‘Boychoir’ Star Joins ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
Roland Emmerich is directing the sequel, which has a mix of rising stars and returning faces set to fight aliens.
Garrett Wareing, who starred opposite Dustin Hoffman and Kathy Bates in Boychoir, has joined the cast of Fox’s Independence Day sequel.
Roland Emmerich is directing the sequel, which has a mix of rising stars and returning faces set to fight aliens.
Maika Monroe, Jessie Usher, Liam Hemsworth and Charlotte Gainsbourg are set for the production, in which Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Judd Hirsch are among those reprising their roles from the 1994 original.
Wareing will play a boy who seeks refuge with the First Family when the aliens attack.
Production is underway, with a scheduled June 24, 2016, release date.
Wareing is considered an actor to watch thanks to his feature acting debut opposite Hoffman, Josh Lucas and Debra Winger in Boychoir, which made its debut at last year’s Toronto Film Festival.
He is repped by ICM Partners and 23 Management Group.
12 years ago, Garrett Wareing was just a kid in College Station with a big dream.
Now, the actor is starring in the new Netflix series “Ransom Canyon”, and said he can’t wait for the world to see it.
“I think that there’s a lot of Easter eggs especially for Texans in the show that they’ll see in the first season that they’ll be like yep that’s accurate,” Wareing said.
Born in College Station and raised by a family of Aggies, Wareing grew up cheering for Texas A&M.
“I would have been a fourth or fifth generation Aggie if I had gone to Texas A&M.”
He thought he’d follow the family path until an Oakwood Intermediate drama class changed it all.
“My parents wanted to cultivate that love in their children because both my siblings and I wanted to do it as well, and so through that love and that desire, we found the NPT Network,” Wareing explained.
He went through an eight-month program, learning everything an actor just starting out should know, before taking his first trip to Los Angeles with NPT.
Shortly after that visit, Wareing and his family made the move to Hollywood.
“We moved out from College Station as a family of five with our dog and cat and we found an apartment in Los Angeles,” Wareing added. “We gave it a shot, you know, and it’s not easy.”
His first big project was a film called Boychoir starring Dustin Hoffman and Kathy Bates.
“I remember walking onto the set of Boychoir. We were shooting in a castle, I was 12 years old, it was my first movie set ever,” Wareing recalled. “There was this energy, there was this pulse about it that you don’t find anywhere else and it’s still my favorite place to be in the world.
