Memorable Stand by Me Line: “This is my age! I’m in the prime of my youth! And I’ll only be young once.”
Snakkle Exclusive: Say what you will about Feldman’s overtime in the tabloids. Jenkins tells Snakkle she knew immediately that the actor would be perfect for the part of Teddy Duchamp—a zany kid who suffered at the hands of an abusive, alcoholic father. “When I first met Corey Feldman, [he] actually came in to read for the River Phoenix part of Chris Chambers. And while he was reading, I said to him, ‘I think there’s another part in this movie that you would be better for.’ I gave him the scene and said he could either come back tomorrow or look at it right now. And he said, ‘No, I’ll look at it right now.’ And he came back in and said to me, ‘This is really interesting. This is like the Robert De Niro kind of part.’ He was 12 years old and he said that.”