Who Plays Young Charlie in ‘Every Year After’? Meet Carson MacCormac
What To Know
- Carson MacCormac plays the younger version of Charlie in three episodes of Every Year After, portraying a teenage version of Michael Bradway’s character.
- MacCormac has appeared in Shazam! and My Life With the Walter Boys.
- MacCormac is only a year younger than Bradway in real life.
The second we found out that the actor who plays young Charlie in Every Year After is only a year younger than Michael Bradway, we knew we had to do a deeper dive into Carson MacCormac‘s career.
During the first two episodes of Every Year After, viewers get to know Sam (Matt Cornett), Percy (Sadie Soverall), and Charlie (Bradway) during their teenage years. Played by Blue Clarke, Juliette Hawk, and MacCormac, respectively, this trio captures all of the teenage yearning, angst, and drama that sets the foundation for Percy’s reunion with the Florek brothers over a decade later.
From where you’ve seen him before to what the showrunner has revealed about his role in the series, we’re breaking down everything you need to know about Carson MacCormac below.
Who plays young Charlie in Every Year After?
Young Charlie is played by Carson MacCormac. He pulls off a spot-on teenage version of Michael Bradway’s character if we do say so ourselves. He can be seen in Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 1, where he sticks young Sam on young Percy to get some alone time in their house and plays a pivotal role in young Delilah’s (Hazel Bartlett-Sias) game of spin the bottle. He appears again during Episode 8.
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Who is Carson MacCormac?
As it turns out, MacCormac is a 26-year-old actor, making him only a year younger than Bradway. MacCormac is from Oakville, Canada, with a background in baseball and musical theater. In an interview with Yhor Life, he introduced himself, stating, “I am an actor born in Toronto who has been cursed with the incurable disease that wants to make a living in the arts. When I am not in my room with a script for an audition, or watching the [Raptors], I am an avid reader of any and all books.” Sounds like this won’t be his last book-to-screen adaptation!
What else has Carson MacCormac been in?
Romance lovers might recognize MacCormac from My Life With the Walter Boys Season 2, where he played Zach, who briefly dated Nathan (Corey Fogelmanis). He has also starred as Miles in Where Did the Adults Go?, Brett Breyer in Shazam!, and Cole in Clown in a Cornfield.
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What has the showrunner said about casting young Charlie?
During an interview with Swooon, showrunner Amy B. Harris broke down some of the major changes between Every Year After and Every Summer After. In the book, young Charlie kisses young Percy during a game of truth or dare. She explained that the actors’ real-life age difference was part of the reason why the book scene was left out of the series.
“What was interesting about it in the book was that it was a foreshadowing of what was going to come later,” she said. “What we felt was sort of interesting in this one [was] it did what it needed to do in terms of Sam. It changed everything, and that’s what I thought was so beautiful, even [Charlie] going in to lean in, and that Percy was open to it. Percy knew right then and there it was changing everything between them, and so I thought from a storytelling perspective it actually really worked for the show and was a great change.”
Every Year After, Season 1, Streaming Now, Prime Video
