See Adam Banks of "The Mighty Ducks" now at 44

Vincent Larusso, who played the falcon become tube, left playing behind the trilogy.


Vincent Larusso was not originally supposed to play Adam Banks, the star player of the holder team in the Disney Sports Classic 1994The powerful ducks. He had a much smaller and not speaking role as a member of the random team, until the actor who was supposed to play for the first time Adam, the former Hawk, wasLaunched the film To train too roughly with his teammates on the screen.

Larusso seemed intended to be identified forever as a "cake eater" (the taxi engine threw Adam from Adam by his teammates), but his life has taken him away from the game. He never really really left the ducks behind. Continue to read to find out where the former child actor is at 44 years old.

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He mainly moved away from the spotlight.

Vincent LaRusso in The Mighty Ducks
Buena Vista Pictures

Larusso appeared in the three films ofPowerful ducks trilogy, but after finishing the shooting of the 1996D3: powerful ducks, he left more or less by playing behind, accumulating only a handful of credits in the decades that followed.

Apart from the Disney sports franchise, he had a small role as a bank thief in the2008 parody filmSuperhero film and appeared as an anonymous character (Buddy # 2) in an episode of season 1 of theJoss Whedon-Re TV series createdDollhouse.

He went to the university and obtained a "regular" job.

Vincent LaRusso in The Mighty Ducks
Buena Vista Pictures

Larusso did not intentionally move away from acting, but that is how it worked. The same yearD3 was released in theaters, he signed up at the University of Boston, finally graduated in 2000 from the Questrom School of Business with a diploma in business administration and management.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The day of his university orientation, he had tohear, Larusso told fans to the podcastCharlatan's attack. Remember the advice ofPowerful ducks film producerJordan Kerner, who advised the young distribution to go to university, Larusso chose the school rather than the potential concert, and its manager at the time decides that they should separate until it is serious about acting again. "It was the final moment," said Larusso about his distance from Hollywood.

In the years that followed, he was occupied with a variety ofjobs in the hotel industry, according to his LinkedIn. It has managed several restaurants; held management positions in Soho House, a "club of private members" for people working in cinema and the media; And is currently serving as director of food and drinks for the Ambassador Theater Group, which has live theater in the United Kingdom, Germany and New York, where Larusso is currently lies.

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He always flies with ducks.

Vincent LaRusso in 2015
Bobby Bank / Wireimage

Although he let play behind, Larusso still kisses his story with the beloved team of the fictitious outsider (or is it understanding?), Actively participating in fan conventions and distribution meetings, y including celebrations ofThe 25th anniversary of the first film andThe 20th anniversary ofD2. He also remained close friends with the oldDucks co-starsGarette Henson (Guys) andElden Henson (Fulton).

"I never imagined that [the series] would have the power it has done," said LarussoCharlatan's attack Podcast in 2021. "I am fascinated by that, I am flattered by him."

However, leaving the spotlights behind to leave a more typical life has not always been easy. "[The theater offers] a level of validation which is really difficult to equal in the future in regular careers, with wages, pay checks, bosses and responsibilities," he said. "The idea of ​​the movie star ... is a giant and juicy validation part, it is difficult to find elsewhere in the world."

He returned to restart Disney +.

About a decade after his last role as an actor (in the short filmGeorge and Sophia), Larusso has received a call from his agent - to whom he had not spoken for years - letting him know that Disney asked him to appearThe Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, a suite / restart of deductible in progress for the Disney +streaming service.

Larusso therefore went to Vancouver in 2020, in the middle of the covid locks, to shoot an appearance in a single episode, alongside several distribution comrades of the original trilogy, who revealed that Adam Banks had become a lawyer who worked as a public defender.

"It was surreal," he said on the podcast of his return to the Ducks. "In your life, you don't really think about things like [being] so far. Suddenly it was so a slap that it was quite long ... that we have another generation that makes a similar story. It was the closest thing to a time machine. "Appearing on the restart was" almost like a form of therapy ", added Larusso, allowing him to" revisit [the experience], celebrate it, Leave it where everything is at the same time. All the things that a therapist would make you do. "


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