Who Wore It Best?

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This isn't the fairest contest since Chris Lowell (who is turning 34 today) is seen here styled really beautifully for a photo-shoot (I really covet that wooly lumberjack shirt he's wearing) while Max Irons (who is turning 33 today) was styled kind of poorly (that is a terrible mustache) for a TV mini-series called Tutankhamun in these photos of him, but you work with what ya got. And so I ask you...

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Smile Skarsgård Smile

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One of our Most Anticipateds has started filming this week - Park Chan-wook's The Little Drummer Girl, a miniseries adaptation of the usual spy-thriller sorta book by John Le Carre, was spotted filming at the Temple of Poseidon in Greece yesterday. Specifically its stars Alexander Skarsgård, looking all kinds of goofy (for such a big Swedish stud-muffin Askars can be the downright goofiest) and Florence Pugh were sighted - you can see a few more shots of them at JJ. Not on view just yet: Michael Shannon, who's the third lead in the cast. Oh and I just checked IMDb to see if anybody else had joined the cast that we hadn't heard about - Max Irons is up in it too. We like Max Irons. Well looking at Max Irons anyway...

Good Morning, Sort Of Gratuitous Sam Reid

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I almost kind of don't even want to do this post, wishing the actor Sam Reid a happy 29th birthday; I have held out on him for a very long time because he should not be rewarded for bad behavior -- he's been around for five years now, pretty much since starring in Roland Emmerich's William Shakespeare flop Anonymous, and after taking a more-than-cursory glance (more of a scouring, really) of the places where such things would be it appears that Sam Reid in those five years hasn't doffed a single bit of clothing. Not a bit!

Please, I beg of someone to prove me wrong. Was there a bit in Belle I am forgetting? That Hatfield & McCoys miniseries didn't seem to have any trouble getting at least one dude half-naked -- maybe Sam's bared torso was floating around there too? Tumblr seems to be infatuated with his unrequited bromance with Max Irons in the recent film The Riot Club...

... but it would appear that stayed snog-free. I mean really, Sam Reid. You get your career jump started by Roland Emmerich for god's sake and this is how you treat us? There's one thing making me do this post, then. Well there are two. #1, goddamn Sam Reid is gorgeous. But #2: goddamn he is gorgeous and goddamn he and fellow actor slash pretty boy Douglas Booth seem to be inseparable.

INSEPARABLE. As you'll see, after the jump where I've collected all these gorgeous fully-dressed (sigh) pictures, he and Douglas Booth sure do seem very... tight. Hit the jump for the rest...

Max Irons Five Times

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(via, see more Max here)

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Good Morning, Jeremy Irons' Son

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Rumination for the day: Yeah, nepotism sucks, but does it suck so hard when it's got creamy skin and a good bum? I don't think we'll ever figure that one out. So instead, let's just stare at Max Irons - who's turning 28 years old today - without his clothes on (these shots are from the series White Queen), and let the thoughts slip far far away. At least the thoughtful thoughts. The dirty thoughts, they're here to stay. You can see more here and here, and also if you hit the jump (including that good bum we were just talking about)...

I Am Link

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--- Destroy This - WWE pile-of-muscles Dave Batista is going to play Drax the Destroyer in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy movie - for a hot minute we thought it was going to be Jason Momoa. But no. Batista was the big bad in RZA's The Man With the Iron Fists, which I just watched, and trashed, last week - he is somehow pretty handsome for a dude so ridiculously enormous, so I did look him up while watching the movie, but he didn't really give off much charisma-wise.

--- Scream Not - Wes Craven must be super sick of having to answer this question every time he opens his mouth - no, he still hasn't heard anything about anybody wanting him to make a fifth Scream movie, dammit! Why doesn't anybody ask for Vampire In Brooklyn 2?

--- Him On Hardy - Joel Kinnaman, who's playing the new Robocop, just got a new role as the bad guy up against Tom Hardy in Child 44 - Hardy's a Soviet cop (ooh sexy Russian accent time!) chasing down a child murderer. Noomi Rapace also stars, probably as the lady getting in the way of my Kinnaman-on-Hardy fantasies.

--- Big Bottomed Girls - The King's Speech was alright, although I couldn't fathom the awards explosion for it. Les Mis was awful, awful, awful. So I'm not director Tom Hooper's biggest fan, is my point, and I groan at the word that Sacha Baron Cohen's seeking him to direct that long-gestating Freddie Mercury bio-pic. Maybe a leap forward period-wise will liven him up? Engh.

--- Folk Hero - Here's a big batch of pictures from Greetings From Tim Buckley, that bio-pic with Penn Badgley playing Jeff Buckley. He's wearing a shirt in all of them but I can just tell he's totally shaved down, dammit.

--- Sir 80 - Yesterday was Michale Caine's 80th birthday and I wished him a happy one over at The Film Experience and also asked everybody to name their favorite performance by him, and they be giving some stellar answers. It's weird, it wasn't until I started tallying them up that I realized just how many good performances he's given over his career - he doesn't get enough credit, I don't think (or maybe it's just I wasn't giving him enough credit personally) - he's had an amazing career.

--- Pretty Posh - The list of names of Hot Young British Things circling Lone Scherfig's adaptation of the hit Brit play Posh are drool-inducing - Robert Pattinson, Max Irons, Sam Claflin and Douglas Booth? Yes please. All of them getting trashed and rowdy together... I like it. Anybody see the play? I know Kit Harington was in it.

--- The Good Book - Ang Lee is maybe going to make the Biblical epic Gods and Kings now that Steven Spielberg has decided not to - I would watch the shit out of an Ang Lee Biblical epic. It's supposed to be a "gritty" take on the Moses story, but Ang Lee doesn't really make "gritty" movies, ya know? And I am tired of the whole "dirty it up to make it seem edgy and hip" nonsense anyway. Just wow me. Shaky cams and dirty teeth are over, I say! Over!

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Max Irons Six Times

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(see more Max here)

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That's It! No More Amanda Seyfried!

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Look at her there with that smug look on her face! (via) Thinking she can add Max Irons and Shiloh Fernandez to her long list of astonishing conquests. I'll have no more of it! You've pushed me too far, lady!

Much better, no?

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Not A Post For Naught

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I did a gratuitous post for Jeremy Irons' son Max last week when the rumor mill had him possibly being cast in the fourth Pirates of the Carribean flick, but then that role went to somebody else and I worried we'd never hear from the boy again and that post had been a waste. Thankfully nepotism never dies and his career's doing fine and he's hooked himself a role in an interesting project. Via here:

"Warner Bros. has filled in the third slot of the love triangle at the heart of "The Girl With the Red Riding Hood," its gothic horror reimagining of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale, bringing on board Max Irons, the son of actor Jeremy Irons.

Also in talks for key roles are Julie Christie and Gary Oldman.

Amanda Seyfried is already cast in the Catherine Hardwicke-directed project, playing a woman in a medieval village being terrorized by a werewolf. Earlier this week, Shiloh Fernandez nabbed the role of an orphaned woodcutter for whom Seyfried falls, much to the displeasure of her family.

Irons will play Henri, the son of a blacksmith who, through an arrangement, is to marry Seyfried's character. "

I almost did a post when that Shiloh Fernandez fellow got his role earlier this week, I even gathered up some pictures of him, but something about his face bugged me so I didn't bother. That's him to the left there. He's kind of like that skeevy guy from Gossip Girl, only possibly skeevier, right? Like, he's that guy's drug-dealing twin.

Anyway Julie Christie yay.
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Now It's Just Getting Weird

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Yesterday I posted some pictures from the recent Dorian Gray movie, starring Ben Barnes, because as I explained a couple of random occurrences came together to put it at the fore of my mind. Well this morning I clicked on a story over at PopWrap about some casting news for the fourth Pirates of the Carribean movie because the dude pictured was pretty and well apparently all roads lead back to Dorian Gray. Let's start with the story at PopWrap:

"After an exhaustive search for an actress who does not have breast implants to star in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strangers Tides," Disney has finally found their dream chest. And naturally they had to leave Hollywood to do so.

Meet Astrid Berges-Frisbey -- a poly-blend of nationalities (born in Barcelona to French and Catalan parents) which has resulted in one of the most captivating faces I've seen in ages. In "Stranger Tides," Astrid will play Syrena, an alluring mermaid who works alongside Captain Jack to ... do something epic, I'm sure.

Also rumored to be jumping into the fray is Maximilian Irons -- son of Jeremy and a model -- whose killer cheekbones would theoretically replace Orlando Bloom's since he, like Keira Knightley, won't be returning for more."

Naturally I don't care about the lady here; it's Jeremy Irons' 24 year old son Max that we're focusing on. He's a very pretty boy (which makes me curious what his mother looks like, since I've never been attracted to his father in the slightest). Anyway I went in search of photos, which led me to the realization that he's one of the dudes hanging on Ben Barnes in those pictures I posted yesterday!


When I posted his picture with Ben yesterday I remember wondering who the heck he was, because he was so pretty - what I'm getting at is the universe is a kind and benevolent beefcake-loving force, and I appreciate it. Thanks, universe! Here's some more of Max, whom I expect we'll be hearing more from in the future.

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