Can Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana be breakout stars?
@sophisticated_boy (1457)
Indonesia
January 19, 2010 9:41pm CST
I think every succesful james Cameron movies has breakout stars. Terminator has Linda hamilton and Arnold Schwarzengger (who become one of the best action stars ever), Aliens has Sigourney Weaver (although she starred in Ridley Scott's first movie, it's not until second movie she got Oscar nominee for her role) and of course who can forget Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio? Yes, though they both got Best Supporting noms from the Oscar before Titanic (Kate in Sense and Sensibility and Leo in Gilbert Grape),it's not until Titanic they become huge A list stars. Kate Winslet who was underestimated at the time because many think she does not deserve Best Actress nominee while Leo didn't get the nod, turns out to be one of the best actress in our generation with 6 nominee and 1 Oscar...and she is still 31 years old! And Leonardo, as a teenage heartthrob who can fall so easily choosing his next movies very wisely, becoming the new Scorsese fave actors and receive several Oscar nods himself.
The thing about Zoe and Sam is they both lack movie appearance in Avatar (those blue Navi thingy!), so it's hard for the audience to connect with the stars. However, Sam worthington seems to pop up from nowhere to be breakout star of last year. Almost unknown in the US, he's being a scene stealer in Terminator Salvation and got main role in Avatar and this year's Clash of The titans. I still feel he is still under the radar, no tablod thingy, which was good for his career. As for Zoe, anyone know what is her next project?
Sorry for this lengthy post, just want to share my mind to you all. So, do you think both stars can be BIG?
2 responses
@thedailyclick (3017)
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20 Jan 10
Despite being mainly CGI enhanced in Avatar both will become major stars, well at least for the next few years. Whether their careers will have longivity will be another matter. Worthington would have been a major star even if he didn't appear in Avatar because he has the right look for now, strangely he actually appeared in quite a lot of movies before Avatar.
As for Zoe Saldana well she has the Star Trek sequel coming up so she will be reprising her role as Uhura. I don't think that will be the next movie to be released as I am sure "Takers" which she appears in is scheduled for release around May this year.
So basically to answer that final question well I think for the next couple of years they will be BIG stars, but after 2 years their star could lose it's shine very quickly.
@sophisticated_boy (1457)
• Indonesia
21 Jan 10
I think Worthington only play minor roles in Hollywood movies. He's famous in his home country, Australia. Oh yeah I forgot Zoe also play in Star Trek. It's quite funny this two play in another sci-fi movies last year before Avatar. I think for Worthington, I think I read Cameron promote him to McG to playing the robot role in Terminator Salvation and the shooting actually went up after Avatar finished. Well I hope these two starts playing on more real drama movies to prove their acting chops..it's what Leo and Kate do to career longevity and made them a bonafide stars, though I think Sam is destined to be the next action star
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
29 Apr 10
I have not seen the movie avatar yet but from what I am seeing both him and her have become rising stars. I know that Zoe Saldia has had few more movies this year and so had sam worthington. I think both will become popular and I do think Zoe Saldonia will be the most popual of the two. she has two new movies comming out this summer while I only know of one for worthington.



