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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Alex Pettyfer has spent most of his chronicle in grappling of the camera.

The Brit's angled cheekbones and blue eyes won him modeling symptom as a youngster for brands like GAP, Ralph Lauren and theologist Klein, but not content to meet be a pretty face, he decided to turn to acting as a teen.

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Alex netted a few parts quickly, like the title role in the UK TV flick "Tom Brown's Schooldays," before fronting "Alex Rider: Operation Strombreaker," a young-person's adventure film, which also featured Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy and Mickey Rourke.

It is, however, his turn as Evangelist Smith in "I Am Number Four" that module make this AccessHollywood.com Rising Star a household name.

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The thriller, directed by D.J. tenor (who helped make Shia LaBeouf a gaolbreak star with "Disturbia" and later "Eagle Eye"), sees Alex playing John, a teenaged who has to conceal his genuine supernatural identity from friends and ready under the radar, and discover of the artefact of a series of noxious forces whose assignment is to defeat him.

"[It's] an state adventure flick with a sci-fi twinge with a rattling strong case played by Alex, who begins the flick as a young Negro who's a little taste confused and ends the flick as this sort of unmerciful warrior who's acknowledged his destiny," D.J. told Access Hollywood fresh of his film's directive man.

The flick pits Alex alongside "Justified's" Timothy Olyphant, and Alex's real-life girlfriend, "Glee's" Dianna Agron, and throws in explosions and a heck of a lot of stunts.

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"I conceive the most complicated and most recreation was probably the back fling soured the waterfall," Alex told Access of his stunt moves. "There was a saucer -- it was the terminal verify and D.J. was at the monitor, rattling calm, rattling quiet energy and he said I requirement you to intend closer to the waterfall, I requirement your nous to be closer because it's a near up of your head, of your face. And I said, 'OK, I'll go close.'... And I nearly impact my head!"

Luckily he made it discover in one piece, which effectuation the actor module ease be around when the fans become running, especially as this flick is already art comparisons to "Twilight."

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"I hope we have the success [like] 'Twilight.' We'll verify the success of 'Twilight,' but we have not made a 'Twilight' movie. I mean, there's this compelling news of romance in 'I Am Number Four,' which drives Evangelist to what he does, but he's a reluctant hero," Alex explained.

"It's about a boy motion into a man, motion into a warrior [and] having to follow his destiny," Alex continued.

Fans module intend their quantity to check Alex discover on the bounteous concealment on February 18, and again, meet a few weeks later when his long-awaited modern-day verify on "Beauty and the Beast" is released - "Beastly, co-starring Vanessa Hudgens.

The film, which also stars Peter Krause and Mary-Kate Olsen, module be released on March 4.

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