W Magazine has featured Dev in their most recent issue. He discussing how he’s adjusting to fame and his thoughts on his newest role as Prince Zuko in The Last Airbender.

The obvious question that comes to mind before meeting Dev Patel, the young star of 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire, is how the rookie has been changed by success. On a bright spring morning in Los Angeles, the answer arrives as soon as Patel bounds into a suite at the Sunset Tower Hotel to discuss his second film, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. Now 20, Patel has the same puppy-dog enthusiasm, the same mama’s-boy manners and the same big ears that endeared him to fans around the world.

That’s not to say he was entirely unaffected by Slumdog, which won eight Academy Awards, including best picture. “I grew up five years in the space of five months,” Patel says. “I thought that I was a big comedian in school, but here I was working with adults and they took me seriously. That gave me a confidence I never knew I had.”

It shows. Although still thin as an asparagus, Patel wears a navy shirt over a filmy T-shirt that gives him a hint of geeky sex appeal. He’ll likely never be a true Hollywood bad boy, but at least he has developed an edge.

For his role in Airbender, Patel needed all the dark charisma he could muster. The movie, out in July, is a megabudget superhero epic, and Patel plays Zuko, a troubled prince who must choose between good and evil in his quest for fatherly approbation. “He’s got an Anakin Skywalker kind of thing going on,” says Patel. The part had him performing martial arts (he’s a real-life black belt), playing with fire and strutting around in major makeup like a “badass,” he says.

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Also, here are some photoshoot images that were taken for W Magazine.

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Fairchilds at the SkinsFans LJ community has posted a scan of Dev from the latest issue of InStyle UK.

Dev is featured in an InStyle UK photo spread as one of the most brilliant British acting talents. The magazine is the March 2010 issue which is out on stands now (in the UK). We don’t have a scan from the magazine yet, but here is a behind the scenes video of Dev at the photoshoot.

To celebrate the BAFTAs, InStyle filmed the most brilliant British acting talent. Go behind the scenes on our exclusive shoot with Bonnie Wright, Dev Patel, Jamie Campbell Bower and Rupert Grint.

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Scans from the Dec 25/Jan 1, 2010, Issue of Entertainment Weekly have been added to the gallery.

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I’ve updated the gallery scans from 27 different magazines featuring images or articles about Dev. View all of the updates by going to the gallery’s latest magazine uploads

Magazine Scans

We’ve finally added a high quality scan from the October 9, 2009, issue of Entertainment weekly to the gallery, along with some clearer versions of the stills used in the magazine.

Entertainment Weekly: Oct 9, 2009

LastAirbenderFans.com posted a new scan from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly with several pictures from the set of Dev’s new movie The Last Airbender. We’ll post a high quality scan soon, so keep checking back!

The magazine scan section of the gallery has been updated with a few more images.

Dev has an article in Nylon Magazine and I’ve added them to the gallery!:

Here is an excerpt from the 150th issue of Total Film magazine that was on stands in December 2008. “The brightest British young hopefuls” recreated some of the most recognizable characters of the past few decades.

Dev Patel

… is Renton from ‘Trainspotting’ (1996)

Patel has just won a British Independent Film Award for his role in Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Another TV star breaking out, the 18-year-old former ‘Skins’ star, who has just appeared on the Letterman show in the US, says “I’m kind of like a sponge at the moment; I haven’t had any formal training, but I’m up for taking on anything!”