as a result of I actually labored my ass for it. I need to’ve learn the script three dozen instances and knew each line.”

Hathaway definitely feels that he was the proper child for the function, although. “I used to be a very delicate, ballsy, nice child rising up, just about like Atreyu was in numerous methods. And so, it was an ideal match,” he stated. Even Petersen admits that Hathaway was excellent, saying, “Noah had this angle from the very starting, he was Atreyu. He walked his personal stroll and he had his personal fashion, and that was good. […] He held his head up excessive and he was a hero.”