We’ve already had a look through the best young leading ladies, but what about the next big Hollywood hunk. Well, here at Femalefirst we wracked our brains and found our five favourite men to make it big in 2010.
Taylor Lautner
Let’s be honest, we all know why Taylor Lautner’s set for big things.
A karate expert, having won the Junior World Championships at the age of twelve, Taylor made the most of his fighting skills when he made is big movie break in the kids film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.
It all went quite then on the movie front for a couple of years, with Taylor going back to TV to keep himself in the acting game.
He then attached himself to a little set of films called Twilight, and it all seemed to work from there.
Playing Jacob Black, the youngest member of the Quileute tribe of werewolves that live in Forks, he competes with vampire Edward Cullen for the love of Bella throughout the books, and now the films.
Having beefed up enormously in the year between Twilight and New Moon, Lautner helped his case as an action hero when he was selected to play Max Steel, the lead character in a TV cartoon about a university student who gets superpowers.
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg had one heck of a 2009 and looks set to build his stock even higher this year.
Despite only having sprung on the world last year Eisenberg had been quietly winning people over, with great turns in dramas The Squid and The Whale and The Village.
After starring in both comedic dramas Adventureland and Zombieland (not related despite the similarity in names) Eisenberg easily put himself as the new poster boy for the new generation of comedy leads.
He keeps the chuckles coming in 2010 with him starring in Social Network, the highly anticipated movie about the founders of Facebook.
With the legendary David Fincher (Fight Club, Benjamin Button) taking the helm movie experts wait in earnest for the story of the life-consuming website to hit the big screen.
But hating to be mistaken for Michael Cera, Eisenberg is making his break from comedy this year with the release of Holy Rollers, a drama which sees him being lured into the world of drug trafficking in 1990’s Brooklyn.
Add in Solitary Man, where he stars alongside Michael Douglas in a movie about a man’s life hitting the proverbial fan after all his indiscretions come back to haunt him, and Eisenberg looks set to escape the jaws of awkward geeky rom-com that may have snared Michael Cera years ago.
Aaron Johnson
A star on the stage way before the screen, Johnson has been acting since the age of six, and at the tender age of only 20, the boy from Buckinghamshire looks set to be one of 2010’s hottest new stars.
He made his big break last month playing a young John Lennon in musical biopic Nowhere Boy getting great reviews for his portrayal of the Liverpudlian legend before the Beatles became big.
This year the teenage heart-throb from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is putting on an American accent and taking on the underworld in Kick Ass, the ultra-violent, foul mouthed action flick from Layer Cake director Mark Vaughn.
For Johnson, putting on a mask and changing his voice could be just the ticket, with the only showing of the superhero movie (where Johnson plays a frustrated teen who takes up crime-fighting for real) getting a great reception.
Nowhere Boy could soon be Everywhere Boy.
Logan Lerman
Every movie studio’s looking for the next big fantasy franchise after the colossal success of the Harry Potter movies.
This year sees Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief takes a turn at netting the Holy Grail, a fantasy that sees young Percy discover that he’s the demi-god son of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the sea.
Caught up in a war between good and evil, Percy must battle the beasts of legend to help keep the world safe.
Despite limited knowledge outside of acting circles, Lerman’s CV is as good as most leading men out there.
Having acted alongside Drew Barrymore in Riding In Cars With Boys, Jim Carrey in thriller Number 23 and easily held his own against Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in western 3:10 To Yuma as well as take a lead role in last year’s Gamer, Lerman has the credentials to be go straight to the top.
Already a veteran of the awards scene, having won the Young Artist Award three times already for his acting, Lerman’s got enough acting ability to match the rest of the stellar cast in Percy Jackson, and if the movie proves as big a hit as the makers hope, we might just see the next Daniel Radcliffe.
Jay Baruchel
It’s been a long road for Jay Baruchel. After being of geek-comedy king Judd Apatow’s chosen few on ill-fated US sit-com Undeclared, it all went quite on the boy from Ontario, Canada.
After a small role in the Oscar winning Million Dollar Baby, Jay’s likeably awkward style took off again, with old boss Apatow bringing him back for the romantic comedy Knocked Up, where he played one of Seth Rogan’s friends.
Since then, the sky’s been the limit, with a part in Ben Stiller comedy Tropical Thunder, playing the hateable Tal in Nick and Norah’s Infinate Playlist and hooking up yet again with Stiller in Night At The Museum 2.
With great comedic timing, Baruchel looks to yet again bring the laughs this year, with geeky rom-com She’s Out Of My League and taking the main voice role in the animated movie How To Train Your Dragon.
Biggest of all though, he finds himself slap bang in the middle of one of the summer biggest movies, starring alongside Nicholas Cage in The Sorcerers Apprentice.
It may have taken nearly a decade to get away from TV for Jay Baruchel, but it looks like now, the magic’s set to stay.
These five aren’t the only young actors rising through the ranks, so keep you’re eyes peeled at not just our picks, as you never know where the next James McAvoy or Sam Worthington will come from.
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We’ve already had a look through the best young leading ladies, but what about the next big Hollywood hunk. Well, here at Femalefirst we wracked our brains and found our five favourite men to make it big in 2010.
Taylor Lautner
Let’s be honest, we all know why Taylor Lautner’s set for big things.
A karate expert, having won the Junior World Championships at the age of twelve, Taylor made the most of his fighting skills when he made is big movie break in the kids film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.
It all went quite then on the movie front for a couple of years, with Taylor going back to TV to keep himself in the acting game.
He then attached himself to a little set of films called Twilight, and it all seemed to work from there.
Playing Jacob Black, the youngest member of the Quileute tribe of werewolves that live in Forks, he competes with vampire Edward Cullen for the love of Bella throughout the books, and now the films.
Having beefed up enormously in the year between Twilight and New Moon, Lautner helped his case as an action hero when he was selected to play Max Steel, the lead character in a TV cartoon about a university student who gets superpowers.
Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Eisenberg had one heck of a 2009 and looks set to build his stock even higher this year.
Despite only having sprung on the world last year Eisenberg had been quietly winning people over, with great turns in dramas The Squid and The Whale and The Village.
After starring in both comedic dramas Adventureland and Zombieland (not related despite the similarity in names) Eisenberg easily put himself as the new poster boy for the new generation of comedy leads.
He keeps the chuckles coming in 2010 with him starring in Social Network, the highly anticipated movie about the founders of Facebook.
With the legendary David Fincher (Fight Club, Benjamin Button) taking the helm movie experts wait in earnest for the story of the life-consuming website to hit the big screen.
But hating to be mistaken for Michael Cera, Eisenberg is making his break from comedy this year with the release of Holy Rollers, a drama which sees him being lured into the world of drug trafficking in 1990’s Brooklyn.
Add in Solitary Man, where he stars alongside Michael Douglas in a movie about a man’s life hitting the proverbial fan after all his indiscretions come back to haunt him, and Eisenberg looks set to escape the jaws of awkward geeky rom-com that may have snared Michael Cera years ago.
Aaron Johnson
A star on the stage way before the screen, Johnson has been acting since the age of six, and at the tender age of only 20, the boy from Buckinghamshire looks set to be one of 2010’s hottest new stars.
He made his big break last month playing a young John Lennon in musical biopic Nowhere Boy getting great reviews for his portrayal of the Liverpudlian legend before the Beatles became big.
This year the teenage heart-throb from Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is putting on an American accent and taking on the underworld in Kick Ass, the ultra-violent, foul mouthed action flick from Layer Cake director Mark Vaughn.
For Johnson, putting on a mask and changing his voice could be just the ticket, with the only showing of the superhero movie (where Johnson plays a frustrated teen who takes up crime-fighting for real) getting a great reception.
Nowhere Boy could soon be Everywhere Boy.
Logan Lerman
Every movie studio’s looking for the next big fantasy franchise after the colossal success of the Harry Potter movies.
This year sees Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief takes a turn at netting the Holy Grail, a fantasy that sees young Percy discover that he’s the demi-god son of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the sea.
Caught up in a war between good and evil, Percy must battle the beasts of legend to help keep the world safe.
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