“I’ve always wanted to be a firefighter,” says Jon Foster. “I feel like if this whole Hollywood life isn’t working, I could just go off and fight fires somewhere.” With a full slate of starring roles set for 2008, don’t expect to see Foster running into burning buildings anytime soon. First up for the 23 year-old Iowa native (and little brother of Alpha Dog’s Ben) is Tenderness with noted phone-launcher (and Academy Award winner) Russell Crowe, followed by The Mysteries of Pittsburgh opposite Sienna Miller, Peter Sarsgaard, and Nick Nolte.

Foster has also just started production on The Informers, based on Bret Easton Ellis's dark, druggy collection of linked stories set in 1983 L.A. “A lot of actors were afraid to do The Informers because it hit so close to home,” he says. Though not necessarily the bad-boy type, Foster cops to having a darker side: “L.A. can certainly contort your concept of reality. I have a great balance of good and evil.”