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Michael Stahl-David recently spoke to IGN about his character in Cloverfield, Rob Hawkins:

"He's a guy in his mid-20s who has just landed this big job in Japan and the movie starts with them having a going away party for him," said Stahl-David, referencing the now-familiar opening moments from that first trailer. "I think he's somebody that people expected would be further along in his life than he is. This is not another in a long string of accomplishments.

This is like the first time he's getting his s--t together. And he's also in a relationship with this girl, which has always been a friendship but has recently changed, and that's kind of when catastrophe strikes. And things get put into perspective for him."

Read the full interview with Stahl-David now.

Sorry, this isn't a shot of the mysterious monster in Cloverfield.

But it is a photo of Mike Vogel and Michael Stahl-David from the film, hitting theaters on January 18.

Michael Stahl-David isn't a huge name in Hollywood.

But that may change as this actor stars in the upcoming monster movie, Cloverfield. Of course, Stahl-David says the J.J. Abrams flick isn't really even about the mysterious villain:

"I think in some ways it's as much a survival movie as it is about the monster," he said. "The monster is definitely the problem, but you're seeing it the way we would, we don't pan back and watch it perfectly. It is going to be exciting.

It is contemporary film vocabulary - this kind of first-hand account, something that could've been on YouTube or something. Someone just holds up the camera and starts filming, there are probably other accounts, [our footage is] just the one the government happens to find."

What else does the actor have to say? Read the full interview right now.