Cannes is as high profile as film festivals get so your first starring role in a buzzy feature could really make waves. Consider... Karl Glusman. He's the male star of Gaspar Noé's Love, the already buzzy sex film that gets a special screening at Cannes. He has a few credits in shorts and several on stage, plus voice work in a Starship Troopers film but he's still an unknown quantity. 2015 will be his first year in the movies proper so it could well start with a bang.
Gaspar Noé calls him
...the collest actor I have ever met. He is daring, joyful and intelligent. He has love scenes throughout the whole movie. He is the ultimate 3D baby maker."
Glusman photos (one NSFW) and videos after the jump...
The stage actor and model (he's quite tall at 6'3") looks to break out big soon even if Love doesn't raise as many eyebrows as Noé's films usually do. He's played Spike (the Billy Magnussen role) on the boards in the great comedy Vanya & Sonya & Sasha & Spike so he's obviously comfortable with his body. After fleshy antics in Noé's Love (he plays the boy in a movie described simply as "a melodrama about a girl and a boy and another girl" - his female co-stars aren't listed on IMDb for some reason) he has three more pictures this year: a slasher flick Ratter, a sci-fi flick Embers, with the most high profile project being Roland Emmerich's gay rights drama Stonewall. For 2016 there's another possibly major moment in Nicolas Winding Refn's forthcoming horror picture Neon Demon.
With young actors you never know if they'll happen or just be an experiment a few filmmakers and some publicists tried to make happen but he's surely one to watch. Just in case...
Here's an art movement project he starred in directed by WooJae Chung
And his Funny or Die "Christopher Walken is My Daddy" bit.
And a short film homage to Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho directed by Matt Jay called "Streets, Roads"
STREETS, ROADS: an homage to MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO from Raccord on Vimeo.
And a few photos...
at the premiere of Golden Boy, his only Broadway credit
in a stage production of The Seagull
the first released still from Gaspar Noé's "Love"