Interview with Jim Sturgess

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Interview with Jim Sturgess

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Highlights:

21 is inspired by the true story of the very brightest young minds in the country- and how they took Vegas for millions. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is a shy brilliant M.I.T. student who- needing to pay school tuition- finds the answers in the cards. He is recruited to join a group of the school's most gifted students that heads to Vegas every weekend armed with fake identities and the know-how to turn the odds at blackjack in their favor. With unorthodox math professor and stats genius Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) leading the way, they've craked the code. By counting cards and employing an intricate system of signals, the team can beat the casinos big time. Seduced by the money, the Vegas lifestyle, and by his smart and sexy teammate, Jill Taylor (Kate Bosworth), Ben begins to push the limits. Though counting cards isn't illegal, the stakes are high, and the challenge becomes not only keeping the numbers straight, but staying one step ahead of the casinos' menacing enforcer: Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne).

Transcript:

Jim Sturgess recently starred in Justin Chadwick's, The Other Boleyn Girl opposite Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana and Natalie Portman. The film follows two ferociously ambitious sisters, Mary (Johansson) and Anne (Portman) Boleyn, rivaling for the bed and heart of the 16th century English King Henry VIII (Bana). Before that he starred in Julie Taymor's musical, Across the Universe opposite Evan Rachel Wood. Utilizing classic Beatles songs, the story centers on an American girl (Wood) and her relationship with a British boy (Sturgess) set against the backdrop of the social upheaval of the 1960s.

Sturgess will star in Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over, starring opposite Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Sean Penn. Crossing Over is a multi-character drama about immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles.

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