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How famous is Alex O’L oughlin? Ask him and he’ll assure you that he isn’t, but ask the marketers who put his name above the title on ads for the Jennifer Lopez romcom The Back-Up Plan and they may whistle a different tune. The truth is that O’L oughlin is the sort of actor who’s been on the verge of stardom for a while now, a charismatic, handsome Australian with the sort of dedicated female fanbase that comes when you play a sexy vampire in your first American project, the television series Moonlight . That series was canceled, as was O’L oughlin’s last show Three Rivers , but CBS has high hopes that an O’L aughlin-led Hawaii Five-O revival will be a fixture of its fall schedule. On the eve of The Back-Up Plan’s release this Friday, O’L oughlin called up Movieline to discuss the way Jennifer Lopez informs his notion of celebrity, the amount of faith CBS executives have had in him, and how he still smarts (just a little!) from losing the role of James Bond.

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The Verge: Alex O’Loughlin