# Celebrities you find strangely attractive **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2011, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433 "2011-02-24T08:48:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/61 "2011-02-26T19:01:59Z")
I think you mean John Goodman. Dan Conner was the character. Or am I being whooshed? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/62 "2011-02-26T19:15:41Z")
[John Noble as Walter Bishop on _Fringe_](http://scifun.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/walter-bishop.jpg) - his character’s insane glee is strangely attractive (very good term for that). ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/63 "2011-02-26T19:49:09Z")
> [@akira5822](#): > > I cannot explain why i find Kathy Bates so attractive, It may be some earth mother thing. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000870/](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000870/) That is strange. She’s spunky, I’ll give her that. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/64 "2011-02-26T19:52:56Z")
> [@anu-la1979](#): > > Women: Tilda Swinton, Fairuza Balk, Clea Duvall, Summer Glau These women are all gorgeous. Nothing strange about it. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/65 "2011-02-26T22:27:27Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I think you mean John Goodman. Dan Conner was the character. > > Or am I being whooshed? No whoosh. Just a ::pfffftt:: sound, indicating a brain-fart on my end! 🙂 John Goodman is exactly who I meant! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/66 "2011-02-26T22:56:59Z")
I’m gonna say [Kristen](http://images.zap2it.com/images/celeb-421048/kristen-schaal-0.jpg) [Schaal](http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/soundcheck/sites/tampabay.com.blogs.soundcheck/files/images/typepad-legacy-files/54290.6a00d83451b05569e201156ebe2008970c-800wi.jpg) of **Flight of the Conchords** (and also an occasional **Daily Show** correspondent). Obviously not a conventional beauty, but she manages to have a strange allure. (I think mostly by virtue of her wit and vivaciousness.) ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/67 "2011-02-26T23:07:11Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > No whoosh. Just a ::pfffftt:: sound, indicating a brain-fart on my end! 🙂 > John Goodman is exactly who I meant! Sadly, he’s not aging well, but in his prime I can totally see the reason he got work. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bTglaPQhYpY/hqdefault.jpg "'Foot Locker' [02] - TV commercial (1981)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTglaPQhYpY) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/68 "2011-02-27T00:11:35Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Well, just about any actor or actress is going to be reasonably hot (or in rare instances, well known for not being so), but there are always some that seem to be held up as the creme de la creme. **The George Clooneys** … There is more than one? Don’t tell my wife, she’ll want the spare. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/69 "2011-02-27T00:15:38Z")
> [@Rasa](#): > > Jeff Goldblum. > > I mean, not when he turned into the Fly, but you know what I mean. Yeah, he [had it going on](http://images.hollywood.com/site/earth%20girls.jpg) in _Earth Girls Are Easy_. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/70 "2011-02-27T00:26:26Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > There is more than one? Don’t tell my wife, she’ll want the spare. Oh, please. She’ll want _all_ of them, and you damned well know it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/71 "2011-02-27T00:36:36Z")
[![](https://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/fionnula-flanagan-1429.jpg) ](https://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/fionnula-flanagan-1429.jpg) Who gracefully aged to _this_ one: [![](https://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/Fionnula-Flanagan45859boobs.jpg) ](https://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff71/Drummerboy49/Fionnula-Flanagan45859boobs.jpg) Fionhula Flanagan, whom you may remember from the very fine Irish film, 'Waking Ned Devine". Man, I’d… She could, uh… I’d fight _all_ her dragons for her, just to have her look at me once with those smoldering eyes and then tell me to peel her a grape!🙂 Plus, she’s only 7 years older than me! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![wonder\_lust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@wonder\_lust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder_lust)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/72 "2011-02-27T01:53:56Z")
Benicio del Toro. He’s lanky and mumbly and bored/stoned-looking. He seems scary and weird. He looks older than he is. Yet…there’s something appealing about him. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/73 "2011-02-27T02:41:33Z")
> [@wonder\_lust](#): > > Benicio del Toro. > > He’s lanky and mumbly and bored/stoned-looking. He seems scary and weird. He looks older than he is. Yet…there’s something appealing about him. See, I never ‘get’ this attraction. He’s always making someone-or-another’s list of ‘50 Sexiest Men In Hollywood’ or something. I’m glad so many people like him, but I. . .just don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/74 "2011-02-27T03:42:42Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > Whoah, **beartato**. With lines like that, I bet you are a DEMON with the laydeez. Way to throw negs! 😉 Well, I am a lady. And it wasn’t negative, if that’s what “negs! ;)” means. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/75 "2011-02-27T03:43:59Z")
I’m going to go with [Kate Micucci](http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/3/30381/1252512-kate_micucci22_super.jpg), who plays Shelly, the doggy day care singer/songwriter. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/76 "2011-02-27T03:49:20Z")
> [@Walmarticus](#): > > That is strange. She’s spunky, I’ll give her that. I _hate_ spunk! mmm ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/77 "2011-02-27T05:24:11Z")
> [@Walmarticus](#): > > These women are all gorgeous. Nothing strange about it. My opinion is that they all have a sort of jolie-laide interesting thing going on-as opposed to being very “obviously” goodlooking, like say Angelina Jolie, Aishwarya Rai, Catherine Zeta Jones and the like. I simply don’t think Tilda Swinton is obviously goodlooking-though she is supposedly quite smart and interesting. I think she looks a bit like an alien or someone who’d be a high fashion model who routinely start in whacked out couture runway shows. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/78 "2011-02-27T05:40:55Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > Kate Winslet. I think she’s extremely plain and a little chubby, but when she acts she has this effusive energy that’s impossible to resist. Trust me; in person she is so beautiful it’s impossible to describe. ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/79 "2011-02-27T05:44:08Z")
I have a huge thing for Mickey Rourke. Like, modern day Mickey Rourke. Probably not in ‘real life’ but when he’s in character as some fucked up guy in a superhero movie? TAKE ME NOW. Seriously, I watched Iron-Man 2 only because of him. Also I have a bizarre crush on Lil Wayne, who is a very strange looking little man. Admittedly, he does have pretty ridiculous muscles, but still. I think it qualifies as ‘strangely attractive.’ ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433/80 "2011-02-27T12:58:13Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > Well, I am a lady. And it wasn’t negative, if that’s what “negs! ;)” means. Whimper. I had no idea. See, the joke was premised on a _man_ describing a woman as having “reptilian beauty” and that being the ultimate in doomed win-on lines and… I should give up now. The first rule of holes is that when you are in one, stop digging. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-you-find-strangely-attractive/572433.md?page=5)