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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

[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.