A while back when gushing about my Hollywood Crush on James Marsden I pointed out that one of his upcoming films was a film called SEX DRIVE. Now there’s officially a Red Band trailer for the film, and even though it seems to be one of the many inevitable teen comedies trying to cash in on a post SUPERBAD world, it actually does look like a lot of fun. If anything, how can you go wrong with a movie that has Marsden playing a doofy muscle car guy, Seth Green playing an Amish guy, Clark Duke (Michael Cera’s TV buddy), a giant plush Mexican donut costume, and a sweet GTO?
You’d think as a comic book geek it would have been the role of Scott Summer/Cyclops in the X-MEN films that would have resulted in James Marsden winning me over. Given the fact that I find Cyclops a boring stick-in-the-mud character in the comics, who was given nothing to do in the films, it would have been hard for Marsden to make any sort of impression on me. There’s also just something about sunglasses that completely hides away someone looks. Have you ever noticed how you’ll find someone attractive or non-attractive, and then they take the sunglasses off and it all falls apart or all comes together? Then again, maybe that’s just the value I place in eyes being able to pull a whole face together.
The point of that tangent is that a guy with such a dashing chiseled face and piercing eyes shouldn’t be hidden behind sunglasses. Especially one whose face exudes complete charm, and seems to be the very definition of “hunk.” That’s why even though I missed out on him when he was cutting his teeth on teenie flicks (DISTURBING BEHAVIOR, GOSSIP, SUGAR & SPICE), television (”Ally McBeal”), and films I get yelled at for not having seen (THE NOTEBOOK), it wasn’t until a small little indie film called HEIGHTS that I stopped and thought: “Hello. Who is this guy?” Admittedly it was at times a film aiming too hard to be indie (i.e. being a little pretentious), but Marsden’s performance impressed me enough to encourage me to keep an eye out for his future projects.
He didn’t disappoint.
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