AFI Fest: Panelists unveiled for Times’ Young Hollywood roundtable

Four rising stars in the movie business will come together at AFI Fest on Friday for The Times’ fifth annual Young Hollywood roundtable.

Logan Lerman, 22, Jenny Slate, 32, Joey King, 15, and Jena Malone, 29, will join reporter Amy Kaufman for a conversation about their acting careers.

Each is gaining notice this year with head-turning performances and buzzed-about films. Lerman most recently played the fresh-faced new member of a hardened tank crew opposite Brad Pitt in David Ayer’s World War II drama “Fury”; earlier this year he appeared with Russell Crowe in the biblical epic “Noah.”

Slate impressed with her first lead film role in the Sundance hit “Obvious Child,” director Gillian Robespierre’s comedy about a struggling twentysomething comedian who ends up pregnant after a one-night stand and decides to have an abortion.

King had a key role in “Wish I Was Here,” Zach Braff’s Kickstarter-backed comedy-drama about a flailing actor who begins home-schooling his two kids when his father can no longer afford to pay for their private education.

In the coming weeks, Malone will be seen in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1” (in theaters Nov. 21), the first installment of the two-part finale of the blockbuster film franchise, and “Inherent Vice” (Dec. 12), Paul Thomas Anderson’s crime caper based on the Thomas Pynchon novel.

The quartet will discuss their recent work and more at 7 p.m. at the Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood. Tickets are available on the AFI website, and there will also be a standby line at the event.

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