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OT: Movies/TV Shows

LeafOfFaith said:
The funny thing about Danson on Cheers is the way that they portray him as the stud of all studs. I mean, I like him, but girls falling all over themselves to get at him requires suspension of belief the same way that James Bond basically runs through hails of bullets and pretty much never gets shot. You just buy into it as part of the experience, but it's comical.
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I saw Danson actually comment about this in interviews. He was very uncomfortable at first portraying Sam Malone because of that. They actually changed the character from ex football player to pitcher due to his build as well. Fred Dryer had auditioned for Sam Malone.

Although given he was portraying an ex pitcher, it does make sense he'd get the ladies.
 
Agreed, the former athlete thing does make it more believable. But if Ted Danson had decided to sell insurance instead of go into television, I doubt he'd be considered a very good looking guy.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
You mean to just be on tv or film? Sure. To be a star? You kinda have to have the looks.
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Nah, even some of the biggest heartthrobs wouldn't be all that if they weren't stars.

Looking at People's Sexiest Man Alive, going back.
Patrick Dempsey - Good looking but not exceptional
Chris Evans - Probably elite
Paul Rudd - Good looking, but no better looking than a lot of Joe Blows

I'd go further back but I'm too lazy.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
You mean to just be on tv or film? Sure. To be a star? You kinda have to have the looks.
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Nah...the standard of "hotness" is not equal among the genders. It certainly wasn't 40 years ago when Sam Malone was tending bar on tv.

The gap has closed quite a bit the past 20 years as leading men have undergone their superhero diet/training regiment so they can bank coin in Marvel movies.
 
I'm not entirely sure if this crowd is the best to discuss which male actors are the hottest.

But I do think you underrate guys like Dempsey in his prime. I mean, okay, maybe he's not quite the "I'm not gay, but if I ran into him in a bar..." category, but I think someone like him probably is closer to that than people are arguing.

I do think Sam Malone/Ted Danson yeah even in the 80s wouldn't necessarily have been considered a true heartthrob, no. Although I think for him, I kind of feel it worked fine in character, at least moreso than it being some GQ cover model who ends up tending bar. He's more of the "big fish in a small pond", which I think especially in a show that's much more of an everyday people show, worked great.
 
UWHabs said:
I'm not entirely sure if this crowd is the best to discuss which male actors are the hottest.

But I do think you underrate guys like Dempsey in his prime. I mean, okay, maybe he's not quite the "I'm not gay, but if I ran into him in a bar..." category, but I think someone like him probably is closer to that than people are arguing.

I do think Sam Malone/Ted Danson yeah even in the 80s wouldn't necessarily have been considered a true heartthrob, no. Although I think for him, I kind of feel it worked fine in character, at least moreso than it being some GQ cover model who ends up tending bar. He's more of the "big fish in a small pond", which I think especially in a show that's much more of an everyday people show, worked great.
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You're probably right about us not being the best deciders of male hotness. But yeah, that was what I was saying. You didn't have to suspend disbelief to believe that Sam Malone was a ladies' man. He's definitely a good looking enough guy to pull it off.
 
Other than that Door Dash girl situation I haven't had that many experiences of girls trying to get with me. But there is some truth that some actors called 'Sexy" are not that attractive. Fame is a turn-on. Put my face on a tv show and girls are going wild.
I don't know if I told this story, but I went to one of ghost Paracon geeky weekend conventions (Ghost Hunter shows, Destination Truth, ETC) and I saw super hot women trying to f*ck guys with shows that got cancelled on Sci-Fi. They weren't really famous, but given they once appeared on a bad cable show, they were seen as a big trophy to these women. It was odd.
A guy who's show was cancelled years earlier who appeared I noted had brought a big girl to his room that night. I guess you needed to have a current show to get the hottest women.

This guy got a 10/10 hot blond saying dirty things to him, and to his credit, he told her he was married
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