The actor was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly approaching estranged wife Rachael Kneeland in December.
By Gil Kaufman
Edward Furlong
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Just days before "The Green Hornet" hits theaters with expectations of a #1 bow, one of the film's star, Edward Furlong, is struggling to stay out of the spotlight. The former child star who launched his career in 1991 in the role of a young John Conner in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" was arrested on Tuesday in Los Angeles on suspicion of violating a restraining order that requires him to stay 100 yards away from his estranged wife, Rachael Kneeland, according to the Los Angeles Times.
While the 33-year-old actor is free on $75,000 bail for now, he reportedly is broke and unable to make his child support payments. His troubles have prompted him to try and keep a low profile for the moment. As a result, it was revealed on Wednesday that he would not be traveling to Mexico to promote his other new film, the apocalyptic mind trip "This Is Not a Movie," which co-stars Peter Coyote and features music from Slash.
Furlong made it to Monday's red carpet premiere of "The Green Hornet" in Los Angeles, but was then taken into custody the next day during a court appearance for violating the stay-away order in December. The couple are going through an ugly divorce, and People magazine reported that in court documents Kneeland alleged that, back in September 2010, Furlong "pushed" and "bruised" her and left threatening messages claiming he would "hire people to come and beat [her] with chains and bats." Furlong has denied the allegations, but a judge issued a three-year restraining order against the actor and ordered him to undergo counseling.
TMZ reported that during his court appearance, Furlong told the judge that he's behind on child support because "I'm out of money. I'm completely broke."
While Furlong's troubles likely won't impact the opening of "The Green Hornet," as he has a modest supporting role, star Seth Rogen told MTV News that his pet project did face a problem that almost derailed it — the unexplained online hate that greeted the production.
After a series of setbacks and release-date shuffles, Rogen said websites inexplicably turned against the movie before seeing any footage. However, once people started viewing screenings of the flick, what do you know? They liked it and the tide turned.
"It's something that [writing partner] Evan [Goldberg] would constantly have to remind me of throughout the process, in that this is kind of exactly what we thought would happen," Rogen said. "From the second we thought of doing a movie like this, I remember talking about it, like, 'Everyone's going to think it's going to be insane and terrible and we'll just have to keep our heads down and make it, and then it'll come out and then people will slowly see that we weren't nuts and that it was actually a good idea.' "
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