CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – A young Clarksville actor has a role in the new action movie Sketch, which premieres this weekend, and starting Monday, he’ll be appearing for meet-and-greets at Regal Theaters on Tiny Town Road.
Sketch, which opens Friday, is about a young girl named Amber whose sketchbook is full of colorful drawings of monsters, according to a synopsis on the Sketch website. When her sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life; they are unpredictable, chaotic and dangerously real. As the town unravels, she and her brother must track down the creatures before they leave permanent damage.
Clarksville’s Jaxen Kenner plays the role of Demarcus, one of Amber’s friends who rides the same bus as her and her brother. They all work together to escape from the big blue monster named Dave.
Jaxen, 12, has been a full-time actor for five years, according to his mother, Amber Kenner. He went to Richview Middle School this past year and will be attending Rossview Middle in the fall.
“Filming Sketch was by far my favorite acting job. I made some amazing friends, and everyone on this set from Director Seth Worley, co-stars Kue Lawrence, Bianca Belle, Kalon Cox, Tony Hale and Randa Newman, and camera crew, wardrobe stylist, makeup artist, and everyone else were all so amazing!” Jaxen said in a statement for Clarksville Now “I am so excited for the world to finally see Sketch!”
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Jaxen Kenner’s acting credits
He is signed with an agency in Atlanta called Ursula Wiedmann Models and Talent and received an audition for Sketch three years ago. He does all his auditions out of our home and submits them to casting directors. Sometimes he has several auditions a week.
Jaxen has been in several short films, a movie called Perimortem, two episodes of the Dhar Mann YouTube series, a Wegmans commercial, several print advertising campaigns, several Lifeway Christian series episodes, and in four major artist music videos, just to name a few, Kenner said. He was also in a film when he was 9 months old called The Good Book.
He’ll be doing meet-and-greets at the Regal Clarksville cinema, 1810 Tiny Town Road, on Monday, Aug. 4, through Saturday, Aug. 9 from 3:30-4 p.m. and 6-6:30 p.m.
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