Chris Pine Reveals His Politics Amid High- Risk 'Jack Ryan' Play. This story first appeared in the Jan. The Hollywood Reporter magazine. On the 2. 00. 5 set of Just My Luck, two careers collided spectacularly. There was the 1. 8- year- old star, considered the most promising actress of her generation, commanding a $7 million- plus paycheck. And there was the 2.

Perhaps the romantic comedy's hackneyed plotline about the world's luckiest ingenue (Lindsay. Lohan) swapping fortunes with a random hot guy (Chris. Pine) came true. While Lohan never again reached such heights and today is trawling for paid club appearances, Pine is one of Hollywood's most in- demand leading men. PHOTOS: Exclusive Portraits of the New Jack Ryan. Lohan's tabloid- fodder antics on the New Orleans set of Just My Luck - - which led to at least one shutdown - - offer a stark juxtaposition of professionalism and the right way to build a career. It was a real cyclone of insanity, like being around The Beatles," recalls Pine. It was fascinating to watch, and in hindsight it's really a distinct moment in someone's life when you see what's really wonderful about what we get to do and what's really dangerous about it."Pine put his head down and worked.

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But he took away a valuable lesson from the experience: Never believe your own hype."Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble," he says. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. Watch Rock Dog Online Hitfix. You start believing that it is real and … you deserve it."Now 3. Star Trek (at Paramount) as he launches a second (also at Paramount) with Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, which opens Jan. Christmas Day. Based on the popular spy character created by the late Tom.

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Clancy (though it is the first film not based on a Clancy novel), Jack Ryan will fully test Pine's leading- man status and his value (Pine was paid $4 million for the film with backend compensation and will be paid $8 million and $1. Although 2. 00. 9's Star Trek and the 2. Star Trek Into Darkness, successfully reinvigorated a moribund brand, conventional wisdom holds that the franchise rested on director J. J. Abrams' shoulders and coasted on Star Trek's built- in audience. With Jack Ryan, Paramount and co- financier Skydance Productions are taking a $6. Pine is a star outside of Trek.

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STORY: Paramount's 'Jack Ryan' Movie Gets Imax Release. Abrams is certain of it. He's got an amazing, compelling watchability - - you can't take your eyes off of him," says the director. His good looks are palatable to men and enticing to women."But is Pine a movie star? The answer, tentatively, in the age of Hollywood's A- list deficit, would be yes. The two Star Trek films brought in a combined $8.

Fox's Unstoppable took in $1. Denzel. Washington vehicle. Fox's This Means War, which found him opposite Tom.

Hardy and Reese. Witherspoon, earned $1. Meanwhile, other Pine projects barely registered, including 2. People Like Us and 2. Carriers (the two films combined for a dismal $1. But in an industry now more likely to give top billing to a brand like Marvel or a toy like Transformers, the notion of actor hierarchy might be antiquated. Case in point is the teaser poster for Jack Ryan.

Pine's face is obscured in shadow and unrecognizable. His name appears nowhere on the poster, while Clancy, writers Adam. Cozad and David. Koepp, director Kenneth. Branagh and, of course, the name "Jack Ryan" - - the everyman spy previously played by Alec. Baldwin, Harrison.

Ford and Ben. Affleck - - are proudly displayed. Jack Ryan producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura says that the teaser poster was meant to create an air of mystery.

Subsequent trailers and art featured Pine front and center.)Paramount president of production Marc Evans is emphatic: "I think he's a quintessential movie star. There is now a phenomenal group of actors who have the chance to be big movie stars if we continue to make movie- star movies."If Pine feels any pressure, he shows no signs of it over lunch at The Smile, a hipster restaurant in Manhattan's No. Ho neighborhood. Whenever Pine finds the time, he heads to New York from his hometown of Los Angeles. On this day, he is making a pit stop on his way back from London, where he just wrapped Rob Marshall's musical Into the Woods. EXCLUSIVE: Chris Pine, Jake Gyllenhaal Circling Musical 'Into the Woods'No one appears to recognize him. No one seems to care.

When I told the hostess I was meeting Chris Pine, I was met with a blank stare. Star Trek," I offered. She shook her head apologetically.

Kim Kardashian could walk by outside, "and no one would give a shit. It's too f- -- ing cold," he jokes of the 3. That's how Pine likes it, eating in peace, whether here or at one of his favorite haunts in L.

A.'s Echo Park or Silver Lake (he lives in Los Feliz). But with Star Trek came the trappings of a star, paparazzi included, and the intensely private Pine was ill prepared. Although he refuses to discuss his love life ("That's something I don't really want to talk about"), a brief romance with reality star Audrina.

Patridge around the release of Star Trek led to him being chased by the shutterbugs.[pagebreak]"They f- -- ing suck," he says. The light of my flame was really bright after Star Trek [in 2. I had that bizarre convergence of everything's so intense for about a month, and then it died down. Watch View From The Top 4Shared more.

During that time, they're f- -- ing chasing you, and you're driving at speeds you shouldn't be driving at. Thankfully, I don't really have much of that anymore."Outside of promoting his films, Pine has zero interest in being in the public eye. He has absolutely no use for social media."No, f- -- no," he says emphatically. What am I going to tweet about?

My sneakers? Or, 'I have 1. Facebook.' What does that even mean? I find it to be a waste of time. The Internet is so caustic; just a place where people get to spew nonsense and bullshit."Instead, he consumes news the old- fashioned way, via newspapers, underlining important passages.

It's a critical way of thinking honed during his college days at UC Berkeley, where he studied English literature. The well- read Pine demonstrates a nuanced understanding of civics. VIDEO: 'Chris Pine Is the New CIA Hero in 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'By and large, there are two political camps in Hollywood: rah- rah Obama fans and the taxed- enough- already minority. Then there's Pine, who finds the whole left- right identification to be moronic. To Pine, Republicans and Democrats are interchangeable. He's quick to point out the erosion of privacy and the strengthening of the Patriot Act under President Obama."The head of our government can assassinate anyone, including an American citizen," he says. We are striking countries with drones - - sovereign countries.

What if Mexico decided to bomb San Diego because there was a drug cartel there?"During a two- hour stretch with this reporter, Pine checked his i. Phone exactly once - - to confirm the name of Anwar al- Awlaki, a U. S. citizen who was killed in Yemen by a CIA- led drone strike."Was he an awful guy? Yeah. Was he plotting terrorism? Possibly. But we crossed the line by just outright assassinating him," he says. Eschewing the Hollywood crowd, he has an eclectic social circle that includes friends from his youth, an ABC News journalist and an advertising exec.

In fact, the only industry friend he can name is tentpole writer Mark Bomback (The Wolverine). The two met on the set of Tony Scott's Unstoppable, which shot in parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania.