It wasn’t a job… I felt it was going to end. “I didn’t feel like I was an actor until ‘Magic Mike.’ I know, of all movies. Before his film “Magic Mike,” Pettyfer had nothing to do.
As an actor, Pettyfer said he has struggled with the unstructured time that comes with making a movie. Pettyfer credits his acting career to luck and said he had to have a dialect coach in order to secure his parts in American movies because of his English accent. Like, ‘What, what is going on?’ on national TV.” And all of a sudden the players were looking around. “I just wanted to be at a basketball game. Just as we all have our embarrassing moments, Pettyfer recalled sitting courtside at a Lakers game, spilling his nachos and cheese all over himself.
He wanted to be a racecar driver as a kid and has a dog named Salem. Sure, he may be famous, but apart from being on a screen watched by millions, he’s pretty normal. What I noticed mainly during the course of the interview is that Pettyfer is just an average guy. The most impressive part of the whole interview, for me, was the professionalism and straightforwardness that each student showed him. He went around and shook each of our hands. Pettyfer walked in, exuding a confident and affable disposition. On Friday, I had the opportunity to interview Alex Pettyfer, the star of the new film “Endless Love.” The interview room I sat in was located in the depths of the Mall of America.
Being a Valentine’s Day movie with a subpar plot and hot actors, what more can you truly expect? My only regret about Mace was that he didn’t appear on camera nearly as often as I would have liked.Īll in all, “ Endless Love” was everything I was expecting when it comes down to it. He graciously provides some much-needed comic relief after the numerous love scenes. My favorite parts of the movie were those that focused on the best friend character, Mace, played by Dayo Okeniyi. From that standpoint, the film got that message across in a very sweet, cheesy, Valentine’s Day-ey way. Alex Pettyfer even admitted in his interview Friday that he was a hopeless romantic himself and that the movie’s message is to never give up on love. While the movie was overly clichéd and almost too action-packed, it did convey a nice message of love. Pettyfer played the male protagonist, David Elliott, yet another clichéd male role – the rugged auto-shop worker, son of a single parent, falls head over heels for the innocent Jade, and ta-dah! Pettyfer’s character did gain some depth, however, relative to Wilde’s at least, as the film went on. I kept wishing that her character would develop as the movie progressed, but sadly, it regressed towards the end until she was the flattest character in the film. Gabriella Wilde plays the female love interest, named Jade Butterfield, and is your average, blonde, girl-next-door type.
The film is a typical “boy-meets-girl, girl-loves-boy, parents-hate boy” romantic movie. The hype surrounding the release of the film ultimately overshadowed the movie itself, which wasn’t as fabulous as we were expecting. 5, Audrey Sheehy and I were asked to go to a pre-showing of this Valentine’s Day romance starring Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde.