Not many eighth graders can balance a Los Angeles movie premiere, school, interviews, auditions, soccer practice, and a normal life, but that’s exactly what one local boy does.
AJ Tecce, a Medford eighth grader, is the voice of Pig-pen in The Peanuts Movie, coming out Friday.
AJ has been modeling, acting, and doing voice overs since he was three years old. The 13-year-old appeared in two independent films, Raising Ethan and Stereopsis, but says his recent role as the voice of Pig-pen is his biggest gig yet.
“It’s really cool”, AJ said, smiling ear to ear.
AJ’s agent originally told him and his mom, Karen, about the part in 2013. After a lengthy audition and waiting process, AJ was officially offered the part in July of 2014, but had to keep it secret until Thanksgiving of 2014, when the cast appeared on The Today Show.
The youngest of four boys, AJ started getting into acting and modeling after family members commented on his outgoing personality and ability to make people laugh.
AJ recently returned home after a trip out to Los Angeles for the premier of the movie, where he and the other actors got to walk the red carpet and attend cast parties. The group even went trick-or-treating together.
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“I can’t think of another project that would have been as wonderful to be a part of,” AJ’s mother, Karen, said.
Even with the celebrity moments, AJ feels his life as an eighth grader is pretty normal.
“My friends still treat me like one of the guys, which is cool,” he said.
AJ says people should go see The Peanuts Movie in theaters Friday, Nov. 6 because it’s “a good, clean movie!” (Pig-pen joke).
