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Just ask 24-year-old Charlie Cox. In the upcoming new fantasy, Stardust, he has the pivotal role of a young man whose quest for a falling star plunges him in an exciting adventure. But the young English actor, who's only a few years out of drama school, would never have won the part had he been better known.

The word from director Matthew Vaughn and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is that they didn't want to hire an actor who would carry any "star" baggage into the picture. They wanted an unknown -- someone who, in di Bonaventura's words, would be believable from the beginning, who "could start out a bit more awkward and become truly handsome, dashing and courageous along the way, someone with a sense of innocence and a sort of naive, single-handed drive."

Cox is excited about the Aug. 10 premiere of the film version of a popular comic book and novel by fantasy master Neil Gaiman. After all, before the story ends he's fallen in love with both Sienna Miller and Claire Danes, has a bizarre encounter with a cross-dressing pirate captain played by Robert De Niro, and ends up in the baleful orbit of Michelle Pfeiffer as a venomous witch who's desperate to avoid growing old. In fact, he endured a true rite of passage when he was knocked out cold twice on set during a scene where Pfeiffer's seething villainess went terribly wrong. But there were times at the very beginning when he wondered whether he'd even survive the audition process.

"Yeah, by the time we got to filming, there were certain scenes that I'd done very many times," he remembers. "That's because the audition process was so long and I auditioned so many times with so many different people as well."

The filmmakers not only had to be certain that Cox would be right in the role of a questing young villager named Tristan who passes through a forbidden wall into a parallel universe of witches and fairies, but that he and Danes -- who plays Yvaine, his fallen star come to magical life -- would be right together.

"I think that was why it took so long because primarily they couldn't find the couple. They found a few Tristans that they liked and a few Yvaines that they liked, but they couldn't find the right couple for a long time, and I could see why. There's a certain chemistry that you can't just act. It's either there or it's not."

He loved doing his scenes with Danes -- even though in many of them, the two do nothing but fight.

"It was such fun ... I had a genuinely good time. It's really fun with your character having a relationship with the other which is a kind of bickering. They kind of hate each other and they kind of love each other."

Cox -- who's shaggy-haired, brown-eyed and cheerfully talkative -- thinks the love interest in many films is boringly predictable: "That's what I loved about this script -- that it's kind of non-traditional."

He's proud of his earlier films -- Dot the I, Things to Do Before You're 30 and the critically praised Al Pacino version of The Merchant of Venice. But he's the first to admit they didn't give him much of a public profile.

After a year at the famed Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Cox started getting theatre work. But even though he's a professional and has been told by Vaughn that he's on the threshold of a major career, he was still feeling like a star-struck kid.

In fact, talking about De Niro, he can't bring himself to refer to him as Bob or Bobby. It only feels right referring to him as "Mr. De Niro."

"On set, I called him Bobby, but I can't bring myself to do that here," he laughs apologetically. That's because he reveres the Oscar-winning actor so much. "I'll never forget it."

He won't forget Pfeiffer either. That's because he was knocked out twice during the shooting of a scene in which she uses her witch's powers to hurl a giant vase at him. Three vases were prepared for the scene. "It's going to fly at you and it's going to hit you and it's going to disintegrate. So you have to throw yourself back and make it look like it really did knock you out."

Trouble is -- the vase didn't disintegrate the first time. "It hit me full power and I just went flying. And then it broke over the camera. It knocked me out. I was out for a minute."

What he didn't expect was for it to happen a second time?

"The first one was quite bad but not that bad. And they did it again -- and that was really bad. And I was out again."

But in retrospect, he thinks his scenes on horseback were even more of a threat to life and limb.

"I'm a terrible horseback rider," he confesses. "I'm really bad. Some of it's me (and some involves stunt doubles) but if you watch carefully, when it is actually me, I look absolutely terrified."