For a handful of hours, Finbar’s Pub and Grill in Rehoboth Beach became a movie set. Actress Greta Gerwig, dressed in drag, slid into a booth next to actor Olly Alexander, dolled up in a long, fuchsia dress. It’s a short shot in “Drift,” an independent movie about infidelity and self-discovery set in the Cape Region.

“That’s the scene where she’s trying to relive what her husband did,” said director Allison Bagnall. “It’s her way of taking control of what happened.”

“Drift,” a working title, is the story of Rose (Gerwig), who discovers her husband’s affair with her childhood friend. She tracks the paramour to southern Delaware. Just as her pursuit drives her insane with rage, she runs across a listless British traveler, played by Alexander. Their romance is unsustainable, said producer Amy Seimetz, but cathartic for Rose.

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Olly made it 46 on the list of Hottest Young Actors.

Herein lies the problem of the movie – by revealing the killer so early on, the filmmakers have essentially removed any element of suspense. From the outset, you know exactly who is on the target list and if they’re wandering around a graveyard at night or meandering in an empty school, it’s a fair bet that they’re about to meet a sticky end. Furthermore, the victims are so under-developed and lacking of redemption that you don’t hugely care what happens to them. Even poor Justine, who is sucked into his revenge plot on some very whimsical zombie logic, fails to drum up any empathy.

While Darren has all the groundwork for being a truly original villain – a zombie ghost who relies on his inhaler to function (yes, zombie ghosts do breathe) – the reality often falls flat, partly because Dean is not given any dialogue or remotely interesting characteristics, but also because he simply isn’t scary. That being said, his increasingly imaginative and gory methods of murder as he loses control of his revenge plot do provide some refreshing hands-over-eyes moments.

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At 17, he landed a role on the U.K. children’s TV show Summerhill. Soon after that, he was cast in Gaspar Noé’s highly anticipated Enter the Void, which required him to drop out of school and travel to Tokyo, an experience he found surreal. “Going there, you feel like a child again because you can’t read anything or understand anything,” he says. “Everything is new. You break about a million traditions every time you walk inside a shop.”

After his turn on Summerhill, Alexander could have been dismissed as kiddie bubblegum, but Enter the Void established him as a pedigreed dramatic talent. Still just 18, he has been enviably busy, most recently getting cast as an anarchic prince in a new adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels (which stars Jack Black as Gulliver). This year alone, he has four films slated for release, playing damaged characters in each. Enter the Void finds him double-crossing his best friend and getting the friend killed in the process. In Jane Campion’s John Keats biopic, Bright Star, he plays Keats’s tubercular younger brother, Tom. In Dust, a postapocalyptic film with a cast of three, he plays an incestuous twin who pursues his sister. And in Tormented, he plays an unlikable geek who, as in the Noé film, sells out his best friend, only this time he gets killed himself. “Nobody likes the guy,” says Alexander of the character. “He just smokes a lot of weed. And cries a lot. I do a lot of crying in my films.”

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“Intense is a good word for it,” says Olly Alexander about his upcoming film debut. He isn’t kidding: The 18-year-old British actor recently completed work on the surrealistic drama Enter the Void. It’s directed by Gaspar Noé, the man also responsible for 2002’s controversial film Irréversible, which included an excruciating nine-minute rape scene. Enter the Void features Alexander as a troubled teenager in Tokyo who spirals into drug addiction after discovering his mother is sleeping with his best friend. “Sex, violence, drug-taking . . . I got to do it all,” he jokes on a stopover in New York from London, where he currently lives. “In pretty much every scene I’m either crying or screaming or doing something violent.” The actor’s own life was a different sort of roller coaster: His father’s work in amusement parks had him moving around the English countryside as a child. At 16, he landed a role in the British TV series Summerhill, and, in addition to Enter the Void, he appears in three more films due out this year: Tormented, a story about bullying; Bright Star, Jane Campion’s biopic of John Keats, in which Alexander plays the poet’s younger brother (“My character looks very ill and dies,” he reports); and Dust, in which he plays an incestuous twin in a post-apocalyptic love triangle. With a résumé like this, it’s safe to say that he’s averted the gawky-teen-soccer-movie period altogether. “Every job I’ve done, I reached the limits of my acting capabilities,” he says. “I have always pushed myself to feel extreme emotions.”

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Thanks to Shannon for these scans from Teen Vogue magazine.

In ENTER THE VOID, a young man desperately tries to be the guardian for his younger sister after the murder of their parents, but he soon realizes that he is dying. This ambitious drama from Gaspar Noe (IRREVERSIBLE) goes beyond simply showing the waking mind of its hero; instead, the audience gets a glimpse of his dreams and his near-death experiences. Marc Caro, best known for his collaborations with Jean-Pierre Jeunet, serves as the art supervisor.

This is the only Nathaniel Brown video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Olly Alexander, Cyril Roy, Masato Tanno.

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