Vanity Fair’s Women To Watch 2010

Lily Collins

She’s as affable and wide-eyed as her famous dad, rock musician Phil, is menschy. The tweener set knows her as the party girl Phoebe on 90210 and as the host of Nickelodeon’s Hollywood Hang, on which she interviews the network’s stars. She’s done it all while attending the University of Southern California and writing the occasional magazine or newspaper piece on the side. This fall saw her moving into the big leagues, playing Sandra Bullock’s daughter in The Blind Side. Next up is Priest, based on a Korean comic book about a post-apocalyptic world made up of humans and vampires. With a million more people to meet, and who knows how many movies in her future, Collins can barely contain herself. “I always find myself wishing I was on set,” she gushes breathlessly. “I look forward to getting dirty, getting lost in the moment. I get really excited just talking about it!”

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Selena Gomez
Has a hit Disney show? Check. A new album? Check. Dated a Jonas Brother? Check. Not bad for a teenager who grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas, with her divorced mother, living paycheck to paycheck. After she appeared in Barney & Friends and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Disney picked her to play the sassy middle child with magical powers in the popular television show Wizards of Waverly Place. Next she’ll star in Ramona and Beezus, based on the classic Beverly Cleary series, as the eager-to-please big sister to the little pest. But Gomez has a brooding side, too. She loves solitude and painting, and her bedside reading is decidedly un-chipper. “I’m reading The Bad Seed right now,” she says. “Well, I’m not sure if I should say it. It’s about a child who’s a murderer.”

Vanessa Hudgens
Having starred as adorableness personified in High School Musical 1, 2, and 3, Hudgens has had a crash course in celebrity lunacy. The first time the paparazzi wanted her picture, “it was like, Oh, my God! No way! So cool,” she says. “The second day it happens, it’s like, Never mind. Maybe it’s not as cool as I thought it’s going to be.” Is it any wonder the Disney queen has decided to go a little edgier? Next up is Beastly, a modern-day take on Beauty and the Beast, and Suckerpunch, which director Zack Snyder has described as “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns.” As if girls didn’t have enough reasons to envy her, she’s dating her former co-star Zac Efron. Meet Brangelina—with dimples. [Bonus Outtake]

Isabel Lucas
Perhaps you remember her work in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? Ah yes, she was the android who mounted Shia LaBeouf and strangled him with her tongue. But seriously, Isabel Lucas has a higher purpose. The 24-year-old Australian has worked on irrigation projects in Namibia, raised money for orphanages in India, and paddled out into the Pacific Ocean to combat whaling off of Japan, where she is now wanted for interfering with global commerce. We’ll soon get to see this more soulful side of Lucas in The Pacific, an HBO mini-series about the American-Japanese conflict during World War II, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. This month she stars in Daybreakers, a futuristic thriller in which she plays human in a world taken over by vampires. After that it’s Red Dawn, a remake of the Cold War–era anti-Commie shoot-’em-up. Lucas takes her “action movie” characters every bit as seriously as the others—even when certain directors don’t. “It’s interesting,” she says, referring to Michael Bay, “when the only direction is ‘You’ve got to be more sexy!’”

Amber Heard
She played Seth Rogen’s girlfriend in Pineapple Express. Now she moves into the spotlight—first in the thriller And Soon the Darkness, then in The Rum Diary, based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, opposite Johnny Depp. She got the latter role by detailing, in a letter to the director and producers, her passion for the material, beating out a number of A-list actresses along the way, including Scarlett Johansson. “The part didn’t call for a famous person,” says Heard. “It called for an actress who was right for the part.” The ballsiness can be traced back to Austin, Texas, where Heard attended Catholic school. There she became enamored with the novels of Ayn Rand. “She wrote about triumph over captivity,” she explains. “I always felt trapped.” She dropped out, went to Hollywood, and landed a small role in the film Friday Night Lights. As she tells it, the rest was history. “Within the first week of shooting I knew I was going to be an actress.”

Zoë Kravitz
The arty little tattoos, the rings on every finger, the cool confidence packed into a size 0—Zoë Kravitz couldn’t have been conceived by anybody but rocker Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. Raised in Los Angeles and then New York, Kravitz landed an agent right out of school (Rudolf Steiner), because, as she admits, “word was out that Lenny’s daughter wanted to act.” Cut to small roles in No Reservations and The Brave One.“ Now it’s on me,” says Zoë, who fronts a rock band and stars in three upcoming films: Yelling to the Sky, about a girl growing up in a tough New York neighborhood; a dark high-school film called Beware the Gonzo; and Joel Schumacher’s Twelve, about fast-living Upper East Side rich kids. “We’re basically bumbling idiots. Rich, pathetic excuses for human beings,” she says. Having had a ringside seat to all that’s rock ’n’ roll, Kravitz couldn’t be more repelled by young people acting stupid. “I’m so close to my parents. I get it. They’d smack the hell out of me if I ever became a cokehead.”

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