Article by Jessica Goebel

As Nicolas Cage’s meddling teenage daughter in “Matchstick Men,” Ewan McGregor’s puerile love interest in “Big Fish,” or a budding pop star in the mold of Britney Spears in “Delirious,” 28-year-old Alison Lohman has made a habit of playing adolescent.

In her next movie, our little girl is about to get all grown up.

“It’s an Iraq War story but it’s not about the war, it’s about what our soldiers are going through right now and just having the compassion to see how horrible war is,” Lohman revealed of next year’s “Under the Blue Sky.” “I hardly ever cry when I read scripts and I was in tears by the end.”

With “The Kingdom,” “In the Valley of Elah,” and “Renditon,” all hitting theaters within the last two months, the only thing apparently hotter than movies about our current global war on terror is Lohman’s upcoming co-star, the Human Torch Chris Evans.

“I play a girl he meets in a bar that’s just as disillusioned as he is, not about the war but the war in her own life,” Lohman divulged, pleased to play a character, for once, that has more in common with Hemingway than Highlights.

Do Lohman and Evans strike you as a good pair? Excited to see this fiercely talented actress playing her age? Sound off below.