# The Fat Gail Center for Hot Boy Studies: The Conundrum: Javier Bardem. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329 "2008-01-28T17:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/41 "2008-01-29T18:25:39Z")
Having looked at some of those pictures that **Equipoise** posted, I’ll say he’s a bit better cleaned up, but still…meh. The proportions of his face just don’t do it for me at all. My tastes may be a bit unusual, I am actively repelled by Brad Pitt, to the confusion of almost every other women I’ve ever mentioned that to (and probably gay guys as well, but I don’t think I’ve ever discussed him with any). ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/42 "2008-01-29T18:37:52Z")
Quite hot. I like a masculine looking man. That _No Country For Old Men_ haircut must never be repeated, though. A haircut like that would have made Paul Newman look horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/43 "2008-01-29T18:39:37Z")
[QUOTE=Lucky 13] I used to think he was hot (see him in _Jamon Jamon_), but lately, not so much, mostly on account of the Coconut Head haircut in _No Country for Old Men_. [/QUOTE] Ah yes, _Jamon Jamon_. That film has something for everyone. For you girls and gay guys, you have Javier Bardem bullfighting in the nude. For us straight fellas, you have Javier Bardem licking 17-year-old Penelope Cruz’s naked breasts. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/44 "2008-01-29T18:59:32Z")
This thread is freaking me out. Why would anyone blame the actor for his look and actions in a role he was hired to play?? [QUOTE=shy guy] He’s quite hot, I think. Of course, after _No Country_, I don’t think I could ever even stand to be in the same room as him, let alone think of him in a sexual way. [/QUOTE] That’s so sad, that now he’s so identified with a role, one of 43, that he can no longer be thought of as a person in his own right? That’s so sad. Not trying to convince you, but [take a look at his acceptance speech](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZfVRXplCuQ) from the other night’s Screen Actors Guild awards, and tell me he’s still creepy to you. I’ve liked him for years, and he’s always come off as a sweet, humble guy. He’s a very very very good actor, on his way to a much-deserved Academy Award, and it’s too bad that this one role is being held against him in any way. (unfortunately the audio is slightly off on that video but it’s the best one I could find, with his entire speech) ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/45 "2008-01-29T19:06:21Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] This thread is freaking me out. Why would anyone blame the actor for his look and actions in a role he was hired to play?? That’s so sad, that now he’s so identified with a role, one of 43, that he can no longer be thought of as a person in his own right? That’s so sad. Not trying to convince you, but [take a look at his acceptance speech](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZfVRXplCuQ) from the other night’s Screen Actors Guild awards, and tell me he’s still creepy to you. I’ve liked him for years, and he’s always come off as a sweet, humble guy. He’s a very very very good actor, on his way to a much-deserved Academy Award, and it’s too bad that this one role is being held against him in any way. (unfortunately the audio is slightly off on that video but it’s the best one I could find, with his entire speech) [/QUOTE] I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie of his, actually I didn’t realize he was bad hair guy in that movie until after I decided he wasn’t my cup of tea. I’m basing my opinion strictly on the pictures I’ve seen. I agree with what several people have said, his face proportions just seem wrong to me. The nose, chin and ears just strike me oddly. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/46 "2008-01-29T19:10:55Z")
Oh, and while I’m at it, for those who might cringe away from Daniel Day-Lewis because they now think of him as a drunken, ruthless oil baron, take a look at [his Screen Actors Guild acceptance speech](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxr8mbvaB2E) to see what a shy, sweet guy he is in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/47 "2008-01-29T19:14:05Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie of his, [/QUOTE] That’s too bad, you’ve missed a lot of good movies. [QUOTE=Antinor01] actually I didn’t realize he was bad hair guy in that movie until after I decided he wasn’t my cup of tea. I’m basing my opinion strictly on the pictures I’ve seen. [/QUOTE] I wasn’t really talking about you and those who find him not their cup of tea, but those who used to find him hot but now can only think of the character of Anton, as if that defines his real-life looks and personality. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/48 "2008-01-29T19:27:25Z")
Eh, sometimes a role can ruin an actor. I think we’ve had threads about that around here. It’s not rational, but it happens. It’s why I can’t stand Owen Wilson. Sorry, dude. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/49 "2008-01-29T20:03:50Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] Oh, and while I’m at it, for those who might cringe away from Daniel Day-Lewis because they now think of him as a drunken, ruthless oil baron, take a look at [his Screen Actors Guild acceptance speech](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxr8mbvaB2E) to see what a shy, sweet guy he is in real life. [/QUOTE] I THINK you may be taking this thread a touch too seriously. I’m looking at him as a piece of meat that I may fantasize about sexually in my lonesome midwestern life, not as a person with feelings and intelligence. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/50 "2008-01-29T20:09:13Z")
[QUOTE=scout1222] Eh, **sometimes a role can ruin an actor**. I think we’ve had threads about that around here. It’s not rational, but it happens. [/QUOTE] Ruin for certain people you mean, not ruin as an actor. What any one person thinks of Javier Bardem, hot or not, creepy or not, doesn’t matter. He’ll continue to act and get great roles and he’ll get more Oscar nominations (he’s already been nominated twice now, and his other nomination was for a [swoony, smokin’ HOT poet](http://www.impawards.com/2000/posters/before_night_falls.jpg) ) and life will go on pretty much as before for him. He’s already moved way past **No Country For Old Men** and the character of Anton Chigurh. He just played the swooning romantic part of Florentino Ariza in **Love In The Time Of Cholera** (which I missed, unfortunately). His next role is as a randy painter in the Woody Allen movie **Vicky Cristina Barcelona** (with Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson). Then he’ll play the gangster Pablo Escobar in Joe Carnahan’s movie **Killing Pablo** , with Christian Bale. Then he’ll be in Rob Marshall’s (Chicago) movie **Nine** , with Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard and Sophia Loren (yay!). And he’s supposed to be in the next Francis Ford Coppola movie called **Tetro**. He’ll be alright, and he’ll look completely different from role to role, the way he always has. I don’t doubt that someone who “ewww’d” him in No Country will see him in a role in the future and think “that guy’s hot, who is he?” ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/51 "2008-01-29T20:19:28Z")
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/52 "2008-01-29T20:29:52Z")
This is why we don’t let people audit the program. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/53 "2008-01-29T22:47:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies] I vote no. He looks like he was rode hard and put away wet. [/QUOTE] Yeah, by me. In my dreams. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/54 "2008-01-30T00:16:03Z")
[QUOTE=Jess] That _No Country For Old Men_ haircut must never be repeated, though. A haircut like that would have made Paul Newman look horrible. [/QUOTE] To be fair, this is in the Trivia section of the “No Country” IMDB entry: _The Coen Brothers used a photo of a brothel patron taken in 1979 as a model for Anton Chigurh’s hair style. Looking at its weirdness after getting the hair cut, Javier Bardem said “Oh no, now I won’t get laid for the next two months”._ ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/55 "2008-01-30T00:43:59Z")
Ha! That’s great. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/56 "2008-01-30T01:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] As a heterosexual male, I’m limited in judging hotness in guys. From the pictures posted, I’d have to say he MAY be hot if you like that type. [/QUOTE] Hetrosexual female, and I agree. However, I will not be surprised to discover that his cultural hotness increases in proportion to the amount of media exposure he gets and in direct relationship to his salary for his next three films. For some reason, there is half a universe out there that finds Julia Roberts and Tom Cruise hot - and media exposure and money (plus, quite honestly, charismatic smiles) seems to be what they’ve got going. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/57 "2008-01-30T01:15:27Z")
I find him incredibly hot. As someone else said, his masculinity is sexy. The Hollywood pretty boys don’t do it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/58 "2008-01-30T02:02:34Z")
Hot. And I am enthusiastically looking forward to more threads like this one. Fat Gail Center for Hot Boy Studies, sign me up! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/59 "2008-01-30T02:06:28Z")
He reminds me of [Taylor Negron](http://imdb.com/name/nm0624510/), they’re both kind of weird. ---
**Author:** ![bubble\_pop\_electric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@bubble\_pop\_electric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubble_pop_electric)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fat-gail-center-for-hot-boy-studies-the-conundrum-javier-bardem/435329/60 "2008-01-30T02:10:22Z")
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