Eighteen-year-old Tom Hardy lookalike Tye Sheridan has got it made. Hes been working since he was thirteen or fourteen, with well-received supporting roles in great movies like Malicks The Tree Of Life and Jeff Nichols Mud, and hes worked with Prada recently as one of the faces of the brand, following in a proud tradition that includes actors like Joaquin Phoenix, Ben Whishaw, Tobey Maguire, Gary Oldman, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe. The idiosyncratic Texan isnt your typical child star turned brooding actors actor, however: scuttlebutt (like gossip from a bad neighbourhood) says that he taught Nic Cage how to skin a deer on acclaimed indie drama Joe in 2012, for which he won the award for best upcoming young actor at the Venice International Film Festival. His star is rising higher and higher hes presently filming the next X-Men movie with Bryan Singer, playing Scott Summers, aka Cyclops (who, as all true X-Men fans know, is the best of the X-Men, and one of the greatest comics characters of all time). The ultra-talented Sheridan has no less than three other movies currently moving through the post-production phase, so the smart money says you'll be seeing his face on the five-dollar bill by the end of the decade.
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