Weeds' Alexander Gould is no stoner in real life

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