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Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley, David Dorfman, Owen Wilson and Alex Frost in Drillbit Taylor Courtesy of Paramount Pictures

Alex Frost is having a good week. Currently shooting a film in Connecticut, he's been able to spend his downtime visiting New York City's Broadway theaters. And by Friday, he will be in two major movies on release in cinemas around the country. As Filkins in the teen comedy Drillbit Taylor, he is the bully every high school freshman supergeek lives in terror of. But when three such unfortunates advertise for a bodyguard in Soldier of Fortune magazine and Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), a poser who is in fact a bush-dwelling bum, is hired to protect them, the stage is set for a collision course between Drillbit and Filkins. Frost also appears in Kimberly Peirce's (Boys Don't Cry) drama Stop-Loss, the story of several young soldiers with varying levels of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder who return home to Texas from active duty in Iraq, but struggle to adapt to civilian life. He plays Shorty, the hometown kid who cannot fully relate to the life-altering events that his buddies have witnessed. Just 21, Frost has been acting for five years already, having been cast in Gus Van Sant's Elephant while still in high school in Portland, Oregon. The film, which found its inspiration in the events surrounding the mass killings at Columbine High School, won the top prize at Cannes in 2003 and inspired Frost to pursue acting and, ideally, a future as a director.

So how much fun was it to punch Owen Wilson in the face?
I can't say it was a lot of fun just because he is such a nice guy, and actually a really great friend on the set. But it was awesome.

Did you get a chance to rehearse those sort of scenes with the main actor or do you work them out with the stunt coordinator and hope you get it right on the set?
We mostly work all of that out with the stunt coordinator. Owen had two or three different guys for certain things. He had a guy for punching, a guy for throwing and a guy just for karate kicks. And the guy for karate kicks was awesome. I got to rehearse that but Owen pretty much had the whole thing down; he has been doing this for a long time, especially working in action movies. And so to watch him just dive in and do it, I learned a lot about the techniques that actors have going into fight scenes. And you must have a lot of consideration and patience to get the job done and make it look real.