# Actors/Actresses that you SHOULD find repellant, but are oddly attracted to. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593 "2011-06-15T18:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/21 "2011-06-16T13:07:18Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Steve ‘Can my teeth point in any more directions at the same time??’ Buscemi I am in love with him. I would gladly lick his weird little fangs. Don’t ask me to explain, I don’t get it either. :o ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/22 "2011-06-16T13:10:52Z")
Kim Kardashian. She is an awful, shallow, immature, self-entitled twat who represents everything that is wrong with America. Yet whenever I see photos of her (or sometimes video with the sound off), I just can’t keep my brain from imagining doing … certain things … to her. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/23 "2011-06-16T13:20:24Z")
Sean Penn. Yeah I know, He’s an asshole. But he is oddly attractive to me. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/24 "2011-06-16T13:35:13Z")
Another vote for Courtney Love here. She was actually quite beautiful in the late 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/25 "2011-06-16T14:00:47Z")
Sean Young sounds pretty messed up as a person, but Rachael in _Blade Runner_ is simply yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/26 "2011-06-16T14:10:58Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > I know, right??? How do they do that? What’s up with the equation that determines seductive does not equal conventionally symmetrically beautiful or sane? That would be the [Barney Stinson (Hot,Crazy) Scale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zADosF3XoQ). The line you’re looking for the Vicky Mendoza line. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/27 "2011-06-16T14:30:50Z")
I’m not normally attracted to senior citizens, but I sure wouldn’t kick \*\*Sophia Loren \*\*(76) or \*\*Helen Mirren \*\*(65) out of bed for eating crackers. Or \*\*Ann Margaret \*\*(70) for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/28 "2011-06-16T14:32:56Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I find Jason Mewes _REALLY_ appealing. Dude is a junky. Every character he’s ever played has been…nasty. He’s a train wreck all round. > > And yet, I was disappointed when I found out he was married. (Because he and I were going to run away together when he was single, obviously. :rolleyes:) Mewes is totally cleaned up and on the straight and narrow these days. He’s really put his life back together. He does a podcast w/ Kevin Smith called “Jay and Silent Bob Get Old.” If you like him, be sure to see _Zack & Miri Make a Porno_. You’ll enjoy the final scene of the film. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/29 "2011-06-16T14:48:45Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > If you like him, be sure to see _Zack & Miri Make a Porno_. You’ll enjoy the final scene of the film. I’ve seen it about 50 times!! The last scene is hilarious but dude does not look good with his wang flopping around and I STILL find him totally hot! I do know that he’s currently doing well with the drug situation; however, he’s been here before so I guess it’s a bit of a wait and see thing. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/30 "2011-06-16T14:53:05Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I don’t want lame answers like ‘Brad Pitt’ had a stupid beard for a while!’ or ‘Christina Hendricks’ is chunky!’ I want people who are really nasty - like Tara Reid wonk boob, or Steve ‘Can my teeth point in any more directions at the same time??’ Buscemi. > ! > [@Wheelz](#): > > Kim Kardashian. > She is an awful, shallow, immature, self-entitled twat who represents everything that is wrong with America. Yet whenever I see photos of her (or sometimes video with the sound off), I just can’t keep my brain from imagining doing … certain things … to her. **TWEET!** Flag on the play!! Nice try - Kim Kardashian is possibly one of the best looking women in the world today - it takes a lot more than a gross personality to be included in this game! Try again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/31 "2011-06-16T15:33:09Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > **TWEET!** Flag on the play!! > > Nice try - Kim Kardashian is possibly one of the best looking women in the world today - it takes a lot more than a gross personality to be included in this game! > > Try again. 🙂 Okay, you’re the boss. Though I truly believe I SHOULD find her repellant based on her personality, I see your point. Retracted. New entry may follow. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/32 "2011-06-16T15:51:46Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > **TWEET!** Flag on the play!! > > Nice try - Kim Kardashian is possibly one of the best looking women in the world today - it takes a lot more than a gross personality to be included in this game! > > Try again. 🙂 Exactly. This thread is not, “Unearthly beautiful and talented people who have a couple of flaws that you in your perfection would condescend to overlook”. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/33 "2011-06-16T15:58:54Z")
I think heterosexual men just cannot do this. We like the visuals. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/34 "2011-06-16T15:59:09Z")
I was once reading a list of the top 100 ugliest celebrities (which I thought was a bit overly mean spirited, but that’s a rant for another day), and **Robert Patrick** showed up somewhere in the forties. Jesus! Really? I couldn’t believe it - I watched seasons 8 and 9 of The X Files for that man! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/35 "2011-06-16T16:24:05Z")
Ilena Douglas ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/36 "2011-06-16T16:35:14Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Jenny McCarthy is a harmful idiot, but I’d still do her. First celebrity I thought of when I read the title. Idiotic, ignorant, and yet… scorching. Saw her on an episode of “Two and a Half Men” and was shocked that she’s 38 and looks like that. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/37 "2011-06-16T16:42:22Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > **TWEET!** Flag on the play!! > > Nice try - Kim Kardashian is possibly one of the best looking women in the world today - it takes a lot more than a gross personality to be included in this game! You seriously think so? I look at her, and I see the result of the best work of dozens of make-up artists, hair stylists, fashion consultants, personal trainers, etc…and the end result is only slightly better than “Hottest Woman at the Local PTA Meeting”. Google search for a bunch of images of her, and you’ll see she does the exact same thing that many other not-particularly-beautiful-but-wealthy women do…tilts her head down and to one side to emphasize her best features and underemphasis her worst. Virtually all straight on shots are unflattering. Seriously, I live in Chicago, and I can walk around downtown and see dozens, if not hundreds, of more attractive women any day of the week. If you spent the same amount of money optimizing their looks as has been spent on Kim Kardashian, any of them would totally make you forget her. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/38 "2011-06-16T16:50:18Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I’m not normally attracted to senior citizens, but I sure wouldn’t kick \*\*Sophia Loren \*\*(76) or \*\*Helen Mirren \*\*(65) out of bed for eating crackers. Or \*\*Ann Margaret \*\*(70) for that matter. Or Blythe Danner. Oh God, Blythe Danner - the things I’ve done to that woman in my mind. Her daughter doesn’t do a thing for me. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/39 "2011-06-16T17:11:23Z")
Or Anne Archer (63). Still lookin’ good! ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593/40 "2011-06-16T17:13:54Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > You seriously think so? I look at her, and I see the result of the best work of dozens of make-up artists, hair stylists, fashion consultants, personal trainers, etc…and the end result is only slightly better than “Hottest Woman at the Local PTA Meeting”. Google search for a bunch of images of her, and you’ll see she does the exact same thing that many other not-particularly-beautiful-but-wealthy women do…tilts her head down and to one side to emphasize her best features and underemphasis her worst. Virtually all straight on shots are unflattering. Meh - here she is totally sunburnt, no makeup, skank hair and she’s still better looking than 95% of the women out there. [![](http://s3.socialvixen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/kim-kardashian-b_511.jpg) ](http://s3.socialvixen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/kim-kardashian-b_511.jpg) Don’t get me wrong - her personality is repellant, but it’s a pretty big stretch to suggest that she’s anything other than classically beautiful. She may not be your personal cup of tea, but she’s very good looking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-that-you-should-find-repellant-but-are-oddly-attracted-to/585593.md?page=3)