This year has certainly been off to a great start for Nicholas Hoult as the English actor continues to build off the success from his breakout role in X-Men: First Class. Hoult is currently starring in the zombie rom-com Warm Bodies and this weekend, swings into theaters in Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer.
It may surprise some folks that Hoult has been around for quite a while. He made his acting debut at the tender age of 7 in Intimate Relations. Since then, he's built a steady resume and has finally hit the big time. Today, we take a look back at five major films before his X-Men breakout.
Based on a best-selling novel, Hoult teaches Hugh Grant to act like a grown-up in this hit romantic comedy. Originally, Brad Pitt was offered the Grant role, but turned it down on the grounds that it was implausible that someone so attractive would need to pretend to be a single father to meet women.
Hoult plays Nicolas Cage's son in this 2005 dramatic comedy directed by Gore Verbinski. One of the best known scenes from the film finds Cage walking down a street and food being thrown at him. It turns out the food that hits Cage throughout the film was being thrown by Verbinski, off-camera.
Starring in another supporting role, Hoult co-stars with an impressive cast of actors including Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode. The film chronicles the life of an English professor one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend. Hoult's role was initially given to Jamie Bell, but when he didn't show up for costume fitting five days before shooting, director Tom Ford remembered an audition tape by Hoult and subsequently cast him as the replacement.
Say what you will about the 3D conversion nightmare that the film endured, but Hoult appears in the film as Eusebois, one of the best soldiers of the Army of Argos who accompanies Perseus on his quest to kill the Kraken.
Despite the growing amount of blockbuster Hollywood work, Hoult also starred in this ensemble English drama about a group of troubled 15-year-olds living in west London. Think of it kind of like an English version of Kids. The film ended up winning a British Independent Film Award in 2006.
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