He may be a guy in the sky who can run, swim and fly but Dino Man is no superhero. "He's like any other dinosaur," shrugged nine-year-old Aditya Geddada, about the half-human, half-dinosaur that had crawled out of his imagination in the pre-Covid years when he wanted to become an archaeologist. "I'm officially an actor now," said the Silicon Valley-based above-average student who tasted blood when he made his Hollywood debut last year as the younger son of Oscar-winning actor Riz Ahmed's character in the OTT sci-fi thriller 'Encounter'. "I can't give up acting," moaned Aditya, earning cuddles from his mother slash "unpaid PA".
Ever since a Hollywood agent spotted him playing in a hotel lobby in 2019, his techie parents Srikanth and Vishalakshi Geddada-- who moved to the Silicon Valley 15 years ago--have been learning to navigate the alien showbiz world entailing "chemistry reads", elusive casting agents, fitment issues, child safety laws, rejections, press days, trailers, on-set tutors, dummy body doubles and codes such as 'pumpkin' (signifying 'pack up' at children's shoots).
