# What celebrity would you go gay (or straight) for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952 "2007-10-25T12:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/41 "2007-10-25T20:27:21Z")
I don’t know about going gay, but I’ve certainly felt an attraction to certain male actors. Not a sexually-horny attraction, but a wow, he’s so hot attraction. Like the aforementioned _Fight Club_-era Brad Pitt (even the _Thelma and Louise_-era Pitt, which is the first occurrence of this realization), George Clooney in _Ocean’s Twelve_, Pierce Brosnan in _The Thomas Crown Affair_, and the guy that came to fix the gas leak in our basement recently\*. Holy crap, that guy was handsome. \*Yeah, I know. He’s not a celebrity. But he should be. ---
**Author:** ![TripleTee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@TripleTee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TripleTee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/42 "2007-10-25T20:30:47Z")
Russell Crowe. He would make me wet. If I was a chick. Especially if he threw a phone at someone because he was trying to call me and they wouldnt freaking connect him! No one’s ever gotten crazy for me before so I go for that. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/43 "2007-10-25T20:31:24Z")
[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon] Nigella Lawson. Good _God_, that woman is hot. First, she is just gorgeous, with a bodacious figure. Then, the first time I saw her she was making croissant bread pudding with caramel sauce - for dinner. And if that isn’t tempting enough, she then ate it in bed, wearing black silk pajamas. If she showed up at my front door offering to take me away, cook for me, and sex me up, I would be hard pressed to say no. [/QUOTE] Good… Lord… Erm… Thanks for introducing me to her… I’ll be in my bunk! Although, to the topic… I think I’m like a few other posters. I can definately appreciate a good-looking, attractive man, but I can’t envision changing my sexual preferences for one. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/44 "2007-10-25T20:40:15Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I’m straight as a plank. I can look at a guy like Ben Affleck and say he’s good looking. But that doesn’t mean I want to have sex with him. It means I want to look like him so I could have sex with a woman like Jennifer Garner. I’ve honestly never felt a moment’s sexual attraction for another man. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I’m kinda in that boat. I do have guy-crushes, however, for early-day William Holden and Glenn Ford, and a guy-voice-crush for Dick Haymes (singing or speaking, doesn’t matter). All suave, earnest, magnetic, wore clothes well, and had great hair. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/45 "2007-10-25T20:42:57Z")
Ed Harris, I’m not quite sure why, It just is. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/46 "2007-10-25T20:48:54Z")
I vaguely recall one of the board’s gay guys years ago saying that the scene of Rebecca de Mornay in _Risky Business_ standing at the window sill while the wind blew her skirt all around her face left him thinking that if he did go straight, it would be for her. “Are you ready for me? Ralph?” ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/47 "2007-10-25T20:52:19Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Jodi Foster. IMO, the most beautiful woman in the world. [/QUOTE] I love Jodie, but I can’t quite agree that she’s THE most beautiful woman in the world (that’s likely Monica Bellucci). That said, if you’re not in love with JF, there is something wrong with you and you should immediately see a doctor. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/48 "2007-10-25T20:56:26Z")
I can’t quite imagine actually going gay for her, but I do think Natalie Portman is the hottest little thing since the birth of the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/49 "2007-10-25T21:36:51Z")
[QUOTE=HelloKitty] Catherine Zeta-Jones is definitely my ideal, I just think she is the most gorgeous woman on the planet. [/QUOTE] Off topic, but as a guy, I fully agree with this statement. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/50 "2007-10-25T21:48:29Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] I love Jodie, but I can’t quite agree that she’s THE most beautiful woman in the world (that’s likely **Monica Bellucci** ). [/QUOTE] [That’s](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0465602/Ss/0465602/seu.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Bellucci,%20Monica) who I’d go for. Also - [Claudia Black](http://www.answers.com/topic/aeryn-jpg). Rrrrrrowrrr. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/51 "2007-10-25T21:54:22Z")
Wouldn’t go so far as to have sex, but would stare in slack-jawed appreciation of Catherine Zeta-Jones’ gorgeousness, and would want to hit a few bars with the Marlene Dietrich of the 1940’s. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/52 "2007-10-26T01:40:46Z")
My GF knows I’d go gay for Mathew McConnaghey; I think the story about him being arrested while high, naked and playing the bongo drums in his house is what cemented the deal. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/53 "2007-10-26T02:30:31Z")
Beyoncé Knowles or Shakira. That music video they have together, ‘‘Beautiful Liar’’ makes me want to jump them both. If 1 is totally straight and 10 is totally gay, I’m like a 3. But Jesus help me, those women are fiiine. I’d do 'em just for the bragging rights. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/54 "2007-10-26T03:02:56Z")
Rosario Dawson, Winona Ryder. Maybe Jennifer Garner. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/55 "2007-10-26T03:46:49Z")
I’d go straight for Charlize Theron or Bernadette Peters. I’d stay gay for Hugh Laurie or Adrian Brody. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/56 "2007-10-26T05:08:57Z")
[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon] Nigella Lawson. Good _God_, that woman is hot. First, she is just gorgeous, with a bodacious figure. Then, the first time I saw her she was making croissant bread pudding with caramel sauce - for dinner. And if that isn’t tempting enough, she then ate it in bed, wearing black silk pajamas. If she showed up at my front door offering to take me away, cook for me, and sex me up, I would be hard pressed to say no. [/QUOTE] You’ll have to wrestle me for her. 🙂 I’ve always said I don’t know if I want to be her, do her, or devour her with a spoon. Nigella Lawson. Holy smokes, that woman. Her cookbooks are really entertaining, too – she writes with such charm. _sigh_ Love her. I can’t forget Twin Peaks-era Sherilyn Fenn. That scene where she turns up naked in Cooper’s bed? Ohhh, Cooper, bless your heart. I would not have been such a gentlman. (Lady. Whatever.) ---
**Author:** ![Flipshod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f19dbf/32.png) [@Flipshod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipshod)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/57 "2007-10-26T18:32:59Z")
The “Crying Game” actor had me going… I’m about a 2 on a scale of 1- 10, and my tastes would be situational–never saw a guy in a movie/on tv and felt anything. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/58 "2007-10-26T18:38:41Z")
Since we’re adding disclaimers…I’m a pure Kinsey 6 and would never actually go straight for any of those women. Jodie Foster is still totally hot though. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/59 "2007-10-26T20:43:16Z")
[Tina Fey](http://www.iowest.com/photos/alumni/data/tina_fey.jpg) . Actually, there are several (I’m not exactly 100% straight), but [Tina Fey](http://www.notwriting.com/images/tina_fey_glasses.jpg) makes me absolutely crazy. My boyfriend likes her too; she’d probably be pretty weirded out if she knew how often she stars in our little games. Oh,[Tina](http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/fey_tina.jpg) , how I love you! (I added pictures for anyone who doubts she’s the most fuckable woman alive) ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrity-would-you-go-gay-or-straight-for/423952/60 "2007-10-26T20:47:53Z")
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