"Through the Universe"
Cloud Atlas
"One Day"
"Blackjack"
Who is Jim Sturges? Handsome, melancholy temperament, always messy and fluffy hair, sunny and cute smiles, this is the impression that Jim Sturges makes. The audience may not be able to call his name, but when they see his face appear in the film and television drama, they will definitely say: "I know this guy".
From the beloved "Through the Universe" of literary and artistic youth, to "Another Boyn's Girl", "Decisive Blackjack", "Cloud Atlas" to test the waters of Hollywood, after some fame, they chose independent films such as "One Day", and they have always maintained a close distance from this industry. Recently, the British boy has returned to his hometown and joined hands with "British Rose" supermodel Agnes Dean to bring the British drama "The Sun". He said that acting is a blank slate, and he would rather take risks to try, and if he does not succeed, he will continue to take new adventures, go with the flow, and let fate decide.
Crane tail
Skateboarding Junior & Band Boys
Jim Sturges was born in 1978 in a small town near London. Because his family was well off, his parents sent him to a local private school. But Sturgis is really not the material for reading, and his grades in the class are always countdown, not stupid, but because he has no interest in learning. At that time, Sturges was most interested in two things, one was skateboarding and the other was music. These two things allowed him to regain the confidence he had lost in school.
Sturgis really fell in love with acting until he went to college. After graduating from high school, Sturges knew that he was not an academic material, so he went to work in restaurants and worked with dirty dishes all day. His parents felt that this would not be possible and advised him to do something serious. So Sturges went to the University of Salford in Manchester for further studies. Sturgis went to college with the intention of pursuing musical ideals, but he met a group of film lovers, and his passion for acting was ignited. That period completely changed Sturgis's life, and he began to come out of his "shell" and embrace what he really liked.
Sturgis began experimenting with self-written and self-acting, making several short films and plays. One of the one-man shows, BUZZIN, brought him to the attention of a professional actor who immediately recommended Sturgis to his agent, who signed him without even seeing him. That's how Sturges got on the actor's path.
The Beatles helped him become the protagonist
In 1999, Sturgis came to London from university and played small roles in some TV series while working in bands. It was a few years until he starred in 2007's "Through the Universe." "Through the Universe" is a modern song and dance film shot by American female director Julie Tymo, and the film uses a love story to string together 34 classic Beatles songs, which was refreshing in the year. Sturgis plays the male lead "Jude" in the film. At that time, Sturges's career was at a low ebb, he knew nothing about "Crossing the Universe", only to hear that it was a Beatles music movie, which was a terrible idea in Sturges's view, so he went to audition without any psychological burden.
With this newborn calf-like confidence, Sturges was successfully elected as the male lead, and at this time, he realized that he was about to pick a role in a mainstream Hollywood production film.
The filming of "Through the Universe" took nine months, the crew became a family, and Sturgis still misses that beautiful atmosphere. The film was supposed to take off Sturges's career, but it didn't. Sturgis and actress Ivan Rachel Wood were short-lived and soon disappeared from the audience's sight. (The heroine later played "Westworld" red, that is the afterword)
Career suicide
Becoming a star is not the goal
After Traversing the Universe, Sturges had been chosen by Julie Tymo to play the male number one "Peter Parker" in the musical Spider-Man she directed, but he eventually gave up the opportunity. This has happened many times in Sturges's career as an actor, and putting it on other actors is tantamount to "career suicide".
After the three mainstream Hollywood productions of "Through the Universe", "The Other Pauline's Girl" and "Tiebreaker Blackjack", Sturges has a certain degree of film freedom to pick up his favorite movie script. He chose independent films such as "Fifty Living Dead", "The Way Back", "One Day" and so on, which is tantamount to another "career suicide" in the eyes of others.
Stegistan says that when someone puts in front of you so much money that you have never seen in your life, the temptation is indeed great. But those characters really didn't resonate with him. Sturgis loved movies, and becoming a "celebrity" or "star" was never his goal. In his opinion, many stars, although beautiful, have to play the same type of role for a lifetime, and this is something he can't stand. "I'd rather risk failure than repeat myself," he said. If that means never being famous, that's okay too. ”
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Piano class shadow
Sturgis loved to play on the piano at a very young age. The parents thought that the child might be talented, so they enrolled him in piano classes. Their intentions were good, but the interest in the piano that little Sturges had just sprouted was wiped out by the piano class, so that he never wanted to look at the piano again. However, when his parents are not at home, he will secretly play for a while.
Seeds of infatuation
From "Through the Universe" to "Against the World", Sturgis has always played the seed of infatuation in movies, and he is also very single-minded in reality. Sturgis had a girlfriend who was also a musician and met Sturges during a band rehearsal. Sturgis has been in love with her for 10 years, has collaborated on albums together, and has sold songs to her sick relatives to raise money for treatment!
"Cloud Atlas" also made Sturges and the Korean actress Bae Doona who cooperated with him fall in love with the drama, which lasted for more than a year from being exposed in 2014 to breaking up in 2015. The reason is nothing more than too far apart, less and more. After the breakup, Sturgis experienced a difficult and painful period, often waking up at three o'clock in the night and never sleeping again.
Written by/Nemo