BRAD BOY

Vanities

Name and occupation: Brad Renfro, actor. Age: 15. Has epitomized rebellious youth in: John Grisham's The Client, with Susan Sarandon: Sleepers, as Brad Pitt's younger incarnation: and Telling Lies in Ameriea. with Kevin Bacon. Soon to epitomize severely disturbed youth in: Pupil an adaptation of the Stephen King novellaplaying a Holocaust-obsessed boy w ho discovers Nazi war criminal (lan McKellen) in his hometown. Why Brad won’t be joining Christian Slater and Robert Downey Jr. in the dock anytime soon: "I still live in Knoxville. Tennessee, with my grandmother. It keeps me levelheaded." You worked with world-renowned actors—Susan Sarandon, Robert De Niro, lan McKellen—before you could legally drive a car. Is juvenile-star burnout syndrome a fear of yours? " I don't want to become some huge mov ie star before my time, so 1 just try to take it really slow. I want to be up-and-coming until I'm past tense."