She played Seth Rogen’s girlfriend in Pineapple Express. Now she moves into the spotlight—first in the thriller And Soon the Darkness, then in The Rum Diary, based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, opposite Johnny Depp. She got the latter role by detailing, in a letter to the director and producers, her passion for the material, beating out a number of A-list actresses along the way, including Scarlett Johansson. “The part didn’t call for a famous person,” says Heard. “It called for an actress who was right for the part.” The ballsiness can be traced back to Austin, Texas, where Heard attended Catholic school. There she became enamored with the novels of Ayn Rand. “She wrote about triumph over captivity,” she explains. “I always felt trapped.” She dropped out, went to Hollywood, and landed a small role in the film Friday Night Lights. As she tells it, the rest was history. “Within the first week of shooting I knew I was going to be an actress.”
Photograph by Patrick Demarchelier.
Dress by Versace; bracelet by DeBeers.
Perhaps you remember her work in
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? Ah yes, she was the android who mounted Shia LaBeouf and strangled him with her tongue. But seriously, Isabel Lucas has a higher purpose. The 24-year-old Australian has worked on irrigation projects in Namibia, raised money for orphanages in India, and paddled out into the Pacific Ocean to combat whaling off of Japan, where she is now wanted for interfering with global commerce. We’ll soon get to see this more soulful side of Lucas in
The Pacific, an HBO mini-series about the American-Japanese conflict during World War II, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. This month she stars in
Daybreakers, a futuristic thriller in which she plays human in a world taken over by vampires. After that it’s
Red Dawn, a remake of the Cold War–era anti-Commie shoot-’em-up. Lucas takes her “action movie” characters every bit as seriously as the others—even when certain directors don’t. “It’s interesting,” she says, referring to Michael Bay, “when the only direction is ‘
You’ve got to be more sexy!’”
The arty little tattoos, the rings on every finger, the cool confidence packed into a size 0—Zoë Kravitz couldn’t have been conceived by anybody but rocker Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. Raised in Los Angeles and then New York, Kravitz landed an agent right out of school (Rudolf Steiner), because, as she admits, “word was out that Lenny’s daughter wanted to act.” Cut to small roles in
No Reservations and
The Brave One.“ Now it’s on me,” says Zoë, who fronts a rock band and stars in three upcoming films:
Yelling to the Sky, about a girl growing up in a tough New York neighborhood; a dark high-school film called
Beware the Gonzo; and Joel Schumacher’s
Twelve, about fast-living Upper East Side rich kids. “We’re basically bumbling idiots. Rich, pathetic excuses for human beings,” she says. Having had a ringside seat to all that’s rock ’n’ roll, Kravitz couldn’t be more repelled by young people acting stupid. “I’m so close to my parents. I get it. They’d smack the hell out of me if I ever became a cokehead.”
Photograph by Patrick Demarchelier.
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