The Performance: Alex O'Loughlin in ‘The Back-Up Plan'

The Performance: Alex O'Loughlin in ‘The Back-Up Plan'
The Australian actor stars opposite Jennifer Lopez in the romantic comedy.
By Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times
April 27, 2010

For someone so new to Hollywood, Alex O'Loughlin is very Hollywood.

"Do you mind?" he said, motioning toward his pack of cigarettes while sitting poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel earlier this week. "Or are you going to write in the interview, ‘and then he lit a Camel?'"

It's not that the 33-year-old is consumed with his own image - like some industry A-listers - but that he already understands its importance. Even the outfit he was wearing, which he would show off later that evening on " Jimmy Kimmel Live," had been selected by a stylist: distressed jeans, a pair of quirky bright green boots and trendy skinny tie.

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Alex O'Loughlin reveals he's glad he's not Robert Pattinson

by Amy Andrews

Alex O'Loughlin, the Irish-Australian star of "The Back-Up Plan," (above with co-star Jennifer Lopez), says he's glad he's not Robert Patttinson.

O’Loughlin - who is being hailed as Hollywood's hottest leading man - says he's happy to dodge the limelight, for now.

“I don’t really act like I’m famous. I just do my thing. I’m not that famous, dude," he laughed.

"Sometimes I get pointed out or some people shuffle up and ask for an autograph or a photograph, but I’m not at a point where I can’t leave the house, thank God."

Not like uber-hot "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson whose anonymity was blown away by his role as vampire Edward Cullen.

"I think the downsides would be losing your anonymity and not being able to trust people, to tell whether people want to be with you and get to know you because of your celebrity or because of who you are," says Alex

O'Loughlin says his co-star Jennifer Lopez is one smart cookie.

"She’s a very smart businesswoman because she’s made a lot of money, I presume, and she’s had a lot of success and is very well-known.

“She’s a very talented woman, an incredible singer, dancer and writer who’s very good at what she does, as opposed to these people you see these days who are famous for being famous.

O'Lougholin took a swipe at certain reality show celebs when he said some celebs just aren't worth the paper their faces are printed on.

"There are celebrities in this day and age who really have offered nothing artistically but they’re on the cover of magazines and stuff. That world, I don’t really get it.”

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Weekend Box Office Numbers for "The Back-Up Plan"

Although The Back-up Plan was in 1st place on Friday, it slipped to #2, behind "How to Train Your Dragon" animated film which took in $15 million. The following items help put the box office numbers in perspective:

From The LA Times:

Jennifer Lopez's romantic comedy "The Back-Up Plan" opened to a soft but not disastrous $12.25 million. The second release from CBS Films started far better than its first, the flop "Extraordinary Measures," and should hold up well in the coming weeks if it performs like other romantic comedies.

BackUpPlan "The Back-Up Plan," which cost about $35 million to make, opened below several other Lopez films in the same genre, such as 2001's "The Wedding Planner" and 2002's "Maid in Manhattan," despite years of ticket-price inflation, though both of those had bigger-name male costars.

From The Wall Street Journal:

“The Back-Up Plan” (CBS Films) brought in $12.3 million for a second place finish.

Steven Friedlander, Executive Vice President: Distribution, for CBS Films, said in an email that the box-office gross for “The Back-Up Plan” was “exactly in line with our internal projections as well as what most tracking services had us at. This number means that the film will be profitable for CBS Films, given the modest $35 [million] production budget.”

From BoxOfficeMojo:

In terms of attendance, The Back-Up Plan likely was the weekend's No. 1 draw. That's because 67 percent of How to Train Your Dragon's weekend gross came from 3D showings, which carry a significant ticket price premium over regular showings. Specifically, 56 percent was from normal 3D, while 11 percent was from the even pricier IMAX 3D. Dragon's estimated attendance would likely rank it second for the weekend.

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PopWatch: The Back-up Plan-5 ways it made Alex O'Loughlin look good

Mandi Bierly at PopWatch wrote a hysterical, yet very true review of Alex in The Back-up Plan. You can read the full story here:The Back-up Plan: 5 Ways It Made Alex O'Loughlin Look Good, but here is just the introduction. (P.S. Do you remember when Alex held up the "Hi Slezak" sign a long time ago?? Obviously the obsession for Slezak continues!)

Is Alex O’Loughlin a movie star? That’s the question I wanted to answer when I went to see The Back-up Plan this weekend. For all my documented appreciation of his hotness, I was surprisingly skeptical. I feel like for a TV actor to make it on the big screen, his lure should be so powerful that you have to watch whatever series he appears on — and even though I’d been bitten by Moonlight, I never actually made it to Three Rivers. Would his charisma carry to the back of the theater?

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EOnline - The Back Up Plan Premiere

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