Ben Barnes
December 2, 2008 by Maura Reilly
Filed under Actors 2Watch4
You know Ben gets a lot of comparisons to fellow Brit thespian Orlando Bloom and it’s not difficult to see why. Ben’s breakthrough role in 2008 was in the second installment of the Narnia books brought to screen “Prince Caspian” as the title character. Flowing dark hair, dark eyes, riding a horse and welding a sword: yup that’s pretty much Bloom’s territory. But Ben’s got a couple tricks up his sleeve. 2009 will show a couple different sides of the actor from London. Easy Virtue, based on a Noel Coward play and co-starring Jessica Biel and Colin Firth, has Ben playing a young man newly married to an older American woman. Barnes then re-teams again with Firth in a new version of the Oscar Wilde’s classic study in depravity and madness, Dorian Gray as Dorian. While comparisons are always flattering, Ben is clearing a path of his own, taking some chances and gearing up for what looks to be a long career.
BEN IN EASY VIRTUE:
Ben reading at the LA Times Book Festival
http://benbarnesfan.com/
OFFICIAL SITES:
http://www.easyvirtuethemovie.co.uk/
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