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The “Young Stars of the 2000s” movies are turning 20 – and you didn’t know that!
The Hollywood industry is notorious for being a star-making factory, however, that same structure can prove to be very cruel when it comes to getting rid of your products that don’t “work” as well and generate money. more profit. This is precisely the case with most of the elements of this new story. With the arrival of the 2000s, a new decade was coming, ready to unfortunately wipe off the map some young talents who had shown promise from the middle to the end of the previous decade: the 90s.
Make no mistake, the actors we will feature below are still active and continue to work in the field, whether on television or in film productions. What happens is that with their explosion in the so-called 15 minutes of fame, these performers were to transform into Hollywood legends, going through the same fate as the big stars and stars who started out just as young; names like Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Will Smith, Scarlett Johansson, among others, started in the field in their youth and have managed to stay at the top of the food industry chain. A fact that did not happen to the artists that we are going to celebrate in this new article.
Check out the Hot Stars movies of the 2000s that will turn 20 in 2021 and you haven’t even heard of them.
We started the list with this comedy starring muse Jennifer Love Hewitt. You remember her? The actress gained considerable notoriety in the 1990s thanks to the hit drama series Party of Five – The Quintet (1995-1999), which would still produce a spin-off exclusively for her character, Time of Your Life. Prior to that, Hewitt starred in the hit horror film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), which marked an era and spawned a sequel in 1998, which also starred in it. Twenty years ago, in 2001, the young woman took one of her most ambitious steps here at Doce Trapaça, where she played the daughter of veteran Sigourney Weaver. In the plot, the mother and daughter are two crooks, who make a living by scamming rich men and stealing their money. The film also features the legendary Gene Hackman in the cast. Have you ever heard of it?
Speaking of the beloved cult of the 90s, I know what you did last summer, another veteran of such a long shot is now on our list. Sarah Michelle Gellar became one of the most beloved Scream Queens of the ’90s after not only starring in the aforementioned film, but also making an appearance in the Scream 2 phenomenon, which launched that same year in 1997. But the actress would even mark the decade. by personifying the defining role for the career, Buffy – The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), created by Joss Wheadon. As the 2000s approached, Gellar’s career began to take a slight dip, resulting in this rather obscure production of a student making a deal with the Mafia to “fix” a score. basketball match. In addition to Gellar, the cast also includes popular names of the era, see Adrian Grenier, Joey Lauren Adams and Rebecca Gayheart.
Texas Rangers – Above the Law
Young James Van Der Beek stars in Dimension Films’ $ 38 million western. Who are you asking? Well, you wouldn’t say that if you had lived in the 90s. That way you would know the actor had huge success as Dawson in the # 1 teen series of the late 90s. : Dawson’s Creek. The show was created by the same Kevin Williamson of Scream. And this Texas Rangers, an ambitious western whose proposition was perhaps to be the new Young Gunmen, featuring rising actors, is directed by Steve Miner, then just released from the hit Halloween H20 (1998). In addition to Van Der Beek, the feature film also starred Ashton Kutcher, Usher Raymond and Rachael Leigh Cook, all early in their careers.
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Another great Western production, this one sponsored by Warner for the “trifle” of US $ 35 million. Here we have a Robin Hood sort of tale set in the Old West, with young gunslingers taking from the rich to give to the poor. Unlike the other items on this list, we have the presence of an actor who had just started his career, but managed to do well in the middle; it’s Colin Farrell. Worst Luck had its promising co-stars: Scott Caan (son of James Caan) and blonde Ali Larter – who never became Hollywood A-Team stars. Interestingly, both Caan and Larter had their big hits in the hit MTV American football film Marcação Cerrada (1999), which was Larter’s first film and starred James Van Der Beek, cited above.
Speaking of sports, here’s a movie about baseball and romance. Once again, a veteran cast of the highly quoted Eu Know What You Did… (1997) makes the list. This time it’s Freddie Prinze Jr. who shows up here, Sarah Michelle Gellar’s husband in real life. Freddie featured in several romance movies at the time and even won his own TV series in the mid-2000s – which sadly failed in the first season. In this film, he plays a humble boy who struggles to become a professional baseball player. He meets and develops a passion for a rich young woman, making this plot almost a remake of Dirty Dancing, trading dance for acting. The one who plays his love is Jessica Biel, in her first big movie role – an actress who , similarly, did not take off as it should have. To complete the cast, Matthew Lillard and the late Brittany Murphy.
Featured in this distraught comedy are three young actors from the 2000s, whose careers unfortunately stagnated in second-tier Hollywood territory. The star is Jerry O’Connell, who was a child actor in Conta Comigo (1986) and in the 90s participated in Scream 2 and had a cult series – Sliders (1995-2000). Shannon Elizabeth, who is in partnership with the actor, played the role of beauty Nadia in the films of the American Pie franchise, and Jake Busey, in addition to being the son of Gary Busey, he also had his share of success with The Spiritueux (1996) and Star Troops (1997). Here, the plot is about a bet between friends on who will be the last single person to marry. The task can become difficult when the women in your life begin to emerge.
Perhaps the most “grown-up” film on the list, this MGM thriller was Ryan Phillipe’s attempt to embark on a new phase of his career. The actor, guess what, also came out of the horror hit… Last summer and soon amended with more ambitious productions, see Studio 54, Segundas Intenções, Corações Apaixonados and À Sangue Frio. Here, Phillipe plays a computer programmer who hits the jackpot when he lands a job at a renowned company. The proposition here is to play with the character of Bill Gates by asking the question: what if the computer millionaire was an evil genius? The one who plays the “Evil Gates” is Tim Robbins. The cast also has two female names from the past: Rachael Leigh Cook (revealed in Ela é Demais – 1999) and Claire Forlani (revealed in Encontro Marcado – 1998).
We end the list with this horror piece, which few have heard of. The film, however, is proud to print on its poster which has the same hit producers see Eu Know What You Did Last Summer and Urban Legend. Additionally, director Stephen Carpenter has a famous last name, although he is not related to the legendary John Carpenter. Hallucination is a supernatural horror that tells the story of a group of friends returning from a night of partying and drinking, when they are surprised and have a car accident. After some of them survive, they begin to be disturbed by supernatural manifestations. The star is Eliza Dushku, who started as a teenager in the film True Lies (1994), directed by James Cameron, and continued in series like Buffy, Tru Calling and Dollhouse, as well as the horror Panic in the Forest. By his side, Casey Affleck (the only one to have prospered), Wes Bentley and Melissa Sagemiller.
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