When Cam Gigandet landed in Southern California a decade ago looking for work, he certainly didn�t anticipate the day when he would be showing fangs in Twilight or ending up in bed with Christina Aguilera.In fact, he didn�t even expect to become an actor. He was just a small-town kid from the state of Washington seeking to broaden his horizons.
Those horizons didn�t include playing bad guy Kevin Volchok in a TV series like the O.C., or a villainous vampire in the movie Twilight, or a vampire exterminator in the upcoming Priest, or a role in Golden Globe nominee Burlesque that involved getting naked with Aguilera.
In Burlesque, Aguilera and Gigandet both play characters who leave home because there�s nobody around them whose lives they want to emulate. She ends up as a performer in a Los Angeles Club; he�s the bartender who falls for her.
As a teenager in Auburn, Washington, Cam also felt this need to get out of town, even though he loves the place and is close to his parents.
�I respect so many people where I�m from,� he says. �So it was more that I had to try something new, something that I didn�t know, because this world is huge and I didn�t really know anything, living in such a small little city up in Washington.�
But there was no grand plan involved.
�I think the main reason I chose L.A. was because it was in the same time zone that my parents were living in. It was just on a whim, right out of high school � let�s just go to L.A. So just doing that was quite an experience.�
But he had no ambition to perform until a few months later, when a friend suggested he try acting classes.
�And that night, I knew that this is where I was going to be.�
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