某日，朋友和我侃起有哪些沒有“長殘”的童星，我脫口而出：尼古拉斯·霍爾特。從昔日的小胖墩長成今天的花美男，幸好其沒在毒品酒精中沉淪而一蹶不振。他的星途看似不錯，既可以憑借外貌在《皮囊》這樣的青春偶像劇中聚斂人氣，又可以靠著演技在《單身男子》這樣的獨立小製作中玩一把深沉，還可以在《諸神之戰》這樣的票房大片中跑跑龍套，混個臉熟，可俗可雅，他頗具“萬人迷”的潛質。
看到尼古拉斯·霍爾特，我驀地想起大仲馬在《三個火槍手》裏麵對達塔尼昂的描寫，說他是青年，他又似乎顯得太年輕；要說是個孩子罷，他又似乎有些老了。就像此刻的霍爾特，身上褪去了少年郎特有的青澀與幼稚，但又沒沾染上成年人的圓滑與世故。21歲，是個美好的年齡，處在這個年齡的人大多是沒有成家立業的壓力，因此他們可以去拚、去闖而不用瞻前顧後。對於霍爾特將來能否繼續“星光燦爛”我不想太過篤定，現在我隻想捕捉他此時此刻身上閃爍的光芒，以此來紀念我那些遺失的美好。
——Mac
Oh no. Interview， uh oh. I always panic about these things.” Nicholas Hoult does look genuinely 1)apprehensive， which is annoying because he’s been perfectly at ease until now.
I say 2)reassuring things， but he looks unconvinced. Why do interviews make him panic？ He frowns and seems to think hard.“3)Dunno，” he finally offers， unhelpfully. Hoult’s reaction is 4)sensible， really. No one wants to be 5)crammed on a sofa and asked annoying questions about how he feels and what he thinks， but it’s surprising that an actor this experienced hasn’t found a way to deal with the experience by now. Though he is just 21， he’s worked in film and TV for years. He was spotted in a theatre audience aged three by a director who suggested to Hoult’s mother that if he could concentrate on a play at that age then he could probably be in one. He’s been acting ever since， becoming properly famous at 12 as 6)geeky schoolboy Marcus opposite 7)Hugh Grant in the 2002 adaptation of 8)About a Boy. He’s co-starred with 9)Nicolas Cage， and then became a star in his own right at 17， thanks to Channel 4’s drugs-and-sex-10)drenched teen drama Skins. His portrayal of heartless 11)heartthrob Tony Stonem， full of 12)callous 13)swagger and vulnerability， was the show’s standout performance. Aside from that， he was lucky enough to participate in 14)A Single Man， alongside 15)Colin Firth and 16)Julianne Moore.
Chris Weitz， who co-directed About a Boy and produced A Single Man， thinks there are several reasons for Hoult’s transformation from child actor to star： “17)Arbitrarily， he turned from the 18)shrimp who came up to my 19)armpit to the 20)hunk who towers above me， and while his looks have matured， they’ve remained 21)inherently interesting and unconventional. On his own， though， he’s shown that the naturalness of his performance as a 12-year-old was not a 22)fluke. He’s willing to do a tremendous amount of work to get a performance right.”