Besides several of the ones mentioned, I think Emma Stone is for keeps.
Which could be awkward, because I don’t have the same confidence that Andrew Garfield will be getting much work in ten years.
Well, if that’s the case, I’ll take the easy route and say Jennifer Lawrence. Her Oscar and box office success have produced enough good will to keep her on the A-list for least another 10 years. Unless she’s involved in series of major scandals, appears in a succession of Battlefield Earth-sized bombs, and manages to piss off nearly everyone in Hollywood, her position is secure.
I hope not, but probably Will Smith’s kids, unless he blows all his money on hookers or bad investments or thetan levels or something.
I don’t know who Michael Raymond-James is, but I agree with the rest of these (and Hiddleston was someone to watch several movies ago, everyone else is just catching up). I also agree with Jennifer Lawrence.
I’ll add Nicholas Hoult, Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, Rooney Mara, and though I don’t care much for them, Miles Tellar and Eddie Redmayne. I know I’m forgetting some.
Swedish actress Alicia Vikander isn’t a household name yet, but she’ll get there. I first noticed her in A Royal Affair though I did see an earlier movie I liked called Pure, which I saw at a film festival. I didn’t make note of her name and the characters are so different I didn’t realize it was same actress. She’s done a few movies in Sweden I didn’t see, and a Hollywood movie I didn’t see, Seventh Son. She then appeared in the sad but excellent Testament of Youth, was the AI Ava in Ex Machina, and was terrific in the (IMO) sadly underrated/underperforming The Man From U.N.C.L.E. She has four (indie) movies coming out before the end of the year, and will be in the next Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon Bourne movie, which should introduce her to a wider audience. She’ll be around for a long, long time.
Scarlet Johansson just nudges out of the OPs time limit (though I am surprised how young she still is after everything she’s achieved) so I guess I can’t mention her.
Elle Fanning, and probably Dakota Fanning, will still be working. Elle is very hard to pin down, her performances have been very lightweight despite being amongst some heavy dramas, but nonetheless she is in high demand and I think she’ll continue to be. She’s not even 18 yet.
Saoirse Ronan without a doubt will continue to work. She is just amazing.
I, too, would like some sort of parameters here. “Still working” is too intentionally vague (IMO) a metric to be able to provide a meaningful answer. Like, I remember reading all manner of threads before I stopped lurking where someone would ask whatever happened to so-and-so, and someone would pull up so-and-so’s IMDb page, which lists forty-five acting credits that neither I nor the OP had ever heard of, with a boilerplate-ish tacked-on response that amounted to, “See, so-and-so is still working.”
Obviously, if you’re still getting paid for professional acting roles, then you are “still working,” even if it’s a step down from what you had been doing before. If you were an A-list/B-list actor, but you’ve spent the last decade and a half doing voice work almost exclusively, you are, technically, still acting. If you had your own cable or network TV series, and now, you’re the next Flo, you are still working. So the question doesn’t have any meaning without some sort of criteria for what you mean when you say, “still working.”
Barring death, or simply deciding that they don’t want to do it anymore, I feel like the only correct answer to the question, “What under-30 actors will still be working a decade from now?” is “All of them.”
I suggest “Starring in a movie made by SyFy” as an automatic disqualifier.
The easy answer: Virtually all of the guys, virtually none of the girls.
Hollywood kinda sucks.
Speaking of child actors, what’s the current consensus on Quvenzhane Wallis? Everyone raved about her in Beasts of the Southern Wilds, but I haven’t heard much of anything about her further work.
I predict that unless they decide to retire from acting (or die) that they will all be working.
This is an odd question.
Flipping burgers IS working!
Disagree 100%. With the kind of shape these people are staying in into their 40’s, 50’s and even 60’s (Spectre will have the first-ever Bond girl in her 50’s), the ladies are going to stay perfectly marketable into their 30’s. The guys, however, once they hit success and start to spread a little (Orlando Bloom, I’m lookin’ at you) or start to lose some hair (Matthew Perry…)? Not so much.
[quote=faithfoolI also think Tom Hiddleston will soon be someone to watch when they release his Hank Williams biopic.[/quote]
fweet Penalty flag! He’s 34 already.
Rats, Tatiana Maslany turns 30 in September…
I think Annasophia Robb will be around. At 21, she is just making the transition into adult roles, but she is truly talented and the camera loves her cool blondeness. I think she will get better and better roles in the next few years.
Considering she had two other excellent and critically acclaimed performances before American Hustle in Winter’s Bone and Silver Linings Playbook, I don’t think you could say they’re rare for her.
Something tells me that Zac Efron will transition into action movies and we’ll see him for a long time.
Beyond that, after seeing Fury, I also believe strongly that Shia LaBeouf and Logan Lerman will be around for a long time as well.
On the women’s side, I bet Jennifer Lawrence, Hailee Steinfeld, Emma Stone and Emma Watson will still be around and thriving. I’d like to say Maisie Williams, but I have a strong suspicion that Game of Thrones and Dr. Who will typecast her into playing in Sy-Fy movies in 10 years.
… and that’s not working how, exactly?
I still can’t decide whether Kristen Stewart is a good actress or not. She seems to have talent, but she appears so uncomfortable with it. I figure she’ll either find that perfect role that earns her an Oscar nod or she’ll disappear to Alaska and never be heard from again.
I think sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning will still be working.
Jennifer Lawrence was great opposite Amy Adams in that one, and Jennifer Lawrence will be younger ten years from now than Amy Adams was then.
She also got mostly very good notices for her performance in Serena, even though the film as a whole didn’t fare that well, critically or commercially. So far she mostly seems to have walked a good line between good-paying blockbusters/action films and meatier dramatic roles.
This is the worst use of the word “recovery” since the word was invented.
I was coming in to say “Emma Watson” but was beaten to it. A very, very safe choice; I’ve no doubt she can act for many years more if she feels like it, and she appears to feel like it.