![]() ![]() Photograph: Cinetext/Univ/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar Heartthrob … Dillon with Mickey Rourke in 1983’s Rumble Fish. Today, Dillon – voluble and friendly, with a deep-baked, gravelly voice – is 56, craggier and heavier, with a salt-and-pepper beard, but you can still recognise that kid with the poster-friendly broody brow. In the 80s, he was as much like a rock star as any movie actor of his generation, adorning countless bedroom walls following roles in Coppola’s SE Hinton adaptations The Outsiders and Rumble Fish. ![]() ![]() “I actually had this feeling that I was being followed throughout – if you’ve ever been followed, it’s a very strange feeling.”Īs someone who become a screen idol in his teens, Dillon probably has more experience of being followed than most of us. “It’s a very old-world city in the new world.” And there was something uncanny in the air, in keeping with the film’s stalkerish theme. ![]() I think there’s a lot to do with identity.” It was shot in Mexico City, giving a distinctive flavour to a fictional city that’s never identified. He stuck to his guns.”ĭillon sees Nimic as “a poem, in a way. “I remember saying to Yorgos, ‘I know what you’re doing.’ And he said …” – he gives a cagey sideways look – “… ‘Really?’ And he did not budge. “European films tend to be a little more open to interpretation – this falls on the speculative side of things. On FaceTime from Albuquerque, Dillon gives a broad grin. ![]()
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