By Kayla DeKraker
Internet personality Zach King revealed on the SKETCH red carpet that he’s living out his childhood dreams.
He told Movieguide®’s Kaelii Williams that he turned to filmmaking when he was feeling emotional as a kid.
“That’s all I did is like making movies, little things with my sisters. So yeah, I love, I love filmmaking,” he said.
King rose to fame for his illusions and magic tricks posted to the old video platform Vine. Since then, he gained popularity on YouTube and has worked on a few short films. In 2013, he was named one of the “25 most promising young filmmakers in America” by YouTube.
Today he lives out his filmmaking dreams with his creative YouTube and Instagram videos that reach millions.
He also enjoys creating games for his friends. His current game is inspired by the show SURVIVOR.
“Obviously, they can’t sleep over and be hungry, but we’re going to, like, do the whole survivor season in six hours in my backyard,” he told Williams.
King credits his mom for his love of creativity.
“She would sign me up for art classes. She would take me to pottery classes, she had me do a woodworking class,” he explained. “So, she was the one like, let’s get out of the house. Go in the backyard, go play, go make forts, come up and write scripts and stuff.”
When life gets tough, though, King turns to his wife Rachel.
“Well, my wife would say it should be my therapist, but it would be my wife for sure,” he joked. “Like, even today, like I just text her, you know, a quick thing, but my wife, Rachel, is the person I go to for all of my therapy until I get a therapist.”
Creativity takes center stage in Angel Studios’ SKETCH.
“When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life — unpredictable, chaotic, and dangerously real,” the logline reads. “As the town unravels, she and her brother must track down the creatures before they leave permanent damage,”
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It adds, “Their father, racing to find them through the fallout, must navigate a town in crisis to reunite his family and stop the disaster they never meant to unleash”
It stars Tony Hale, D’Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle, Kue Lawrence, Kalon Cox, Allie McCulloch, Jaxen Kenner, Genesis Rose Brown and Randa Newman.
Movieguide® praised its “funny and creative exploration of the way grief affects people differently,” giving it a -1 content score for “scary scenes that might frighten children.”
Ahead of the film’s released, King used his filmmaking and illusion talents to create a video of art coming to life in an art class.
In the caption, he said, “Note to self, don’t bring art to life.”
SKETCH releases in theaters on Aug. 6.
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