I admit that I know NOTHING about the guy who has been hailed 2014’s “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine. Sorry, Chris Hemsworth. Honestly, I don’t find him at all exciting. It’s all a matter of taste, I suppose. As Salon rightly pointed out, the only person of color ever to be named SMA was Denzel Washington in 1996.
Besides my husband Lorin, who will not allow me to post his photo here, here are my choices:
Chiwetel Ejiofor. Hands-down, my first choice. Lorin will attest to the fact that I made him sit through an entire season of “Dancing on the Edge,” a very poorly written mini-series on STARZ, simply because Chiwetel starred in it. I like to call him by his first name . . . Chiwetel. I first saw him as a doctor in the riveting film, Dirty Pretty Things. What makes Chiwetel sexy? Everything. He is intelligent, handsome, a very good actor, has a sensuous mouth and he can play a drag queen (Kinky Boots), and I still find him sexy.
photo: Vivien Killilea, getty images
Raza Jaffrey. Smash star Raza Jaffrey now plays Aasar Khan in the current season of Homeland. Aasar Khan is the lieutetnant-colonel in the Pakistani intelligence service. If you didn’t catch last week’s episode, sparks were flying between him and Carrie. What makes him sexy? The smoldering gaze, masculine bearing, the fact that he needs Carrie to believe him and he calls her up in the middle of the night to tell her so (oh my).
photo: Magnus Hastings
Ian McShane. I first became enamored of him when he played Al Swearengen on Deadwood. He makes me go weak in the knees. Okay, he’s 72 years old now, but who cares? He’s got the voice of a god, the looks, bedroom eyes, intelligence, roguish grandeur . . . enough said.
photo: Albert L. Ortega
Okay, those are my choices.
What are yours? Or do you think that Chris Hemsworth truly is worthy of the title, Sexiest Man Alive?
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Do I even have to tell you, Erica? Actor Stephen Bishop, currently star of Being Mary Jane on BET and appearing in the new indie film starring Katie Holmes, Miss Meadows. He played the role of David Justice in the movie Moneyball. 😀
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I’ll have to check him out, Lezlie.
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I’ll pass on this one, Erica, altho I thought McShane was the true anti-star of Deadwood (those episodes I was able to catch in reruns).
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Ya know that’s kind of a hard question for me, but I think I’d hafta say, Jack Nicholson! I used to think that he was one of the homliest male stars around and then I saw him in, “Something’s Gotta Give” and just fell in love with him! Guess it was how he changed/grew in the course of the film and how he “really was a sweatheart of a guy”….I guess “sexy IS and SEXY does!” Or words to that effect! 🙂
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Oops! I mean, “Sexy is AS sexy does!”
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Oooh, we’ll have to agree to disagree. I adore Chris Hemsworth. 🙂 I haven’t actually seen any of the Thor films but he’s FINE in the Avengers. More than anything, I love that he’s devoted to his family. (His wife is actually older than him by a several years.)
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I’ll have to check him out. He sounds like a good guy!
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