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Ugly Hot: Thirteen Dudes I Would Like To Meet In A Dark Corner. A Really Dark Corner. Seriously, Turn The Lights Off.

By Joanna Robinson | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (142)



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Are looks everything, ladies and gents? No they are not. But they are something. The following dudes, however, possess some brand of magnetism that they should consider bottling because despite their generally unappealing (and in some cases genuinely appalling) faces, I wouldn’t kick a single one out of bed.


Willem Dafoe Unusually alluring, despite the thousand splendid creases. The man looks dreadful in drag. Really, super terrible. But was kind of sexy in scary Nosferatu make-up and in everything else ever.
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John Leguizamo Looks marginally better than Dafoe does in drag (this is not a requisite for sex appeal, but it doesn’t hurt…look at Eddie Izzard if you don’t believe me). Leguizamo’s fast talking, preening persona does it for me. Sometimes, machismo works.
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Vincent Cassel Master of the Gallic sneer, banger of the hottest Italian this side of Loren, the man is sex on (frog) legs.
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Forest Whitaker The lazy eye? The slightly dopey expression? I don’t know, I still want a crack.
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Matt Smith The thing about the Eleventh Doctor (the Raggedy Doctor) is that despite his deplorable hair, alarming lack of eyebrows and melty features, the man is somehow sexier than David Tennant. I’d let him inside my Tardis if you. . .em…it’s bigger on the insi…em. I can’t do this. It’s too gross. Call me, Matty!
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Adrien Brody Brody has always had a rakish (as in skinny as a) charm. In fact, he’s number two on my all time bangable list. But, dear lord, check out the beak on that bird.
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Michael K. Williams Oh, in-deeed. The scar really only enhances Williams’ appeal, wouldn’t you say? It didn’t hurt that as Omar on “The Wire” he was frequently shirtless. Also, he charmed the pants off of NPR’s Terry Gross. As Terry’s pants go, so go the nation’s.
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Benicio Del Toro I’m convinced Del Toro is in a race with Matthew Perry to see who can pack the most in the bags under their eyes. While I find Chandler nice and all, it’s Del Toro I want mumbling incoherent nothings in my ear.
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Jesse Plemons I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, you can keep your broody Tim Riggins. Jesse Plemons may look like someone left Matt Damon in the oven too long, but he’s the only Dillon Panther I want to sack.
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John Hawkes Will it astonish you to know that out of all the Best Supporting Actor nominees this year, I find Hawkes to be the hottest. Oh yes, you heard me Bale and Ruffalo fans. Hawkes is not only a great actor, but he’s also in a band. Everyone knows that being in a band is a guaranteed 465 sex points (unless you’re Jordan Catalano and INSIST on wearing too much eyeliner and stupid hair).
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Tony Leung Leung isn’t ugly, per se, but he’s so astonishingly average looking. However, he exudes sandy, calligraphic sex appeal in Hero; radiates noodle-y passion in In The Mood For Love; and will make you explode with the blatant kink of Lust, Caution.
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Steve Buscemi Despite the fact that he looks like what happens when your pug successfully mates with your leather boot, Buscemi’s hangdog face has always held a strange attraction. Also, it’s pronounced “Boo-semmy?” Fine, I’ll call you whatever you want, just turn the light out and come over here.
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Joanna Robinson wonders if there’s a female version of this list and who would be on it. She also wonders if wondering that makes her a traitor to her gender. Shout out to stardust for the idea.









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Comments

Jesse Plemons may look like someone left Matt Damon in the oven too long...

HBLLAI!

(Holy balls. Laughing like an idiot.)

Posted by: Paul Southworth at March 3, 2011 4:08 PM

I lusted after Sol Starr ALMOST as much as I did Sheriff Bullock. Love me some John Hawkes. He looked dashing at the Oscars.

Posted by: Julie at March 3, 2011 4:10 PM

A "sexy ugly" list... nice. I would add Tom Petty, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman and Alan Cumming.

Posted by: Mary C at March 3, 2011 4:17 PM

Matt Smith is a cutie, to be sure, but he is in NO WAY hotter than Tennant. I think you need to go back and watch some #10, re-calibrate your system. Also, I am not entirely sure 'Bigger on the inside' is the reference you want for THAT particular come-on.

I will now sit here and gaze at Adrien Brody. I have the afternoon free.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at March 3, 2011 4:17 PM

I'm with you on Defoe, Leguizamo, Brody, Hawkes and Williams. Omar coming! Oh indeed!

Cassel is a good actor, but everything I've seen him in (not many, admittedly) makes me want to kick him in the face until he is dead (rapist pimp asshole in History of Violence, greasy, power-abusing turd in Black Swan).

Posted by: Viking at March 3, 2011 4:17 PM

Maybe I'm wearing my Sensitive pants this morning, but this article seems off. If the sexes were reversed, I would be flat out offended. "Ugly, But I'd Still Fuck 'Em" is not a sentiment I expected to find on Pajiba.

Posted by: Lauren at March 3, 2011 4:20 PM

Woman, DO NOT disparage the gloriousness that is A-Brod's nose. That nose is FANTASTIC. It is where roses and stars come from.

Mmmmmm A-Brod.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at March 3, 2011 4:22 PM

That shit's unseemly, man.

Posted by: sars at March 3, 2011 4:25 PM

Also, it’s pronounced “Boo-semmy?”

Thank you.

THANK YOU.

CHRIST, they don't even get it right at award shows.

Posted by: Jay at March 3, 2011 4:25 PM

Really, Lauren? Because I'm almost positive that this isn't the first iteration of this list in 'Jiba history.

Posted by: orly at March 3, 2011 4:26 PM

Matt Smith also looks like an Easter Island statue, but I'd still hit that. Hello, Matt, would you like to come inside my blue box?

Posted by: Jos at March 3, 2011 4:26 PM

I like Forest Whitaker so much that I'll forget he had anything to do with First Dauaghter Katie Holmes.

Posted by: EllenP at March 3, 2011 4:27 PM

It's the beak, the beak is the reason, well, that and the eyes on the Brody that get me. I don't think Halle Berry was at all displeased to get macked on by him.

I have been in love with John Hawkes since From Dusk til Dawn.

Lequizamo is wee but he moves so gracefully and he was a fabulous drag princess.

Buscemi and I share a birthday so we are obviously soulmates.

Posted by: Shonda at March 3, 2011 4:28 PM

...now that I think about it, it might have been "creepy/ugly, but I'd still fuck 'em."

Posted by: orly at March 3, 2011 4:29 PM

No. I just...I can't.

Posted by: Dingles at March 3, 2011 4:29 PM

Please forgive my spelling of "Dauaghter".

Posted by: EllenP at March 3, 2011 4:29 PM

If the ugly bar is set so that it includes Tony Leung, it would have to include Edward Norton. He's not really very handsome, but he's attractive/sexy/whatever.

Posted by: sars at March 3, 2011 4:29 PM

Matt Smith, Adrian Brody, and John Hawkes are not ugly-hot. They are hot-hot.

Posted by: littlelion at March 3, 2011 4:31 PM

And why isn't Tennant on this list? He's all thin, beakish, beady-eyed, freckly nerd. He shouldn't be attractive or sexy but he is.

[I was told I was only allowed one Doctor. I think it's in the by-laws. Otherwise, also Eccleston. For days. -JR]

Posted by: Jos at March 3, 2011 4:32 PM

The "unconventional women" list in the summer of 2007 or 8 was a trainwreck, because they were mostly stunning, except to, you know, schmucks and tasteless waste. Then the schmucks and tasteless waste (or didn't get the concept or were insane) started throwing in suggestions of other "odd" looking women, and I threatened to find them all and smash their car windows due to their either continuing to refuse to understand what the list was supposed to be about...or thinking Jennifer Tilly is an eccentric idea of female pulchritude.

It was a case of, as Steve "Tony" Coogan said: You're just fucking WRONG.


So, yeah, it's been tried.

Posted by: Jay at March 3, 2011 4:33 PM

Oh and I second sars. Norton is sexy. In the words of my roommate, "I'd do him... I might not enjoy it, but I'd do him."

Posted by: littlelion at March 3, 2011 4:35 PM

Might I also add Daniel Craig and his younger doppelganger, Jeremy Renner? Rough, tough and kinda ugly but altogether incredibly sexy.

I will have to disagree with you on Forest and Buscemi though. When I watch Boardwalk Empire I can't help but wish that someone hotter was cast.

Posted by: amanda at March 3, 2011 4:35 PM

Anyone who's ever seen 'Irreversible' knows that Vicent Cassel should not be on the list. He used to be prettier btw.

Posted by: tities at March 3, 2011 4:36 PM

I'm with you on Hawkes, Brody and Dafoe.

I wish someone would write a tell-all letting us know exactly what is up with Matt Smith's hair. It distracts me to the the point of distraction in every episode.

Posted by: PaddyDog at March 3, 2011 4:36 PM

I think I might add Sean Penn and Christopher Walken to this list.

Posted by: Jadine at March 3, 2011 4:37 PM

First of all, that pic of Brody looks like Iddo Goldberg, which is alright with me.

Secondly, JoRo, this is our second(?) friend fight. Smith over Tennant? Really? REALLY?!?

BAD OOD!

Posted by: Patty O'Green at March 3, 2011 4:38 PM

I'd do Norton if he kept his mouth shut. The high-pitched little girl voice is a turn-off. Or he can just call me when both testicles have descended.

Posted by: PaddyDog at March 3, 2011 4:38 PM

Otherwise, also Eccleston. For days. -JR]

Second. The motion is carried.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at March 3, 2011 4:38 PM

Lauren, I see your point, but I think you missed Joanna's. The idea, I believe, is that these men are so appealing that it doesn't matter whether they are stereotypically sexy. You aren't going to see Willem Dafoe topless on the cover of Men's Health, showing off a six pack or doing pushups with a lady on his back. But he is appealing.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at March 3, 2011 4:39 PM

Oh, come ON. Perfectly excellent list, amazing Plemons line, wonderful selection, but Brody and Leung are outright beautiful. You cheated.

Willem Dafoe though. Yes. A friend once told me she thought I would age all gnarly and wiry and pervy-looking like him - they didn't mean it as a compliment - and I nearly died of happiness.

Posted by: Caspar at March 3, 2011 4:39 PM

Cassel is my #1 freebie, so you bitches STEP. OFF.

Posted by: Dorothy Snarker at March 3, 2011 4:40 PM

Otherwise, also Eccleston. For days. -JR

Yes, a thousand times yes, especially in Gone in 60 Seconds.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at March 3, 2011 4:40 PM

"I'd do him... I might not enjoy it, but I'd do him."

That's just desperate. Or bored. At least it would be a good story.

Posted by: sars at March 3, 2011 4:41 PM

@amanda, I would disagree with the Daniel Craig being ugly/hot. He is gorgeous/hot.

Posted by: Jadine at March 3, 2011 4:41 PM

I'd add William H. Macy to this list.
And Humphrey Bogart.

I think we need a list of actors we'd do in drag.

Tim Curry
Hugo Weaving
Patrick Swayze
John Leguizamo
Barry Bostwick
Tony Curtis
Jack Lemmon
John Lithgow

Posted by: BWeaves at March 3, 2011 4:41 PM

I had to comment because all, but two of 'em I find strangely hot.

Adrien Brody is the one that really gets me. I find myself convinced he's super hot and then I see him again, and I'm confused. That beak, indeed.

Posted by: virenda at March 3, 2011 4:41 PM

I'd add Ralph Fiennes and Jay Baruchel. The former is a kinky devil and the latter is an adorable, albeit dopey, French-Canadian. Sold. And I agree with littlelion that John Hawkes is hot with no qualifiers. I've had a jones for him since that X-Files episode Milagro. Scully should've hit that.

Posted by: hindulovegod at March 3, 2011 4:42 PM

Jay, I still chuckle at how mad you got that day.

Posted by: Julie at March 3, 2011 4:43 PM

and Eddie Izzard, because he'd make me laugh.

Posted by: BWeaves at March 3, 2011 4:43 PM

That's just desperate. Or bored.

Ha! Actually, that's a very good description of the person in question. Creepily accurate, in fact.

Posted by: littlelion at March 3, 2011 4:45 PM

but Brody and Leung are outright beautiful.

*phew* Caspar, my darling, I was SO NERVOUS that we were going to have to break up in the Bad Movies (pssh) thread. But now you've won me back. (I know you're relieved to hear it.)

Posted by: Anna von Beav at March 3, 2011 4:47 PM

Please tell me you did not just call Vincent Cassel ugly? Or Adrian Brody? YOU CRAZY.

Posted by: Cindy at March 3, 2011 4:48 PM

I will put in my vote for young Gene Simmons though.

Posted by: Cindy at March 3, 2011 4:49 PM

I'd take Tony Leung, John Hawkes, and Adrien Brody all day, everyday. I'd throw in Martin Starr, too. Funny does it for me.

Posted by: jM at March 3, 2011 4:50 PM

I'd do all of these dudes with THE LIGHTS ON, thank you, except Jesse Plemmons, who I wouldn't do at all. (Sorry, not my type, never will be.)

But the king of the list is Adrien Brody. I'd do him lights on, lights off, in a bed, on my head, in a chair, here there or everywhere.

The nose plays, baby.

Posted by: MM at March 3, 2011 4:51 PM

"The cheese stands alone."

Posted by: Fracas at March 3, 2011 4:52 PM

When everyone one else was lusting after Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, I was wishing Alan Rickman wanted to touch me in my bad, special place.

Posted by: blacksred at March 3, 2011 4:55 PM

I have a theory (inspired by Eccleston) that an accent, particularly an English/Scottish/Irish accent, automatically provides +15 charisma.

You can be a truly homely Brit, and I'd probably still find you sexy as hell.

Posted by: Notorious VMG at March 3, 2011 4:56 PM

Also the nose on Adrien Brody, oh my!!

Posted by: blacksred at March 3, 2011 4:56 PM

Cindy's comment just disqualified her from...well I don't know what but, ugh, I just, I mean, GENE SIMMONS, he's so...and with the hypocrisy...this list is just, I ...feminist quagmi....

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 3, 2011 4:57 PM

Jay, Buscemi said on NPR once that he doesn't mind how people pronounce his last name, he's just glad they know him. Unlike a technicolor assassin we don't talk about.

And yeah, Tony Leung doesn't go on this list, and in my opinion, neither does Michael K. Williams. But Alan Rickman...oh, Alan Rickman. Him and Willem Dafoe, just...sigh.

Otherwise, also Eccleston. For days. -JR'

Where does the line form? I need to get ON that.

Posted by: leuce7 at March 3, 2011 4:58 PM

"The thing about the Eleventh Doctor (the Raggedy Doctor) is that despite is his deplorable hair, alarming lack of eyebrows and melty features, the man is somehow sexier than David Tennant. I’d let him inside my Tardis if you. . .em…it’s bigger on the insi…em. I can’t do this. It’s too gross. Call me, Matty!"

Um...Negative. A thousand times no. No no no.

Posted by: Andre at March 3, 2011 5:03 PM

tities, I think if you saw the flexibility Vincent Cassel demonstrate in Oceans 12 you'd know he should *definitely* be on the list.

But Adrien Brody is a big fat "no" for me. He comes off as way too cocky for me. And that Stella Artois ad, ugh. Just makes me roll my eyes at him.

Posted by: Sara Tonin at March 3, 2011 5:10 PM

jM: Martin Starr! ::slaps forehead::

Yeeeeaaahh, me too.

Posted by: Shonda at March 3, 2011 5:11 PM

Matt Smith is very attractive, but more so than David Tennant? HERESY!

Also, "As Terry’s pants go, so go the nation’s" is now my new favorite sentence.

Posted by: Athena at March 3, 2011 5:16 PM

Forget Steve Buscemi. It's all about Mr. Pink. And John Leguizamo is pretty. And can I add Freddy Rodriguez? He's my height, just about, but that is O.K.

Posted by: Captain Steve at March 3, 2011 5:17 PM

RIckman.

Moment of silence for that voice.

Posted by: dinka at March 3, 2011 5:17 PM

Are you saying Vincent Cassel was hit with the fugly stick?? And more to the point, am I in an episode of "Sliders"?

Posted by: Hayden at March 3, 2011 5:20 PM

And then you just reminded me of how inexplicably hot I find Jackie Earl Haley. Why, universe? WHY?

Posted by: Hayden at March 3, 2011 5:21 PM

Where's Lyle Lovett on this list?

Posted by: Lucas at March 3, 2011 5:22 PM

Tom Waits, anyone?

Posted by: branded at March 3, 2011 5:28 PM

Nah. Eccleston all the way.

Though I don't think Brody is ugly.

And hot/ugly guys? My favorites!

Posted by: Liz at March 3, 2011 5:31 PM

Branded, I am so with you, Tom Waits for sure!

Forgot to say, Dafoe, f*ck yes. I've been lusting over that guy for years!

Posted by: Liz at March 3, 2011 5:32 PM

YES to Rickman, those of you who mentioned him. Even as Snape. Maybe especially as Snape.

And I love the sexy beak and soulful eyes--if you've seen my husband you know I have a thing for those.

Posted by: pickled tink at March 3, 2011 5:32 PM

We can't have a list that has Brody, Cumming and Oldman all on it. One will have to do. I vote for Oldman, with Cumming in a close second.

Yes, I went there.

Posted by: Jerry at March 3, 2011 5:35 PM

I am also in agreement with Rickman. And oh my god thank you sooooo much for including John Hawkes on this list. I would do him in the darkest corner, and I'd even let him wear his Lennon costume from Lost.

Oh, and I can get over Adrien Brody's beak...but not the chicken legs, NEVER THE CHICKEN LEGS. Did you see them in Darjeeling Limited? Yowza!

Posted by: citizen_cris at March 3, 2011 5:37 PM

I know someone's going to hunt me down and murder me for this, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt should be on here. I don't think he's matinee idol handsome at all, but apparently a bunch of you find him appealing.

Posted by: Angeleno Ewok at March 3, 2011 5:42 PM

How dare you people say that Rickman is ugly? He's all hotness, as is Adrian Brody, the nose makes him. I'd also add Thom Yorke.

Posted by: Flo at March 3, 2011 5:44 PM

Daniel Craig is on my SexyUgly list. He's way hot and SUPER blechy looking, but has a really suckable lower lip and a way hot bod. Yow!

Also, ARE YOU CRAZY? Jeremy Renner was THE hottest Best Supporting Actor nominee, although he's not ugly, although I too would do John Hawkes next before Ruffalo and Bale (sorry Rush).

Posted by: Martha at March 3, 2011 5:58 PM

Andy Samberg.

Posted by: Zoe at March 3, 2011 5:59 PM

I'd agree with the sentiment of some others in saying that some of the men on this list are not "UGLY-sexy."

I do -- however -- believe them to be "ATYPICAL sexy." I mean, Vincent Cassel's head is ridiculously triangular in comparison to the typical Hollywood standards of what is aesthetically pleasing, but that IN NO WAY dampens his beauty.

Posted by: penelope at March 3, 2011 6:03 PM

Yes to Benicio Del Toro. Yes. Yes. Yes! I've said it before but it bears repeating: the man is hot in a don't hurt me kind of way. Only, I want him to.

Yes to John Leguizamo too. I have to agree with the others though, he is pretty.

I'd like to add Tim Roth. I wouldn't call him conventionally attractive, others might, but there is something about him.

Posted by: Eyvi at March 3, 2011 6:17 PM

He's a nice, modest guy, and I definitely respect that, so I'll demand respect for him.

Posted by: Jay at March 3, 2011 6:28 PM

citizen_cris, yes I saw his legs. Didn't you see his legs? In those pink shorts? SWOON.

Posted by: Caspar at March 3, 2011 6:29 PM

You complete me, JoRo. There is no reason why Adrien Brody should be hot with that beak of his but he is. I could fry an egg on the man's chest.

.....

Geddit?! Beak? Egg? It's funny because it's a bi-....

I'll show myself out now.

Posted by: stardust at March 3, 2011 6:36 PM

Sweet Sexual Deviancy I would do UNGODLY, HORRIBLE, SINFUL THINGS to Vincent Cassel.
Such things. You would weep. Your soul would wither to dust.

It would be superfuckinghawt.

Posted by: Nadine at March 3, 2011 7:05 PM

I'm just fine with this list and I'd like to add Mathieu Amalric. I love that man.

Posted by: jayco at March 3, 2011 7:19 PM

Finally! Some love for Benicio del Toro.

And Michael K. Williams from The Wire. The perfect counterpart to the perfection of Idris Elba.

Posted by: greer at March 3, 2011 7:22 PM

Benedict Cumberbatch needs to be on this list. Everywhere else, he's pretty ugly, but, in Sherlock he's *rips clothes off* very hot. Very, very, very, very, very, very, hot. I dare say, he's the hottest Sherlock Holmes.
Especially when he's in the moment and just rattling off facts about people. AND THOSE EYES! THOSE DAMN PIERCING EYES! THEY PENETRATE THE SOUL! (Among other things...)

Posted by: Ellie at March 3, 2011 7:27 PM

Sara Tonin: Totally agree w/ on the Brody. The eyes and nose are nice, but good lord he should NEVER be allowed to dress himself.

I'm probably the only one on this: Geoffrey Rush.

Posted by: Charlotte at March 3, 2011 7:34 PM

Tony Leung! Awesome semi-obscure pick, Pajiba overlords.

I don't usually find Asian guys all that attractive, but I actually stopped in the middle of Red Cliff to look this guy up. I hadn't recognized him from Hero, but there's just something about him...incredible self-possession, a solid manliness that comes through.

Super pick. Kudos.

Posted by: Parker at March 3, 2011 7:57 PM

Jay, Buscemi said on NPR once that he doesn't mind how people pronounce his last name, he's just glad they know him. Unlike a technicolor assassin we don't talk about.

And yeah, Tony Leung doesn't go on this list, and in my opinion, neither does Michael K. Williams. But Alan Rickman...oh, Alan Rickman. Him and Willem Dafoe, just...sigh.

Otherwise, also Eccleston. For days. -JR'

Where does the line form? I need to get ON that.

Posted by: cosplay costumes at March 3, 2011 8:07 PM

How weird. My comment just showed up again, with a link in the "posted by" to an online wholesale anime costume store.

I'm a little scared now. Is this because I excluded Omar? He can be on the list if he wants.

Posted by: leuce7 at March 3, 2011 8:13 PM

My friends and I call this "repulsively sexy." It all started with John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons.

Posted by: Bethany at March 3, 2011 8:16 PM

Oh, it *is* all about the sexy sexy voice for me, anyway. Accents can be nice, which explains how the FUCK Gerard Depardieu kept getting romantic leads for way too long/ever, cause that dude is seriously not a looker. But a terrific voice can turn the froggiest amphibian into a very fine prince.

As mentioned earlier, Lyle Lovett is the poster boy for this scientific fact.

Posted by: Wednesday at March 3, 2011 8:29 PM

Has anyone mentioned Javier Bardem? Sometimes he seems objectively attractive and sometimes he seems more like an ugly hot. Pretty much always hot anyway. Yum.

Posted by: pickled tink at March 3, 2011 9:00 PM

Joanna, you're crazy!

John Leguizamo is fucking hot. Not ugly hot, not goofy hot, but dreamy and steaming and all sorts of goodness. I would do him with all the lights on.

Posted by: Cabbage at March 3, 2011 9:19 PM

I'm surprised no one else has mentioned Jeff Goldblum, or is that just my weird hang up? Never mind.

Posted by: Tits McGee at March 3, 2011 9:21 PM

Tits McGee, honey, I'm with you on the Jeff Goldblum love. I could eat him up.

Posted by: pickled tink at March 3, 2011 9:45 PM

I absolutely LOVE that Steve Buscemi is on this list... So so suiting.
Plus, what about Javier Bardem and his freaky nose? It's so mind boggling but so hot!

And as for who would be on a female list (as was mentioned at the end), I don't know why but I immediately thought of Toni Collette. Woman looks seriously strange at some points but it still suuuper gorgeous.

Posted by: Lisa Bee at March 3, 2011 9:47 PM

I agree with all of these choices except for the gingery dude (Plemons). I have had a thing for Willem Dafoe for years. It started with "Wild at Heart."

And hells yeah to Michael K. Williams. But I'd argue that he's just beautiful hot, not ugly hot.

Posted by: jzhz at March 3, 2011 9:53 PM

Ellie, I'm so with you on Mr. Cumberbatch. Besides having the awesomest/silliest name ever, he's alien looking and somehow, weirdly beautiful.

Similarly, why all the conflict over 10 vs. 11? They're both funny looking, and they both belong on this list.

Posted by: Ruby at March 3, 2011 9:57 PM

Oh, and I don't think I'd do Leguizamo. He's too wee.

I look at Adrien Brody and Matt Davis and all I can think of is dong.

Posted by: jzhz at March 3, 2011 10:00 PM

Brody was tops on my list until I saw him in that fucking beer ad. My heart is broken...Are times that tough for an oscar winner?

Posted by: vllach at March 3, 2011 10:00 PM

The nose plays, baby.
Posted by: MM at March 3, 2011 4:51 PM

Is that an Ocean's 12 reference? Love.

Posted by: coveredinbees at March 3, 2011 10:00 PM

The "unconventional women" list in the summer of 2007 or 8 was a trainwreck, because they were mostly stunning, except to, you know, schmucks and tasteless waste. Then the schmucks and tasteless waste (or didn't get the concept or were insane) started throwing in suggestions of other "odd" looking women, and I threatened to find them all and smash their car windows due to their either continuing to refuse to understand what the list was supposed to be about...or thinking Jennifer Tilly is an eccentric idea of female pulchritude.

It was a case of, as Steve "Tony" Coogan said: You're just fucking WRONG.

Posted by: Bleach cosplay costumes at March 3, 2011 10:23 PM

Is that an Ocean's 12 reference? Love.

Ahhhaaaahahahaaa! Yes.

The nose does play. Sure, the beer commercial is a little iffy, but I still dig Brody.

Posted by: MM at March 3, 2011 10:25 PM

OLMOS.

Posted by: Lancelot Lovejoy at March 3, 2011 10:53 PM

Adrien Brody and Vincent Cassel are good-looking in an atypical way. (I actually find cassel really, really hot.) John leguizamo is just normal-hot, I don't know why he's on this list.

The real crime here is Tony Leung. He's so handsome and beautiful. Ugly-pretty or just plain-looking? Please, not at all.

By the way, speaking of Brody's super bowl beer ad, I have a funny story about that. I was watching it at a crowded bar/restaurant and there was a table of men next to my table of ladies. I really thought he was sexy in that ad (if a bit corny, but it's the super bowl, so whatever) but you could hear a collective female sigh go across the room, as well as guys snickering. One even yelled, "no way!" it was really funny to see the varied reactions to him.

Posted by: Denesteak at March 3, 2011 11:41 PM


it seems that with joanna it is always about her " lady parts "
and " nethers ".
in the future, i think i'll just pass.

Posted by: snake at March 4, 2011 12:20 AM

the man is somehow sexier than David Tennant.
TAKE THAT BACK. NOW. >:O

The fact that you have included Tony Leung has mellowed this grievous offense, Joanna. JUST THIS ONCE. Where's my copy of Chungking Express ..

Posted by: duckandcover at March 4, 2011 12:49 AM

Does Sam Rockwell belong in the "ugly" pile? He's got some sexy, intense thing going on.

Also, is there a list of Blandest Attractive People? I'd like to nominate Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale.

Posted by: Charlotte at March 4, 2011 1:12 AM

I am totally in the Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes camp. And the Adrien Brody-is-flat-out-gorgeous camp. And Matt Smith's Doctor makes my knees go weak and my heart flutter in ways that Ten never, ever did. I will agree he's not as photogenic, but when they walk and talk, there is no comparing.

Posted by: Shibuyama at March 4, 2011 2:44 AM

Some of the funniest fucking descriptions I've read in a while in this post. Well done. Really: well fucking done.

Posted by: zeke the pig at March 4, 2011 4:23 AM

I find no appeal in Leguizamo, but I don't think he's necessarily ugly. I do however, think that Michael K. Williams and Tony Leung are too pretty for this list. Matt Smith reminds me of my insane aunt in that picture, and I really don't get his appeal. Jesse Plemons is just bland. But I'm on board with the rest of the list.

Benedict Cumberbatch (as Holmes), Jeff Goldbloom, Mathieu Amalric, and Edward James Olmos work for me too.

I love Martin Starr so I'd leave the lights on. Hell, he could even keep his beard.

Posted by: Uda at March 4, 2011 4:30 AM

Julian Sands

Posted by: yemayah at March 4, 2011 4:35 AM

John Hawkes was in my Buffy episode this morning!

That is all.

Posted by: Carrie at March 4, 2011 4:55 AM

Oh shit, I totally misspelled Goldblum.

Posted by: Uda at March 4, 2011 5:25 AM

I would add Scott Bakula, who could be quite handsome except for his face is kinda built like a picasso painting and Peter Dinklage, who's SMOKIN hot, just short.
:)

Posted by: ImtelllinHelen at March 4, 2011 6:31 AM

Brady has a charm. I loved his movie "The Pianist"

Posted by: Sherry at March 4, 2011 7:24 AM

Hello, Matt, would you like to come inside my blue box?
Marge Simpson - is that you?!?

And then you just reminded me of how inexplicably hot I find Jackie Earl Haley. Why, universe? WHY?
Me too. No idea why, either! I really look forward to his scenes in 'Human Target'.

Eyvi, I totally agree about Tim Roth. I so would.

I'd add Ian McShane to the list, too. I would have taken Al Swearingen over Sheriff Bullock. Seriously.

And Hugh Laurie. House is Hot.

Posted by: Tarn at March 4, 2011 8:20 AM

BWeaves, you forgot Guy Pearce. I'd do him in or out of drag. But then again, he is conventionally handsome.

I flove Vincent Cassel, mainly for the dancing thing he does in Oceans 12. Even though I think he looks a bit like a flounder.

I got to meet Peter Dinklage when he came to a show at the theater where I was an usherette. Dude is hot. Compelling, and hot. And also very polite. I left the theater before he came back to do Richard III, and I really regret that. I would have loved to have seen him on a daily basis.

Posted by: Captain Tuttle at March 4, 2011 9:11 AM

Oh, and also, Eric Bogosian.

Posted by: Captain Tuttle at March 4, 2011 9:16 AM

when [David Tennant and Matt Smith] walk and talk, there is no comparing.

Agreed, Shibuyama.

/tosses Smith to a pile of hungry hipsters
/follows Tennant to the end of the universe

Posted by: Patty O'Green at March 4, 2011 9:55 AM

Oh, Patty, we clearly need to invent a game call "Hungry, Hungry Hipsters." We'll make a mint.

Posted by: coveredinbees at March 4, 2011 10:07 AM

Mmmm...Eccleston.

Wait, what were we talking about?

Posted by: Kristen at March 4, 2011 1:54 PM

"I got to meet Peter Dinklage when he came to a show at the theater where I was an usherette. Dude is hot. Compelling, and hot"

Captain, I'm so jealous I could spit!!!

and as for Shibuyama:

"when [David Tennant and Matt Smith] walk and talk, there is no comparing."

are you high?? on crack?? cuz every time I see Matt walk away on those bowed out cowboy legs my brain just falls out of my head and and I'm reduced to muttering "DAH-AM" for the next 6 minutes!!

Posted by: ImtelllinHelen at March 4, 2011 1:55 PM

I think we're missing the casts of Deadwood and Sons of Anarchy (heavy overlapping):

Titus Welliver
Kim Coates
Tommy Flanagan (scar-faced)
Ron Perlman (cro-magnum hot)

Posted by: bananapanda at March 4, 2011 2:03 PM

Oh bananapanda, you are after my heart!! LOVE Sons of Anarchy and when people say, 'oh you're a Jax fan.' I say HELL NO...give me Tig and Chibs!

And I love Titus on Deadwood, he was my crush, I totally ignored Bullock but now Timothy Olyphant on Justified blows my mind.

Was just going to mention adding Ron Perlman to this list...but as HellBoy...I had a hot dream one time, I know-its disturbing.

Posted by: beautifulgirl at March 4, 2011 6:22 PM

I have wanted a piece of Steve Buscemi for almost 20 years. Don't know what it is, seriously, but I find him outrageously sexy. Delicious.

Posted by: Alison at March 4, 2011 6:44 PM

"I'd add Ralph Fiennes and Jay Baruchel."

Ralph Fiennes? Are you out of your damn mind?
I think Mike Williams is classically nice-looking, as is Leung.

Mine (not all appeal to me, but I know they appeal to others):

Ray Liotta
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (I happen to find him gorgeous, but I know he freaks people out)
Bono

Posted by: samantha t at March 4, 2011 7:32 PM

Adrien Brody, until he did that stupid ass Stella Artois commercial.

Posted by: em at March 4, 2011 9:30 PM

Tim Roth!!!

Posted by: kelly at March 4, 2011 11:37 PM

I've seen John Leguizamo in person and he is regular hot. Super hot. Short, but hot. And cut.

My ugly/sexy crush I've had for a while is Ron Perlman. I cannot explain it, but there is something about that man that is so charismatic that he's super sexy to me. Plus he brings his mom to red carpet events, which is just sweet.

Posted by: lumenatrix at March 5, 2011 2:48 AM

Brody is the only one on this list I'd do, but oh I'd do him gooood. I'm not even sure what kind of hot he is anymore but he heats me up in all the right places.

Posted by: monkey_b at March 5, 2011 3:12 AM

Okay, I'm pretty sure this Dot-Marie person is not the type of average lady you'd see walking down the street. You would most definitely stop and think, "Whoa, she looks strange." And this is coming from someone who lives in DC, voted top ten fugliest city in the U.S.

Also, I would like to suggest someone. Her name rhymes with Schmaggie Shmyllenhaal.

Posted by: monkey_b at March 5, 2011 3:30 AM

And thattttt's what I get for having two tabs open at once. Grr.

Posted by: monkey_b at March 5, 2011 3:32 AM

Please keep Gary Oldman of this list.

Posted by: Gina at March 5, 2011 7:33 AM

Brody and del Toro, my yes!
And Perlman, oh, yeah, all the way back to "Beauty and the Beast"
And here are some others:
Paul Giamatti in John Adams, amongst many other things. I can't help it--it's the voice, and the thick black glasses he wears in real life. Geek love.
Leonard Nimoy in his younger Spock days (not a million miles away from Brody, actually)
Philippe Noiret in anything-love his schlumpy bear looks, esp 'Dear Detective"
Michael Gambon, too-something about him makes me a little bit funny inside
Bill Nighy--like that strange slippery quality he has
and Bill Murray-not conventionally handsome, 'tis true, but he sure does it for me in "Lost in Translation".

Posted by: Yols at March 5, 2011 8:06 AM

Geoffrey Rush...it's all voice, style and confidence I think.

Posted by: C S-W at March 5, 2011 9:02 AM

I'll support the Bill Nighy and Geoffrey Rush love (only saving graces of the second and third POTC movies, FOR SURE).

Also, to put to rest the Brody love (linked in the "ugly-hot" women article as well): http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-content/uploads/predators_killer_brody1.jpg

Awwww yeahhhh.

Posted by: duckandcover at March 5, 2011 9:29 AM

I fear I'm going to be telling my grandchildren on my deathbed about the good old days when people used to be kind.

People that find this amusing are a disgrace to the joy of life.


Posted by: David at March 5, 2011 4:19 PM

Smith over Tennant? No way. DT is the sexiest nerd going. I agree on Jackie Earle Haley. He had some indefinably appealing thing going on since way back in Breaking Away. I'd also add Tommy Lee Jones to that list...man, is he hot.

Posted by: Diane at March 5, 2011 4:54 PM

it's too late, because this thread is dead, but i only just read the whole title, the "turn the lights off" title.

I like this notion of paying tribute to the myriad individual ways people are beautiful, but not this ugly ugly heading, that suggests, "i am ashamed but something about you turns me on, so just let me drink some tequila and turn off the lights then you can fuck me"

I would just like to translate that title to reveal the horrific mysandry in it.

"Man, put a bag over that bitches head, and i would still cornhole her"

The title of the Pajiba post, and my nasty rebuttal have nothing to do with being enchanted and sexually aroused by unconventional beauty, or ugly beauty as we like to say.

and i will just add, as far as computers are concerned, there is no such word as mysandry. in other words, opens season folks!

Posted by: idleprimate at March 5, 2011 10:44 PM

I have only one celebrity crush. And that is Adrian Brody. I have never seen him in an interview, so I could care less about his personality. But that face! So hot. Like a young Severus Snape.

Posted by: Haystacks at March 6, 2011 3:04 AM

I always found "Ugly Betty" to be attractive. But in real life the actor is really really hot. Sure she's no stick figure but that has never been what I find attractive looking in women anyway

Posted by: Tyler at March 6, 2011 4:49 AM

This may be too late, but I certainly agree about Gary Oldman and Tim Roth. Has anyone seen "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"? HOT!!!

Posted by: Nat at March 6, 2011 12:36 PM

... I... I... hold on a sec... I can't stop laughing!! Ugly Hot, indeed!!! it just goes to show that one girl's trash is another girl's pleasure. ok, just to be fair, i submit my secret Ugly Hot crushes, actors Chris Owen (the ginger in "American Pie"), Noel Fisher (Brian on "Lie To Me") and Harris Allan (the adopted hustler on "Queer As Folk"). They're very unconventional-looking, even weird by Hollywood's standards, but i'd definitely shag them super rotten and i'm not ashamed to admit it.

Posted by: Brian at March 6, 2011 8:18 PM

Though I agree that Brody is hot, I can no longer watch him without remembering this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygI-2F8ApUM

Posted by: AJ at March 8, 2011 2:49 AM

I've been calling Daniel Craig and Clive Owen ugly-hot for years. But aside from those omissions, I agree with this list completely.

Posted by: Jelinas at March 8, 2011 3:10 AM

You left out my crush the anti-hollywood Vincent Gallo - SO ugly beautiful!

I am seriously in love with John Hawkes after his performance in Miranda July's first film and Steve Buscemi since "Living in Oblivion" Totally hot.

Great Article

Posted by: J at March 11, 2011 1:09 PM

Michael Wincott, take me now!

Posted by: etchmiadzin at March 21, 2011 4:41 AM