John Travolta. Jason Priestley and Luke Perry. David and Shaun Cassidy. Scott Baio. Leonardo DiCaprio. James Van Der Beek. Zac Efron. Daniel Radcliffe. Johnny Depp.
There’s nothing harder than going from teen heartthrob to adult male star. It’s a road many have traveled, though few successfully. Who knows whether James Dean would have had a sustained career into his thirties and forties if he hadn’t crashed his Porsche on a rural California highway at age 24 in 1955.
The jury is still out, of course, on Efron and Radcliffe, who at 23 and 21 respectively have only been shaving for a few years.