VMan magazine offers up a black and white survey of future heartthrobs, the leading men of tomorrow today. All of the photos are shot by Hedi Slimane. These round-ups always amuse in retrospect because will we even know who they are in 10-20 years? (like when today's teenagers see those old Vanity Fair Hollywood covers wherein they tried to predict the new generation of Julia Roberts and Tom Cruises and half the faces have zero meaning).
This particular future stardom candidate above, Logan Lerman, declares himself a cinephile in the capsule icons and influences bios (you know the kind: it's the legit actors version of a centerfold's romantic preferences masturbation fodder quotes). Though they aren't pictured, Lerman has real balls. Consider this: the 19 year old actor (best known as Percy Jackson) is starring in Paul W.S. Anderson's Three Musketeers and has the stones to name Paul Thomas Anderson as the director he's dying to work with. W.S. must HATE that! Talk about biting the hand that just fed you. You know more than once poor Paul has had to explain that he's not that Paul and the person's face has inevitably dropped with disappointment.
Nobody else's bios has anything quite so off-mag image-conjuring but the photos are pretty.
There are more young would-be stars after the jump if you're so inclined but I wanted to give Josh Pence (to your right) his due right away since he got so shafted in the whole Armie Hammer Debutante Ball (AKA The Social Network) last year. It was Pence's face that was digitally removed to make room for twinned Armie. Maybe he'll catch up to his physical twin, career-wise, if his work in The Dark Knight Rises as the Young Ra's Al Ghul gives Hollywood whatever it is that they're looking for?
Josh Pence shot by Hedi Slimane for VMan
He's easy to look at at least. And he does that weird SAG nomination to his name already, despite his face never being shown in The Social Network. God, their rules are weird at SAG.
Caleb Landry Jones and Xavier Samuels photographed by Hedi Slimane
Caleb Landry Jones who made a surprisingly decent Banshee (for my money the best of the students) in X-Men First Class. He describes his style as "goodwill". Hee. And Xavier Samuel from Twilight: Eclipse (who looks a little too much like Hunter Parrish from Weeds, right?). His next picture is Anonymous.
Thomas McDonnell and Dane DeHaan photographed by Hedi Slimane
Speaking of looking too much like someone else. Johnny Depp doppelganger Thomas McDonnell will play Johnny Depp only younger in Dark Shadows. The other guy to your right is Dane DeHaan ("Timbo" one of those were-panthers in True Blood). He'll co-star in The Wettest Country in the World soon. We're glad that the were-panthers were shortlived but at least he has a sense of humor.
VMan: What makes a man?
DeHaan: A cock and balls should do it.
Chris Zylka, Liam Hemsworth, and Kenny Wormald photographed by Hedi Slimane
Finally, there's Chris Zylka from Shark Night 3D who claims to be a painter, Liam Hemsworth, younger brother of Thor, who loves surfing and will next appear in Hunger Games, and Kenny Wormald from the new and surely unimproved Footloose.
You can see the text and such over at Fashion Indie.