Actor Max Minghella follows in his father's footsteps with directorial debut 'Teen Spirit'
LOS ANGELES - At weddings, Super Bowl parties, late-night backyard hangs - Max Minghella was always off in the corner with his camera.
"I can't tell if he used it as a crutch, like, 'I don't want to interact with people,' or if he found it more interesting to view social events through a lens," says actor Jamie Bell, who calls Minghella his closest friend. "But a few days later, you'd get a link, and he'd turn what seemed to be an arbitrary hangout with the usual suspects into something quite staggering."
It was something Minghella, now 33, acknowledges he did "pretty fanatically" in his 20s - making musically driven home videos that he describes as both sentimental and voyeuristic. He was making his living as an actor, but creating his "weird little videos" somehow felt more natural to him. "With acting, it was like, 'I can't believe I'm getting away with doing this,'
