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Byline: Sarah Haight
You've heard it before: A guy is hard at work behind a bar or checkout counter (or, in the case of Brad Pitt, hawking El Pollo Loco in a chicken suit), and suddenly-bam! He's making a new movie opposite America's latest sweetheart as tabloid reporters chase him down Sunset. For Texas-bred Austin Nichols, the I'm-gonna-be-in-pictures moment arrived his senior year of high school, when he crashed a party at Sundance while visiting relatives in Park City, Utah. "A woman in the corner kept looking at me, which was sort of awkward," says the 24-year-old, whose snarled smile and cut-from-stone cheekbones had caught the eye of a prominent manager. "Six months later I was enrolled at USC and going on auditions." Following a coveted ...