On the proverbial road to stardom, Aaron Yoo is riding in the fast lane. A quick glance at his schedule shows appearances at screenings in Tokyo, red carpet interviews at the MTV Movie Awards, a string of promotional photo shoots, and, of course, all those after parties. And that’s just this week.

Fortunately, KoreAm was able to squeeze into the lineup after some back-and-forth with his people, who finally told him where to be and when to be there.

“Yeah, it’s obnoxious,” Yoo says, sitting outside a natural foods market in Los Angeles. “There are, like, 10 people on the e-mail list [that sends me my schedule] — agents, assistants, my manager, my publicist. I’m exhausted. I have no personal life. But I have to remind myself, ‘No, you can’t be tired. This is the stuff you dreamed about as a kid.’”

It’s been a dizzying year for the 27-year-old rising celeb, recently called “the most famous actor you’ve never heard of” by E! Online. He’s splashing his mark on the silver screen, playing the hormone-charged Ronnie in the hit thriller “Disturbia” and the saxophone-blowing Lyle in “American Pastime,” a home video release about a wartime family that is uprooted to a Japanese internment camp. Next up: key roles in the coming-of-age comedy “Rocket Science” (releases Aug. 10) and “21” (out next year, starring Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth), which tells the story of the real MIT card-counting crew that hustled Las Vegas for millions.

Aaron Yoo plays Lyle Nomura in “American Pastime,” a film about a Japanese internment camp and its baseball league. (Matt Morgan/courtesy of Warner Home Video)

And he’s not stopping yet.

Wearing a long-sleeve printed T, his hair swept and tousled in all directions, Yoo chatters away about his work, his beginnings and his life in tinsel town. He’s an elaborate storyteller, which makes his interviewer a bit antsy since the minutes before he must jet off to his next gig are quickly ticking away. 

But the man’s got so much candor and spunk that, ultimately, you can’t help but turn your watch the other direction and just listen.   

Rarely stopping to take a bite out of his sandwich, Yoo talks animatedly about growing up in East Brunswick, N.J. At a young age, his parents encouraged him to pursue a career in medicine or business, but even then, Yoo had a mind of his own.

“I wanted to be an archeologist, an astronaut, a f-cking cowboy,” Yoo says. “Everything I wanted to be was purely defined by the last movie I saw.” 

In the fifth grade, Yoo was put in his school’s gifted program, TAG (“I don’t know what the hell that meant, but I got to get out of class and move shapes around.”) For one project, he and his friends created a movie — a “‘Star Wars’ epic disastrous mess,” he says.

In “Rocket Science,” Yoo plays Heston, best friend to the stuttering Hal (Reece Thompson, center), who decides to join the debate team. (Photo courtesy of Picturehouse Entertainment)

“We turned my entire basement into a spaceship with markers and paint,” he recalls. “My parents flipped out.”