![]() ![]() I’ll wake up and I’m like, ∝id I relapse?Ī year ago Furlong was replaced as the star of a new romantic comedy after being arrested a third time on suspicion of domestic abuse after being detained by police in Los Angeles an alleged incident of violence towards his girlfriend. I have nightmares about doing hard drugs. ![]() ![]() It seems lonely now: running and clubbing and doing coke. I don’t even think about (partying) anymore, he said. Some could argue that Furlongs tragic life itself has been like something out of a Hollywood movie script. Such a steep fall after so promising a rise. But with each chance, the patience gets shorter, and sooner or later the patience and the chances run out.įurlong’s roles dimished to what he himself in a 2012 interview called the crappiest movies, including a handful of small-budget films this year, but the big roles appear to be gone and he has been passed over or dropped from films, starting with Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines all because of his troubles.īy 2011, he told a Los Angeles court that he was completely broke and could no longer afford to pay child support. This is a town of second, third and fourth chances. ∾dward continued to make films but not the kinds of films with the kinds of major roles he once might have seemed destined for, says Hollywood producer Thomas Davis, who has known a number of young rising films stars and the hurdles they have faced. Had it been common knowledge that the dreamy-eyed Furlong was Mexican on his mothers side, Hispanics who helped make the Terminator franchise a worldwide blockbuster would have been hailing him as the American Latino major Hollywood star who might open the gates in Tinseltown. He was 15, a teen heartthrob, Arnold Schwarzeneggers younger half in a billion-dollar action movie franchise of mankinds war against machines, and celebrated with a slew of awards attesting to his precocious brilliance and tremendous promise. There was a time when teen actor Edward Furlong, who played the heroic young savior John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, was being called one of Hollywoods future leading men, the likes of a Leonardo DiCaprio or Brad Pitt. If convicted on all charges Furlong could face up to four years in prison. Actor Edward Furlong attends a court hearing after being charged with assaulting his girlfriend Jin Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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