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[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

A Birthday Gift for bunniewabbit: *g*

Entertainment Weekly has posted its list of Top 30 Actors Under 30, and guess who's in it at #2!

WHY HIM The Lord of the Rings franchise made Wood a megastar, but the actor has used his box office power for good instead of evil in off-beat movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Everything Is Illuminated (2005).

WHAT'S NEXT Wood lends his voice to an upcoming feature-length version of 9 (2005), an award-winning animated short set in a post-apocalyptic world. Why there's not more is beyond us.

WORD.

Comments

[bandwench]

Numero Dos? Why that is down-right impressive!

*loves your icon* (Slow day at the switchboard? Hee!)

[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

No one can see my monitor and it isn't as frantic today, so it's easy to be sneaky. *g*

And this has put me in a good mood, so I won't be tearing apart any callers this time. Heheh.

Your icon is extremely appropriate.

[ladysnaps.livejournal.com]

first... love that icon!

second... how awesome lij is listed so high, and thought of so highly! only one small problem. he should be #1! but hey, GROOVY!!

third... happy birthday bunnie!

[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

I seem to remember that a reviewer once said he had a face that wasn't cast in the modern mould. Wouldn't it be lovely if he did a period piece? In high ruffled collars and lace and tights... *dreams*

He's my #1 anyway. *pets him*

[emmi-i.livejournal.com]

all right! that's awesome :) (and thirding the icon love!!)

[ladysunrope.livejournal.com]

what great comments from EW!

[bellewood.livejournal.com]

YAY!! I agree.. he should be number one, but 2 is cool!!

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Why there's not more is beyond us.

Yeah, baby.

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo!

Whoah

[westmoon.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked that he's actually number two!

Good for him. :)

And WORD to not understanding why there isn't more - someone please sit that young man down and FORCE him to read this.

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

I don't think these are actually in any particular order at all.

Still, woohooo!

[romeny.livejournal.com]

It's great seeing him in a list such as this. Whoo Hoo!

[moonagh.livejournal.com]

Always great to hear about him, and yes, why there's not more is beyond me too ...

[moffel83.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I don't think that this is a ranking and that Elijah being the second pic is meant to say that he's Nr.2...I just understood it to be a compilation of actors under 30 the magazine likes, posted in no special order....There's nothing that indicates that he's Nr.2 or anyone else has a special position and if at all he would be Nr.29 since EW always has their ranking posted in a way that the best comes as last which would make Dan Radcliffe Nr.2, since he's in pic Nr.29...But as said before, I doubt this is a ranking with a special order...

And to be honest, I doubt that they would put Elijah before James McAvoy or Jamie Bell, seeing how they are everybody's (critic's) darling...

Just my opinion and how I understood it, so please don't attack me for it!

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

No, I agree. Looking at the actors, it's all over the place in terms of the ordering. I'm not sure if I agree with you on Jamie Bell in particular :-) but there is no way, with his recent work, Elijah would be ranked over people like Ryan Gosling, James McAvoy and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (and probably some others such as Shia, Paul Dano etc.).
BTW James McAvoy needs to lose his scruff even worse than Elijah: if you have brown hair and your beard grows red, it's just a complete no go.

[moffel83.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
I already thought I had misunderstood the EW compilation, since everyone seems so sure that he's Nr.2 and I didn't understand it like that at all...

And I also agree that I don't see EW, a mainstream publication putting him higher than James McAvoy or Ryan Gosling...

I like the scruff on James McAvoy:)

[sssneaking.livejournal.com]

I'm Scottish. I have deeply held beliefs about the innate badness of surprise, orange beards (obviously they are OK if they match the main head hair colour).

[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

Oh - I doubt that there is a ranking as such. Still, it doesn't much matter - most people would assume there is one, and since his is the second name they come to, it can't mean anything but good for him.

I'm just happy he's there, because he totally deserves to be.

[moffel83.livejournal.com]

"Oh - I doubt that there is a ranking as such."

But if you know this, why make an entry saying that he's Nr.2, if he's not, since it's not a ranking?

And since most of the time when EW has a ranking they save the winner for last, his pic being the second would only imply that he was Nr.29 and not Nr.2...So I doubt that most people would assume he's Nr.2...

Anyway, I am glad he made the list, seeing how most of his projects have been out of the public eye lately, I am glad he got this recognition:)

Thanks for posting, by the way!

[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

You know, you're right about the reverse order of ranking - I'd forgotten about that, forgot about rankings altogether, I'm afraid. Perhaps because I didn't get it in an alert - a co-worker who was aware of my interests IM-ed that "My Eeelijah" was #2 in one of the EW lists and sent me the link. I took a quick look and posted - and in my mind (and hers, I imagine) #2 meant second pic in the line-up. Didn't even think about rankings until Wenchie commented. I was just so glad he hadn't been overlooked. Heh.

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

Oh, now there's a very cool birthday present. :) I always got the impression that Entertainment Weekly likes him, and it's nice to see it proven here. Why not, indeed! Thanks for posting this!

[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

That's serendipity for you - Woodsday and this - all on your birthday. You must have arranged matters with the PTB. :D

[nasturtium-leas.livejournal.com]

But er...he has lots more going than 9. He's got OM, Day Zero, The Passenger, of course there was also Bobby, a little Oscar winning toon called Happy Feet, Paris je taimes, all his music stuff, and movie production work and so on and so forth.

Entertainment Weekly should just look in some of their back issues for this stuff. Doh!

Still..cool he made the list!

[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

It is strange that EW focussed on 9. He does have a lot going on, but I do want more!

I'm glad they chose that pic of him, though.

[frodos-smile.livejournal.com]

This is just totally awesome! Thanks for posting it and giving me a reason to actually open my copy of EW when it arrives this week! :-)

[msilverstar]

Woot! The order doesn't seem like the important thing, but that he's in there at all :-D

[mole-caz.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted he's included at all and that whoever wrote this actually understands Elijah's career development. So many don't to my way of thinking.

[golden-berry.livejournal.com]

Wow. At last, some recognition. WAKE UP, U.S. film distributors! Enough of these straight-to-DVD films!

[lukaseven.livejournal.com]

MICHAEL CERA
ELIJAH WOOD
CHRIS EVANS
CHANNING TATUM
PAUL DANO
JOSEPH GORDON LEVITT
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL
JAKE GYLLENHAAL
MICHAEL PITT
TAYLOR KITSCH
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN
JESSE EISENBERG
JASON SCHWARTZMAN
LEE PACE
JIM STURGESS
BEN FOSTER
EMILE HIRSCH
JAMES McAVOY
JAMIE BELL
SETH ROGEN
JONAH HILL
ZACHARY LEVI
RYAN GOSLING
SHIA LaBOEUF
JUSTIN LONG
ZAC EFRON
CHRIS PINE
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
DANIEL RADCLIFFE
ELIJAH KELLEY

Well,Elijah Kelly is #30 or #1....another Elijah.
But,I doubt that JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is #3.
This is not ranking,and Elijah is not #29 or #2 either.

This list didn't have some my favorite Under 30 actors.
But Elijah still in the list.

[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

The number I gave Elijah meant his numerical spot on the list. *g* I know who Michael Cera is, at least, but half of those guys are totally unfamiliar to me. And I agree - Cera certainly doesn't qualify for #1 and neither does Elijah Kelly. So it looks as if there really is no ranking as such.

[mole-caz.livejournal.com]

Terrible to say I only know 8 of them! I don't get out much!!!!!! Certainly not ranking as Dan Radcliffe would be way up higher.