I know not everyone has a type, but this is a question for those of you who notice a pattern to the people you typically find attractive: are there any actors or actresses that are the opposite of your type, but still very attractive to you?
Everyday men I find attractive are almost invariably dark-haired, dark-eyed, of at least a healthy weight, and no more than eight or nine inches taller than me. A guy who is really tall, overly thin, blond and blue/gray-eyed is about as far from my type as possible.
But, Alexander Skarsgård, who is all of the things in the latter set of characteristics except too thin is a handsome devil without a doubt.
Who violates your standard ideas of attractiveness but still gets your pulse racing anyway?
I’m definitely no fan of heavily-made up, heavily enhanced women. Think Playboy model, WWE diva, etc. I really dislike the look, and it’s a major turn-off. But for some reason Candice Michelle (who is not only a Playboy model and WWE diva, but also the “GoDaddy” girl and a softcore movie actress) hits all my buttons.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, in most of her movies and in real life, seems to be going for a very glamorous, exotic sort of look. She toils not, and neither does she spin, that kind of thing. But in The Terminal, hair a little shorter, heels a little shorter; turn her into a real person (or the Hollywood equivalent) and she’s a babe.
My type is a brown haired or black hard girl with dark eyes preferably wearing her hair short. Think Winona Ryder or Halle Berry in their dark short hair days. Or Juliette Binoche. Or Audrey Hepburn. Or…
Damn, I got distracted.
Anyway, Cynthia Nixon is almost the opposite and I think she is a babe (yes, I know she is gay. No, that does not change things a bit).
I’m more of a Philip-Seymor-Hoffman-on-a-bad-day type of girl, but Edward Norton has always tickled my fancy. Whether he’s playing a skinny little choir boy or a buff ex-Nazi…yum!
I typically go for brown-eyed brunettes. Heck, I even married one! But blue-eyed blonde Jeri Ryan would make my celebrity exemption list, if I had one. She’s a hottie.
Jude Law is not my type. His blondish paleness is not my type. I can’t see him without thinking, “You, Jude Law, are not my type”
but if he’s onscreeen I can’t stop looking at him. I think it’s something about the way he moves rather than the way he looks.
That’s a big part of my facination with Alexander Skarsgård, too. I’ll have to watch him in something where he’s not playing a vampire to see if it’s him, or stage direction, though.