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

Also rare is the arc of a career like O’Loughlin’s, which has brought him from his native Australia, where he worked in television and film, to the States, where he’s now finding his face plastered all over billboards opposite one of the country’s biggest stars.

And though the film opened to a lower-than-expected $12.3 million over the weekend, O’Loughlin said he tries not to focus on box office.

“You always feel it, it’s right there, but I’m trying not to plug into it,” he said. “I do think about it when I drive past some massive photo of myself and it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s me.’ But you just can’t dwell on what’s going to happen.”

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By Kelly on April 27, 2010 under Interviews, The Back-up Plan0 comments

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