Beauty Break: New Heartthrobs According to VMan
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at 6:15PM VMan magazine offers up a black and white survey of future heartthrobs, the leading men of tomorrow today. All of the photos are shot by Hedi Slimane. These round-ups always amuse in retrospect because will we even know who they are in 10-20 years? (like when today's teenagers see those old Vanity Fair Hollywood covers wherein they tried to predict the new generation of Julia Roberts and Tom Cruises and half the faces have zero meaning).
This particular future stardom candidate above, Logan Lerman, declares himself a cinephile in the capsule icons and influences bios (you know the kind: it's the legit actors version of a centerfold's romantic preferences masturbation fodder quotes). Though they aren't pictured, Lerman has real balls. Consider this: the 19 year old actor (best known as Percy Jackson) is starring in Paul W.S. Anderson's Three Musketeers and has the stones to name Paul Thomas Anderson as the director he's dying to work with. W.S. must HATE that! Talk about biting the hand that just fed you. You know more than once poor Paul has had to explain that he's not that Paul and the person's face has inevitably dropped with disappointment.
Nobody else's bios has anything quite so off-mag image-conjuring but the photos are pretty.
There are more young would-be stars after the jump if you're so inclined but I wanted to give Josh Pence (to your right) his due right away since he got so shafted in the whole Armie Hammer Debutante Ball (AKA The Social Network) last year. It was Pence's face that was digitally removed to make room for twinned Armie. Maybe he'll catch up to his physical twin, career-wise, if his work in The Dark Knight Rises as the Young Ra's Al Ghul gives Hollywood whatever it is that they're looking for?
Josh Pence shot by Hedi Slimane for VMan
He's easy to look at at least. And he does that weird SAG nomination to his name already, despite his face never being shown in The Social Network. God, their rules are weird at SAG.
Caleb Landry Jones and Xavier Samuels photographed by Hedi Slimane
Caleb Landry Jones who made a surprisingly decent Banshee (for my money the best of the students) in X-Men First Class. He describes his style as "goodwill". Hee. And Xavier Samuel from Twilight: Eclipse (who looks a little too much like Hunter Parrish from Weeds, right?). His next picture is Anonymous.
Thomas McDonnell and Dane DeHaan photographed by Hedi Slimane
Speaking of looking too much like someone else. Johnny Depp doppelganger Thomas McDonnell will play Johnny Depp only younger in Dark Shadows. The other guy to your right is Dane DeHaan ("Timbo" one of those were-panthers in True Blood). He'll co-star in The Wettest Country in the World soon. We're glad that the were-panthers were shortlived but at least he has a sense of humor.
VMan: What makes a man?
DeHaan: A cock and balls should do it.
Chris Zylka, Liam Hemsworth, and Kenny Wormald photographed by Hedi Slimane
Finally, there's Chris Zylka from Shark Night 3D who claims to be a painter, Liam Hemsworth, younger brother of Thor, who loves surfing and will next appear in Hunger Games, and Kenny Wormald from the new and surely unimproved Footloose.
You can see the text and such over at Fashion Indie.
Reader Comments (10)
Ooooh, Dane DeHaan! He was so, so, SO! incredible in the 3rd season of HBO's "In Treatment." Which you should totally watch because Debra Winger is also a patient in that season as a movie actress trying to make a comeback on the stage. Talk about actressing!
I was going to say exactly the same as Chip. DeHaan is amazing on In Treatment and is the only one up there I think should really have a great career. It's a pity people don't seem as taken with him as they were with Mia, but maybe they will catch up?
And also loved Debra Winger (and Amy Ryan) so much. So hard for an actor to just sit and talk for twenty minutes and make you super excited about their performances, but everybody on this season of In Treatment just did it for me
I must third the recommendations of In Treatment. Dane DeHaan really was superb in that role; just as good as Mia Wasikowska in Season 1, and with a much more complex relationship to Gabriel Byrne's character. Everything about that third season (especially that first episode written by Jhumpa Lahiri) was just incredible. So sad to see not only that, but United States of Tara, two of the best shows about mental illness, family and inner torment, have been dropped this year.
You know, for a VMan thin-excuse-for-sexy-photos piece, it's a surprisingly smart collection of young faces. Not the obvious choices, and I am definitely onboard with Lerman, DeHaan, and Caleb Landry Jones. And "Footloose" could do wonders for Kenny Wormald, who seems to make ardent fans wherever he goes. I guess I'm in the minority who doesn't find the original "Footloose" to be all that untouchable, and having a kid who is an actual dancer in the lead it going to be fun.
Ha - well... everyone beat me to the punch on highlighting DeHaan's work on In Treatment. It really was great though, so fourthed or whatever.
And I do love it when actors try to prove their Serious Cinephile bona fides in magazine profiles. I seem to remember an article about Josh Hartnett circa the release of Pearl Harbor in which he went out of his way to demonstrate that not only did he love The Godfather, but he he UNDERSTOOD IT, too, and therefore was a VERY SERIOUS PERSON. Please.
Joe -- trust that i'm not saying Footloose is untouchable... i'm just way turned off by the advertising which attempts to tell today's teenager that their time is actually defined by my time. it's SO annoying. I mean, i'm always a little sad that teenagers don't love the things i love but that's the way it's supposed to be you know. Change. I hope today's teens reject it immediately as 'we'll choose our own touchstones thank you very much."
everyone -- i keep meaning to check out IN TREATMENT. must get to that. it's weird that i haven't given the cast.
I really want Wormald to be a top but his photo says otherwise.
I'm pretty sure Logan Lerman already has a great career considering he has already been in amazing movies and along side some of the most talented actors and actresses in Hollywood. My parents always ask who Logan is and I just say "hes was that kid in 3:10 to Yuma" and they go "OOOHH!" He's crazy talented!!!!! Can't wait for "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"!
I'm surprisingly uninterested in most of these young guys. I feel like they're kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel here, but then again, I haven't noticed too many roles for unknowns/genuine up-and-comers lately.
In that photo of Josh Pence, is anyone body else kinda getting some Colby Keller vibes? Something about the eyes and the cheeks and jaw. Look at me, dropping Colby Keller's name into this...
Roark -- LOL. He always too himself way too seriously, looking back. Maybe that turned off too many people in the end.
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