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Elliott Heffernan, the 11-Year-Old Star of ‘Blitz’, on His Oscar Buzz and Crying on Command: ‘I Pretended My Mom Was Taking Away My PlayStation’

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Blitz,” Elliott Heffernan had a tall order. He had to perform in perilous scenes that found his character running through WWII battlefields as bombs dropped, leaping from a moving train and getting caught in a flash flood.

But when the now 11-year-old actor faced his most challenging moment – having to cry on cue – he was able to use his greatest fears to pull it off. “I pretended my mom was taking away my PlayStation,” Heffernan reveals.

It worked; the young actor is earning raves for his turn in the Steve McQueen epic, playing George, the mixed-race son of Saorise Ronan’s single mother Rita.

As WWII rages on and London endures an aerial bombardment, Rita makes the agonizing decision to send George away to safety in the country, despite his pleas.

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