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James McAvoy: Hollywood's Second Most 'Wanted'

by celebuzz on Jun. 20, 2008 04:12 PM / 4 Comments

Is this the portrait of a desirable man and woman? Perhaps, but not quite so much as the dream couple studio executives banked on when they shelled out for Angelina Jolie.

The world's most pregant female lead and the father of her children, Brad Pitt, left red carpet duty at the Los Angeles premiere of director Timur Bekmambetov's action-thriller Wanted to costar James McAvoy and his wife, Anne-Marie Duff.

McAvoy's a gifted and handsome actor. And his wife is perfectly handsome as well. Combined, they wield about 1/5,000th the star power of Angie and Brad.

The film's poster is composed of 100% Angelina Jolie, and 0% James McAvoy.

It must have been humiliating for James to stand in front of that poster, surely aware that his very presence was disappointing everyone in the vicinity.

Don't listen to any crap about how Angelina couldn't make it because flying in might not be a good idea when she's due to pop out twins any second now.

Angelina Jolie has magical powers, and can instantly transport herself anywhere she wants just by thinking about it. Shut up, it's true.

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“James McAvoy and cast came out for the premiere of their movie Wanted in Hollywood last night. Wanted tells the story of young nobody Wesley Gibson who is recruited into a secret order called The Fraternity who teach them how to unlock his secret powers and blindly enforce justice throughout the world. Wesley is mentored by Fox (Angelina Jolie, the most action she's seeing these days is putting her feet up on a stack of pillows) and Sloan (Morgan Freeman). Also on hand were co-stars Terrence Stamp, Kristin Hager, Thomas Krestchman and Chris Pratt.

By now you've probably seen the trailers for Wanted on tv, however they are completely watered down compared the Russian Red Ban trailer, below. BTW, this is a smidge NSFW, so make sure to watch this one on your lunch break.”

“James McAvoy attends the film premiere of Wanted at the Mann Village Westwood Theater on Thursday in Los Angeles, California.

The 29-year-old actor was accompanied by his wife, Anne-Marie Duff, 37. The couple met while filming Shameless and was married in October 2006.

James has recently denied reports he is to take the lead role in the new movie version of Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit.

“I’m going to not act for a little while and take some space and take some time — and make some ‘me’ time, you know, all that rubbish,” he explained to Radio 1.

“It’s not true,” he said of the The Hobbit rumors. “It’s come off the internet and turned into a story for some reason. There’s not even been a script yet.”

James was also on The Tonight Show yesterday, check that out here.”

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flirtyfabulous 1 yr 5 mos ago
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HAHA how embarassing for him
gossipguy 1 yr 5 mos ago
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has angelina ever missed a premiere??? must really be ready to pop
bawwow 1 yr 5 mos ago
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who is he? lol
missamericandream 1 yr 5 mos ago
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The movie looks pretty cool...but it seems like Angelina plays that same role in every movie!