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*giggle* Her last name is Poots. *giggle*

Sorry, my inner 4 year old is out and proud today.

Okay I thoroughly agree with everything from Jamie Bell and southward. But thouse first 4 *shudder* You're kidding right? I mean that kid from cirque du freak is carved out of wood. The only thing he could believably "act" in is a reboot of pinnochio.

Oh and that Max kid?
Art school confidential is the worst piece of shit movie ever. EVER! I've never been so physically violent after watching a movie in my life. I burned the dvd...and let Blockbuster charge me for it...Gladly. I would rather become besties with the Baynis then watch that kid's failed attempt at acting again. That movie should have been called 'Art School Final Project' Because that's what I though I was watching.

I'm going to go shake with furious anger now...

why isn't logan lerman on this list? wtf.

Did you scour the internet for the worst pic of Carey Mulligan?

I thought Saoirse Ronin was fantastic in Atonement as well. The best part of that film for me.

I'd like to heap some praise on Art School Confidential. In a sea of mostly forgettable and predictable movies that have come out in the last five years, that one was dark, funny and memorable for me. I'd definitely recommend it to Pajibans who haven't seen it yet (though no one asked me for a recommendation so I'm sorry if that came off as self important prattling).

Emma Stone is my favorite of this bunch because she's so insanely likable. She's a great little comedic actress. She even saved the day when my best friend made me watch House Bunny. I still won't forgive him for making me watch that though.

I like the Panabaker girls

Did you intentionally put Zac Efron in both the good-actors and the tabloid-fodder groups?

Anna Kendrick is beautiful and her breasts make me sigh wistful sighs.
And Carey Mulligan makes me jealous because she is brilliant and rather crazy talented.

@ Pissboy: Chloe's face makes me want to take out my Sims games and just slide her facial features juuust a bit higher up her head. Nggg.

So on the note of Jamie Bell, am I the only person who has ever seen Dear Wendy?

"uuuh look maw! I founds mah nipple!"

I saw Dear Wendy. I wasn't really crazy about it though. I thought it sort of beat me over the head with the gun control message. Bell was all right though from what I can remember. Why?

7. Imogen Poots

Signature Role: Solitary Man

I've yet to see Solitary Man, but she did very well as Tammy (the older sister) in 28 Weeks Later.

I thought Emma Stone was Lindsay Lohan, only clean.

I'm so distracted from the point of this post by my loathing of Art School Confidential. Freshmen art classes aren't like that! Whither the color theory, art history, and drawing/painting 101's where you are all doing the same thing? GUH! I tried to enjoy the plot, but that stupid pouty kid and his stupid sketching and...I'm stopping.

Anton Yelchin is just adorable. I want to ruffle his hair and give him girl advice and be his big sister.

I'd like to recommend Aaron Johnson, Kick-Ass. I saw the trailer for Nowhere Boy and it looks amazing.

I just want to add that the BF and I also had a violent reaction to Art School Confidential - a movie that seemed to revel in it's pretentiousness without actually saying ANYTHING!
It was like after everyone raved to me about Science of Sleep and I wanted to kill myself while watching it.
The Cirque Du Freak kid was really adorable in this movie called Little Manhattan - I thought he showed a lot of promise in that -anyone else see it?

If they're so talented, why are they getting ready to star in so many sure-to-be-shitty remakes?

jM: I considered Dev Patel, but came to that same conclusion. Same with Gabourey Sidibe and, unfortunately, Shareeka Epps. And I was about to add Brandon T. Jackson, but he's 26. Same with Columbus Short (who makes every bad movie he's in a little better) who is 28. -- DR

Yeah, this is hard. I don't envy you. After that painful SNL episode she hosted I'm not exactly dying to see what Gabourey Sidibe does next. Granted, not everyone can do live television, but that was really rough. I wouldn't mind being pleasantly surprised in the future, though. Maybe she should stick to drama.

Man, what has Shareeka Epps been up to lately? She was excellent in Half Nelson.

Hee. That's not even the biggest reason not to included Brandon T. Jackson; it's the thirty pound fatsuit he'll be donning for Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.

You give Columbus Short way more credit than I do. I think the only chance he has to go from serviceable to promising is by killing Anthony Mackie and gaining his talent Sylar-style.

Hee hee... Poots...

also I'm gonna add the AMAZING Doctor Who episode "Blink" to Carey Mulligan's dossier because that episode is amazing and among one of my favorites (along with Midnight and The family of Blood two-parter)

Props for including Josh Hutcherson. His best role is still Little Manhattan, but he fucking carried that film at what, thirteen?

Wow, Emma Stone's makeup and hair colour in Zombieland really aged her! Watching the movie I assumed she was pushing 30, but she looks so much younger and fresh in the pic you used here. Or maybe I'm just biased because due to my love of the ginge.

Is it actresses/actors under the age of 25, or aged 25 and under? As a 24 year old with a complex about ageing, I'd love to know the cut-off line being drawn here...

I thought Gemma Arteron was great in the disappearance of alice creed. I urge everyone to check it out if it ever arrives in the usa.

RE Vermillion: "That is really, really, optimistic. The idea that talent somehow implies decent films in their future. Hell, it is a miracle any of these folks ended up in anything remotely noteworthy. Not trying to offend, just saying that that was a question born of sarcasm too quick to be effective."

Yeah, I know (that people sometimes have to do crap to make a living, like most of us). But one of them's going to be in a remake of Red Dawn, and another in a remake of Fright Night. Neither one of which were great movies to begin with. So maybe they should hold out for the remakes of actual good movies (or original crap movies) before they start out their young careers remaking the shit ones. A remake of Red Dawn or Fright Night is just a couple steps above the next Marmaduke movie.

Just sayin'... I'm sick of remakes. It's not their fault. But I can be sarcastic about it if I want. You can't offend me. My sarcasm provides an impenetrable force field against the missiles of Internet scorn.

TEAM MULLIGAN ASSEMBLE!

There's something funny about Max Minghella's lips.

Oh yeah, they're not on my underwear.

BAM!

I'm with Squirrelgripper (hee hee). I just turned two and a half dickety-seven years old, and am now single, so I find myself feeling like the proverbial old dude in the schoolyard. You know, the one the parents would like to beat with a baseball bat? I'm not that guy by any stretch of the imagination, but Dustin, somehow your features often have a way of making me feel dirty. Still, Anna Kendrick is a living doll. An anatomically perfect correct doll. Boudoir! (What? I'm not THAT old.)

jM: I considered Dev Patel, but came to that same conclusion. Same with Gabourey Sidibe and, unfortunately, Shareeka Epps. And I was about to add Brandon T. Jackson, but he's 26. Same with Columbus Short (who makes every bad movie he's in a little better) who is 28. -- DR

Dev Patel was one of the leading characters for two seasons in the BBC show Skins. The character could certainly be lewd and lascivious, but it was certainly an intricate part that took a lot of skill. He has always delivered.

I like the kids from the cast of The Middle. The characters they play are misfits, the writing is closer to actual teen and tyke behavior than most of what you see on TV or in films. Spazzy, very selfish, awkward, and downright weird. The girl who plays Sue has to act like an enormous fool and she does it well. You don't often see parts for girls that involve more than being studious or focusing on their looks/boys. She gets to do a lot of physical comedy and she handles it well.

Thumbs up for Kendrick. Lots of talent there.

And then I thought, it's the middle of June, how could I be experiencing snow blindness? I took another look at the photos and the bright, white whiteness that lay therein. Or maybe it's an iPod commercial. No, that couldn't be it, I'm typing on an abacus, after all. I rubbed my eyes, remembered what planet I'm on, remembered that Hollywood is just a fool's game dyed orange and fitted with sunken gin tits and sternums as far as the eye can see. Roll my eyes slightly--same as it ever was--and promptly stopped giving a hooping funt about any of this, because I'm in the land where I can (and did yesterday) walk into a pharmacy and get 100 codeine pills on the spot for seven bucks. God bless my migraine-be-gone homeland.

Errrm, I think Anna Kendrick's nipple is making a run for the border. The eastern border. Well, her east, my west.

Hi Dustin,

Thanks for your list, though I do think it should have been titled "The Most Promising Caucasian Actors Under The Age of 25". Please know, this isn't a slam against you. It isn't a subtle implication that you are either prejudiced or negligent in your film viewing habits. On the contrary, it's an unfortunate commentary on the state of things in 'liberal' Hollywood, California. Remember how it used to be a big deal when a black actor or actress was even nominated for an Academy Award? Remember how the flood gates opened (well, sort of) after Denzel and Halle won in the same year? For better and much worse, this has been the overall extent of diversity throughout Hollywood. Every now and then there's a highlight year (aka, a 'Slumdog' year), but by and large?? Your list references those that get the most attention, so I don't fault you for it. My only direct quibble with your choices rests in Jamie Bell. If your biggest signature role was ten years ago and, since then, you've been floating in and out of supporting roles (and the random leading role) that most people watch when they stumble through Netflix...yeah, you lose your spot on the list.

P.S. Shouldn't you guys have a quota on how many horny men and women are allowed to post comments, each month, based on their level of sexual arousal to the actor/actress?

you should add Ellen Page. she is like THE most talented actress i have ever seen