WATCH: Dane DeHaan as James Dean in Life

Before he became a cultural dynamo and one of the most recognizable faces in the world, James Dean was a struggling actor like many others.

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In Life, Dane DeHaan plays the pouty-lipped icon on the cusp of his breakthrough and Robert Pattinson plays the Life magazine photographer, Dennis Stock, who saw something in Dean before his meteoric rise to fame. Over the course of his assignment, Dean befriends Stock while learning the intricacies of Hollywood and coping with the leap from obscurity to ubiquity. Watch below.