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Yesterday Jim stopped by Fuse’s show The Sauce to discuss 21, later that night he also attended the The Cinema Society hosted screening of the film. I have added a bunch of pictures from both of these events. Hopefully we will get the video of The Sauce later this week!
After talking with Ben Mezrich and Jeff Ma, the Daily got a chance to interview the star of 21, Jim Sturgess, as he recalled the energetic feel on the set, the crazy math of card counting, and his compatibility with fellow actors.
Question: Are you happy with the final results of the film?
Jim Sturgess: Yeah, definitely. I saw it a while ago. When you’re making the film you have no concept of how kind of visual it’s going to look. Especially in the scenes when we’re playing cards and all that kind of stuff. While we were shooting those scenes, it was fairly kind of tedious kind of work: pushing chips and flipping cards and all that kind of stuff. And then when you see the film, you see how dramatic it looks. It was a shock to all of us, I think. The director [Robert Luketic] kept saying just trust me, trust me, it’s going to look great … stuff that you kind of don’t like doing as much. Actually you want to do the kind of big shouting scenes or all the meaty scenes or whatever. But we kind of stuck with it, and I think it paid off.
He’d never been to Vegas and he’d never played blackjack. Gambling meant “the horse races and the dog track … and fruit machines (slots),” and Vegas was an “iconic place” of casinos and indulgence.
But for 26-year-old British actor Jim Sturgess, the role of Ben Campbell, an MIT student who hustles casinos for hundreds of thousands of dollars, in the movie 21, was something he couldn’t pass up. The newcomer sat down with Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers on “Popcorn” on ABC News Now to discuss his new film and the age-old temptations of Sin City.
Jim was interviewed by Aint It Cool News and the article was just published and states Jim has signed on for a new project entitled Heartless.
Quint: Do you know what you are doing for summer projects?
Jim Sturgess: Yeah, I’m shooting a film called Heartless in London, which is a bizarre… very hard film to describe, but it’s all set about in London about a boy’s madness in a sort of time of violence. That’s the only way I can really describe it.
We were whisked off to Las Vegas for the premiere of the adventure-in-Sin-City film 21. Staying at the hotel where some of the film was shot (the Red Rock) and going to the premiere and afterparty at Planet Hollywood was a great experience. We realized that there is a whole new Vegas, aimed at a younger crowd who enjoys clubbing and playing blackjack and poker. The film is based on the true story of a group of brainy M.I.T. students who invented a card counting system and took the town for big bucks playing 21.
Co-stars Kate Bosworth, looking smashing in a short, gray/silver sparkly Lagerfeld dress and Jim Sturgess [Across the Universe] in a dapper black suit, took the stage before the premiere after being introduced by co-star and producer Kevin Spacey. We got the idea that the cast had a blast making the film. For our interviews the next morning, everyone was a little worse for wear after a glamorous nite but Jim was very cute in black, long-sleeved sweater and jeans and Kate looked casual chic in a ’60’s retro batik-patterned sundress by Catherine Miran over a black blouse accessorized with copper necklace and bangle bracelets.
21 (2008) 
