A few years ago, the Los Angeles-based star of "Just My Luck," which lands in theaters today, was in New York, finishing a theater festival, when he called his agents to tell them he was moving here.
"I told them I would be back in L.A. to sort out some stuff, and my agents were like, 'Well, when you get back, we're going to book you jobs,'" says Pine.
"Sure enough, I had a swarm of auditions - more than I'd ever had before. I ended up booking two TV shows. Then I had an audition for this Disney movie looking for a 'Prince Charming,' and thought this was obviously not me.
"I had just bought a plane ticket. I was about to leave in a week. I had packed my bags and found a place to live in New York. And then I booked 'Princess Diaries 2.'"
In "Just My Luck," his second major film role, Pine, 25, plays disaster-prone Jake, whose fate magically changes when he kisses ne'er-a-cloud Ashley (Lindsay Lohan). Before the karma switch, Pine had to endure plenty of physical comedy, which he had never experienced.
"On 'Princess Diaries,' I worked with Anne Hathaway, and that was kind of her staple, so I'm sure I soaked up a lot of how to do it from her," he admits.
One thing is certain: Pine has been lucky. The former Berkeley student has two more films coming out this year ("Blind Guy Driving" and "Smokin' Aces") and he starred opposite Diane Keaton in the CBS-TV movie "Surrender Dorothy" earlier this year.
So far, he has remained pretty much anonymous, which, he claims, is for the best. "The only attention I got from 'Princess Diaries' was a 3-year-old in an airport lounge calling me Prince Nicholas," he says, laughing.
As for screaming teenage girls, "It hasn't happened, and I really don't expect it to happen," he says, despite his romantic role with Lohan. "I don't know if I'm that guy. They have Chad Michael Murray for that, I guess."
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