He may peddle pot to tweens and pal around with Mexican enforcers on the southern California set of Weeds, but young actor Alexander Gould’s real life is more Agrestic than Ren-Mar.

In a recent interview with Heeb magazine, Gould went along with a stoner-themed photo shoot, humoring it with an “it’s all acting” shrug, while his manager mom fretted about his image.

Gould has been acting since he was a tot, so he’s pretty nonchalant about the process. Weeds is now on hiatus after Season 5. The series wrapped up with a season finale that found Gould’s character, Shane Botwin, fatally bopping his mom’s nemesis on the head.

Gould’s own pursuits are, natch, a little less dramatic. A homeschooler, he’ll spend the break from Weeds playing video games, skateboarding and working with a Jewish youth group in his hometown of Santa Clarita (an Agrestic-like planned community near L.A.). He’s also signed on for Hairbrain, an as-yet-unfunded movie about a young egghead.

“It’s a crazy story about a genius kid that goes to college and his roommate is this 37-year-old, and there’s this weird friendship,” Gould said in the interview.

Apparently, the boy who once voiced Nemo in a long-ago Disney film has no qualms playing to his new type. “Usually my, what I would say, forte is weird stuff, offbeat kids,” he said.

Season 6 of Weeds will drop in 2010.

Image: Sonja Flemming for Showtime

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