Robert Pattinson blueprint, picking esoteric roles with arthouse directors and delivering internet-meltingly bizarre photoshoots.
Or there’s the full Zac Efron: playing a notorious serial killer in a final bid to shake off those last vestiges of Disney lustre.
The second act of Alex Pettyfer’s career has brought the British actor and model behind the camera to direct moody, atmospheric drama Back Roads.
Now 30, Pettyfer grew up in Surrey and Berkshire; his actor parents met while appearing in West End musicals, and his own performance gene kicked in early — he starred in commercials and school plays before, at the age of 15, being picked out of 500 hopefuls to play mini super-spy Alex Rider in the film adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s.
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