The New Holden: Michael Angarano
Michael Angarano looks too young to buy the cigarettes he smokes. And the 22-year-old actor, star of the recent Gentlemen Broncos, admits it’s not just his fresh face that makes him appear underage. “If I wasn’t acting, I’d just be coming out of college,” he says. “I would already have had four years of being on my own, but now I’m kind of just starting.” Anganaro is successfully making the transition from child to adult actor (he’s been working since he was 5, and his re´sume´ includes supporting roles in Almost Famous, Lords of Dogtown and Will & Grace). In his next film, Ceremony, Angarano plays a young Turk intent on destroying an older crush’s wedding (Uma Thurman plays the object of his desire). “It’s a coming-of-age story about a boy realizing he’s a boy,” Angarano says, “Instead of a boy realizing he’s a man.”
Unlike many former child actors, the New York native, who moved to Los Angeles when he was 12 and still lives with his folks, insists his childhood prepared him for a career in Hollywood. “As a kid, I was able to distract myself and not have work take over my life completely,” says Angarano, who found himself splashed across tabloids when he was still dating his ex-girlfriend, actress Kristen Stewart. “If I didn’t have that experience growing up, I don’t know that I would be able to keep work from taking over now.” More Interview here.
Kristen Stewart Puts Michael Angarano Back On The Market — Or So We Think
Although there have been no public statements yet, after KStew and RPattz’ “cozy” Kings of Leon concert “date,” it seems Kristen and longtime boyfriend Michael Angarano are definitely over. The two, who met in 2004 on the set of Sundance film “Speak,” and later started dating, were spotted in Vancouver near the “New Moon” set in April, but since then it has been a summer of Bella and Edward. Kristen even joked to USA Today in April that she thought it would make the “Twilight” fans happy and her more popular if she dated Rob. more »
Michael Angarano and Jesse Eisenberg Hold Ceremony
Michael Angarano and Jesse Eisenberg have signed on to star in Ceremony, a comedy that Max Winkler is making his feature directorial debut for NALA Films.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jason Reitman and Daniel Dubiecki are exec producing the indie film, which was also written by Winkler.
The comedy follows a young man (Eisenberg) who falls hard for an older woman about to be married. The infatuation prompts him to take along his unwitting friend (Angarano) to a beach town in an effort to break up the wedding. Upon arriving, the young men quickly realize just how out of place they are among the stately British groom-to-be and his guests. more »
Michael is among the next-generation A-listers
Blake Lively’s character may have trouble fitting into New York society in Gossip Girl, but she’s the toast of Hollywood in the August issue of Vanity Fair.
Along with Kristen Stewart, Emma Roberts and Amanda Seyfried, Lively’s crowned one of the most promising young stars in the era of YouTube and Gawker, where celebrity comes faster – and harder – than ever before.
“Boundaries dissolve everywhere they turn their pretty heads,” observes the magazine.
Others included in the pantheon of next-generation A-listers include the Jonas Brothers; Jonah Hill, Emma Stone and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of Superbad; Judd Apatow regularJay Baruchel; The 40-Year-Old Virgin’s Kat Dennings; Juno’s Olivia Thirlby; Transformers‘ Rachael Taylor; Weeds‘ Hunter Parrish; Zöe Kravitz; Rob Brown; Michael Angarano; Josh Peck; Summer Bishil; and Amber Heard. Also on the list: seemingly the entire cast of Gossip Girl, including Jessica Szohr, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen and Penn Badgley.
Source: People
