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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[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? :)