tMF | The Movie-Fanatic

"Next week I'll be in Toronto. I'm still trying to get my head around it. I just came back from New York actually where I was doing an independent film. I've gone from one side of the world to the other. My head is going crazy", he says. "I woke up this morning and said ‘Where am I?' I looked out the window and saw the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge and I'm like ‘Wow! How did I end up in Australia?' Have you ever seen that film Jumper? It's like I'm in Jumper!"

That's young British actor Aaron Johnson describing the turn of events as he goes globetrotting in the fulfillment of his upcoming movie projects.

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 We're quite excited about the acting career of this charming young British talent- with two high-profile projects (as the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy and opposite Nicholas Cage in Kick-Ass) soon to hit the big screen, Johnson is definitely the one to watch!

The best young talents from European cinema are being celebrated via the annual European Shooting stars program. This year, it's no surprise to see Germany selecting the young David Kross, who made such an impression acting opposite Kate Winslet in award-winning dramatic-thriller The Reader. 

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But his role in The Reader is not the only factor that gave Kross the title. Aside from The Reader, Kross also played one of the leads in Marco Kreuzpaintner's latest film, Krabat.

Read my Lips! 
Londoner with a flair for fashion and art is brilliant and unassuming, take a closer look at Eddie Redmayne!

Right this minute, Eddie Redmayne is one of the most exciting emerging actors and he's not keen on playing the usual boy-next-door roles. In fact, he prefers them dark and nasty. Reserve your sugary, no-brainers for someone else, Redmayne wants something entirely different.

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Excellent Performance in Savage Grace! You ought to see this movie if only to confirm if Redmayne is truly a talented actor! The last we heard of Savage Grace, some critics had trashed the flick already, though most of them praised the performances of the leads, especially Julianne Moore and this guy! In this adaptation of the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Natalie Robbins and Steven ML Aronson, Redmayne plays the gay son of Barbara Daly (Moore), a young woman who married someone beyond her social class, the heir of a very rich family.

He was also reported to have said something cool about the female lead of Twilight:

"and the legendary Kristen Stewart."

This says a lot! Apparently, he likes Kristen (to be seen next in New Moon of the Twilight saga with another awesome young talent, Robert Pattinson). He has acted alongside Kristen in The Yellow Handkerchief, so apparently he knows the young actress. Did we fail to mention Ellen Page? He likes her too!

Let's get to know him better as we look closely at his movies [ with a comprehensive video clips of some of his best! ]

Billy Elliot Grows up!
tMF takes a close look at award winning young actor Jamie Bell!
by Jed Medina

Determined to portray unconventional characters while collaborating with cutting edge filmmakers, Jamie Bell has more than departed from his most famous role as an aspiring ballet dancer in Billy Elliot.

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Mora than just a Pretty Boy
tMF profiles one of Canada’s most talented and appealing young actors, Kevin Zegers.
By Jed Medina

With more than 50 film and TV roles to his credit, 19-year-old Kevin Zegers was about to call it quits and say goodbye to acting. Sounds unbelievable right? How can someone as young as he have done so much work? Well, if you know that Kevin Zegers started acting at the age of seven, then you won’t be surprised at all.

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"It wasn't that I'd had enough. But I sort of said, it's going to get a lot more difficult now that I'm older, now that I'm the age I am - in my early 20s," he says. Then I did Transamerica and it just sort of changed the way I looked at my career. That's when I made the decision - okay, this is what I'm good at, this is what excites me."

Now aged 23, the young actor continues to pursue his acting career, having proven he has what it takes.

Fearless
Profile of young actor Kostja Ullmann
by Jed Medina

“It’s not bad to be naked on a film set, but it’s not the physical nakedness that I felt so much as being mentally stripped. It is already a strange feeling to lie naked on a sofa and be flogged, I needed to somehow find a way to adjust to that and still make the scene look natural and real. Once I study and absorb a character, it grows in me; there is this blur between what’s real and what’s not. It’s only when I suddenly hear ‘Cut!’ that I’m back in reality.” says Kostja Ullmann.

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The young German actor was talking about his role in the award-winning film Verfolgt (Hounded, also known as Punish Me), where he played Jan, a young juvenile delinquent who gets involved with a much older woman. With its unique take on relationships and it’s rather dark theme of bondage, critics agree that instead of delivering the usual “cheap psychological analysis, it tells the facts without interference through photography and editing and allowing the audience to draw its own conclusions.”

Hollywood's Indie Kid
tMF profiles the award winning young actor Lou Taylor Pucci!
by Jed Medina & Kathleen Sydenham

With his breakthrough film, Thumbsucker, for which he won the Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival and a special jury prize at Sundance, Lou Taylor Pucci is fast becoming a young actor to be reckoned with. Acting since he was just 10 years old, Pucci has been seen in memorable roles in The Go-Getter, Fast Food Nation, The Chumbscrubber, Empire Falls, Southland Tales and Personal Velocity.

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Born and raised in New Jersey, he has an accomplished musician for a father and a fashion model for a mother. Rumor has it that he was geared towards the entertainment scene from an early age, starting with his parent's choice of his name. Says Lou in a recent interview:

" I always knew I was going to be in entertainment, but no one was really making me be there. Like my parents kinda named me Lou Taylor Pucci because they thought it was a good stage name."

Michael Angarano: Making His Own Luck
tMF profiles the talented & charming young actor, New Yorker Michael Angarano
By Jed Medina

Not many people are blessed with the opportunity to enter a deeply rewarding and exciting career. In the case of Michael Angarano, it has been like that since he was 5 years old. As a young model, he was exposed early to the hustle and bustle of a glam job. Not surprisingly, he began his successful transition into acting a couple of years later.

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Considered as one of the most sought-after young actors today, Angarano is in the same league as Jamie Bell, Emile Hirsch and Paul Dano. With the reputation as no-nonsense actors, these guys belong to the A-list of young performers many of today’s most innovative filmmakers sought after. While many of their contemporaries settle for the usual no-brainer teen movies, these guys collaborate with award-winning filmmakers & portray a wide range of characters that challenge their acting skills. They are not afraid to tackle controversial roles either.