Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
67/100
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Austin Abrams does not like talking about himself.
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Abrams → like → himself
The 30-year-old actor, who hails from Sarasota in Florida and has been acting since he was five, would really rather talk about anything else.
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he → hail → anything
But don’t worry — if he won’t tell you, I will.
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I → worry → you
Abrams has been steadily stealing scenes for more than 10 years, having made a name for himself as troubled teen Ron Anderson in The Walking Dead (2014), then rambunctious teen Ben in Paper Towns (2015), then oddly astute teen son of Ben Stiller in Brad’s Status (2017), and finally the gentle teen love interest of Barbie Ferreira in Euphoria (2019).
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Abrams → steal → Euphoria
Nearly a decade later, he’s finally graduating high school.
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he → graduate → school
Unfortunately, Adult Abrams is fighting for his life.
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Abrams → fight → life
Earlier this summer, he played the central character in Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil reboot — Bryan, a medical courier who would really rather be chilling with his girlfriend than practising Self Defence for Dummies in a zombie apocalypse.
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who → play → apocalypse
And now he’s back on the survival thriller train with Whalefall, which sees him as reluctant scuba diver Jay, who would really rather not be inside the belly of the 80-foot sperm whale.
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who → ’ → whale
The role required weeks of filming inside a to-scale whale stomach, which was being pushed from the outside by the crew to mimic gestation.
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which → require → gestation
“I’d get back in my bed after shooting and close my eyes, and I would see the walls [of the stomach],” he says.
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he → get → stomach
He is put through an almost laughable amount of pain in the film — including being bitten by a squid’s beak (who knew!), burned by stomach acid, and having his eardrums perforated by pressure.
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eardrums → put → pressure
But in the words of Cregger, Austin Abrams never complains.
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Abrams → complain → Cregger
Instead, he revelled in the discomfort.
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he → revel → discomfort
“It ends up kind of having a toll on you, wearing on you, but you welcome that,” he says, “because it’s all just helpful.”
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it → end → that
Abrams is looking for something a little more “seated” for his next role.
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Abrams → look → role
He’s had any number of talented co-stars in his time — Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, George Clooney — but when choosing roles, it’s the words of Brad Pitt, with whom he worked on 2024’s Wolfs, that ring truest.
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that → have → Wolfs
“He said: ‘You have to do the things that affect you and that you’re drawn to because that’s the best chance that you have that it’s gonna affect other people,’” he recalls.
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he → say → people
It’s a good north star to follow, and with the way Abrams is going, Pitt or Chalamet-sized stardom could certainly be on the way.
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stardom → ’ → way
If only he didn’t have to talk about himself in the process.
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he → have → process
Whalefall is in cinemas now
Whalefall
Imagine being swallowed alive by a sperm whale, with just an hour of oxygen left.
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Whalefall → imagine → oxygen
That’s the nightmare facing Jay Gardiner, played by Austin Abrams, in Whalefall, a survival thriller directed by Brian Duffield and adapted from Daniel Kraus’s novel.
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That → ’ → novel
Jay is diving off the California coast in search of his late father’s body (Josh Brolin — he appears in flashbacks) when a whale swallows him whole.
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whale → dive → him
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