lafluffy wrote:grace, With all due respect, the body never made the actor into an award winner. I think chance plays the biggest role. I hope the die is rolled in favour of his acting rather than the beefcake. Looks do matter, but beefcake is a whole other thing, IMO. Stay away from extended beefcake, Alex!
No, but looks get actors the role, and that was my point. As I said, how many real-life stories get made into movies, or tv movies, and the ordinary, geeky looking guy, or woman, gets played by Brad Pitt, or Matt Damon, or Julia Roberts or some other gorgeous person? It's so common that it's actually a long-standing joke. If the role requires an ordinary or geeky look, they just slap glasses and badly-hemmed pants on the beautiful actor.
Or look at television series and then look at your own office. How many hospitals have YOU been into where they have so many doctors as attractive as those on 3R? Or how many law firms have you visited where you have so many pretty folks, and so incredibly well-dressed, as at The Good Wife's office? Or good lord, how many gorgeous CSI agents have any of us ever seen? Even the lab folks are incredible on these shows.
If the actor, who gets the role for looks and talent (cause there's usually some measure of talent, unless we're talking Caruso, and I think he just has incriminating photos of someone powerful... how else to explain THAT career??) ends up being extraordinarily talented, then yeah, it's the acting, not the looks, that lead to an Oscar. But in order to be up for any of those talent awards, you first gotta get cast in the part.
And francis is right, once an actor has made it, they have more freedom to take roles that don't emphasize their looks. But do recall, Brad Pitt recently played Achilles. And he was voted People's Most Sexy Human a couple times earlier on... he posed for those pictures as Alex is doing now.
And this latest magazine, yeah, Alex is posing for a SEXY stars issue. So sexiness is the focus of the edition. He doesn't go around doing that all the time. Andy Yablonski is normally right covered up. And lately Alex has been wearing scarves and vests and all manner of extra clothing at this own personal appearances. I think he's got a clue.