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Actors who you only find attractive in one role

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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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Drogosnextwife · 02/12/2018 21:58

Why is it so many of us are attracted to dirty, long haired, men who like a good fight? 😂

afrikat · 02/12/2018 21:59

Colin O'Donaghue as Captain Hook. My god he is sexy but in other things he is just...ok

Sam Heughan as James Fraser. I've only seen him in one other thing but he didn't do it for me at all. As Jamie however...

WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 02/12/2018 22:01

It turns my stomach to think my perfect man used to be Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder II - even as any other Blackadder he's Not Nice - well possibly 4 but not 1 or 3 amd definitely not Mr Bean.

DT as Doctor Who is very nice but with the eyeliner in Fright Night Grin

Perhaps it's just men with eyeliner

MinecraftHolmes · 02/12/2018 22:01

Matt Smith as Prince Philip in the Crown.

Totally agree re: Sherlock and David Tennant as Dr Who.

Also Kylo Ren. Adam Drivers character in Hirls is repulsive but I’d climb Kylo Ren like a tree 😏

Florries · 02/12/2018 22:01

Really fancy Tirion from GOT but not him IRL. forgotten actors name he was also in elf and definitely not fanciable in that.

Would marry Tirion though.

madmum5811 · 02/12/2018 22:03

Tom Hardy in Taboo, otherwise nah...

RiverTam · 02/12/2018 22:06

Tom H as Loki
John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness
Zachary Quinto as Sylar in Heroes
Yy to Viggo/Aragorn

I like Benedict as Sherlock, Dr Strange and himself but not much else.

I don’t get the Legolas love at all. I’m all about Thranduil and Lee Pace is pretty hot too

FrankieChips · 02/12/2018 22:07

Viggo as Aragorn for sure!! He looks shorter in everything else. Ahhhh....Aragorn.

groundcontroltomontydon · 02/12/2018 22:14

Yy to Aidan Turner in Being Human. Completely unmoved by him in any other role. Poldark is my tv drama Room 101 - under-the-eyebrow acting, random shirtlessness, Cornwall ...

holidaylady · 02/12/2018 22:19

Nah, Cillian Murphy in anything Grin

MrsMeeseeks · 02/12/2018 22:40

Matt Smith as Prince Philip in the Crown.

Same! I've never understood the Matt Smith love... To me, he looks like a foot. But I started watching The Crown and thought, 'Cor!' for the first ten minutes... Until I realised it was him Grin

boatyardblues · 02/12/2018 22:47

Viggo as Aragorn for sure!! He looks shorter in everything else. Ahhhh....Aragorn.

Ah yes, the Hobbit factor. Average bloke turned tall.

Mummyoftwo91 · 02/12/2018 22:48

Actor who plays Jon snow 100% in real life he's just not that fit

Thomlin · 02/12/2018 22:48

It's funny because my ex-husband is Cillian Murphys double (-10yrs) but only as his Tommy Shelby role.. I mean looks wise but especially mannerisms, the walk, the attitude, the way he smokes a fag!

He wasn't a very nice man and I walked away.. but Jesus christ it was (and still is) very very hard to refrain from going back there for a one night stand when I watch/ watched it 😂 I'm not attracted to Cillian Murphy- or my exH though, so it's definitely a power thing I think! Tommy is both adored and feared which is seriously attractive in a fantasy way! I have to remind myself exH is neither of those things.. 😂

Slightlyjaded · 02/12/2018 23:11

Another vote for Cillian as Thomas Shelby. The hair is everything. Never thought anyone could make a Brummie accent hot, but fuck me, he is a sex god.

Robots1Humans0 · 02/12/2018 23:13

Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon especially in the earlier series when his hair was just growing out. Lawd

Jim Carey in Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind. Not even sorry about that one

Domhnall Gleeson in About Time. Though a bit skinny

Peculiar taste in blokes, never really had a 'type' 😂😂

Robots1Humans0 · 02/12/2018 23:14

Oh yeah kit Harrington as Jon snow as well. Saw him on BBC breakfast recently. No fanny gallop Sad

SleeptightDaisy · 02/12/2018 23:26

Petalflowers most definitely Neil Morrissey as rocky but nothing else occasionally see him around town as he owns a pub near us but DH always takes the piss about how I fancy him (used to)

AlexaAmbidextra · 03/12/2018 00:12

Martin Shaw as Judge John Deed makes me drool with longing. Does nothing for me as Inspector George Gently. Confused

Oratorio · 03/12/2018 00:16

I love Cillian Murphy in anything. Anything. Same with Domhnall Gleeson. Apparently I like pale Irishmen.

One-offs though, I agree with a few on here. Russell Crowe in Gladiator - ew in anything else. Tom Hiddleston only as Loki. Also glad to see I’m not the only one who fancied Arnold Vosloo in The Mummy. When I saw him in another role, I was 😩 - he looked like a frumpy dad.

James McAvoy as Charles Xavier.

And - this ones’s really odd - Tom Holland dancing in drag on Lip Synch Battle. Otherwise I find him way too young and clean cut.

GunpowderGelatine · 03/12/2018 00:29

Michael Fassbender as Mr Rochester, proper fanny gallops going on. Anything else - just no

Myshinynewname · 03/12/2018 00:30

James McAvoy but only in Shameless - I think that says more about me than him Blush
Disagree with Kit Harrington and Cillian Murphy - they are beautiful all the time!

mycatistoo · 03/12/2018 00:33

Just watching the American football and Tom Brady when he's playing is to die for.

When he's normal and talking- nope.

Must be the angry running. Grin

SusieQ5604 · 03/12/2018 01:24

Oh my goodness! Benedict Cumberbatch DOES look like a snake!!!

PassMeTheBleach · 03/12/2018 01:31

Aidan Turner but not as Poldark, only as Mitchell in Being Human

100% this! I’m so turned off by all the Poldark stuff but Mitchell is just so lovely.

Also agree about Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy.

I saw Jamie Bamber on the Christmas University Challenge specials last year and I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Looked him up in that sci-fi show he’s on (can’t remember which one it is now) and I was very disappointed. Apparently I only fancy him when he’s answering general knowledge questions.

(I fancy Alan Rickman in everything)