"I'm a sexual object," the tall, pale, dark-eyed Garrel said with a smile, taking a drag on his fifth Marlboro at a café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. "It's true that for me there's something very sexual about the cinema. Not in the sense of the act, but of creating desire." says Louis Garrel in an interview conducted by Kristin Hohenadel.

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Unlike his American counterparts, the award-winning French actor is not afraid to do nude scenes or play unconventional characters. The same applies to another talented actor, the very popular Gaspard Ulliel. Says Karen Durbin (in one of our favorite quotes):

Gaspard Ulliel is French cinema's rising star, repeatedly honored in the category of most promising actor. But playing his first leading role, opposite Emmanuelle Béart in André Téchiné's ''Strayed,'' he seems fully arrived, showing us the facets of a complex and mercurial character like a blackjack dealer shuffling a deck of cards.

In our continuing series featuring some of the actors that maybe big winners in the updated Top 50 hottest young actors, we feature two from France!

The Start of Something 'Big': Both actors come from a family of artists. Garrel is the son of director Philippe Garrel, the grandson of actor Maurice Garrel and his mother is actress Brigitte Sy. Ulliel's parents are both stylists and at 12 years old, he appeared in the TV film "Une femme en blanc". These two actors also studied acting. After completing his studies at the lycée (French high school), Gaspard majored in cinema at the University of Saint-Denis with plans to become a film director. Garrel attended drama school at the Conservatoire National in Paris, France.

August 20, 2008: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR. BEN BARNES! tMF salutes you and may you have more birthdays to come! Here's our small tribute to the young and promising actor!

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While you might have enjoyed watching Ben Barnes in the recent The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian or in the much earlier Stardust (where he had a fairly small role), you would be more impressed if you happened to watch Bigga than Ben.

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They have the acting chops – that's the No 1 thing – and then they have physical appeal. Handsome young men who can act? Wow, what a concept!" says Steven Gaydos, executive editor of Variety....

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That's part of Alice Jones' report called The Britpack, where she describes the new wave of British actors making a huge impact in Hollywood. While she mentions Ben Barnes and Jim Sturgess among those making waves in Tinseltown right now, she apparently fails to mention one particular name - Robert Pattinson. The Twilight lead star seems to have the most ardent fan following and while I might be construed as being biased - and why not? He's the one winning our poll with thousands of votes! - there is certainly lots of evidence all over the web that he is very popular. Not that Jim Sturgess or Ben Barnes don't have their share of fans to speak about! Of course they do!

In this special sneak peak into the upcoming Top 50 Hottest Young Actors list, we're taking a closer look at three hot young British actors, who may be part of the new tMF rankings...

In a street called Blue in a very poor neighborhood in Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim (Omar Shariff) is an old Muslin Turkish owner of a small market. He becomes friend of the teenager Jewish Moises, tenderly nicknamed Momo (Pierre Boulanger), who lives with his father in a small apartment on the other side of the street. Monsieur Ibrahim gives paternal love and teaches the knowledge of the Koran to the boy, receiving in return love and respect.

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It's all about the long run for me. It's not about immediate gratification. It's not about who's at the hottest party, because most of what's 'hot' right now is not going to be 'hot' in ten years. And I'd rather be well-respected in all areas than noticed when I walk down the street as the girl who was at that party instead of the girl who wrote this film and is now producing it.

"I think she's such a natural and intuitive and giving actor. She's brilliant. I think everyone's got this opinion that she's going to suck, but would you put someone who couldn't act next to Toni Collette? It would be stupid. "

"So I think everyone's going to be surprised when they see her if they've got that opinion of her,'' she added.

Gemma Ward is one of fashion's highest paid models, and was ranked by models.com as #1 in its previous listings.

Says model agency director Christine Fox in her interview with ModelWatch:

I discovered Gemma Ward when she was 14 years old sitting in the crowd of about two thousand young girls at a model competition, she hadn't entered and I ended up persuading her to do so - she never won but I signed her up the next day and the rest is history. It feels pretty surreal to have actually been the one to initiate her career and will be something I will tell my grandchildren. Not many people can say they discovered a super model. Australian newspaper in Sydney wrote an article and referred to me as someone who has defined and set the trend for the look of models at the moment. That was a huge compliment to me and something I think will remain as one of the highlights of my career to date.

More of Gemma Ward soon in an exclusive profile!

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Not all Jews are diamond merchants, my God! [laughs] And you can quote me on that. So, basically, it’s a small drama. It’s kind of like Mean Streets but it’s kind of like Jew Streets. It’s like myself and one of my favorite young actors, Jesse Eisenberg, are the two guys in the movie and, if you look at Mean Streets, he’s kind of like Harvey Keitel and I’m kind of like the Johnny Boy character where I’m already kind of into that world of drugs and I bring him into it.

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"It's funny," he continues. "Everyone asks me, 'Do you regret what you did?' And the answer is, fuck no. I mean, I think of myself as an entrepreneur, and I went about some of that the wrong way. But I've done more at twenty-two than most people do their whole lives. I partied my ass off. There were so many women. I smoked so much weed. Anyone says they regret that, they're full of shit. They're saying that to please other people. I don't care. I had a blast."

That's Scuz talking to Rolling Stone.

Nate Norman is just a 19-year-old small town kid from Idaho who came up with the idea of setting up a marijuana smuggling ring to transport drugs from Canada into the US—a business enterprise that would transform him into a $38 million drug lord. His story is about to become a film, entitled Kid Cannabis and it stars two awesome young actors: Chris Marquette who'll play Nate, and Cam Gigandet, who'll play his partner, Topher.

Chris Marquette is definitely ready for that elusive leading role. He's been giving such great performances in his recent films: The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, The Invisible, and The Education of Charlie Banks among others. But in all of these films, he played supporting roles. It's about time he gets to play the star in a cool movie, and I think this might be it!

You should always speak your mind. I’m not interested in being one of those petulant, fuck you, eat the birds, punk rock, Avril Lavigne kids. I don’t have angst or anger, I don’t have any defense. It’s almost an intellectual attack on perception.

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