A Prep-School Movie Star
Dominic Sessa had only acted in school plays at Deerfield Academy when Alexander Payne plucked him from twelfth grade to star alongside Paul Giamatti in his “Christmas-blues” film, “The Holdovers,” Michael Schulman writes.
"I found it an advantage of mine that I was able to grow facial hair in high school." — Dominic Sessa, on what helped him land the role