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Adam Brody Moves On to the "Land of Women"

Teen heartthrob Adam Brody of television's "The O.C." is turning over a new chapter now that the Fox series has ended its five-year run. The handsome 27-year-old began that chapter on Monday night in Hollywood at the Arclight Cinemas, grinning for the cameras at the premiere of the romantic drama "In the Land of Women," his new feature film that co-stars Meg Ryan and Kristen Stewart.

Brody, who made the Jonathan Kasden film almost two years ago, admitted earlier to a group of reporters that he's still adjusting to not having a steady job, unemployed since "The O.C." aired its last episode in late February.

"There is something to the steady job, it's nice," he said. "Even if it can be a drag or doesn't feel artistically satisfying there is something nice about stability. As much as you bitch about your job there is some security knowing it is there. When you do take it away it is definitely a different feeling.

"But I certainly don't miss it, not when I am sitting in my backyard on Monday morning thinking, ‘Wow, I could be in the Cohen kitchen for six hours right now!' It's really fun actually, I enjoy the routine. The routine of Sunday routine, just doing it Monday through Friday."

Brody, who happily greeted his mostly female co-stars including Alexa Vega and Christine Danielle Connolly on the red carpet, confessed that despite his enjoyment of all that newfound free time, he is a little nervous about not having another acting gig lined up once "In the Land of Women" opens on April 20.

"I think that - of course! - there is anxiety about the next job, but it is so out of your hands that I really am trying to sort of Zen out a little," he shrugged. "I think I can just work with what I have got and it's not up to me exactly. It isn't, there are a lot of good actors, a lot of good people that can do what I do. Hopefully the cards fall in a nice way [for me]."

Assuming that people head to the theaters to see "In the Land of Women," Brody is poised to make the transition from small-to-big-screen stardom; to that end, he's got a plan for where he wants his career to head next.

"I would love to figure out a way to be in a movie that is kind of big," he laughed. "When I say big I mean explosions!"

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