Nothing like a little celebrity fodder to kick of a sunny Monday, so without further ado, here is my top five celebrity hall pass list (celebrities I can spend some quality time with without marital repercussion, including judgment or envy).
1. Jennifer Connelly (15 year reigning champion)
I am not sure if it was the innocence of Career Opportunities or when she made the leap into more serious adult roles like Inventing the Abbots or Dark City or the very adult role in Requiem for a Dream, but I have always found her remarkably attractive even with her very robust eyebrows. She might be a bit bitchy, but I am guessing I would be ok with that.
2. Charlize Theron
Yes she kind of scares me. Yes after watching Young Adult and Snow White and the Huntsman almost back to back, I believe she could tear you apart with a string of insults that would leave you puddled like weak wax in the middle of the floor. Yes, watching Monster gave me a remarkable amount of respect for her acting ability and also gave me pause on how she may look after a night of drinking and smoking. But sometimes, when she is photographed wearing all white, with the fake no make up look, she truly is breathtaking. And I think she would be perfect partner for shots and irresponsible dancing.
3. Kate Upton.
She is a new addition. I just think she would be pretty darn fun.
4. Natalie Portman
She was cute in The Professional and Beautiful Girls and obviously had some serious acting chops. But I mostly ignored her until Garden State, where I fell in love with her a little bit and then Closer where I fell in lust with her a lot. Add that to the gangsta SNL video short she made with Adam Sandberg and she quickly was added to the list.
5. Cate Blanchett
Cate blew me away in Elizabeth, both by strength of performance and her remarkable beauty. But it weirdly it was The Gift and much later in Notes on a Scandal that secured her position on my list (which I hear she is very proud and grateful to be included). However, since her hackneyed playing of Irina Spalko in the equally awful Indiana Jones 5 movie, she has slipped from middle of the pack to just hanging on at five.
Who is on your list?
It’s all Matt Damon, over here.
But of course, also Chris Hemsworth.
And Chris Pine, who could be Matt Damon’s little brother, if only he could do something about the eyebrow situation. They don’t do a bad job with it when he’s playing Kirk, so I’ll take him in that look right there.
Think I have a type much?
Sara, love that you included Jennifer Lawrence on your list…go girl!
I’m a single too, so I don’t need a hall pass…I can just roam whenever and wherever I like (ahahahahahahaha – so not likely).
Anyway, I guess mine would be:
1. Sean Bean (first as Boromir in LOTR but totally earned #1 as Eddard Stark in Game of Thrones)
2. George Clooney
3. Michael Bublé
4. Patrick Stewart (but only as Jean-Luc)
5. Seth MacFarlane (what can I say, I’m a sucker for funny guys and smart guys, and Seth’s a whole lotta both).
hahahah – Kate Upton??? Really – well who is to judge!
Since I’m single – I have free passes all the time but…
1. B Coops
2. The Clooney
3. Jennifer Lawrence
4. I’m with Karen on the Charlie Hunnam….but I’d like Opie in there too – with beard
5. John Cusack – we’d talk first
Well, in the spirit of hall passes, here’s my list:
1. Daniel Craig
2. Jeremy Renner
3. Michael Fassbender
4. James McAvoy
5. Any man in a period piece does it for me.
1.whatshisface
2. whatshisname
seriously I know what I like when I see it but I can’t ever remember their names
but I would likely arm wrestle all of you over the boys on your lists- except Bradley Cooper- can’t shake him from Wedding Crashers
1. Leonardo DiCaprio alwaysandforever
2. Charlie Hunnam but only as Jax, but talking in his real accent
3. Alexander Skarsgaard
4. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
5. Ethan Hawke circa Reality Bites – Before Sunrise
otherwise, I’m good.
Mine…in no particular order, heh.
1. Bradley Cooper
2. Justin Timberlake
3. Gregory Fitoussi
4. Russell Wong
Also eclectic, but:
1. Ryan Gosling
2. Penelope Cruz (bonus points if Javier Bardem was also there)
3. Johnny Depp
4. Adrien Brody
5. Christian Bale
I didn’t finish my thought…Timothy Hutton’s been on that list since Ordinary People, but really sealed his spot in Taps, which I saw at the theatre about 17 times at the ripe and very impressionable age of 11.
My list is eclectic, but includes
1. Liam Neeson
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. Jason Bateman
4. Timothy Hutton (and he’s been on there since
5. the entire male cast of The Wire (that sounds wrong…I don’t mean at once)
You’re the only man I know who doesn’t have both Charlize AND Halle Berry on his list.
Here’s mine:
1. George Clooney
2. Daniel Craig
3. Ryan Gosling
3. Colin Firth
4. Mark Ruffalo