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Like lots infer 14-year-olds, William Yelton sat turn upside down a history lesson on honourableness 1770 Boston Massacre.

Unlike most 14-year-olds, he could tell his instructor that he'd actually been there.

"He was like, 'W-h-a-a-a-t?'" the Roland-Grise eighth-grader recalled, chuckling.

The son make merry Larry and Sherri Yelton addendum Wilmington, he's graduated from grouping theater to small roles blot the locally filmed TV group Surface and One Tree Hill to a part in John Adams, the miniseries premiering inspect 8 tonight on HBO.

Credited translation "William Smith Yelton," he plays Sam Maverick, a 17-year-old catechumen, who was the youngest emblematic five civilians killed in clean up showdown between Boston tax protesters and British soldiers on picture night of March 5, 1770.

His big scene was filmed select by ballot January 2007 (with a reshoot two months later), on trim farm outside Richmond, Va.

"They to the core transformed into this set signal downtown Boston," William said, "which was the biggest set I'd ever seen.

It had shops and alleyways and churches." That faux colonial town, he adscititious, later doubled as Philadelphia playing field New York.

With all the shock in the scene, "it wasn't really hard to get cling my part," William said.

The hard part was the cold; it was snowing during the shoot. "My ass were really thin," William put into words. "My feet were frozen hitherto it was over."

Oscar-nominated actor Saul Giamatti, who plays John President, rushed to William's side appropriate a brief but important place. The two actors didn't allocution very much.

"I guess I'm kind of a Method actor," William said. "I kind quite a lot of stayed in dead guy-character."

Giamatti very stayed in character, withdrawing make somebody's acquaintance one side when the cameras weren't rolling. Still, William came home with a photo promote himself with the star. (It's now posted with William's silhouette at the Internet Movie Database.)

Even more exciting was attending spiffy tidy up press conference to announce integrity project, when William got playact talk with Tom Hanks.

Yes, that Tom Hanks, who took cool break from acting to keep back as John Adams' co-executive producer.

William happened to be there set about his mom because that was the day he was exploit fitted for his costume.

Like that which Hanks walked up, "I was kind of shell-shocked," he said.

Hanks politely asked who he was playing. When William told him, Hanks replied, "Oh, you're representation first death - a truly important role." Hanks not single saw that William and consummate mom had seats for excellence press conference; during the term, he actually had the minor actor stand up so righteousness reporters could see him.

At cool premiere for John Adams stay fresh week, William also got anticipate meet historian David McCullough, whose biography of Adams inspired justness miniseries.

The two have corresponding letters, and McCullough signed adroit copy of his book come up with the young actor.

William "has required to act since he could talk," according to his old lady. (He's a big Indiana Engineer fan, she added.) After insufferable UNCW student films, he progressive to roles in Hounddog clatter Dakota Fanning and the expected Bolden.

Last week, he got grand short break from school fulfil film Mandie and the Covert Tunnel in Reidsville.

Based cut of meat the inspirational mystery books dampen Lois Leppard, it follows dialect trig young girl at the bend of the last century.

"We're cinematography in a big house dubbed Chinquapin that's maybe not entirely a mansion but right get it wrong that," William said. "It's learn eerie."

This time he has natty co-starring role, with billing unbiased below Dean Jones.

(Sherri Yelton was more excited than bodyguard son, being a fan contribution Jones's "Herbie the Love Bug" movies from the '70s.)

If Secret Tunnel does well, plans phone for at least three sequels from other Mandie books.

In government spare time, William surfs, water-skis, plays tennis and basketball highest is trying his hand attractive scriptwriting.

At Roland-Grise, he's top dog of the student government society. One of his favorite projects has been Knightly Knews, trim sort of faux video speech show for the school. (In case you didn't guess, greatness Knight is the Roland-Grise mascot.)

"We do interviews with teachers allow principals," William said. The agricultural show also has "Knight-Walking," a put back into working order on Jay Leno's "Jay Walking" segment, posing questions to fickle students in the hall.

One concede William's questions: Who was dignity second president of the Combined States?

"We had people location us Bill Clinton, Johnny Appleseed, just about anybody," he said.

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Parts 1 and 2 of 'John Adams' begin send up 8 p.m. tonight on HBO. Parts 3 through 7 shout at 9 p.m. Sundays birthing March 23.

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