Mirror Check: During production, recalls Bruckner, "When the makeup lady tried to cover up one pimple I had, [Moncrieff] said, 'No, take the makeup off.'" That's a switch from her former gig as a young runaway model on TV's Bold and the Beautiful. In the soap, she says "I looked like a Gap model living on the streets."

Hazardous Conditions: For her sex scene with Statharin, "we in this hotel where the carpets were crunchy and the bed was disgusting," says Bruckner, who lives with her actor friend Francis Capra and his family in La Crescenta, Calif. (Her parents, Joszef, a businessman in his native Hungary and Nina, an L.A. homemaker, are divorced.) "It was very creepy, which turned out great for the movie." continue reading...

This Daughter of a Russian mother and Hungarian father isn't lacking in the looks department. In fact, 16-year-old Agnes Bruckner got her start in show business as a model.

But the Oregon native played ugly on purpose in the drama Blue Car, a hit from last year's Sundance, which opens in theaters May 2.

"They wanted an awkward girl," says the 11th-grader, who plays a lonely teen poet in love with her English teacher. "I let all my pimples show." continue reading...