MAX MINGHELLA

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AGE AND OCCUPATION: 20, actor. PROVENANCE: London. WHAT'S IN A NAME? Minghella ... Minghella ... sounds so familiar. What have you seen him in? Nothing yet, but prepare yourself for Max's one-two-three punch: in the coming months he'll appear in Syriana and Bee Season, and star in Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential, alongside John Malkovich and Anjelica Huston. MY THREE DADS: Minghella's pedigree is as impressive on the screen as it is in real life. (His father is director Anthony Minghella.) He plays the son of Richard Gere's character in Bee Season, and George Clooney's offspring in Syriana. When he read the script for the latter, based on a memoir by former C.I.A. operative Robert Baer, he "called up anyone I could call up and said, 'Please, please, I'll come and be a waiter or a dry cleaner—whatever you need me to do, I'll be there.'" AND HE MEANTWHATEVER: How does he explain his formidable dash out of the gate? "A lot of sexual favors—I'm not going to lie to you."

KRISTA SMITH