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"FacebookPinterest\n\ni am sam\n\nThe almost too perfect story of how James Cameron plucked Sam Worthington from obscurity to star in December's Avatar (potentially the most expensive film in history), causing Hollywood to christen the 32-year-old actor \"the next Russell Crowe,\" begins with Sam wandering his way across Australia as a 19-year-old bricklayer. As teenage drifters tend to do, he met a girl. A girl who wanted to try out for the National Institute of Dramatic Art, the renowned school that trained Mel Gibson and Cate Blanchett. Worthington went along for what he calls, ahem, moral support. \"I didn't even know that Chekhov wrote plays,\" he says. \"I thought he was on the Starship Enterprise.\" He got in; she didn't.\n\nAnd that lucky break turned into a steady stream of acclaimed performances in Australian indies and, in 2005, an audition for a secret Hollywood project. \"I got a call that Jim [Cameron] wanted to fly me to America,\" says Worthington. His response: \"A'right, no worries.\" It took six months to convince Twentieth Century Fox that an unknown could carry Avatar (a special-effect-heavy film years in the making). They succeeded, and freshly anointed by Cameron, Worthington has been ratcheting up high-profile roles ever since.\n\nIn this month's Terminator Salvation, he goes toe-to-toe with Christian Bale, a man who, audio evidence suggests, should not be messed with. \"Look, making movies is volatile,\" Worthington says, downplaying his co-star's now infamous blowup. \"Jim calls it going to war. I'm glad they didn't get anything that I said. I would've been a hundred times worse.\"\n\nSo we should ask: What became of the Aussie girl from the audition? \"I dunno\u2014she dumped me a week later,\" he says. \"She's probably taken up my place bricklaying.\" Ouch."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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