Christopher Eccleston
Christopher Eccleston
I have to admit to a small vice here. I sometimes find
strange-looking men powerfully atractive. Christopher
is, without a doubt, somewhat strange-looking. Or
perhaps it's just that his cheekbones are so
pronounced as to take him over the edge from
boy-next-door to
strikingly-strange-looking-and-yet-compellingly-attractive.
Anyway, he plays the Duke of Norfolk, an angry
Catholic with a grudge against Queen Bess in
Elizabeth,
that sumptuous tale of intrigue that could
make a soap star blush. He stalks around, growls and
plots, and generally looks rather tall and hot in his
Elizabethan clothing. Who ever thought that poofy
shorts and tights would work so well? Must be all the
black he's wearing. It's so slimming.
I should mention that Christopher also played a pretty harrowing bad guy in Shallow Grave, a lesser-known Danny Boyle flick about three roommates in Scotland who spiral downward in a maelstrom of death, lies, and greed. While bad as hell, he was not, alas, hot in that role. In fact, his awkwardness shone through, and that is why, my friends, he gets a glorious promotion to the Hot Bad Guy list for his role in Elizabeth -- because who woulda thunk he could pull it off??
(It's mostly the attitude)
(Afterall, he's a religious zealot and
that should get him some mitigating points -- being
moved to badness by God and all)
(The fact that he comes across manly while
wearing the poofter clothing so popular for men in the
late 1500s earns him the highest manliness marks.)
Dandelion
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