'Parenthood's' Jason Ritter: Friend's Attempted Suicide Influenced 'About Alex' — hollywoodreporter.com

Parenthood star Jason Ritter says a painful personal experience helped him understand his role in the drama About Alex. Ritter says one of his friends attempted suicide, and because a similar event occurs in the film, the actor was initially nervous about how that would be portrayed onscreen. In the end, he was pleased. "To me it felt like a fair representation of what happened to my little group of friends when that happened," Ritter told The Hollywood Reporter at the film's premiere Wednesday at the ArcLight Hollywood. "We were all sort of shocked and trying to figure out is there something we could have done."

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