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Actors who you only find attractive in one role

206 replies

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 02/12/2018 17:04

Orlando Bloom as Legolas in LOTR.
Long blond hair, blue eyes, deadly with and bow and arrow.
I turned to my friend and said "I'd totally DO that elf!"
OB in anything else--thin and weedy with occasional dodgy facial hair.
No thank you.

Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock. Sex on legs.
BC in anything else and in real life - looks like a weasel

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GreenDinosaur · 02/12/2018 17:49

See, I think Anthony Head is sexy in most things Wink

GreenDinosaur · 02/12/2018 17:50

Even in his recent Archers cameo!

mamaduckbone · 02/12/2018 17:52

Yes yes to Orlando as Legolas, Viggo as Aragorn and Cillian as Tommy Shelby - I do think the hair is key with all 3 of them.

IStoleThisName · 02/12/2018 17:53

Vigo Mortenson as Aragorn here too. Plus James Marsters as Spike in Buffy.

ButtMuncher · 02/12/2018 17:53

I knew when I clicked on this that there would be a sleuth of people saying Cumberbatch! I have to say my Cumberbatch fantasies started with Sherlock but have also extended to his role as Khan (everyone loves a psychopath right?) and as Doctor Strange. Anything else and I'm a bit meh.

I fucking adore Joel Kinneman in Altered Carbon but I cannot stand his look in The Killing - he looks like a bum. I think it's the floppy haired being half naked in some kind of dystopian clothing that does it Blush

Thewindsofchange · 02/12/2018 17:55

Yes yes to Legolas. As soon as I saw the thread title I thought of him and clicked on to post but the op already had him covered (oo er missus!). Major disappointment when I saw what he actually looked like!

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 02/12/2018 17:55

John Luther but not Idris Elba
DCI Gene Hunt but not Philip Glenister
Gaz from The Full Monty but not Robert Carlyle

fussychica · 02/12/2018 18:04

Viggo as Aragorn. Hands down winner for me.

usernamesachangin · 02/12/2018 18:06

Josh Brolin in No Country For Old Men.

Pedro Pascal in Narcos.

Fishcakey · 02/12/2018 18:12

Tom Cruise in Cocktail - he makes my skin crawl in everything else

EyeDrops · 02/12/2018 18:36

Aiden Turner as Poldark, absolute phwoaaaar, but not otherwise.

Totally agree with Aragorn, Gene Hunt and Jack Sparrow!

Haggisfish · 02/12/2018 18:40

Tom cruise in top gun. Yes to lots of others here!

Otterseatpuffinsdontthey · 02/12/2018 18:44

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katseyes7 · 02/12/2018 18:48

Alan Rickman as Snape, Jason lsaacs as Lucius Malfoy. l saw him without the long blond hair and l didn't get him at all.
And Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. l think it's because he's quite 'Adam Ant'y.

IchHabeDurst · 02/12/2018 18:49

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine through the years and Michael Fassbender as Magneto.

katseyes7 · 02/12/2018 18:50

Eyedrops l had major heart flutters with Aidan Turner in Desperate Romantics. l've never watched Poldark though.

LadyOfTheFlowers · 02/12/2018 18:52

Depp as Jack Sparrow

LadyOfTheFlowers · 02/12/2018 18:54

Oh and Tom Hardy in The Krays Blush

Otterseatpuffinsdontthey · 02/12/2018 18:55

John Duttine in "To Serve Them All My Days". Not "Heartbeat" Smile

MrsCrankypants · 02/12/2018 18:56

Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born... He looks filthy and hot as hell in that and the clean cut look for him does nothing for me at all

Actors who you only find attractive in one role
BishopBrennansArse · 02/12/2018 19:02

I concur with @CareFactor - Hugh Laurie as Greg House.

Sambasam · 02/12/2018 19:02

Keifer Sutherland in 24 - Yes!!! Anything else - nooooo

LittleLlamaontheduskyroad · 02/12/2018 19:03

Dev Patel in Lion. It's the beard and wavy hair.

MunchMunch · 02/12/2018 19:07

YY to Travis Fimmel/Ragnar Lothbrok in Vikings

cropcirclesinthefields · 02/12/2018 19:07

Sam heughan as Jamie only
Richard Rankin as Roger
Chris Hemsworth but only with facial hair
David Thewelis as Remus Lupin he can be my teacher anyday 😉

Definite yes to Aragorn and I'll add David wenham as Faramir

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