It is an exciting time for Alex Pettyfer. Based on the box office performance of his first big budget film, I Am Number Four — which premieres tomorrow — the 20-year-old English model-turned-thesp could join Robert Pattinson in the ranks of hunky, tortured heartthrobs. Like Pattinson’s Twilight character, Pettyfer plays a sensitive-yet-inhuman high school student at once trying to fit in, overcome supernatural obstacles, and win the heart of his mortal crush (played by Pettyfer’s real-life-girlfriend Dianna Agron). And with the sci-fi thriller’s all-star pedigree — D.J. Caruso directed while Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay produced — I Am Number Four is indeed poised to carry the handsome Pettyfer from verge to vampire-level popularity.
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Alex Pettyfer on I Am Number Four, Beastly and the Magic of Cinematic Sweat
