New revelations this week about the disgraced director and his role in the downfall of this now deceased actor.

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New revelations this week about the disgraced director and his role in the downfall of this now deceased actor.

The director invited the very very underage actor to a party where he was the only child present and there was booze everywhere at the party.

Bryan Singer

Brad Renfro

Hollywood Wanted An Edgy Child Actor. When He Spiraled, They Couldn’t Help.

Brad Renfro looked different, but Fernando Altschul expected that — they hadn’t seen each other in 10 years, when Renfro was 14 years old. The two had first met on the 1998 psychological thriller Apt Pupil, Renfro as the film’s star along with Ian McKellen, Altschul as its 34-year-old first assistant director, working with director Bryan Singer. Despite the fact that Renfro had a knack for making his job difficult — like sneaking cigarettes when union reps were visiting the set — Altschul still liked the kid, who at 11 had vaulted from obscurity to movie stardom when he was selected to star opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in the 1994 John Grisham thriller The Client.

It was now 2007. Renfro was an adult, playing a supporting role in the dark ensemble drama The Informers, and Altschul was again the first AD. When the two clapped eyes on each other for the first time in a decade, what Altschul saw shocked him. He was familiar with Renfro’s struggles with drug use, including an infamous 2005 arrest for attempting to buy heroin in Skid Row in Los Angeles. But he did not expect Renfro, who’d gained a considerable amount of weight, to reference his addiction quite so blithely.

“He jokingly told me he’d put down the spoon and picked up the fork,” Altschul, now 55, told BuzzFeed News.

Just a few months later, on Jan. 15, 2008, Renfro’s girlfriend found his body in his Los Angeles apartment; the coroner report stated he died from “acute heroin/morphine intoxication.” He was 25. – Read more here