Josh Lucas

This Month ED COASTER INTRODUCING DAHLIA COASTER VANITY FAIR ART-DEPARTMENT INTERN GEORGE WAYNE ONE-ONONE WITH ACTOR JOHN RIT~ER NEAL POLLACK EXCLUSIVE EXCERpTS OF EXCERPTS FROM TELL-ALL: A MEDIA MEMOIR WHAT'S OUT, WHAT'S IN, DAME EDNA, AND MORE

AGE AND OCCUPATION: 31, actor PROVENANCE: Fayetteville, Arkansas. THE CONNELLY CONNECTION: Though he's appeared in American Psycho and The Deep End, you probably recognize him from his role as John Nash's Princeton classmate Martin Hansen in A Beautiful Mind with last month's cover girl, Jennifer Connelly, and Russell Crowe. "[Russell Crowe] is tremendously challenging But no matt^fl what kind of madness or difficulty an actor brings to it, if they're inspiring you, I don't care how they work or what their approach is." SOUTHERN MAN: This month Lucas returns to his southern-boy roots—and twang—in Sweet Home Alabama, starring Reese Witherspoon. "I worked with a voice coach for years to take certain sounds out of my accent. Oddly enough, that was the same woman they hired for Sweet Home Alabama to do dialect coaching: 'O.K., now, that sound we got rid of, let's bring it back."' WE'RE GREEN WITH ENVY: Later this fall, Lucas can be seen alongside Sean Penn in The Weight of Water, and he's currently filming Ang Lee's The Hulk, starring Eric Bana in the title role, and . . . Jennifer Connelly.

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