STEPHEN DORFF - DORFF TATTOOED BY EX-CONVICT PAL

DORFF TATTOOED BY EX-CONVICT PAL

Actor STEPHEN DORFF has a permanent reminder of his time on the set of gritty prison drama FELON - a former inmate he bonded with during the shoot tattooed him.
Dorff, co-star Val Kilmer and the cast and crew of the film mingled with real-life prisoners and ex-convicts while shooting the movie at a working correctional facility in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
And the Backbeat star admits it was difficult not to befriend guys who had committed terrible crimes.
He explains, "What was tricky was we're all in this prison yard and you talk to people in between lighting set-ups and (you) get to know people and make friends.
"Some of these guys were really cool and really nice and they wanted to hang out with you. Ric (Roman Waugh, the director) would constantly have to remind me, `Stephen, don't get too close because you don't want to be inviting them home for the weekend.'
"But, I made friends with one guy, who's name was Isaac... He was an incredibly sweet guy; he had been in prison for about eight years, grew up in juvenile hall with prison values.
"While we were shooting Felon together he told me about his two little kids and his wife and everything was really sweet.
"He's a tattoo artist and I became friends with him, so, after the movie, he gave me two tattoos; one of my initials on my forearm and then a rose that I got for my family. I connected with him."