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Anton Yelchin

Anton Viktorovich Yelchin (March 11, 1989 – June 19, 2016) was an American actor. He played Pavel Chekov in three Star Trek films: Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and the posthumously released Star Trek Beyond (2016).

Born to a Russian Jewish family in Leningrad, Yelchin and his family moved to the United States when he was a baby. In the late 1990s, Yelchin began appearing in television and film roles. His role in Steven Spielberg's miniseries Taken helped further his career. Yelchin also starred in Huff and the posthumously released Trollhunters.

Early life[]

Yelchin was born on March 11, 1989 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). His parents, Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin, were pair figure skaters, who were celebrities and stars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet for fifteen years. His family is Jewish; in the USSR, they were subjected to religious and political oppression. Yelchin had said: "my grandparents suffered in ways I can't even begin to understand under Stalin." Nationally, Yelchin's parents were the third-ranked pair team; they thus qualified for the 1972 Winter Olympics, but were not permitted to participate by the Soviet authorities. Yelchin had said the reason was unclear: "I don't exactly know what that was – because they were Jewish or because the KGB didn't want them to travel."

Yelchin's family fled to the United

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Joining the ranks of young, modern directors like Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) and Destin Daniel Cretton (“Short Term 12”) is playwright-turned-writer and director Cory Finley. “Thoroughbreds”was adapted from an unproduced play of his own and brought to the big screen with the help of a young, talented cast that includes Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke and the late Anton Yelchin.

WSN had the opportunity to talk with Finley over the phone about the release of his film, his process of taking a play to the theaters and his experience working with Anton Yelchin on one of his last performances.

Washington Square News: As an NYU student, I have grown very familiar with the world of rich kids from suburban Connecticut. What experiences did you draw on while writing this story that informed the world you built?

Cory Finley: I definitely knew some very wealthy kids from my high school, college – I even have sort of very specific memories of going over as a little kid to a friend’s house and they had these giant mansions and being kind of pulled into a reverie by the beauty of everything, the quietness and the lushness and everything; the way you sort of get lost in these homes …  And the movie, which started initially as a play, was a way for me to delve into my complicated feelings about wealth, because I was always sort of hypnotized by it growing up, and obviously as I got older I started to think about how someone’s wealth is always built on someone else’s loss, in this kind of zero-sum capitalism that we live in.

WSN: Without giving too much away, much of the film’s climax plays out in a very tense, long static shot that stays in one room, mostly separate from the action – and it works brilliantly. What factored into that choice and did you ever have any doubts about it?

CF: I had a lot of doubts; I definitely got cold feet on the day of shooting because it takes forever to play out. There is a quick change in the

2011 romantic drama film directed by Drake Doremus

For the Italian film, see Like Crazy (2016 film). For other uses, see Like Crazy (disambiguation).

Like Crazy is a 2011 American romanticdrama film directed by Drake Doremus and starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, and Jennifer Lawrence. Written by Doremus and Ben York Jones, the film tells the story of Anna (Felicity Jones), a British exchange student who falls in love with an American student, Jacob (Anton Yelchin), only to be separated from him when she is denied reentry into the United States after staying in the country longer than her student visa allows.

Doremus based the storyline of the film partly on his own long-distance relationship with a woman living in London while he lived in Los Angeles. Rather than writing a traditional screenplay, he and Ben York Jones compiled a 50-page outline of the film from which the actors improvised almost all of the dialogue. Filming took place over four weeks in Los Angeles and London with a budget of $250,000.

Like Crazy premiered on January 22, 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the festival's Grand Jury Prize. It was released in theaters on October 28, 2011 and grossed over $3.7 million at the box office. Most reviews of the film were positive, with reviewers giving particular praise to the performances of Yelchin and Jones, although some found the plot implausible and contrived.

Plot

Anna Gardner, a British exchange student attending college in Los Angeles, meets and falls in love with Jacob Helm, an American student who returns her affections. After graduation, Anna decides to spend the summer with Jacob rather than return to the United Kingdom, unaware of the consequences of overstaying her student visa, which expired upon her graduation. After returning to London for a family engagement, Anna flies back to Los Angeles, where she is detained, denied entry, and deported back to the United Kingdom by immigration offic