You call yourselves pervy fangirls and fanboys, yet...

[mollyringle]

...none of you posted about Robert Pattinson kissing another man and doing gay sex scenes for an upcoming movie. It's called Little Ashes, and (making matters substantially odder) he plays a young Salvador Dali, and I bet I'll be able to keep from snickering right up to the moment when he starts wearing the crazy up-swooped mustache. But in that kiss photo linked above, at least, and thus presumably in some of the film, he's clean-shaven.

I just have to chuckle, since a role like that is such a perfect way to discombobulate shallow teen fans. They're used to their heartthrobs doing predictable chick-flicks, action films, and heartwarming family dramas, not moving straight from Twilight to a biopic about an eccentric Spanish painter. For that, RPattz, I give you bonus points.

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[naill-renfro.livejournal.com]

I'd never even heard of this movie... Many years ago I went to see My Own Private Idaho in the theater. Difficult as it may be to believe, Keanu was a heartthrob then, not a running joke, and I would have thought River Phoenix was too, but during the first intimate kiss between them one of the group of teen girls in front of me cried "Oh, Keanu, how could you!"

As so often happens, the movie foreshadows their fates -- in the end Keanu chooses to join the rich folk, abandoning River P. to a downward spiral of drugs, homelessness, and prostitution.

Does Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette count?

[mollyringle.livejournal.com]

I'm old enough to remember that phase of Keanu too. :) In fact, I used to consider it a compliment to tell my boyfriend (now husband) that he looked sort of like Keanu. (He had longish hair at the time, and the same kind of build.)

And when I saw My Own Private Idaho I was in college, and by then I was already pervy or worldly enough to find the River/Keanu kiss quite sweet and intriguing. Uneven movie on the whole, but yeah, the ending with River Phoenix unconscious in the road is chilling now, given how his life ended--i.e., unconscious on a sidewalk.

Still haven't seen Laundrette...may need to. Is there some requirement that British actors all play a gay part when they're in their early twenties? It seems like they all have. And why isn't this a requirement for Americans, darn it? :)