Sean Bean

[Mutagen]

neurochick said:

mutagen said:

To me, Sean Bean is just pure hike-up-my-skirt-and-fuck-me-in-the-grass testosterone. I feel about Sharpe's Rifles the way many men feel about Bring It On.

Wow, that's an image I don't want to get out of my head.

LOL, as you can see I've given this a lot of thought!

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Ever see him in Clarissa?

Yowser.

[Ripley]

TTMR just watched a movie last night called Equilibrium. It has Sean Bean, Christian Bale, and Taye Diggs. It just goes to show you that a movie may have lots of hot men, but it can still suck ass.

But Sean was a pleasure on the eyes, as usual.

[satellite]

His sexy voice is 50% of his appeal to me, I paid more attention to his physical charms later. I'm trying not to be too stalkery and look up where Sheffield, South Yorkshire is in England because I figure all the guys there talk like that.
Ok, deep breath, deep breath.

[plush]

satellite said:

His sexy voice is 50% of his appeal to me,

I'm the same with all the celebrities that I find sexy. If someone has an annoying, high-pitched or girly voice I get turned off completely no matter how sexy they are. Yes, Justin Timberlake, some people consider you sexy but you're just a little girl in my eyes.

[kafka]

plush said:

satellite said:

His sexy voice is 50% of his appeal to me,

I'm the same with all the celebrities that I find sexy. If someone has an annoying, high-pitched or girly voice I get turned off completely no matter how sexy they are. Yes, Justin Timberlake, some people consider you sexy but you're just a little girl in my eyes.

I think his voice is sexy but what really does me in are his eyes and bone structure. I'm a sucker for men with high cheekbones and chiseled bone structure. When you combine that with piercing eyes, surrounded by tons of crinkly laugh lines.... it's just damn sexy to me. Ed Harris (who I also think is sexy) has the same sort of look but he lacks Sean Bean's slightly raffish, roguish, mischievously naughty quality.

Maybe it's that slightly crooked, wicked grin. Hm.... yes, now that I think of it, maybe that's the tie-breaker: Sean Bean's grin and the underlying character it seems to demonstrate. He's a charming bad boy who's actually nice.

Sean is simultaneously: the charmingly mischievious, playful boy who can have a laugh, a beer and be one of the guys; and the hard, strong, tough, totally ruthless man whom you never want to cross, but who will always protect those on his side or those he loves.

Other actors known for being sexy, masculine and virile (like Viggo Mortensen) manage the latter but not the former, imo. Both Viggo and Ed Harris are somewhat reserved and distant. Same with Rafe Fiennes.

Bloody hell, I've spent way too much time thinking about this! I know I should be ashamed but ... I'm not.

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ripley said:

TTMR just watched a movie last night called Equilibrium. It has Sean Bean, Christian Bale, and Taye Diggs. It just goes to show you that a movie may have lots of hot men, but it can still suck ass.

But Sean was a pleasure on the eyes, as usual.

Of course he was. BTW I love Equilibrium and consider it and Gattaca to be my two sci-fi favourite movies about a not too far fetched future.

[foxfair]

Sex on legs. Would. Until he needed IV rehydration.

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Why does he want to do a TV show for? He's a movie star. He's finally stopped being the villian who dies in every film. Why take a step backwards into TV?

Ok, this is a sentiment I will never understand, the idea that being in a movie is automatically better than in a TV series just because. The fact is I think the quality of most TV shows these days is far superior than the movies that come out in terms of writing and acting. Never mind the fact that Sharpe is not a 'tv show' as such but each installment is a feature film which just happens to be shown on TV instead of cinemas. Yes I so wonder why Sean does not have a problem doing a fabulously written, rollicking, 'tv show' that has wide commercial and critical love, and in a role that he's on the record as saying is his favourite ever (any why note, it's essentially the James Bond role but way cooler and grittier) instead of a 'National Treasure' or 'Flight Plan' because never mind they can't hold a candle to Sharpe in actual quality, they're American Hollywood movies.

Re the new Sharpe, I wonder what this will mean for Lucille? I doubt the actress still looks young enough to be a Sharpe herione, but I thought the end of the literary series had Lucille as Sharpe's 'one'. Lucille wasn't necessarily my fave Sharpe gal - I loved Lass and Ellie Nugent, both unfortunately girls of the episode - but from the 3 major loves, Theresa, Jane, and Lucille, Lucille was my fave. But moreover I just liked the fact that at the end of all his adventures he ended up with a perma-woman and family. I wouldn't like to see him considerably older and going back to those days of that casual chemsitry with young lovelies. I feel they did Sharpe's evolving and settling down into a committed relationship really well, and as fun and sexy as his earlier girl-scapades had been they kind of had their time and place. Not sure he wouldn't look a little 'Old School' 'Jack Nicholson' mid-life crisis with this general's daughter.

[kafka]

Ridha, I think May2's question about television wasn't about Sharpe's Rifles but about his new series on the American Fox network. To me, each Sharpe's Rifle episode is a mini-film of sorts, in a larger series, and doesn't really count as "television."

Good question about Lucille. I hadn't thought of that aspect of things. Perhaps the producers will treat her as they did Theresa in some of the earlier episodes in their relationship. Theresa wasn't always around but off doing her spying/guerilla work. That permitted the producers to have other women throw themselves at Sharpe. In the newest installment, they'll probably have Lucille stay on the farm in France.

Lucille wasn't my favorite of the women, although she was a damn sight better than the loathsome Jane. I disliked her from the beginning.