Slacker #2 For Final Destinations

"Oh, I've just started out..."

Listen, it freaked him out, too—so stop giving him grief. He's tired of it. It's not like he knew it would be one of the most terrifyingly 'real' plane crash sequences ever committed to film. Didn't realize it would ruin your package trip to Magaluf. "I mean, think of me here, guys," says Devon Sawa on his breakout role in Final Destination. "You try jetting off somewhere when the last time you were buckled up, your face got melted."

Since James Wong's fateful flight of fancy, Sawa's lifelong motto ["Live long, play hard...Oh wait, that's Nike"] has seen him gainfully employed on movie sets as geographically diverse as Canada {The Guilty, to be released soon}, Berlin {The Extremists, likewise} and L.A. {the in-production, and intriguingly-titled, Extreme Dating}. And, of course, there's always the infamous Eminem video, Stan. "Would I personally have locked Dido in the trunk of my car and driven her off a bridge?" he laughs. "What the fuck do you think?"

This month the ex-Casper cutie {see the Christina Ricci revelation, below right} puts his puppy-dog paunch—"Yup, it's fair to say that I got my two tattoos for macho reasons" — to solid effect in Slackers, the angsty romp in which he battles Jason Schwartzman for the affections of the lovely James King. Battles, that is, by any means necessary. "It gets better, for sure, man," laughs Sawa. "But would Schwartzman win the fight in real life?" He roars at the suggestion. "Just look {left, in fact} at the guy! He wouldn't stand a chance! So any day he wants a rematch, he has my number."

by Mark Dinning

Back 12.31.2007.