TV or Film actors you watched whilst young then realise now they are quite hot (back then)

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Kicking off with Det. Brodie in JAWS

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I could take or leave David McCallum back in the day. Rewatching Sapphire and Steel and.....phwoar.

Yes I get that now. I thought he looked weird at the time. How wrong I was.

The young David Soul was spectacular before he self destructed.

James Mason. Born 1909. Gorgeous.

Tom Selleck! I thought he was hairy and hated the whole moustache. Now I can see with my adult eyes that he was hot! And Jon Bon Jovi. All I saw in the day was hair and a style of music I didn’t like

My 16 yr old self always appreciated James Mason.

A young David Attenborough
Yes, I know he isn't an actor.

Paul Newman, in ‘The Long Hot Sumner’, which I think was his breakout movie.

Never saw the appeal of Robert Redford until quite recently. Preferred Paul Newman 😆

Oh yes, he was exquisite wasn’t he, those cheekbones. He was always middle aged in my young 70s eyes.
Aware that I shouldn’t be talking of Sir DA in the past tense!

The dad from twilight

Christopher Plummer in Sound Of Music. As a kid he was just Captain Von Trapp. I remember asking my mum when I was a lot older if he had always been that good looking 😆

Alan Bates as Gabriel Oak. I thought he was 'a very nice man' at the time. I rewatched FFTMC recently and BAM! Those eyes, that earnestness...

Image for context... also pleasingly 'field fresh'...

Jerry Orbach - Dr Houseman in Dirty Dancing. I can see why Baby's mother was always so giggly and girly.

Joe Biden pre-balding

Not an actor but Brett Anderson from Suede.

Dennis Quaid in the 90s - particularly in The Parent Trap. That was one of my comfort movies as a teen, and as far as I was concerned, he was just the dad. I watched it with my own DCs a few weeks ago, and I couldn't believe how hot he was!

@Arlanymor one of my all time favourite films, Julie Christie and Terence Stamp also stunning

Tony Curtis

Robert Redford. Considering my previous reference to David Soul, I might have a type.

Ooh yes!
And pesky Troy is so unappealing

Entirely! Never understood that! (Although that scene with the coffin got me - oh he is human after all).

Weirdly that film is currently on my telly being watched for the umpteenth time by DD. Agree!