Do you ever picture actors/actresses as the characters in the HPs you read?

[Kate]

And based on interviews I've seen with him and his Vogue UK blog, he comes off as intelligent. (Although he does do this weird thing with his mouth when he talks that kind of turns me off.)

[Lemon]

Kate wrote: (Although he does do this weird thing with his mouth when he talks that kind of turns me off.)"

LOL. Well, he's gotta have something wrong with him or else he'd not be human : ).

I myself am not too much into pretty boys. I appreciate their beauty on a purely aesthetic level but they don't do much for me. I prefer the "manly man" types who are not exactly classically handsome but rather have character and sex appeal. Like Clive Owen, Daniel Craig and Richard Armitage.

[Verity]

Aruana wrote: "David Gandy - model



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The 1st pic is a dead ringer for Ken Wahl.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Same here, Lulu.

[Kate]

I feel the same way, Lulu! I generally like the manly men, not pretty boys. Lean and muscular (but not over-developed muscles), hair on the chest, ability to grow a beard. I also have a fondness for what I call noses of distinction - a little big, a little crooked, a little bumpy...I'll take any of those.

[Aruana]

I used to have a thing for Ken Wahl in Wiseguy, but he's lost his looks over the years.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

That was a good show. I liked the arc with Kevin Spacey where he was in love his sister, played by Joan Severance. It was twisted, but it was good television.

[Aruana]

Gosh, I never realized Kevn Spacey - on of my fave actors - especially in LA Confidential, was in it.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

He was very young, but you could see his potential. I love LA Confidential. That's a great movie!

[Aruana]

I know! Such an amazing cast. I am a massive fan of Russell Crowe - MASSIVE - lol!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Russell Crowe is a fine actor. And he's good looking too.

[Verity]

Guy Pearce was scrumptious when LA confidential came out. I saw it 5 X I was that cwazy. Such a GR8 movie. He looked so attractive w/ glasses as the good cop vs thighmaster RC the tough cop. GP is so versatile, looks yummy but heelarious in The adventures of Priscilla. He also looks marvelous in "In her skin" as the frantic dad searching for missing teen daughter, not knowing she's been murdered by their psychotic teen babysitter. He's too gaunt in most of his movies tho.

[Aruana]

Don't get me started on movies! My first love actually, then reading M & B. I recently saw Guy Pearce in Animal Kingdom - Australian movie. Also with Joel Edgerton in it.

Mr Crowe is working on Les Mis at the moment with Hugh Jackman. It's going to be interesting.

[Verity]

Well speaking of bespectacled beautiful men, I lost buckets of drool over Toby Stephens in "Photographing fairies". Not a drop of saliva left after watching him grieve for expired wifey. Also in the GR8 Gatsby, 12th night. I dunno wot they feed the Brits across the pond but they're all drool suckas. Raph Fiennes, Damian Lewis, Jeremy Northam, Sean Bean. When LOTR trilogy were all the rage, I bought memorabilia & posters of Aragorn. VIGGO is da bomb.

ETA : Rosamund Pike is purrfect as Bond gal, that creamy complexion made me green w/ envy. She & Toby Stephens made me buy the DVD. dunno why I bothered when they play it on cable a gazillion times afterwards.

[Aruana]

My current top ones are : Tom Hardy, Daniel Craig and Clive Owen.

When I get into an actor I try and collect ALL their dvd's. Loved Daniel Craig in The Mother - it all started there. Clive Owen: Chancer. Tom Hardy - Inception and then Warrior.

I nearly forgot Michael Fassbender - but I think he is Irish.

[Verity]

MF is German Irish. I 1st saw him in Agatha Christie : Hercule Poirot episode, then some obscure movie - a bear named Winnie, based on tru story, then 300. Gerald Butler is too doughy so my eyes were glued to MF's 6-pack the whole time. In H'S I used to go ga-ga over Daniel Day Lewis when The last of the Mohicans came out, also Campbell Scott in Dying Young - a sob jerker, later on discovered William Hurt in Children of a lesser god where he fell in luv w/ Marlee Matlin in & outside the movie.

B4 Casino Royale turned the haters into worshippers, I saw Daniel Craig in Layercake. The way he walks made my mouth dry LOL... He was verra dorky looking in Enduring Love, verra cweepy thriller where he got a stalkerazzi.

[Aruana]

Ooo, I have Layer Cake in my collection and Enduring Love as well.

Others I have are : Love is the Devil, Some Voices, Road to Perdition, Our Friends in the North (love it), The Ice House, Elizabeth, Sword of Honour, Lara Croft, Sylvia, Archangel, Infamous and Defiance, The Mother and Cowboys & Aliens (thought he was a bit too trim in that one - more meat please). Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace of course.

I even have The Power of One - his first movie and an episode of Sharpe's Eagle (Sean Bean).

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Verity wrote: "Guy Pearce was scrumptious when LA confidential came out. I saw it 5 X I was that cwazy. Such a GR8 movie. He looked so attractive w/ glasses as the good cop vs thighmaster RC the tough cop. GP is ..."

Oh, man. I had a serious thing for Guy Pearce for a while. I still like him. He seems to reject the sex symbol designation, so he takes a lot of roles that are very edgy. He looks great in Lockout!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Aruana wrote: "My current top ones are : Tom Hardy, Daniel Craig and Clive Owen.

When I get into an actor I try and collect ALL their dvd's. Loved Daniel Craig in The Mother - it all started there. Clive Owen: ..."

We have very similar taste. :)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Daniel Craig does have an incredible walk. He is not a pretty man, but he is super-duper hot!

BTW, I love Jeremy Northam, Damien Lewis, and Sean Bean off your list, V.

[Kate]

I think Elizabeth is the first thing I saw Daniel Craig in, but he didn't strike my fancy at that time (small role, and he has a dorky haircut). Of course, I went to see Elizabeth because I love Christopher Eccleston. He's also the reason I started watching Doctor Who (which I now watch religiously!).

[Sapheron]

I LOVE DOCTOR WHO!!!

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

I have been a Doctor Who lover for over 30 years! It's my most serious fandom. I am loving Matt Smith, the newest Doctor.

[Verity]

I Lurved Christopher Eccleston in Jude, so intense & haunting. 1 of those movies that stayed w/ me long after viewing it, depressing as hell tho, I felt like I just got hit by a ton of bricks.

Same goes for Ewan MacGregor in Moulin Rouge, James McAvoy in Atonement. I just lurve movies w/ sad endings. Matthew McFadyen in P & P is so dreamy too.

I Lurved Guy Pearce in Memento but the movie confused the cwap outta me, had to see it 2 X to understand the sequence.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Yeah, Memento is one of those WTF movies. :)

[Kate]

I like Matt Smith, but I didn't like the last series as much as the previous ones. I had such high hopes when Steven Moffat took over as producer because he'd penned my favorite episodes (and I love Coupling), so maybe I was expecting too much. And for the first time, I'm looking forward to his getting a new companion -- I'm tired of Amy Pond.

[Verity]

Oh I also had a heavy crush on Linus Roache when Priest came out. I dragged my GF to see it in some seedy theatre. Robert Carlyle 1st caught my eye in Priest & when The full Monty exploded @ the box office, it just cemented my liking for him. He's goofy in a shexy way.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Linus Roache is cute, and I do have a soft spot for Robert Carlyle. Do you watch Once Upon a Time, V? He's interesting on there.

I think Matt Smith has an old school Doctor vibe, which I love. And he's fierce. Amy doesn't annoy me as much as Rose did. If there was any chance Rose would get in trouble and need saving, she managed to do it.

[Kate]

I've had a thing for Linus Roache ever since seeing Wings of the Dove! I even started watching Law & Order when he joined the cast.

One of my favorite things about the hotel where I stay in London is that there is an old decommissioned police box outside the nearby tube station: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Nice. I would totally have to take a pic with the TARDIS.

[Verity]

I haven't watched it, D. it looks intriguing. The cast seems a good 1. I'll be on vacay in a couple weeks, maybe I should catch up on my reading / watching.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Robert Carlyle has a good role on there. It's a good show, but every episode ends with me wanting to murder the Evil Stepmother/Regina!

[Sapheron]

I guess ya'll can tell from my profile pic how big a Who fan I am!

As for Once Upon a Time, I started watching it just for my interest in the fairy tales, but, especially in the last few episodes of this season (it's first), it's done some really interesting things with the old stories (only the story of red riding hood was already played out). It's turning into a really good, well-done show.

And I too want to kill Regina.

[Verity]

Wow if both of U R so passionate bout this series, it must be verra evocative. I can't wait to watch. I've only been watching tennis w/ 1 eye & the otha bleary eye on the ebook. Multi-tasking is a must due to time constraint.

[Aruana]

Verity said:

I Lurved Guy Pearce in Memento but the movie confused the cwap outta me, had to see it 2 X to understand the sequence

Same for me! Very confused, even after watching it a second time. After that I gave up - lol.

Christopher Eccleston: he only did one season of Dr Who, didn't he. Loved him in Our Friends in the North.

Verity said:

I've only been watching tennis w/ 1 eye & the otha bleary eye on the ebook. Multi-tasking is a must due to time constraint.

I want to watch TV/dvd's, read, be on the laptop - all at once! For some reason I don't seem to be able to do it .....

[Sapheron]

Aruana wrote: "I want to watch TV/dvd's, read, be on the laptop - all at once! For some reason I don't seem to be able to do it ........"

Yes, the stinking limitations of this mortal coil!

[Aruana]

Ooo, another model, but what a "look"

Boris Beynet - looks very Slavic - Russian oligarch?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Oh, nice! He does look very Russian.

[Lisa Kay]

I don't know why I resisted peeping into this thread. But at 88 posts, I figured it was time. **sigh** Now I need to wipe the drool off my keyboard. Some of these guys I've never heard of... but Y.U.M.

P.S. One of these months I'm going to do a Spell-it-out challenge based on the way V spells things; specifically: C.W.A.Z.Y. ☺ Such fun. Love it!

[Aruana]

Abby Green is using the following guy as inspiration on one of her Pinterest boards

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Game of Thrones!



I love the nose!

[Verity]

It's a verra distinguished nose ! If I evah had enuff dough 4 a nose job, I'd copy Nicole Kidman's elegant nose. Wot a bummer Michael Vartan's now looks hella weird.

[Aruana]

Verity, I know theres been reference to it, but what language is that that you write? Lol!

What happened to Michael Vartan?

There's a new photoshoot with Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen ........ woohooo. I'll post some pics here. Good "theme" for an HP.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Wow, Nicole looks weird in that picture. Clive looks great!

[Verity]

Aruana wrote: "Verity, I know theres been reference to it, but what language is that that you write? Lol!

What happened to Michael Vartan?

There's a new photoshoot with Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen ........ woo..."



Haha U're reading the special shorthand cum slang a la V's, well I tried to sound Scottish, but I know I come across lame LOL...

I saw those. Nic's / Clive's pics look like wax dolls. I wish Nic would do more comedy. She's simply brilliant as ditzy chick in To die for & the bitchy rival of Jen in Just go w/ it.

[Aruana]

I love To Die For - in my dvd collection.

[Kouk]

Aruana wrote: "Abby Green is using the following guy as inspiration on one of her Pinterest boards

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau - Game of Thrones!



I love the nose!"

He's hot!
I really gotta check out Game of Thrones!

[Aruana]

Jane Porter is now on Pinterest and she's put some pics of guys she visualizes as her heroes. She mentioned that Oded Fehr is her inspiration for her Sheikhs. I can see why! I've always thought he was sexy - since The Mummy.







Yummy!

[Lisa Kay]

Yummy is right!

[Kate]

I totally forgot about Oded Fehr! I think he's going to be my go-to sheikh hero now.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Harlequin Presents are my crack!]

Yes, I love Oded!