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"  Many a child actor has had awkward teenage years exploited on film, but Nicholas Hoult maybe had it worse than most. In 2002&amp;#039;s About a Boy, opposite Hugh Grant, he bumbled his way through middle school, a lost and pudgy soul. A few reviewers even mocked his arched eyebrows, referring to them as &amp;quot;Vulcan.&amp;quot; Well, sometimes puberty is a blessing: The young British actor returned to screens in 2009&amp;#039;s A Single Man a lithe and lean 6&amp;#039;2&amp;quot; Adonis. The film&amp;#039;s director, designer Tom Ford, subsequently made Hoult the face (and brows) of his sunglass line. From there, the actor, now 23, snagged roles in the franchise reboot X-Men: First Class, February&amp;#039;s Warm Bodies, and this month&amp;#039;s Jack the Giant Slayer\u2014all while dating The Hunger Games phenom Jennifer Lawrence. After two years together, the couple parted ways in January, making the transformation official: The heart-melting boy has become a single man indeed. ELLE: You once said that you needed vodka to get up the courage for your first on-screen sex scene. Did you need vodka that first time in real life, too? Nicholas Hoult: Yeah, there was some alcohol involved. ELLE: Is there something you&amp;#039;d change about your first time? NH: I don&amp;#039;t think so. No. ELLE: So it all went according to plan? NH: No, not exactly as planned. But in hindsight I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;d particularly change it into some huge, romantic thing. It was what it was. You know, you grow and learn, and that was a part of me. ELLE: A journalist once described your eyebrows as something out of Star Trek. NH: That&amp;#039;s pretty common, actually. I remember being on the playground and an older girl asked if I was wearing lipstick. I had very red lips. I still do have quite red lips. That was more hurtful. ELLE: Would you share an embarrassing story from your childhood? NH: There were just embarrassing things continually. I remember once after deciding that I fancied a girl, I made her a badge. I&amp;#039;d never spoken to her before and I can&amp;#039;t remember what the badge said, but it obviously didn&amp;#039;t seal the deal. ELLE: That&amp;#039;s quite a courtship. NH: I had a moment when I was completely obsessed with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. I think I watched it seven times in one day. That&amp;#039;s how I believed relationships worked: You go into town, pick up the girl you want, then ride off into the mountains and the townsfolk can&amp;#039;t get them back. ELLE: When did you realize that&amp;#039;s not how it worked? NH: [Laughs] I still haven&amp;#039;t fully come to terms with that not being how it works. ELLE: Did Hugh Grant ever have any good lady wisdom for you? NH: Just watching him was quite remarkable. He&amp;#039;s one of the most charming people in the world. Women do just melt around him. There was a kind of, Oh, okay. He seems to have something. ELLE: Have you ever sent texts to a girl and then regretted it? NH: Many a time! There&amp;#039;s not a lot of bravery in text messaging. If you don&amp;#039;t get the reaction you want, you just say, &amp;quot;Sorry, someone else took my phone.&amp;quot; ELLE: You actually did that? NH: All the time! There definitely have been a few times where I&amp;#039;ve woken up and looked through my text messages and thought, Wow, I had whole hot conversations that I don&amp;#039;t remember. They were stunningly illiterate and served not much of a purpose. ELLE: What did you learn about women from your parents&amp;#039; marriage? NH: They support each other and care about each other. They also haven&amp;#039;t brought us up in a household where we&amp;#039;re delusional, thinking it&amp;#039;s easy the whole time. We have pretty realistic expectations of how it works. ELLE: You seem to be the sensitive type. NH: My older brother left home when I was fairly young and my father [a pilot] was away a lot, so I was raised by my mum and my sisters. So I can maybe steer clear of some pitfalls that guys who didn&amp;#039;t grow up with women would fall into. ELLE: Did they give you advice? NH: It&amp;#039;s more the awareness that whenever they leave the house will be half an hour later than the time they said it would be\u2014you know, additions in timing. And to never jump in a shower after a girl&amp;#039;s been in there. It&amp;#039;s guaranteed to be scalding hot. ELLE: Jennifer told ELLE that you two sat around eating Cheetos and watching women&amp;#039;s beach volleyball and discussing their asses. True? NH: [Laughs] I do clearly remember there was some commentary. ELLE: Do you wish she&amp;#039;d said something more romantic? NH: I think that&amp;#039;s probably a much more realistic description of how things work. ELLE: What&amp;#039;s the most romantic thing you&amp;#039;ve ever done for a woman? NH: The little things add up. I&amp;#039;ve done the thing on Valentine&amp;#039;s when I set up a whole breakfast and had all the stuff waiting. And buying flowers when I haven&amp;#039;t done something wrong. ELLE: When was the last time you did something wrong? NH: Probably pretty recently. ELLE: You said the wrong thing? Or didn&amp;#039;t call at the right time? NH: All of the above. Said the wrong thing at the wrong time. ELLE: If I got all the women you ever dated on the phone and asked them to agree on something about you, what would they say? NH: That&amp;#039;s a tough one\u2014and I probably don&amp;#039;t want to know the answer. [Laughs] I hope they&amp;#039;d say my heart was in the right place and I meant well. I don&amp;#039;t know. That, and make fewer badges. 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