Simply Irresistible, Pt. 79

Next month, Jeremy Irvine will become a star thanks to Steven Spielberg’s War Horse.

So get used to seeing the young Brit on and off the screen.

In fact, the up-and-comer has been busy keeping busy after working with S2, playing Pip in Mike Newell’s upcoming adaptation of Great Expectations, opposite Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, and completing work in Now Is Good, which co-stars Dakota Fanning, Paddy Considine, and Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer).

Now Irvine has booked another high-profile project, The Railway Man, a in which he will play a young Colin Firth.

The drama is based on a memoir by Eric Lomax and follows the British officer’s account of his forced labor on Japan’s Death Railway during World War II, the woman he loved, and the torture he endured by the Japanese for being (presumed) a spy.

Photo: HollywoodReporter.com.