It's a systemic problem because there aren't enough leading-man roles for people to cut their teeth on and learn how to be a leading man.
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If the rules of Hollywood applied to this foursome, they'd all be moving from leading-man roles in studio films to leading-man roles in AMC series.
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Common — sizzling and sensitive — reveals himself a leading man.
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Its leading man, Jake Morton (Jack Manley), seems to die.
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Shatner's leading man status was cemented very early in life.
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You ain't never had a leading man like Will Smith.
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The Golden Globes have found their leading man: Leonardo DiCaprio!
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Leading man MacMillan is as enigmatic as he is magnetic.
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And season 21's leading man will be … Nick Viall!
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Leading man Alec Baldwin plays a supporting role at home.
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But DeRozan again played leading man in a Raptors' burst.
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Al Pacino is proving his leading man chops yet again.
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Maybe this thinking is as old as "leading man" itself.
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Now, the leading man is sharing his take on the saga.
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The comedy's leading man is, much like Colton Underwood, a virgin.
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WILLIAMS: We have -- we have a handsome leading man right here.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is officially the 88th annual Academy Awards' leading man!
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The Screen Actors Guild has found its leading man: Leonardo DiCaprio.
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"The movie is about acceptance of self," says the leading man.
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Bachelor Nation, we have our next leading man: Arie Luyendyk Jr.!
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But, of course, the newlywed still gushed about her leading man.
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Elon Musk is the leading man of Silicon Valley — by far.
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That same article called you Broadway's newest "lust-worthy leading man"?
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Only two obstacles kept him from becoming a true leading man.
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"Manchester" won its leading man, Casey Affleck, the best actor award.
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If this one fizzles, Mr. Egerton's leading man opportunities may vanish.
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So this time the leading man is House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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That movie should be "The Force Awakens" for leading-man nerds.
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Note the absence of a leading man: There really isn't one.
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Scenes like this feel natural, though, when Leto is the leading man.
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"You've lost your leading man / all eras come to end" he sings.
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More specifically, will our leading man choose Raven Gates or Vanessa Grimaldi?
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And unlike its brooding leading man, there's certainly nothing complicated about why.
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It's one thing to be a leading man in a romantic comedy.
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"James Gandolfini was very insecure about playing a leading man," Holofcener said.
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But LendUp's leading man found an obvious way to actually do it.
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"Leading man" is one of those movie terms you take for granted.
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Is the leading man doing more new characters than prefab franchise work?
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Jake Taylor is written to be the ideal rom-com leading man.
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"Gordon was my first leading man, and I adored him," Jones said.
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Mr. Gautier had the square-jawed good looks of a leading man.
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They are a promising troupe still in search of a leading man.
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The upcoming season finale will feature "some familiar faces," its leading man says.
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Chris Sacca is a leading man in the world of start-up investing.
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And they stray quite far from his on-screen leading man, Christian Grey.
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That olive branch surprisingly extends to the original film's leading man, Ryan Reynolds.
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"Is Hollywood ready for an Asian leading man?" is a decades-old question.
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And to top it all off, Yesterday boasts a South Asian leading man.
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Where do you begin when sculpting a river-dwelling leading man from scratch?
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Others could not resist mocking the less-than-dabangg leading man in retreat.
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And I vacillate whether I can pull off [playing] the leading man anymore.
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Craig Ferguson makes for a swoon-worthy leading man on the silver screen.
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The bankability of the leading man has always been both predictable and capricious.
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In all that time, Hollywood's team could never find the right leading man.
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Pitt plays Cliff Booth, the stunt double for DiCaprio's leading man, Rick Dalton.
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Still, Mr. Garland shows off the company's ever-improving leading man, Da'Von Doane.
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Our leading man, Danny (Leslie Odom Jr.), is the in-house golf pro.
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He later went from being her leading man to her real-life beau.
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One of these is the supremacy of Ryan Gosling as a leading man.
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The Leftovers' leading man has just joined Netflix's most mysterious new series, Variety reports.
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But unlike Wood and Radcliffe, Harington is also cursed with Chiseled Leading Man syndrome.
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Nick Viall is poking fun at The Bachelor's next leading man this Halloween season.
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During a chat with the franchise's current leading man Colton Underwood on the Jan.
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Instead, the leading man is pale, covering in wrinkles and sporting a receding hairline.
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We can all appreciate a strong cup of coffee and a handsome leading man.
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Frankly, MacFarlane would have done himself a favor by casting a different leading man.
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In fact, our division didn't even revolve around the season's leading man, Nick Viall.
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De Niro, at seventy-four, is too old to play a traditional leading man.
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I could tell he wanted something from me beyond just being his leading man.
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But she has largely dwelt in Mickey's shadow, the damsel to his leading man.
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But she has always dwelt in Mickey's shadow, the damsel to his leading man.
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Think of a romantic-comedy leading man, and Hugh Grant may come to mind.
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Why buy into your own leading-man persona when you can just rent Thor's?
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Enter deep-voiced Hugo Cushing, who is equally comfortable as captain and leading man.
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Yet it still seemed incomplete, like a solid ensemble cast without its leading man.
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When he was super young, he always had to play the handsome leading man.
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They had to choose their leading man and I had to be with Treach.
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It's officially Nick Viall's turn to hand out roses as The Bachelor's next leading man.
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It was nice to see him in a leading man role, not as another villain.
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Before embodying Agent Dale Cooper, Kyle MacLachlan plays another Lynch leading man in Blue Velvet.
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Just days earlier, the bride-to-be gushed over the leading man in her life.
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Colton Underwood is the next leading man on The Bachelor, and Bachelor Nation is split!
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One citizen of The Bachelor nation isn't happy with the franchise's newly-announced leading man.
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Rather, The Bachelorette is billing the First Impression rose winner as a true leading man.
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Christina Anstead has a new show — and a new leading man to share it with.
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Becca Kufrin's contestant Wills Reid was a great option for season 23's leading man.
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It might just hit closer to home for leading man Henry than you ever guessed.
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Pratt already had dreams of being a leading man, but ran into some early roadblocks.
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Maggie Smith needs to look no farther for her next leading man — or men, rather.
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To watch a leading man struggle so transparently defies the very nature of postseason stardom.
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But what if the gay person is you, the leading man in your own story?
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Lest we forget, ABC is underlining one thing about our leading man: He's a virgin.
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Though it wasn't his movie, he looked, for a moment, like a dramatic leading man.
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For the record, leading man Leonardo DiCaprio is a good nine years older than Wilde.
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His talent is for quiet, unshowy moments, not leading-man grand gestures and important speeches.
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The leading man was shackled so tightly that he performed with abrasions on his wrists.
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MEDIA It is lacking the usual leading man, who has moved on to bigger things.
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Or maybe a Hollywood take on a centaur: half character actor and half leading man.
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Before becoming the leader of the free world, Ronald Reagan was a leading man in Hollywood.
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Now, his Oscars nomination for Best Actor has redoubled the criticism levelled at the leading man.
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Chris Harrison is defending The Bachelor's decision to choose Colton Underwood as its next leading man.
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Meanwhile, leading man Chris, 34, dressed in a cobalt blue suit with open collar dress shirt.
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In short, he's American, and he's ready to be the film industry's next big leading man.
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He's a leading man in an age when the definition of manhood has been completely overhauled.
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One well-placed source told us sincerity is very important in choosing the show's leading man.
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Never a leading man, Mr. Schallert was instead a high-caliber embodiment of the working actor.
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" In 2013, a column in Variety posited that Hollywood was suffering from a " Leading Man Crisis .
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"I didn't talk to him for a while," Meghie told the audience of her leading man.
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Just this week, leading man Ben Affleck seemed to cast doubt about how long he'll play Batman.
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Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty But Jen had another leading man by her side at the Versace show.
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Watch out, Zac Efron – it looks like Simone Biles has a new leading man in her life!
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But when The Bachelor's leading man shows up to her viewing party, it's a completely different story.
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Last week, the season 17 leading man celebrated the four-year anniversary of his relationship with Catherine.
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Twilight's leading man is all set to go if the franchise ever returns to the big screen.
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"Silver Linings Playbook" is a romantic comedy in which the leading man (Bradley Cooper) is also bipolar.
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The Netherlands native surprised Bachelor Nation when he was named The Bachelor's next leading man in September.
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It's a rare glimpse into the more serious side of the punchline actor turned dramatic leading man.
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In 2013, Cory Monteith, who played leading man Finn Hudson, died at age 31 of an overdose.
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The many headlines calling her Lewis' last leading lady have got it backwards — he's her leading man.
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Let the Chris Evanses and Chris Pines of the world take on the serious leading-man roles.
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As Jack Pearson, Ventimiglia growls, purrs, and squints like a leading man from a Nicholas Sparks film.
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Silver Streak showed off Wilder's abilities as a leading man, a comic partner and a slapstick comedian.
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Leading man Chris Pratt has promised that fans will eventually see the space team back in action.
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Kevin Spacey was named the leading man in drama at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday.
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Yet Liman, to his credit, is not content to revel in the shine of his leading man.
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He's not a leading man but perhaps something more influential: a near-constant presence on urban radio.
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Flash-forward to 2018, and Badgley is once again a leading man on an NYC-based drama.
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In 1944 she married the young actor John Payne, a leading man, and they had two children.
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Suddenly, the grand, courtly virility of the traditional leading man in musical theater was back in style.
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John Wayne went from a film-set crew member to a leading man thanks to one friendship.
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He manages to work as a movie star, a character actor and some kind of leading man.
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That is a better rotation than most teams, for sure, and Syndergaard is a dominant leading man.
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For Mr. Teller, the musical would have been a move toward above-the-title leading man territory.
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The tallest leading man was actually 6'5" and there are two Bachelors who tower above Colton at 6'4".
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In addition, leading man Chris Hemsworth announced his arrival to his native country with an Instagram video recently.
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"I just saw us coming together," Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue of his team's play without their leading man.
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Emma Stone has chosen the 2019 SAG Awards to officially show off the leading man in her life.
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But it's up to its leading man to set a tone that mixes unwashed hedonism with reassuring wholesomeness.
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Harrison says the timing simply wasn't right for Pell to fill the shoes of the show's leading man.
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Mr James, who also stars in "Homecoming", a recent Amazon series, cements his new-found leading-man status.
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On Tuesday's After Paradise, rose lovers finally found out the identity of the ABC hit's next leading man.
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It stars a popular leading man, Tom Hardy, and boasts a fan base deeply invested in the character.
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The 35-year-old has been named The Bachelor's next leading man, Good Morning America revealed Thursday morning.
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In the years that followed, Hemsworth appeared in a string of movies befitting his new "leading man" status.
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With a movie called The Disaster Artist, you need a leading man unafraid to embrace his inner eccentric.
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And while its leading man might be gigantic, in qualitative terms, "Kong" doesn't set the bar very high.
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Hollywood's leading man and his powerhouse human rights lawyer wife have earned important new titles: dad and mom!
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On an urgently modern show, he is an urgently modern leading man, though the phrase makes him chuckle.
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But do you remember who rode off into the season-finale sunset with each leading man and woman?
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While the leading man was just announced, development of the movie has been known for nearly a year.
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Samuel L. Jackson, forever Mr. Tarantino's leading man, is electric as a former Union officer and bounty hunter.
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Serious, symmetrical and athletic under his black turtleneck, Mr. Carvel is a character actor with leading-man looks.
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A filmmaker seeking real-life stories from the criminal underworld visits the Bronx and finds his leading man.
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A perfect white leading man is a figure whom we are all being taught to want to be.
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Is this white leading man more of a Cary Grant, or is he more of a Jimmy Stewart?
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"Peter!" a woman approached our leading man, her face blurred for anonymity which Peter would almost immediately negate.
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The show is preceded by an anxious introduction from its director and leading man, Chris Bean (Henry Shields).
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I wonder if she was surprised when Mr. Shepard made it big as a leading man in Hollywood.
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Defiantly quipping bravado is a suit of armor for Arnold Beckoff, the show's leading man (and occasional lady).
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We spoke to Todd about what she really thinks about her book's reputation and the series' controversial leading man.
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So why did Hyundai tap Reynolds, known more for his blandness than beauty, to be its desirable leading man?
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"There are leading man types that are available and they exist but they just aren't being used," he says.
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Now, I get that the The Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise loves to give each leading man or woman a schtick.
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Wilder's leading man capital was every bit as strong as these performers' -- and his range was, likely, even broader.
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Yes, really, HBO's campy Liberace movie got more awards show love than the leading man of the Red Wedding.
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After learning from other's mistakes, Viall says he "encouraged" openness and honesty throughout his time as the leading man.
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Instead, director Pa Ranjith focuses on promoting his leading man as a plantation worker who rose to dizzying heights.
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Before ABC chose him to be The Bachelor's leading man, Luyendyk starred on Emily Maynard's season of The Bachelorette.
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The Matrix made nearly $37 million in its first five days and instantly reawakened Keanu Reeves's leading-man career.
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I can only hope that Bellator's leading man, Scott Coker, is as upset by that fact as I am.
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The impact that leading man Marcus Fenix and his band of jacked-warriors had on the industry was massive.
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McKinnon was there to present her Ghostbusters director Paul Feig with the Athena Film Festival's inaugural Leading Man Award.
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It was not difficult to imagine him as a leading man who had simply dropped into the wrong decade.
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He also told me that the team was open to shaking up the current Link-as-leading-man formula.
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If Hollywood was slow to recognize Jordan's leading-man appeal, he and Coogler built something together that was irrefutable.
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He does not linger over the morality of his choices, nor his ostensibly less than traditional leading man looks.
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Over the next seven years, her films seemed to cover all the genres and every category of leading man.
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If his transformation from suave pilot to spineless leading man this season was any indication, he knew it, too.
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I couldn't have asked for a more incredible human being and amazing artist to have as a leading man.
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Mike Johnson is opening up about the precise moment he learned he wouldn't be The Bachelor's next leading man.
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The comic book movie isn't where you'd think to go for updates on the health of the leading man.
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Through their performances and social media, the actors are updating and expanding the very idea of the leading man.
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With his square jaw and British charm, Graf embodies the classic leading man while also subverting the very notion.
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The restoration of one of Salvador's early films impels him to track down its leading man, Alberto (Asier Etxeandia).
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Clint Eastwood is apparently a dear to work with ... so says the director's latest leading man, Paul Walter Hauser.
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Soules became the series' leading man in 2015 after appearing on The Bachelorette to compete for the heart of Dorfman.
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Steve Carrell: The Office star is back on television and will star as the leading man in The Morning Show.
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The show's leading man, 36, shared a sultry selfie with his bride-to-be from the night of their engagement.
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But not every leading man on the ABC series is certifiably tall, despite the prevalence of tree-like leading men.
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, Bachelor Nation: Dean Unglert probably won't be the franchise's next leading man.
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The Hollywood Reporter published a piece wondering which of the final four would be chosen as our next leading man.
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He took over a hugely popular franchise after its leading man walked and kept it humming for 12 more years.
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Robby has always said he is the leading man, and anyone who doesn't think he's a frontrunner is a loser.
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Also, there's the use of the word "pinga," which a hilarious euphemism for the leading man of the male anatomy.
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When Taylor suggested that he and The Bachelor's leading man snap a photo to help promote the business, Viall refused.
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After all, no leading man with a butterfly "tramp stamp" would be, well, man enough to make someone a mother.
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Cher's step-brother and love interest, originally played by Paul Rudd, could go to similarly hot leading man Adam Driver.
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All of this sounds like a fun role for someone, but why would a leading man like Reynolds want it?
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He says that it was the "endless possibilities" in movies that drew him into his second act as leading man.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director will be making his decision about his leading man in the coming weeks.
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THR notes that she will still appear in the three planned Walking Dead movies alongside former leading man Andrew Lincoln.
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She even had undeniable evidence of her chemistry with the leading man — and clips of her performance to prove it.
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His top-tier performers are all perfectly cast, to the point that supporting players often overshadow leading man Chadwick Boseman.
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Two seasons of The Bachelor later, leading man Arie Luyendyk Jr. reveals he experienced the same confusing rush of emotions.
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Lucifer's leading man wed writer Meaghan Oppenheimer over the weekend in a ceremony attended by several of his co-stars.
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The Public Theater has produced Julius Caesar with a leading man who closely resembles the president of the United States.
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When the leading man and producer each spontaneously combust, you might wonder why neither director nor star quit the project.
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" As for the leading man, she said of Gosling, "The Gos has just got something, you know what I mean?
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" Though Hayes said that there have "been mentions" of him being the next leading man, he revealed, "nothing is solidified.
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When you leave 22 blockbuster biopic Rocketman, you will believe an unalienable truth: Leading man Taron Egerton is a star.
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In either case, everything revolves around Siakam's ability to continue to mold his game into that of a leading man.
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But the series has solidified the leading-man status of Madden, prompting fantasies that he'll be the next James Bond.
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Ryan Reynolds, 42, is known for comedic leading-man roles like the Marvel superhero Deadpool, who wears a full bodysuit.
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In other words, a scoring machine, but a leading man who drains the enthusiasm from others rather than enhancing it.
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A Hollywood producer finds his leading man and a lifetime love interest, with the help of a little divine intervention.
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The HBO series will return January 13, but with a new leading man playing a new kind of spiritual leader.
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He found it that September night as he morphed from one storied program's starter to the leading man for another.
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But don't get your hopes up: a flashy competition with the leading man didn't end up so well for Tyrese.
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Does that include looking for leading-man roles that, in a different era, might have gone exclusively to white actors?
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Berg once again teams up with his Deepwater Horizon leading man Mark Wahlberg, who in Patriots Day plays Police Sgt.
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Newman, who went on to become a sought-after leading man in movies, never allowed fame to interfere with his life.
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In "Jolly LLB 2", Kapoor makes some cosmetic changes to the script and replaces his leading man, but thankfully keeps Shukla.
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Love, Simon hits theaters Friday March 16, so let's play a quick game of catch up on the film's leading man.
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The film won plaudits for both the director and his leading man – and clearly lit a fire of collaboration for both.
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Every leading man brought his own unique fineness to the film, so much so it's almost hard to choose a favorite.
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The leading man in "Yanxi Palace", Qianlong, is something of a cipher: a stern autocrat who finds his harem a chore.
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If you're a fan of The Bachelor, odds are you are already thinking about who the next leading man should be.
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The company confirmed the show's final season to Variety today, following sexual assault allegations against the show's leading man, Kevin Spacey.
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Season 20's leading man Ben Higgins ended his engagement and remains open to a second chance … just not quite yet.
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Idiocracy debuted in theaters on September 1, 2006, featuring a hilarious cast that included Luke Wilson as leading man Joe Bauers.
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Future Bachelor contestants, listen up: Here's what not to do when attempting to woo the show's next leading man Nick Viall.
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Nikki Bella is stepping out of the ring and onto the dance floor — but she hasn't forgotten about her leading man.
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It looks like Colton Underwood, the leading man on the 19th season of The Bachelor, might finally get his fairytale ending.
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In a PEOPLE exclusive vlog, the 36-year-old former Bachelor leading man teases Monday night's routine with partner Peta Murgatroyd.
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Raz, who is forty-five, also plays Doron Kabilyo, although he is hardly a dashing Sabra or a natural leading man.
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"He walks into the studio every day and there is much more of a sense of a leading man," he said.
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Or finds its leading man brusquely sodomizing a young prostitute as her friends and fellow employees look on, wincing ("Threepenny Opera").
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They are opportunities for Cruise to show that he is more than just an attractive leading man; he's an actor, too.
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For fans of "Counterpart" — with the masterful character actor Simmons doing leading-man double duty — the answer is a walloping no.
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The political thriller is so strong, it may have just catapulted its leading man into the suit and tie of 33.
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But this was the first time Mr. del Toro had called upon the actor to play both monster and leading man.
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I think the public perception is there's your leading man, your Clooney and your Pitt, and then there's the other guys.
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There are still relatively few out gay actors, along with leading-man parts for them, at least in major studio fare.
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Evans told W about his first experience as a leading man, which led to his very first kiss...and subsequent breakup.
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Moreover, Mr. Bannon's Svengali-style reputation has chafed on a president who sees himself as the West Wing's only leading man.
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Viggo Mortensen's nominated leading-man turn in the hippie-family tear-jerker "Captain Fantastic" can also be viewed via those services.
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"I might not be the conventional leading man, but at the end of every Wednesday Twitter and Instagram is flooded with 'I want a man just like Hollywood' or 'I need a man just like Hollywood,' and people start to see me in that light, so the roles I'm getting now are the leading man," he continues.
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And there's very good reason to believe that anyone who saw the film witnessed the debut of Hollywood's next American leading man.
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They've never had a leading man or woman of color, nor have most contestants of color made it past a few weeks.
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Rumors began to swirl in May that the zombie drama&aposs leading man was poised to exit after the upcoming ninth season.
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Romantic Comedy Leading Man It seems natural that the dreamy singer of songs like "Sexyback" and "Mirrors" would star in romantic comedies.
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Unfortunately, that was not the case for the cast of The Lost City of Z, according to its leading man, Charlie Hunnam.
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One could say that Hero Beauregard Faulkner Fiennes Tiffin was genetically engineered to become a leading man, and one wouldn't be wrong.
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Both a romantic leading man and character actor, Rochefort was a three time César honoree equally skilled in dramatic and comedic roles.
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After weeks of mounting anticipation, ABC finally announced that a familiar face from the past will be The Bachelor's newest leading man.
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Henry Golding might be Hollywood's next leading man, but he's got a few reservations about the fame that comes with the title.
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There aren't that many jokes; the sci-fi drama is, so far, not compelling; and MacFarlane isn't much of a leading man.
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She sat front-and-center with her leading man, who kissed her multiple times and thanked her during his Oscars acceptance speech.
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Now that Higgins, 30, and Bushnell, 28, are both single again, would the former ABC leading man ever consider rekindling their relationship?
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Ivory accepted the award wearing a classic tux complete with a graphic portraying the film's leading man emblazoned onto his button-down.
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Reeves, who starred in 2003's Something's Gotta Give, has graduated from the part of sexy side-piece to gruff leading man.
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Rather than going the more traditional George Clooney-esque leading man route, Gaga admitted that her first celebrity crush was Adrien Brody.
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Rather than going the more traditional George Clooney-esque leading man route, Gaga admitted that her first celebrity crush was Adrien Brody.
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The genuinely terrifying monster begins haunting leading man Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) as he descends further into the twisty tale of Bandersnatch.
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A leading man in dozens of popular, successful films in the 1950s and 1960s, Rock Hudson announced he was dying of AIDS.
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The movie is actually quite fun; Hammer and his costars, Alicia Vikander and fellow handsome almost-leading-man Henry Cavill, are good.
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The leading man of To All The Boys I've Loved Before and the internet's collective boyfriend is also... a secret reality star?
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Finney also earned his first Best Actor nomination for his efforts and the smash hit turned him into a Hollywood leading man.
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Pro tip, Hollywood: If a widely admired leading man makes time to join your geek-friendly movie, don't hide the hunky goods.
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But they came to despise Comey for his leading man role in a later drama, the probe into Hillary Clinton's email server.
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Grant's Charles was the film's handsome, if awkward, leading man who eventually falls for Carrie, an American woman played by Andie MacDowell.
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Mr. Darcy, the taciturn but dashing leading man in "Pride and Prejudice," lives in the monumental but understated (and fictional) Pemberley estate.
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Most important, it has the same leading man, Jeff Daniels, who in 2007 delivered what felt like the performance of his career.
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For many in the gallery who remembered Palmer as the dashing young athlete with Popeye-like forearms and leading man good looks.
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Leading man Jamie Foxx has never been married before, but the star did share a six-year-long relationship with Katie Holmes.
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Singing now for 40 years, he is a noted leading man in Europe, in heroic roles like Radamès ("Aida") and Calaf ("Turandot").
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Even rarer is the fact that Davis, a black actress wearing her natural hair, is making out with a white leading man.
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Essays about white leading men tend to be dull, because to be a white leading man means to be a blank subject.
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When Ms. Hamill's play, "Sense and Sensibility," was in need of a leading man, she asked Mr. O'Connell to play the part.
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Mr. Affleck handles the busy narrative without finding its hook, but his biggest problem is that he's fallen for his leading man.
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There are alternatives — actors can find a home between the responsibilities of leading man-dom and the freedom to disrupt that responsibility.
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Perhaps better suited as a sidekick than a leading man, there are only a handful of players as well-rounded as George.
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Inevitably, she gravitates to larger, louder personalities: worldly Svetlana and Ivan, a math scholar from Hungary — and the novel's reluctant leading man.
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Pepa: I was with Treach at the time and I remember all of us sitting together trying to pick our leading man.
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After taking some time off following a string of romantic-comedies, McConaughey re-emerged as the leading man in several critically-acclaimed projects.
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Instead, Maeve finally tells leading man Otis that Simon Furthassle (whom viewers never see) attempted to kiss her at someone's 14th birthday party.
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The central relationship is deeply troubling — see above quote— and its leading man is a Molotov cocktail of problematic: controlling, violent, and cruel.
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He makes his leading man a travel guide and his leading lady a tourist, thus giving them ample justification for traipsing through Europe.
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" Though Luyendyk faced some backlash since being named The Bachelor's leading man, he told PEOPLE that he's "not concerned [with] what people think.
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Nor does the leading man suffer quite as much for his art as he picks his way over glaciers and through primeval forests.
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Springer's 4 RBIs lead Astros past D-backs PHOENIX — Houston right fielder George Springer has turned the leadoff role into leading man stuff.
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Guillory's most recent novel, The Proposal, out in October, turned one of The Wedding Date's supporting characters, Carlos Ibarra, into a leading man.
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Hemsworth's role in the iconic horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods (2012) is everything I demand in a leading man and more.
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"I'm hopeful I'll find someone to spend the rest of my life with," the next leading man of The Bachelor previously told PEOPLE.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, Andrew Lincoln, the hit drama's original leading man, is set to exit the series in the upcoming ninth season.
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The leading man in her music video, played by model and actor Will Brandt, looks strikingly similar to her ex-boyfriend G-Eazy.
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Amid their dessert pit stop, the 39-year-old leading man was spotted locking lips with Schwarzenegger not once, but twice, per TMZ .
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"I'm hopeful I'll find someone to spend the rest of my life with," the next leading man of The Bachelor previously told PEOPLE.
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Many fans of The Bachelor were hoping that Wells Adams would be the franchise's next leading man — but is he off the market?
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After Walker's death during the filming of Furious 7 in 2013, fans wondered just how the film would continue without its leading man.
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It's the resume of a performer seemingly at a precipice, either on his way to glorified character actor status, or leading man prestige.
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Gaga picked up one for best performance by an actress in a motion picture, drama, while leading man Bradley Cooper landed best director.
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"There has to be some downside to being Kit Harington, right?" said Benioff and Weiss about giving their leading man a small penis.
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" Since going from a London hairdresser to a TV travel show host to a Hollywood leading man, Golding admits life has changed "dramatically.
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Lauri Peterson is figuring out how her single daughter, Ashley Zarlin, can get a rose from the newest Bachelor leading man, Nick Viall.
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It's a case of good actress in the wrong film, playing across a good leading man who just doesn't resonate on her frequency.
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Bradley Cooper, the director and leading man in the new remake of "A Star Is Born," will talk to Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday.
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The event was attended by some of LA's hottest celebrities, including porn star Stormy Daniels and Weekend at Bernie's leading man Jonathan Silverman.
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Robert Pattinson, the former "Twilight" star and the leading man in the celebrated new film "Good Time," talks to Stephen Colbert on Wednesday.
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He's too restless to remain a leading man for long, and he seems too embarrassed by stardom to do much flirting with it.
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He's a leading man in a leading man's body, a Movie Star in an era that is supposed to be post-movie stars.
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Yes, Peter Weber was in his bedroom at his parents' house when he got the call to be The Bachelor's next leading man.
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" One of the newest Netflix movies, 2019's The Knight Before Christmas features leading man Josh Whitehouse singing the original song "Before Christmas.
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If Trump deserves the Oscar for best leading man for vanity, Comey's condescension toward the American people earns him the best supporting actor.
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He has proved himself a consummate comedian, a fearless action hero and a compelling leading man, all while eerily maintaining his youthful looks.
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I'm not 100 percent sold on Prosise as an NFL leading man; he was a one-year collegiate wonder and is a converted receiver.
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"I feel like sometimes I've been fighting it, and I'm not fighting it any longer," the show's leading man said, breaking down in tears.
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Each is led with a gritty, unsympathetic, and/or grizzled leading man in a story where peace or justice lies just out of reach.
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Ryan Murphy confirmed that our favorite leading man would be returning this week, and turns out, he wasn't trying to trick us (for once).
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In the pictures, the Spartacus leading man spent time with his big brood, flashed his dashing grin in his younger days and danced playfully.
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And then there's Claire Novak (Kathryn Newton), clad in black leather and a semi-permanent scowl, sporting leading-man vibes all over the place.
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The Bachelor's soon-to-be leading man is channeling Santa Claus in the latest promo for his upcoming season of the reality dating series.
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But I'm not taking to its leading man just yet, as Clay seems to be motivated exclusively by revenge and pursuit of personal profit.
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" Though Luyendyk faced some backlash since being named The Bachelor's leading man, he previously told PEOPLE that he's "not concerned [with] what people think.
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If the Harlem native feels underprepared for rural life, she could always turn to another recent convert, leading man turned sheep farmer, Chris Pratt.
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It's pathetic that after 15 years on the air, neither The Bachelor nor The Bachelorette have featured a leading man or woman of color.
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He has starred in some of our favourite TV shows (The Wire and Luther) as well being the leading man in some major movies.
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As for bonding with her new cast members on This Is Us, Moore admitted to having "instantaneous" chemistry with leading man Milo Ventimiglia, 39.
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The stoic walk of the lumbering leading man has turned stiff, almost robotic, and when he doesn't have marks to hit he seems lost.
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Tom Hanks has long been a Hollywood institution, a reliable leading man capable of delivering impassioned, noble performances in films like Philadelphia and Sully.
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But Steele's rumbling baritone and love of wry high drama made him a lovely leading man in any discerning metal-leaning witch's wet dream.
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"I'm really proud that this is the film that gave Dev that sexy leading-man status," says Nicole Kidman, who plays Saroo's adoptive mother.
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Full disclosure: We're a tad bitter that Brendan Fraser isn't the leading man in The Mummy reboot that makes its debut on June 9.
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Jerry Ferrara, known to many as Turtle from HBO's Entourage, looks every bit the leading man on his honeymoon with new wife Breanne Racano.
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The BFI awarded him their highest honor, a fellowship, and said Grant had "redefined the British leading man for a generation," The Guardian reports.
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Over on the drama side of the awards, only one 2017 Emmy-nominated leading man has been outed as an alleged predator: Kevin Spacey.
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But Boseman's acknowledgement that he sympathizes more with his character's adversary is still a startling admission for a leading man in a superhero movie.
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Late in the conversation, he even tried to insist that he isn't a good fit for Valmont because he isn't really a leading man.
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"Black Panther" is the first of Marvel's 18 interconnected films to feature an African-American leading man, Chadwick Boseman, and a majority black cast.
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Whittaker got the most work when Stew Beef left the contest, but he isn't a traditional leading man; he's more of a receiving back.
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Popovich still has LaMarcus Aldridge, another All-Star, and could well help DeRozan become a more self-confident leading man within the Spurs' system.
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The dizzying German period piece does not have dragons, no matter how much leading man Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) imagines one below his feet.
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He had been the leading man in an action film, a pilot who fought crime from parachutes with a dog strapped to his back.
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In the Anthony era, the Knicks could never stand up to James, because their leading man was — socially at least — more wingman than antagonist.
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Ms. McMahon ran the back office, establishing herself — not for the last time — as the even-keeled counterweight to a less-temperate leading man.
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"Basically, we do everything you're not supposed to do on a leading man," said J.R. Hawbaker, the costume designer, as she adjusted a button.
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"Naked" was a chance for me to do a romantic comedy because, believe it or not, I'm trying to transition into a leading man.
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The wholesome and humble leading man — with attention-grabbing talent to match — is a rare find, but now the Yankees just might have him.
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Of course, only a few hours later, Peter was announced as the show's next leading man during the Bachelor in Paradise season 6 reunion.
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In one such recollection, Garland is shown at a diner, posing for pictures of her and a fellow leading man on a typical date.
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Nanjiani is effortlessly charming in romantic leading man mode, and Ray Romano and Holly Hunter absolutely kill it as the fictional Emily's protective parents.
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Off Broadway in 2017, Martin Sherman's "Gently Down the Stream" felt like an unabashed star vehicle for its inimitably throaty leading man, Harvey Fierstein.
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Pratt's body transformation for Guardians of the Galaxy dominated the film's press junkets: dad bod to hot bod, chubby comedian to chiseled leading man, etc.
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Some Bachelor fans are are expressing shock and disbelief over the casting of Arie Luyendyk Jr. over Peter Kraus for season 22's leading man.
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Wes Gibbons may no longer be alive on How to Get Away with Murder, but the series' leading man will still appear on the show.
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Archie will serve as Tommy Ross, the leading man in Riverdale High's Carrie production, against Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) as the musical's titular, telekinetic star.
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Probably the most famous leading man of them all, Gable served in the Army Air Forces during WWII, seeing combat in the skies over Europe.
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It was also a reminder of what a curiously inert leading man Pitt could be, and was, for long stretches of his A-list career.
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The Guardians of the Galaxy leading man has been dating Katherine Schwarzenegger since her mom Maria Shriver helped set them up, PEOPLE confirmed in June.
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Josh Groban is many things: a supremely talented vocal powerhouse, a charming comedic actor and, most recently, a leading man on the Great White Way.
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India's own 'rebel without a cause' became an all-singing, all-dancing, comedic, romantic leading man and one of the best paid actors in Bollywood.
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As the site notes: While Colin Ritman was Tuckersoft's leading man, it was Stefan Butler's 1984 release, Bandersnatch, that catapulted the company to new heights.
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He was a leading man in the making; of course he'd sign on for what, at the time, seemed poised to become an extended franchise.
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Crashing her son's interview, Shriver, 62, opened up about how it was "so exciting" to see her son make his debut as a leading man.
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At the event, the Beckhams were joined by the film's leading man, Charlie Hunnam, as well as director Guy Ritchie and his wife, Jacqui Ainsley.
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Despite not having any formal musical training, Robson also co-wrote four songs with 'NSYNC's leading man, Justin Timberlake, on the band's 20193 album Celebrity.
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The show was reworked for its final season after sexual misconduct allegations leveled against its former leading man, Kevin Spacey, led to him being removed.
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The actor has blown up since he made the leap to leading man in Guardians of the Galaxy, and his charisma continues to be undeniable.
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After stealing our hearts in "Crazy Rich Asians," Golding will continue to prove his rom-com leading man chops in "Last Christmas" alongside Emilia Clarke.
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" James also revealed the piece of advice he'd given Josh before his son embarked on his Hollywood career, saying, "Don't be a leading man, ever.
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Quinn isn't convinced of Rachel's ability to be the showrunner since she lost track of their leading man, Darius Beck, at the beginning of filming.
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Jordan found work in television on "Friday Night Lights" and in a handful of movies, but leading-man parts eluded him for the longest time.
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Sujeeth borrows scenes and tonality from several Hollywood films, including "Mission Impossible" and "Mad Max", but neither he nor his leading man match their quality.
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Politician is up for Best TV Musical or Comedy and its leading man, Ben Platt, is in the Best TV Musical or Comedy Actor competition.
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"The Call of the Wild," directed by Chris Sanders, has a recognizable leading man in Ford, who plays the novel's central human, a rugged outdoorsman.
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Kirk Douglas, the last leading man of Hollywood's Golden Age, best known for his title role in 20043's Spartacus, died Wednesday, his family announced.
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Mr. Hanna's ingenuous acting and leading-man moves suit the doltish soldier, and Mr. Kelly brings some sizzle, delivering all his lines as double-entendre.
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Denny was named for Reginald Denny, a suave English leading man during the silent era and, later, a reliable silver-haired uncle in the talkies.
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It helped that Pedro Pascal's Javier Peña was a compelling leading man, whose frustration with the drug war becomes more evident with each passing episode.
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The new Bachelor turned 35 on Wednesday, just in time for him to finally become a leading man and find true love on the reality show.
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If it got down to the wire for the part of the leading man, the powers that be would say, 'Hey, what are you guys doing?
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No Tomorrow doesn't even know how to use the considerable charms of leading man Joshua Sasse (Galavant), which might be its most confusing element of all.
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The legendary actor looked ever the dashing leading man in a traditional black tux and his signature tinted specs while attending Sunday's Vanity Fair Oscars party.
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Well, fans aren't the only ones in the dark — franchise executives are also scrambling to come up with their next leading man, a source tells PEOPLE.
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At first I thought, well, maybe this will be fun and different to have a leading man whose penis is allegedly not an uninhibited party animal.
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" Lowe continued by encouraging fans to watch his work in One False Move or A Simple Plan "to see this lovely leading man, at his finest.
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Rather, that's Everything leading man Elijah Stevenson, and he's already started adjusting to increasing comparisons to everyone's favorite high school jock-turned-addled bat-swinging babysitter.
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Contrast that to, say, Cap's other love interest, Sharon Carter, who barely registers as a character, let alone a viable romantic option for the leading man.
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The interruption is obviously orchestrated by the producers, helping draw out their relationship woes and making Peter look like total lovable leading man material, yet again.
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Though Reagan did not achieve the movie idol status of a Clark Gable or Humphrey Bogart, he was a "leading man" in the motion picture industry.
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Yet after a deft marketing campaign by 270th Century Fox and leading man Ryan Reynolds, the movie has become one of the biggest of the year.
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Giving him a traditional story arc as a leading man doesn't do him or Arnett that many favors: This Batman might be funner in smaller doses.
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Columbus (August 225): John Cho gets the leading-man role he deserves in Columbus, a subtle but exquisite drama about the rare connection between two strangers.
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Perhaps Van Gundy believes that Drummond's best days are ahead of him and that it's too early to give up on him as a leading man.
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Leonard's availability, even with no assurance of signing him, represented a rare opportunity for a team north of the border to acquire such a leading man.
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He can play an action star, or a leading man, or, on a handful of glorious occasions (as in Magnolia and Tropic Thunder), an actual character.
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As this play's misleading protagonist, Mr. Urie establishes himself as a bona fide leading man, in the tradition of great physical comedy performers like Kevin Kline.
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In recent years, Mr. Grigolo has been establishing himself as something modern opera houses desperately need in the post-"Three Tenors" era: an exciting leading man.
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Joe was the louder, more traditionally "leading man-esque" member of the Jonas Brothers, especially because he mainly sang, as opposed to his guitar-playing brothers.
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Fans have been eagerly awaiting the return of Marvel's band of intergalactic misfits since 2014, since which the star of leading man Chris Pratt has risen appreciably.
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He will be a focal point as he continues in his role as leading man and could surpass last season's numbers with the right formula around him.
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Sure, Kyle Chandler and Taylor Kitsch have picked up work, but Chandler is mainly playing supporting roles and Kitsch hasn't conjured much mojo as a leading man.
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I mean, I would just say that he&aposs brave, but you can -- we get away with this stuff if you&aposre a good-looking leading man.
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The video game designer finds out five minutes later, when she realizes the timeline she shared with new friend Alan (perfect leading man Charlie Barnett) has split.
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Spacey's leading man in the show, one of the streaming giant's first original hits, was known for his corruption, deception and willingness to murder to gain power.
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"The leading man in this video is someone I have performed on stage with for years," said Swift during a YouTube Live ahead of the video's release.
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Before Nick Viall was announced as The Bachelor's newest leading man, he was a contestant on Andi Dorfman's season of The Bachelorette – and things didn't go well.
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"I'm hopeful I'll find someone to spend the rest of my life with," the next leading man of The Bachelor tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week's issue.
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She recently wrapped up three short videos for singles, one of which depicts the ups and downs of a relationship with her leading man, Thomas Q. Jones.
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But when Mr. Ferrell — by then a leading man in his own right — wasn't quite ready to revisit Mugatu, the project was put on the back burner.
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Stylistically shot, borrowing many tropes from Hollywood Westerns and the Anurag Kashyap school of film-making, "Babumoshai Bandookbaaz" powers through on the strength of its leading man.
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"Our leading man, Luke Pell, is not too hard on the eyes," said Jennifer Wayne, granddaughter to the legendary John Wayne and one-third of Runaway June.
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Is leading man Ulysses (Avan Jogia) extremely high off of his vape pen, or is he actually recognizing signs of the alien apocalypse, as the title suggests?
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Valerie (Hayley Law) didn't have to try particularly hard to snag a smooch from the show's leading man — all she had to do was make sweet music.
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During Bachelor in Paradise's after show, After Paradise, the network finally revealed to expectant fans who the leading man for season 22016 of The Bachelor will be.
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While Underwood and Carell both shared similar poses in their respective ads, only the ABC leading man held the Bachelor franchise's signature red rose in his promo.
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Here, we take a look back at the actor's romantic history to ask: Which lucky ladies have been able to call the Internet's boyfriend their leading man?
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Kevin Howley, professor of Media Studies at DePauw University, said that transforming the Dan Conner character into a serious leading man could work in the same way.
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Mr. Hiddleston, whose style doesn't tend toward leading-man swagger, relays Pine's ambivalence over the violence he has to commit but doesn't have much else to play.
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The hyper-masculine, body-building, Vietnam veteran known for leading man good looks and charm made a gender transition decades before Caitlyn Jenner advocated for gender transition.
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In the process he became a heartthrob who dominated pop radio stations throughout the 285s and '22007s and a leading man in the thriving Mexican film industry.
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The splattiest splat of all was "Green Lantern," which carried a $200 million price tag and teed up Mr. Reynolds to be the picture-perfect leading man.
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Without its leading man in the frame, A Starting Point begins to look uncomfortably similar to the many other platforms that have sought to fight partisanship online.
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Its arrival coincides with a short film and within that, a dance — elusive, dreamlike and worthy of its leading man: a singer who knows how to move.
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In order to have a successful leading man, you need to fall in love with him as a director, and the same for the successful leading lady.
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At a certain point in Baumbach's acceptance speech, he cast about, trying to find the next thing to say, and he looked back at his leading man.
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He walks with a swagger, exudes a brooding, leading-man cool and is built like a bouncer, which perhaps explains his success in turning away his competition.
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Matthew Bourne's version is the best-known, but there are several classical productions (by Rudolf Nureyev and John Neumeier, among others) that feature a sexually ambivalent leading man.
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In an old school rom-com, that's the kind of pragmatism that either doesn't ever come up or is eye-rolled away by the dashing, impulsive leading man.
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Until theses mysteries are solved, at least we can find some solace knowing that even after all these years, the Titanic leading man is still full of surprises.
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If you're a fan of spy shows, you probably have the same issue as us: It gets tiring watching the same hypermasculine, martini-drinking leading man every time.
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Mostly, Season 6 opts to mourn and/or dance on the grave of its former leading man, rather than luxuriate in their leading woman's freedom from his tyranny.
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On Monday, PEOPLE exclusively reported that the Bachelor star and his fiancée broke up, and the former ABC leading man is now discussing the aftermath of their relationship.
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Former Bachelor leading man Bob Guiney, 45, who announced his engagement to fiancée Jessica Canyon back in October, gives PEOPLE Now the exclusive scoop on his upcoming wedding.
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The pregnant actress — who is expecting the couple's third child — was dressed in a short-sleeved dress and white sneakers as she gave her leading man a hug.
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He's no Christian Bale (or Michael Keaton, for that matter), but his kind of generic, leading-man energy fits in perfectly for the kind of movie this is.
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Stone, 27, looked the part of a chanteuse in a yellow shift dress covered in a daisy appliqué, while her leading man, 35, wore a navy patterned suit.
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There were some exceptions along the way, most notably James Shigeta, who managed to snag three starring roles in Hollywood's golden age as the masculine, romantic leading man.
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While she remained coy when asked what she thinks of Nick Viall being the next leading man, she still said she has high hopes for the new season.
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From the jump, Dexter, which began its eight-season run in October 2006, wants viewers to not only root for its leading man, but to lust after him.
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For the next two hours and fifteen minutes, the film builds up its subject as a cross between a Bollywood leading man, a Marvel superhero and a saint.
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Currently South Korea's most popular leading man, Gong is the star of the recent smash hit television series "Guardian: The Lonely and Great God" -- better known as "Goblin".
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The pregnant actress — who is expecting the couple's third child — was dressed in a short-sleeved dress and white sneakers as she gave her leading man a hug.
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In the back, there's a whole cadre of guys dressed as the archetypes in Twain's twangy tune: a rocket scientist, a hunky leading man, and an Elvis impersonator.
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It's been years since a humble (ish) wrestler named The Rock transformed himself into a mega-famous Hollywood leading man who goes by his given name, Dwayne Johnson.
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How perfect that the tour's signature event is providing the writing on the dimpled ball as a cast of character actors fall in behind the sport's leading man.
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Whatever ideas his aides may have up their sleeves, Trump is always going to want to be The Producer and the popular leading man of the Trump Show.
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Judiciously curated influences, a perfectly chosen leading man, and elaborate choreography masking its own intricacy all combined to make this film in particular stick in the cultural landscape.
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Playing a coked-to-the-gills restaurant manager named Pale, Mr. Malkovich seemed to morph overnight from quirky character actor into a leading man of dangerous sex appeal.
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On this day, September 5, 2019, I nominate 22-year old British actor Jacob Dudman to be the Ultimate Teen Show Leading Man — but not for typical reasons.
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McAvoy, whose screen credits include the "X-Men" series and M. Night Shyamalan's "Split," possesses a leading-man handsomeness that is not disguised here; there's no prosthetic schnoz.
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Frequent Hallmark leading man Kristoffer Polaha told The Hollywood Reporter that he believes Hallmark values loyalty, which is why they keep reaching for the same stable of actors.
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Count Bachelor in Paradise alums Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon among those who are surprised that Peter Weber got the leading man nod over fan-favorite Mike Johnson.
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Winona plays a flaky Californian named Finn who's newly engaged to Dermot Mulroney—ubiquitous leading man of the 90s—and not super sure how she feels about it.
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But because of the length of the print magazine news cycle, we're treated to breathless profiles of Suicide Squad leading man Jared Leto like this one in GQ Style.
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That's tough to hear coming from the game's leading man Jack Joyce — played by Shawn Ashmore — as much of Quantum Break involves trying to stop time from breaking down.
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Saturday Night Live mashed up the two biggest headline-grabbing stories of the week for an unforgettable sketch depicting special counsel Robert Mueller as The Bachelor's remorseful leading man.
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Krasinski has, however, found a new leading man to star in the film opposite his real-life wife, Emily Blunt, but will this new character be friend or foe?
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On Sunday, prior to officially announcing the 35-year-old professional auto racing driver as the franchise's next leading man, creator Mike Fleiss tweeted about still narrowing down candidates.
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A subtle shift toward verisimilitude in super heroic roles, with an accompanying convergence in these two types of leading man, began with diminutive Tobey Maguire's transformation into Spider-Man.
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The former Bachelorette recently appeared on the Bachelor Party podcast, where she confessed that her chances with leading man Nick Viall were foiled by an unexpected source: Donald Trump.
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With speculation circulating about who will be the franchise's next leading man, there are two former contestants whose names seem to have been added to the shortlist of contenders.
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Two weeks after Thomas Gibson was let go from his starring role on Criminal Minds, the former CBS leading man might have his sights on a new TV horizon.
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Speaking with PEOPLE during the After the Final Rose episode, Gates admitted that she wasn't nervous about disclosing that very personal piece of information to the ABC leading man.
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That was the role that introduced Finney to American audiences, and few would forget the lusty, blue-eyed leading man who helped the film win a Best Picture Oscar.
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Upset, she turned to a friend for help and he set up a meeting with the president of the Screen Actors Guild, a dashing leading man named Ronald Reagan.
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Now that The Bachelorette is over, fans are dying to know who the franchise's next leading man is — and Becca Kufrin and Garrett Yrigoyen have officially cast their vote.
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The brand will reveal more about its new leading man in a commercial set to air late next month in conjunction with its sponsorship of the College Football Playoff.
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Rajput has led a few films, none of them blockbuster romances, but the video shows that he and his trainers are taking his future as a leading man seriously.
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Arie Luyendyk Jr. is about to embark on a speed dating journey as the newest leading man on The Bachelor, but that need for speed runs in the family.
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She is popularly cited as having the first interracial kiss on American television, when her character famously locked lips with white leading man William Shatner's Captain James T. Kirk.
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On Thursday's episode of "The Late Late Show," Corden enlisted the help of stunt-loving leading man Tom Cruise to go on a one-of-a-kind skydiving adventure.
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Jefferson shook his head when asked if in his season-plus with the Warriors he could have imagined that Curry would become the leading man on the N.B.A. marquee.
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While the movie revolves around the goddess Hela's invasion of Asgard, Marvel has been marketing the comedic chops of leading man Chris Hemsworth as a downtrodden Thor in exile.
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Wendy might actually be on to something here ... Todd often works with Bradley, so we're guessing the director would be down to cast him alongside leading man Chris Hemsworth.
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In 1984, he got his first part as a leading man in "Paris, Texas," which won a host of awards, including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Carrey said his portrayal of private detective "Ace Ventura" was his own bid to "destroy Hollywood, not be a part of it ... to make fun of the leading man".
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Austin Scott Lombardi, shiny leading man, is oddly cast as the pugnacious New York mayor of the title, but the music and witty lyrics retain their charms (13:30).
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Austin Scott Lombardi, shiny leading man, is oddly cast as the pugnacious New York mayor of the title, but the music and witty lyrics retain their charms (23212:4152).
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It's a bittersweet milestone that it's taken so long to see someone who looks like Henry Golding assume the role of a leading man in an American studio movie.
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Smallwood is a rookie who's quick and has a bit of power; he doesn't look like a fantasy leading man in the longer term, but right now he'll do.
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But the power and the glory of "Corpus Christi" reside in the film's leading man, whose ineffable combination of wildness and purity makes for an absolutely electrifying central performance.
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During a game of golf on Monday, the ABC leading man split his head open after he fell and hit his head on multiple cocktail glasses, Radar Online reports.
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"Pan" (2015)By 20123, starring in crowd pleasers such as "Les Miserables" and the "X-Men" franchise had put Hugh Jackman in a bankable position as a leading man.
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The "Bachelor in Paradise" finale was a fireworks show, and guess what -- we were right about ABC's next leading man -- plus the franchise aired the first same-sex engagement!!!
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On the bright side, objectively speaking, Howery has charm to spare, and after supporting turns in Get Out and Insecure, it's nice to see him as a leading man.
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As a leading man, Clark Gable may not ping on the radar of classic Hollywood stars with the same hypnotic pitch of, say, Cary Grant, or even Jimmy Stewart.
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Subhash Kapoor's "Jolly LLB" from 2013 was a middling film saved by the comic timing of leading man Arshad Warsi and Saurabh Shukla, who played the amiable but eccentric judge.
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On Instagram, the Magic Mike leading man and the former World of Dance host, who filed for divorce in October, said fond farewells to Lulu, a pit bull Catahoula mix.
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"[For] Tim to step into a completely new character but to still be part of this movie, it's just so special," says costar Ryan McCartan, who plays leading man Brad.
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On Tuesday, the show known for tugging relentlessly at America's heartstrings finally revealed how leading man Jack Pearson, played by Milo Ventimiglia, met his untimely demise all those years ago.
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Whether Mr Styles has the chops to make it as a leading man off the stage is unclear, but "Dunkirk" has not been a bad place for him to start.
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" After the ABC leading man said goodbye, Bekah broke down in the car: "It's hard for me to accept that this is over — that this journey is over for me.
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The Scream Queens actress, 32, and American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace leading man, 31, then belted out the song together as Criss accompanied the duet on guitar.
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Leading man Matthew McConaughey is living up to his rom-com heartthrob reputation, but this time, he's not handing out all the right lines, engagement rings, or brown M&M's.
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Miles Teller, who headlined Chazelle's previous film, Whiplash, was in negotiations to be the leading man in La La Land, with Emma Watson in Stone's role, according to the director.
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Luyendyk is the leading man for season 22 of The Bachelor and, while we're already bracing ourselves for a few surprises, there's already a bit of controversy in the air.
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But the experience that we're coming from is that Sean Penn can play Harvey Milk, but a gay actor has less flexibility to play a straight leading man, for example.
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Styles landed a role in Christopher Nolan's World War II drama Dunkirk, and his next career move as an actor could be as leading man in a future romantic comedy.
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The Call Me by Your Name leading man, 22, and the actress/model, 19, appear to be getting close after meeting while filming the upcoming Netflix drama The King together.
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To get them by, the family buys a TV, previously banned in the house, and gets immersed in the life of Purushottam, the leading man in a prime-time series.
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"He just has this quality on screen that reminds me of an old-style leading man, like a Clark Gable, even though he has a very young face," she added.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1970 rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar", for instance, questioned if its leading man actually thought he was who the disciples wanted him to be.
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But when Reinhart returns home to Vancouver for the off-season, he will work with a figure skater to prepare for a more serious role as an N.H.L. leading man.
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The incident has given Lochte, who is back in the United States, a degree of fame that he never achieved as a swimming leading man or a reality TV star.
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If the Spurs could have sent out an order to the basketball factory to build them the perfect leading man for their delightfully unsexy market, it would have been Duncan.
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Austin Scott Lombardi, a shiny leading man, is oddly cast as the pugnacious New York mayor of the title, but the music and witty lyrics retain their charms (2:30).
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He starred as the leading man of MGM Grand's "EFX" in 1996 and developed a show titled "At the Copa," which he co-starred in with Sheena Easton in 2000.
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The leading man of Magic Mike has conquered the dance scene, followed up by a rising and illustrious film career, and now he's taking on riding ponies and face-painting.
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To be a white leading man in Hollywood is to face expectations that everything you possess gets the Midas Touch—and yet Butler's entire career stands opposite to this theory.
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It should avoid doing a Kingdom of the Crystal Skull—although whether or not its leading man will make it to the credits in one piece very much remains uncertain.
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Far from your typical Hollywood leading man, Mr. Stuhlbarg nevertheless is making a strong case for juicier parts as he quietly steals scenes in acclaimed films opposite more decorated performers.
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While Mr. Netanyahu played the leading man, Mr. Liberman was the heavy, and he soon became a target for the Likud's so-called princes, scions of the party's founding generation.
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Eagle-eyed fans have theorized that season 21 leading man Nick Viall may be dating The O.C. and Hart of Dixie alumna Rachel Bilson, thanks to their social media activity.
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A chameleon of a performer, physically unimposing but with a rich, melodic voice, he played a number of leading roles, though he could never be described as a leading man.
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The film had spent three straight weeks atop the domestic box office, and its strong international turnout has cemented Momoa — a "Game of Thrones" alumnus — as a moneymaking leading man.
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The actress had a surprising answer for who she'd want to play her "leading man" in a future film, though — she named her Clear History costar Larry David for that one.
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The news was announced Thursday on Good Morning America after weeks of mounting anticipation — during which, according to PEOPLE sources, franchise executives scrambled to come up with their next leading man.
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On Tuesday, ABC revealed that the former NFL player has been cast as the franchise's next leading man — but don't expect Booth to be vying for his rose this time around.
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The role of the leading man in Crazy Rich Asians... which, he told Vulture, may have been a bit unbelievable to fans who watch him play a junior in high school.
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I have no doubt Conor McGregor would make a hell of a leading man in the movies, or that Miesha Tate could be true femme fatale with a few acting classes.
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The result is, as he puts it, sort of the opposite of what's achieved by Master of None, the Netflix show from fellow comedy ensemble player-turned-leading man Aziz Ansari.
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Lance Bass and Robert Sepélveda Jr., the show's respective host and leading man, stopped by PEOPLE Now Monday and exclusively addressed the news after it was first reported by TMZ Sunday.
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The problem, as Hollywood has been late to discover, is that Armie Hammer isn't a cookie-cutter movie star, but a character actor trapped in the body of a leading man.
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Because Spencer has the potential to be such a fun character, its likely fans' only complaint will be that All American has the habit of making its leading man too serious.
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Even if she doesn't direct the next Wonder Woman film, Jenkins will get her fill of the original one by working with leading man Chris Pine on One Day She'll Darken.
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Running lines in the video with director Paul Verhoeven (standing in for leading man Michael Douglas), Stone taunts, teases, flirts, and fascinates as the enigmatic writer and murder suspect Catherine Tramell.
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The former Twilight actress, 29, got nostalgic during her visit to The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday, reflecting on her relationship with her leading man in the vampire franchise, Robert Pattinson.
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In a little under two months, the beloved airline pilot — who was dubbed "Pilot Pete" by Bachelor Nation — will be making his debut as ABC's new leading man on The Bachelor.
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Not only is leading man Casey Affleck poised to take home the Oscar for Best Actor, "Manchester by the Sea" is the first Amazon original film to receive an Oscar nod.
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I won't delve into the finer details of how John's tale works itself out, then, but I will celebrate the fact that he's a Rockstar leading man acting (almost) entirely altruistically.
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With Hannah Brown's season of The Bachelorette behind us and Bachelor in Paradise well underway, fans are eager to find out who the franchise will select as its next leading man.
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Comedies of the late '40s and '50s finessed the nance into more of a coded gay best friend who often served as the smart alecky foil to the straight leading man.
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In addition to his role on "The Boys," he played the leading man in "Plus One," a romantic comedy about two single friends who agree to be each other's wedding dates.
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At the film's first industry screening in October, Malek effusively thanked the producer Graham King for spearheading the project, the sort of plaudits a leading man normally saves for his director.
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Former Bachelorette Andi Dorfman says the franchise's season 19 leading man Chris Soules is "hanging in there" amid an ongoing court battle over his involvement in a deadly car crash last April.
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On Tuesday, the couple attended the world premiere of the Stephen Gaghan-directed drama in New York City, where the Brazilian-American model completely stole the sartorial spotlight from her leading man.
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But when she found out that he was picked as ABC's newest leading man, 29-year-old Sandoz threw her hat in the ring for a second shot at romance with Viall.
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But Jackman is the most consistent element in the X-films, both in his presence as a leading man and in his ability to elevate even the worst of the franchise's outings.
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For all its insistence on faith, the film shows a surprising lack of it – it is all rehearsed, clumsily designed to tug at the heartstrings and endear us to its leading man.
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Whether he could make the grade as the leading man of a franchise of his own was always a question, which partly accounts for the prolonged wait-and-see on Marvel's part.
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In a new video courtesy of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, ABC's leading man proves his skills yet again, stopping by on Friday to join in on the early Valentine's Day celebrations. brightcove.
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Two of Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s exes can't believe he's set to search for love on TV. ABC officially announced the 35-year-old as The Bachelor's next leading man last week.
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So when it comes to rooting for best leading man during this year's Oscar season, which nominee is the actress throwing her support behind: her longtime friend and star of The Revenant?
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Plus, it's always fun to see Josh take a turn as the dapper, old-school leading man — especially when he still gets to be the dumb, plucky jock we know and love.
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Bachelor in Paradise's resident bartender Wells Adams stopped by the PeopleTV Chatter studio this week to dish on who he thinks should hand out the roses as The Bachelor's next leading man.
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When he first arrived in Hollywood in 1947, Mr. O'Brian was a strapping 21881-foot-plus presence with leading-man looks and a swagger he had picked up in the Marine Corps.
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And he reveals that Sautet, during the shooting of the sombre "Classe Tous Risques" (1960), sat with his leading man, Lino Ventura, during meals, to insure that he didn't eat too much.
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Just two movies later, Scott's cause is less clearly righteous in "Decision at Sundown," which signals that something is amiss with the leading man by introducing him with a stubble-covered face.
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He's one of the most promising and appealing young actors in Hollywood today, blessed with the skill to effortlessly switch between moody indie-film character parts and effortlessly charming leading-man roles.
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Having reinvented himself as a baritone, Mr. Domingo seems not at all done with a second act that has extended his career as a leading man probably beyond any in operatic history.
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Nick Viall is certainly no stranger to looking for love on reality TV. When The Bachelor's next leading man begins his run in January, it will be his fourth time on the franchise.
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The producers might be holding some of her story back, though, because her Instagram reveals that she kissed the leading man on the first night, despite the moment not being shown on television.
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He's definitely not a character actor, but he's also not a traditional leading man, the kind of actor, like Tom Cruise or Harrison Ford, who turns every role into an extension of himself.
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At 36, the actor is an enigma: a leading man carrying some pretty heavy-hitting blockbusters and franchises who hasn't managed to decipher how to carve out a Hollywood identity of his own.
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In it, Nanjiani steps into the spotlight as a romantic leading man in his own right – and the results look as likely to make you cry as they are to make you laugh.
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Yes, there are young women bashing cars into each other for some guy's attention, but, by the end, our leading man will find The One, and all the concussions will be worth it.
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In a lengthy post on Instagram on Tuesday, the former Vampire Diaries leading man, 40, extolled the benefits of healthy eating and said that nutrition is crucial to fixing America's health-related problems.
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This is a first for Harbour of sorts — he's stepped out the character roles and into the leading man slot, and Harbour seems continually surprised that the public loves him in that role.
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And then, in New Hollywood, there was in influx of theater actors who had interesting faces, outside the norm of the squeaky clean Hollywood leading man - like Robert De Niro and Al Pacino.
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" Leading man Ryan McCartan shared, "I saw it when I was 11 or 12 or something, and even all the way back then it was like, 'I want to play Brad Majors someday.
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In a new behind-the-scenes clip from Doctor Strange, the cast and executive producer Charles Newirth describe the intense physical training Benedict Cumberbatch underwent for his role as a Marvel leading man.
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But the HSM event wasn't as great as she thought it would be, all because the Disney Channel movie's leading man, Zac Efron, was absent from the concert due to another film project.
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In like manner, Mr. Fontana, whose earlier Broadway credits include "Act One" and "Cinderella," here shoulders the responsibilities of a leading man (in all senses of the term) with irresistible focus and passion.
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The devout peanut farmer from Georgia, ridiculed for wearing a sweater during a sober and stern White House speech, was followed by a former Hollywood leading man who radiated confidence, optimism and charm.
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The Nets are betting, however, that they managed to snag a leading man for supporting-cast money—no small matter when roster construction will be your most pressing issue for the near future.
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Colton Underwood: The leading man on Season 23 of the ABC reality show "The Bachelor" and former NFL football player said in an Instagram post on March 20 that he had tested positive.
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The Bachelor's newest leading man is back to shooting his season with a bandage over his face a day after his "golf cart mishap" on location in Costa Rica, a source tells PEOPLE.
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He bore a passing resemblance to that laconic idol of Hollywood's golden era, Gary Cooper, and in an earlier age, Mr. Shepard could have made a career as a leading man of Westerns.
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Teller continues to prove himself as a leading man, making us feel David's isolation in Albania and growing frustration with his supposed BFF, but he's overshadowed by Hill's larger-than-life presence onscreen.
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"Before Queen Sugar, the roles I played were either a comedy guy or the gangster, but Queen Sugar puts me in a whole different light — a leading man type of light," he tells PEOPLE.
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He was devastated twice on The Bachelorette and had a summer fling on Bachelor in Paradise, and now Nick Viall is looking to find a love that lasts as The Bachelor's latest leading man.
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He and Booth reconnected on this season of Bachelor in Paradise, but broke up on Monday's episode — with the new leading man saying that he couldn't give her what she needed in a relationship.
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The Comedy Central-backed sketch web series Alternatino, which aired from 2015 to 2016, gave Broad City supporting player Arturo Castro a chance to explore his leading-man potential, according to executive Sarah Babineau.
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In the political drama's sixth episode, viewers get every single one of their questions answered and leading man David Budd (Richard Madden) is given the closest thing he can have to a happy ending.
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Riverdale goes so far as to suggest its leading man might be heading towards an alcohol abuse problem in coming episodes since Archie is now hiding a fifth of dark liquor in his desk.
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Dwayne Johnson, Hollywood's go-to leading man for flashing a winning smile or slapping a concerned frown on a ridiculous action scenario, stars as Davis Okoye, the primatologist at a San Diego wildlife sanctuary.
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That movie was amazing, because this is a guy who always played the great, stoic leading man and was able to make you feel empathy for a character that is rotten to the core.
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" Jake Gyllenhaal is a traditional leading man in that he is white and straight and generally attractive, unless he's trying hard not to be, but his face does not ask, "Aren't I good boy?
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His greatest skill as an actor is his ability to look at his love interests with mingled respect, admiration, and longing — which is also the greatest asset any rom-com leading man can have.
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Pratt held on tightly to Schwarzenegger's hand as he led the way out of the restaurant to their waiting car, while Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's eldest daughter looked smitten with her leading man.
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Many of Soules' BachelorNation costars are standing behind him, including former Bachelorette Andi Dorfman (Soules became The Bachlor's leading man in 2015 after appearing on The Bachelorette to compete for the heart of Dorfman).
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In Ryan Reynolds, it has a leading man playing a salty mercenary whose face, body and vanity are so badly disfigured that his costume disguises both who and what he thinks he is: ugly.
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Bridge of Spies co-star and longtime stage leading man Mark Rylance won Best Supporting Actor on Sunday, beating out Creed's Sylvester Stallone, for whom this Oscars were widely considered something of a coronation.
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Fonda, the son of Hollywood leading man Henry Fonda and the brother of Jane Fonda, died at his home in Los Angeles on Friday morning of respiratory failure from lung cancer, the statement said.
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And while he knew Mr. Urie's work, mostly from "Ugly Betty," and said that he was a "wonderful actor," it wasn't until a 2016 reading that he realized he had found his leading man.
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Yet for any interpretation of this tightly drawn work to fulfill the play's deepest intentions, it must be above all a double portrait of its incandescently noble leading man and its equally extraordinary villain.
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During the season finale of DWTS on Monday night, ABC aired a teaser from the upcoming season of The Bachelor that featured a surprising reunion between Brown and the show's new leading man, Weber.
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A few years ago, the "Twilight"-minted Pattinson would have been offered the leading-man role, but we're all the better for it when he's given the chance to show off character-actor chops.
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Monday's news that Lindsay had been cast as the first black Bachelorette in franchise history also took fans by surprise by revealing that Lindsay would not receive the final rose from leading man Nick Viall.
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Like Falling Down — and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, which Phillips openly emulates and references — Joker suggests that when the leading man loses his mind, it's an understandable, even natural reaction to an equally mad world.
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Back in January, French production company Pathé confirmed that they had begun working on an as-of-now untitled biopic about the designer, and today they announced they'd found their leading man, actor Jack O'Connell.
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Just days after Good Morning America revealed that the auto racing driver turned real estate agent will be the franchise's new leading man, the network released the first promo for Luyendyk Jr.'s season 22.
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For all the effort that seems to have gone into Aayush Sharma's Bollywood debut, the makers of "Loveyatri" overlooked one aspect – the leading man is called by a name that is a synonym for peeing.
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The 89-year-old, who's nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me By Your Name, arrived wearing a classic tux complete with a graphic portraying the film's leading man emblazoned onto his button-down.
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This year's Sexiest Man Alive Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson may be the highest-paid movie star in the world now, but transitioning from being a WWE champ to a leading man on screen wasn't easy.
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Rodriguez's ability to nail every romantic scene, regardless of her leading man, and delightfully imbue her grounded character with comedic flair and physical comedy illustrates she is a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood.
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Omar Sharif Sharif eventually become known for playing the exotic leading man in roles such as The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Genghis Khan (1965) and a big-time gambler in Funny Girl (1968).
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On Monday's upcoming episode of The Bachelor, the current ABC leading man will meet the families of his four remaining contestants — Hannah G., Cassie, Caelynn and Tayshia — and come face-to-face with the fathers.
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As leading man Nick Young, Golding was every bit as swoon-worthy as Singapore's most eligible bachelor should be — which means that Last Christmas will likely introduce us to another charmer with an English accent.
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While Castle possesses special skills aplenty, the subplots prove tired, and for stretches the biggest danger seems to be that -- its taciturn leading man notwithstanding -- that the show is going to talk somebody to death.
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The lucky ladies are Sydney, Annie and Katie, who are each tasked with answering rapid-fire questions anywhere from what they find most attractive about their leading man to how many points a touchdown is.
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As narrator and leading man, Pascal's Peña was an advance on Boyd Holbrook's Steve Murphy, partly because of his charisma and partly because he doesn't have to play the idealistic naïf drawn into the muck.
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It's been fascinating to see both Mr. Bloom and Mr. Turner endowing animalistic annihilators with leading-man charisma, as audiences splash happily in these productions' blood baths as if they were toddlers in kiddie pools.
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Another great tidbit from Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, and Glenn Thrush's piece on Bannon: Moreover, Mr. Bannon's Svengali-style reputation has chafed on a president who sees himself as the West Wing's only leading man.
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He's got the clean-cut good looks of a Hollywood actor who is destined to forever be cast as the nice guy in romantic comedies who gets left at the altar for the leading man.
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Frantic attempts at resuscitation by Ms. Blanchett and her valiant leading man (and unforgettable co-star in "Uncle Vanya"), a tireless Richard Roxburgh as a hapless homme fatale, only occasionally succeed in eliciting a pulse.
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Yes, in addition to his status as a rom-com leading man (see: How to Lose A Guy In 10 Days and Failure to Launch) and Oscar-winner, McConaughey can add YouTuber to his IMDb profile.
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After all, what else would you expect when you mix the thrilling Globe-nominated talents of Killing Eve's Oh with the relentless comedy chops of Saturday Night Live alum and Brooklyn Nine-Nine leading man Samberg?
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She also mentioned that, incredibly if not surprisingly, she's been asked about the viability of C.K. making a comeback — pushed again into the role of a supporting character commenting on the life of the leading man.
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Hiddleston, who's been positioned as the leading man in all the marketing, does a convincing job of looking good in very tight t-shirts and a less convincing job of exuding world-weary tough-guy-ness.
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But I can't help but see the potent metaphor in how a leading man gets several 13-episode seasons, while the woman makes do with 8 episodes that, at times, seem to forget she's the lead.
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Because, Guinevere Beck's (Elizabeth Lail) extremely normal, extremely cavalier internet use is the door that opens her life up to Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), a violent stalker wearing the mask of a rom-com leading man.
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ABC's newest leading man just began his journey for finding love on The Bachelor, but the 36-year-old is already discussing what might be next after he wraps up season 23 of the reality show.
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Before the premiere of his first big film, the dreamy leading man of Crazy Rich Asians, Henry Golding, did something that probably no other actor would do before the red carpet — He did his mom's hair.
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A sources confirms to PEOPLE that The Bachelor's 36-year-old leading man is joining season 24 of Dancing with the Stars — and he won't be alone in the quest to win the coveted Mirrorball Trophy.
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Early Thursday, Good Morning America announced that Arie Luyendyk Jr. will be the season 22 Bachelor, sending shockwaves through Bachelor fans who hoped that season 13 Bachelorette runner-up Kraus would be ABC's next leading man.
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And in the sort of irony that Mr. Stoppard would understand, his leading man ends the play on a deliberate note of forgetfulness, the final line capping a tremendous production that I shall not soon forget.
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The same production opened at Shakespeare's Globe, the open-air simulacrum of an Elizabethan theater across the Thames, for which Mr. Rylance served as the first artistic director (and frequent leading man) from 1995 to 2005.
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Theories for its ban range from a reference to the film's zombie outbreak starting in China to a Chinese shadow ban on its leading man, Brad Pitt, for starring in "Seven Years in Tibet" in 1997.
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During the finale of the dance competition series, ABC aired a trailer for the upcoming season of The Bachelor that teased a shocking reunion between the Alabama native and the show's new leading man, Peter Weber.
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Set on a Pennsylvania farm under siege by the undead, the low-budget film featured a horror rarity: a heroic black leading man, played by Duane Jones, who tries to calm a house of white folks.
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While Diana Gabaldon's original novels may have painted Heughan's character as a very good-looking leading man, the show's ability to be more than just skin deep is part of why its earned such a loyal following.
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Nick Viall may have stirred up strong social media reactions after it was announced Tuesday that he will be the next leading man of The Bachelor, but he's certainly not the first pick that's created an uproar.
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Arguably the most famous film of his career, Marshall's Pretty Woman (1990) introduced the world to Julia Roberts and had us all falling in love with the chemistry shared between Roberts and her leading man, Richard Gere.
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Kyle actually doesn't think it's chill at all that Dena Hassan (May Calamawy), sister to the Hulu comedy's leading man Ramy (Ramy Youssef) and a Muslim woman, changed up her usual curls for a blown-out look.
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The actor was reportedly paid up to $25 million to play the 2013 film's leading man and more to act as a producer, but the movie is said to have been funded by laundered money from 1MDB.
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Similarly, HBO's The Leftovers flirted both with the full erotic energy of its leading man Justin Theroux (entrancing when dressed in tight gray sweatpants) and his raw vulnerability (unavoidable when stripped naked, writhing out of a bathtub).
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In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, host Chris Harrison revealed that picking Underwood as the show's latest leading man was an easy decision — because he looks just like the other dudes they've picked before, to great success.
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Since 2002, Harrison has hosted the ever-growing Bachelor franchise, lending his love expertise and crisis-management skills to many a leading man and lady, as well as taking the occasional nap in a Bachelor Mansion closet.
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The star of leading man Chris Pratt has risen appreciably in the last three years, and fans are buzzing about the return of the rag-tag group that includes Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Racoon, Groot and Drax.
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In 2000, filming with Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis was abandoned when torrential rains destroyed the set and leading man Jean Rochefort had to quit for health reasons, leaving lawyers and insurers picking over what was left.
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Barely surviving the explosion that killed his mentor, the German scientist's assistant (Hans Albers, a prominent leading man turned stalwart action star) travels to Scotland and terminates the industrialist's operation before it can wreck the world economy.
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He could also follow the lead of men in his age cohort and resume his leading-man status, but as a man of 55, maybe with grown kids, with a midlife crisis thrown in for good measure.
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But between the blockbuster credibility, the awards buzz, and the cultural discourse, Driver has officially arrived as that most beloved and generic of creatures: a white leading man in Hollywood at the beginning of his career's peak.
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For that reason, what is most interesting in the conversation surrounding any white leading man is not his strangeness, not the much-lingered-on details that ostensibly show how he fails to measure up to an ideal.
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But Payton, our extremely wealthy leading man, won't accept his fortune as legitimate fuel for his political career — which is why he's wait-listed at Harvard instead of "Varsity Blues-ing" his way in with a check.
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Once a great lyric-tenor hope, Giuseppe Filianoti was an unusually youthful Don Basilio, though it was upsetting to hear a singer who, at 45, should be in his leading-man prime straining in a character role.
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That's especially true of Grant (as a scummy snoop with an overcompensating long photo lens) and Farrell (an earnest, lethal coach with many tracksuits), whose roles, performances and outfits seem designed to obliterate their leading-man personas.
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Though her team kept assigning her a virginal narrative even throughout her high-profile relationship with cocky N'Sync leading man Justin Timberlake, Britney pushed back against that sterile persona, becoming more openly sexual, even a little dangerous.
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This means The Belko Experiment exists mainly to dispatch of its surprisingly stacked cast (which includes everybody from rising leading man John Gallagher Jr. to Tony Goldwyn to John C. McGinley — to name three familiar faces at random).
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"The Walking Dead"&aposs season nine trailer, which debuted to fans at Friday&aposs panel before Lincoln&aposs big announcement, seemed to hint that we might be saying goodbye to Rick -- while teasing a possible new leading man.
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The Big Bang Theory star is a huge Bachelor fan and an even bigger fan of this season's leading man Ben Higgins, and she made that very clear at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Saturday in Los Angeles.
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Mashable Recommends: A Single Man — Best known as a fashion designer, Tom Ford surprised everyone with his 2009 debut, which made a true star out of its under-appreciated leading man Colin Firth, who should've won an Oscar.
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" Much like ABC's wildly popular The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, the men will all live together, and will be eliminated on a rolling basis until the show's leading man selects his finalist to "commit to an exclusive relationship.
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Among those to be honored over the course of the weekend are J.J. Abrams, recipient of the Athena Film Festival Leading Man Award, writer and director Amma Asante, documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple, and actress and comedian Bridget Everett.
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Built on a brand-new engine and billed as leading man Kazuma Kiryu's exit from the long-running Sega series, Yakuza 26: The Song of Life manages to feel like a reboot and a finale all at once.
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But despite his affection for his former leading man, he is "stupidly ambitious," he told me, and viewed Louder Than Bombs as an opportunity to "grow, try something else," while still making the "close character portraits" he prefers.
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There's no specificity to Danny's experience other than the most generic of identity crises — like the world needed another billionaire vigilante — and Jones is far too placid a leading man to give any sense of Danny's internal torment.
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All this sounds rich in sensation, a quality much prized by the Victorians, but the movie, adapted from the novel by Peter Ackroyd and directed by Juan Carlos Medina, is, alas, rarely as poised as its leading man.
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Heading into the release of "Deadpool 2," it might have been hard to imagine how leading man, script-writer and producer Ryan Reynolds could top the social media blitz he waged on behalf of the franchise's first installment.
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Position: ForwardYear: SeniorStats: 7.4 PPG, 4.4 RPG, 1.7 BPGAfter completing the ultimate redemption story by winning the National Championship just one year removed from the worst loss in NCAA history, the Virginia Cavaliers need a new leading man.
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It would run for more than 200 performances, closing after the leading man jumped from his fifth story hotel room, and return to Broadway in 1925 as the hit musical "No, No Nanette," produced and directed by Frazee.
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Through Sasha, who is playing the movie version of leading man Noah Solloway (Dominic West), Helen finally has the opportunity to rewrite her tragic story with her ex-husband, the man she resents but can never full quit.
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Mark Kidel uses Mr. Grant's home movies and unpublished autobiography to get beneath the surface of a seemingly unflappable leading man who spent his life, he claimed, "searching for peace of mind," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
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"A Star is Born," the story of an aspiring young starlet who arrives in Hollywood and is helped by an aging leading man, was first told on the big screen in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.
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Golden State shooting artist Stephen Curry has emerged as the game's new leading man, and he arrives with team mates Klay Thompson and Draymond Green from a Warriors squad currently setting a record winning pace in the league.
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Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Friday, the Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise alum shared his thoughts on ABC casting Underwood as the franchise's next leading man.
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The Bachelorette's Fletcher, 25, and her new fiancé Jordan Rodgers met up with the former Bachelor leading man, 27, and his bride-to-be, Lauren Bushnell, for a double date at an upscale Japanese restaurant in Hollywood on Thursday.
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" There was decent reception to something like "The World According to Garp" or "Moscow on the Hudson," but some of them were really dismissed to the point that people were like, "Robin Williams is just not a leading man.
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Following Tuesday evening's announcement that revealed 35-year-old Viall as the season 21 Bachelor, numerous members of the ABC family responded to the network's decision to name Viall as their newest leading man, including former Bachelorette star Bristowe.
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The Emmy-nominated actor arrived on the awards show red carpet looking every inch the leading man in a traditional black tuxedo and bow tie, save for one very distinct, very bold decision taking place on his upper lip.
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But ABC's decision to choose Viall as the next leading man came as a shock to many who suspected that either Luke Pell or Chase McNary – both fan favorites from JoJo Fletcher's season of The Bachelorette – would be selected.
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And its cast is full of great actors, led by swaggering leading man Bobby Cannavale, who's made a long career of being the best — or at least wildest — thing about dozens of projects, from Nurse Jackie to Blue Jasmine.
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On Thursday, Bachelor Nation was shocked to learn that Kraus — the runner-up on Rachel Lindsay's season 13 of The Bachelorette — wouldn't be the franchise's new leading man and that fellow Bachelorette alum Arie Luyendyk Jr. was selected instead.
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"Your job as a leading man is to make the actress feel comfortable, and you do that by minimizing the amount of people that are there and...having a sense of whether or not they're feeling okay," he said.
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"Kaabil" may not be in the class of 2015's "Badlapur" when it comes to exploring the nature of vendetta, but it doesn't discredit the genre either, and the credit should rest on the shoulders of its leading man.
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Now, 30 years past his groundbreaking early prime and in a semiretirement that looks a lot like creative paralysis, Salvador reconnects with his former leading man, Alberto, a wayward, charismatic actor who might have a resemblance to Antonio Banderas.
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Some other features pop up in a lot of romcoms, too — especially during the heyday of the 1990s and 2000s, when romcoms were still a popular way for a promising young starlet or leading man to launch a career.
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While Bachelor Nation waits to see Jorge the Bartender's warm smile once more, fans can look forward to Nick Viall going directly from a resident of Paradise to the leading man of The Bachelor – new episodes begin early next year.
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In decades past, no one needed to worry that, when there were wars to be fought, profits to be made, and financial regulations to be slashed, trusty old sidekick Britain would be there to back up gallivanting leading man America.
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Jordan Peele's horror flick Get Out leads the pack with six nominations, including three nods for the film's leading man, David Kaluuya, in the categories of Best Actor in a Movie, Next Generation and Best Duo with Lil Rel Howery.
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Peter awakened a very particular kind of longing that I find hard to name: It's not nostalgia, because I never saw this kind of leading man growing up; and it's not horniness, since he's not my type and also a teen.
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That should be a relief to anyone who witnessed the death of the show's leading man, Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), or any of the countless tragedies that have plagued Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital since the show debuted in 2005.
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In an interview with PEOPLE Now, host Chris Harrison reveals that Pell, the 31-year-old war veteran who melted hearts on JoJo Fletcher's season of The Bachelorette, almost clinched his spot as the series' next leading man over Nick Viall.
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Then, wielding both the sarcasm and the toxic sexism that were his act's trademarks, he promised to appoint a winner based on criteria equal parts extraneous and distasteful: Which developers did a better job drawing their competition's leading man in drag.
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The Avengers star is a romantic comedy leading man, too — he starred opposite Jennifer Garner in 13 Going On 30, and appeared alongside Reese Witherspoon in Just Like Heaven — so it's only appropriate that these two stars look so much alike.
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The 22-time Grammy winner, 36, treated herself to a showing of the Tony-winning Dear Evan Hansen at the Music Box Theatre on Thursday evening and surprised leading man Ben Platt and the cast by meeting them after the show.
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With its futuristic gadgets, menacing super villains and larger-than-life explosions, the Bond series is the longest-running film franchise in history, with actors such as Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan inhabiting the role of the leading man.
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OF ALL THE lines of all the characters in all the scenes in "Casablanca", the ones that resonate most are spoken not by Humphrey Bogart, the leading man, but by Claude Rains, who plays Louis Renault, a cynical police captain.
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Finding Prince Charming, Logo's trailblazing all-gay dating show, created buzz from the moment it was announced, most notably when reports surfaced that one the show's suitors would reveal to leading man Robert Sepulveda Jr. that he is HIV-positive.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - "La La Land" is set to sweep the Oscars, but the race to be crowned Hollywood's leading man is going down to the wire, say bookmakers who are seeing record bets on the Academy Awards this year.
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The Oscar-winning actor and actress, Spider-Man: Homecoming star, Mr. Robot leading man, and Instagram it-girl are among the slew of celebrities and social media personalities taking part in #VoteYourFuture, a campaign urging millennials to go to the polls.
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But its lyrical premise is pointed and potent: Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song in the voice of a delusional young mass shooter, dreaming of glory and infamy: I wanna be a celebrity martyrThe leading man in my own private dramaHoorah!
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Mr. Theroux appeared to graduate to leading-man status with his starring role in "The Leftovers," the critically acclaimed HBO series about a mysterious mass disappearance of 2 percent of the world population, which concluded last year after three seasons.
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Robinson was an unlikely leading man whose average-joe appearance and earnestness make him a comparable presence to Mr. Stuhlbarg, but here Robinson is at his most vulnerable after he betrays his peers and is plagued by regret in later years.
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But while Fisher is a born leading man, and he has lovely, understated chemistry with Condor, this relationship isn't filled out with the kind of detail work that made the love story of the first To All the Boys shine.
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Mr. Trueba skillfully blends genuine and mock period footage to conjure the era, while Mandy Patinkin, as a blacklisted screenwriter; Cary Elwes, as a loutish American leading man; and Clive Revill, sending up John Ford, ably help represent the Hollywood contingent.
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The space is packed with Fluxus works from Japan to Latin America, and features works by Fluxus's leading man, George Macuinas, alongside Yoko Ono's instructional works from the early 220s, Rirkrit Tiravanija's "Untitled (apron and Thai pork sausage)" (19073) and Pope.
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When he peeled off his Cleveland Cavaliers jersey in 2010 and took his talents to South Beach, he had no qualms about attaching himself to a franchise and a fan base already deeply in love with another leading man, Dwyane Wade.
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Chase is a very likeable leading man, Frank Honey a bumbling comedy sidekick of sorts, and Forrest Blackwell makes for a suitably wickedly smiling main antagonist—though his British accent gives away his evil intentions long before its properly revealed.
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Here's a 36-year-old version of the "Gladiator" god at a film premiere back in 2000 (left) and 16 years later ... the 52-year-old leading man in "The Nice Guys" at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this week (right).
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Sprouse has already shown us that he can rock a bad boy as Jughead on Riverdale, but he also has that spark of leading man sweetness that really makes you believe that once he falls, it's with an all-consuming passion. Swoon.
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The three-hour season finale of The Bachelor on Monday night saw its leading man pull an unprecedented — and unpopular — move: Proposing to publicist Becca Kufrin, 27, then dumping her, and later proposing to his runner up, sales executive Lauren Burnham, 26.
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Her story is rich with memorable characters — the eccentric aunt she moves in with who owns her own theater, albeit one in major disrepair; the larger-than-life leading lady; the chorus of showgirls; the alluring leading man — and a vibrant setting.
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Unfortunately for the vibrant, powerful Streisand and leading man Kristofferson, they were cursed with a script about as appealing as a wet noodle, turning a film that could have made a fascinating statement about a nation in flux into a flat melodrama.
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In Centineo's second turn as a Netflix leading man in less than a month, he plays Jamey, a dreamy high school football player without any of the toxic masculinity usually associated with pop culture athletes (remember the monsters of 13 Reasons Why?).
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All that's missing is a pillow fight sequence where he plays a leading man looking for love in all the wrong places because his work is too hectic, or because he is being cat-fished, or because it's all just a big BET.
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Although the franchise has consistently cast a fan-favorite contestant or runner-up as the Bachelor or Bachelorette, Trista, 46, wants to see someone who hasn't previously appeared on either of the shows to be chosen as ABC's next leading man or lady.
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Though host Chris Harrison has said no choice about The Bachelor's leading man will be made until after Bachelor in Paradise finishes up its current season, a source now tells PEOPLE that Fleiss' tweet is absolutely aimed at the Wisconsin-born personal trainer.
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Courtney Robertson will always have love for Arie Luyendyk Jr. Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE, Robertson — who won Ben Flajnik's season of The Bachelor in 2012 — opened up about the franchise's new leading man, whom she dated off and on for years, including recently.
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With the Bachelor season 21 finale just one week away, the ABC leading man is feeling uncertain about who he will choose to give his final rose to — Raven Gates or Vanessa Grimaldi — along with a proposal for their hand in marriage.
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Eight years ago, Reynolds (now 39) was on the path to be a leading man and an Avenger after transforming rom-coms like The Proposal and Definitely, Maybe into megahits, but his career hit a rough patch after the 2011 clunker Green Lantern.
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The project, called #StarringJohnCho, is the latest high-profile attempt by activists to call for greater diversity in entertainment, but it may be the first to use one actor as a meme to break down the archetype of a Hollywood leading man.
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This means that in addition to presenting Mr. Miranda (the original leading man, as well as the creator, of "Hamilton") and his co-stars with quick, evocative strokes worthy of an Al Hirschfeld caricature, "Spamilton" makes room for a galaxy of other stars.
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In his ever-evolving show-business career, Bob Odenkirk has been a sketch-comedy star and a leading man of drama; a very bad lawyer and also that same lawyer making all the choices that would send him down that corrupt path.
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By the time this Roundabout Theater Company revival floated onto Broadway, Ms. Benanti had established herself as an old-school star; it's Zachary Levi, her leading man, who proved a surprise in his portrayal of her roguish co-worker and secret love.
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Here's a 25-year-old version of the 'Facts of Life' actor at a charity event back in 1986 (left) and 30 years later ... the 55-year-old "Money Monster" leading man at the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this week (right).
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Eisenberg isn't much of a leading man, but he's rarely found a more appropriate role and, as evidenced in films like The Squid and the Whale and The End of the Tour, he can be surprisingly effective when surrounded by able supporting players.
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In the show's penultimate week, the leading man of Season 23, an N.F.L. player turned philanthropist named Colton Underwood, was fleeing the show's location in the Algarve region of Portugal after a painful breakup with the woman he hoped to someday marry.
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One side of it is just me using all of my energy [as Will Truman] and the other side is me suppressing all of that energy into a kind of Michael Douglas leading man that took me a while to get to.
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But what if they had hailed from a more media-centric market from which to launch their egalitarian approach, the one that endures in the post-Duncan era with a new leading man, Kawhi Leonard, who, like Tim Duncan, is averse to preening?
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Like Anthony, Irving apparently wants a grander stage for his highlight reel and has a reported desire to be his new stage's unquestioned leading man (though the latter part may be overstated and more a mission to be out from James's shadow).
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The New Bachelor Will Likely Be Announced Filming for The Bachelor typically begins in mid to late September, so the announcement of who the leading man will be is likely to come at the very end of the BiP reunion on Sept. 17.
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To this, he puts his hands together underneath his chin and bats his almost too-blue eyes, striking a pose more suited for a baby posing for Anne Geddes than a Hollywood leading man with a number of commercial successes under his belt.
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Its members include Ryan Silverman (a natural leading man, who appeared with Ms. Errico in the Classic Stage Company revival of "Passion") as Sharon's idealistic beau, Woody; and Lyrica Woodruff as his sister, Susan the Silent, who dances most of her dialogue.
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He's yet to receive top billing in a TV series or film, often portraying a member of a large ensemble (Riverdale, 13 Reasons Why, and superhero movie Shazaam), or the "best friend" to a leading man, a la P.S. I Still Love You.
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But Sapna, I agree — he's supremely likable and a big draw for any series, especially when paired with the understated Craig Robinson, who's been a welcome utility player on shows like "Eastbound and Down" and is overdue for a leading-man role.
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Steve McQueen, the black director of the Oscar-winning American slavery story, "12 Years a Slave," and its Oscar-nominated leading man, Chiwetel Ejiofor, were British, but the film's honors were viewed more as an achievement for African-American filmmaking than for any Commonwealth connection.
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His ability to put his emotions in words and perform actions that let his partner know he cares is the kind of PHD-level leading man stuff that's usually reserved for the third act of most romantic movies, if not the very last scene.
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While ABC's leading man may be excited to meet the families of the ladies left vying for his heart, he has to endure some serious grilling from fathers, mothers and Corinne's nanny before he can decide on who to give the final rose to.
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Below, check out this 2007 interview with Swayze from PEOPLE's archives, in which Swayze looks back on his love life and struggles with fame: Johnny Castle Forever: In 2007 Patrick Swayze spoke to PEOPLE about the film that made him an ideal leading man.
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He initially filmed without a leading man, playing Hannaford so other actors could react to the character, until his friend John Huston — probably the only person as capable of playing a larger-than-life, as-much-myth-as-man filmmaker as Welles — assumed the part.
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While Gwyneth Paltrow might share two children and an exceptionally friendly relationship with the band's leading man following their conscious uncoupling, she revealed in a SiriusXM interview on Thursday that she actually found comfort in the Coldplay's song "Everything's Not Lost," before ever meeting Martin.
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In the November issue of Esquire, Matthew McConaughey gets real about leaving his tried-and-true role as a rom-com leading man in the past for more serious roles like the True Detective series and The Dallas Buyers Club — which earned him an Oscar.
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I'm willing to take the fall of not getting that leading man role that I've auditioned so many times for, that I'm qualified for — that I'm too queer in my real life for — in order to hopefully continue to keep breaking these barriers for others.
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WATCH: New 'Bachelor' Is Arie Luyendyk Jr. – 3 Things to Know About Season 22's Leading Man Luyendyk was announced as the next Bachelor in September, to the surprise of many fans, mostly because it's been more than five years since Maynard's season aired.
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Gaynes, known for his leading-man good looks and rich baritone voice (in fact, he came to America from Europe to sing opera), had been a Hollywood and stage fixture for decades, often playing authority figures such as doctors, professors and law-enforcement officials.
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Sam Claflin is kind of swoon-worthy in a gruff antagonizing sort of way, and Bill Nighy very nearly steals the show as the kind of B-list actor who can't deal with the fact that he's 60 and no longer a leading man.
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Gael García Bernal won for his performance as an angsty composer in Mozart in the Jungle, while the internet's favorite leading man Oscar Isaac nabbed a Globe for his run as the mayor of a corrupt Yonkers, New York in Show Me a Hero.
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In addition to some tweets from leading man Ryan Reynolds (including gems like, "If I were on The Bachelor, I'd step out of that limo wearing nothing but white socks and like, 312 candy necklaces"), there was also a brand-new promo for the movie.
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Captain Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin each had an assist on Radulov's power-play goal Monday to push their season totals to 223 points each as Dallas' league-leading man-advantage unit (25 percent overall) improved to 24-for-25 in its last eight contests.
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In an exclusive sneak peek at the season premiere of the upcoming all-gay dating competition series, the show's leading man Robert Sepélveda Jr. hits the pool with his guys for the very first time – and let's just say their reactions speak for themselves.
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Stanton takes his final turn as a leading man in Lucky, a portrait of an old man living alone in a small desert town, making his daily rounds of the diner, the grocery store, and the bar, watering his cacti and watching game shows.
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The experiment by Masai Ujiri, the Raptors' president, to trade with San Antonio for Leonard was a bold, calculated risk, but far from foolish because Ujiri correctly surmised that DeRozan, though a fine player, would never be the leading man on a true championship contender.
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There are many factors that go into creating a good (or bad) movie — the screenplay, the direction, the supporting cast — and a critic may pan a movie for any number of reasons, even if the leading man or woman turned in an excellent performance.
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On Friday, the private eye who intimately knew Hollywood's underbelly — and, some would say, was its leading man — walked out of a Los Angeles federal prison at the end of his sentence and was free for the first time in more than 19903 years.
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He is passionate about Gregory Peck as just the right kind of leading man to step into the role of Atticus, and shares a great deal about the process of selecting the child actors to play Scout; her brother, Jem; and their friend Dill.
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Grant "speaks" through excerpts from an unpublished autobiography (read by Jonathan Pryce) and home movies he shot, which the documentary's director, Mark Kidel, intercuts with scenes from Grant's many movies to show that this seemingly unflappable leading man was a bundle of doubts and insecurities.
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" The show found an equally unlikely leading man in the floppy-haired Andrew Polec, who plays its unruly protagonist, Strat, and who rushed to try out for the project when he learned about it at an open casting call for "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.
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Mr. Scott was seen on Broadway this time last year as a replacement cast member in "An American in Paris," the dance-heavy musical whose original Broadway and London leading man, Robert Fairchild, recently turned toward iconic American material on an especially capacious London stage.
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In response to Kumail Nanjiani's muscular transformation that went viral earlier this week, Joe Alwyn and Guy Pearce, stars of FX's dark adaptation of A Christmas Carol, have opened up about the pressures actors face to look "slightly heroic" when playing a leading man onscreen.
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On Monday evening's episode of The Bachelor, leading man Nick Viall and seven contestants — Danielle L., Christen, Kristina, Whitney, Taylor, Jasmine and Corinne — spent a day rehearsing with the Backstreet Boys so that they could be backup dancers that evening as a part of their group date.
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Okay, so it's not quite time to cue the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit theme song, but days after former leading man Christopher Meloni shot down rumors he'd return for the long-running crime drama, he reunited with on-screen partner (and current star) Mariska Hargitay.
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Although Viall revealed his engagement to Vanessa Grimaldi on Monday's season 21 finale of The Bachelor, the ABC leading man and his fiancée will still need to balance their time together for at least the next three months because of his commitment to Dancing with the Stars.
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The Bachelor's former leading man shared a photo of 20-month-old son Samuel Thomas looking dapper in a mini tuxedo and bow tie, where he served as an adorable ring bearer at a family friend's wedding at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday.
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He's also no Leonardo DiCaprio, who — though a strange mix of cargo short-wearing bro and avid environmentalist — is also a traditional Hollywood leading man whose every appearance on a screen outright begs you to notice how talented and handsome and deserving of praise he is.
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Although the sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed were filmed back-to-back, DeGeneres presented an idea for a fourth movie — entitled Fifty Shades Darkest — and used the series' leading man to act out a scene for the parody when he visited her show.
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Examining his third week as leading man of the ABC reality competition series, the 36-year-old Bachelor exclusively reveals to PEOPLE that the remaining women who are vying for his fourth shot at love are becoming more comfortable with the process — and the chemistry is building.
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It was Coppola's Godfather gamble on a then-unknown Pacino that made of the upstart Italian actor a leading man, but it was Brian De Palma's rags-to-riches-to-rubble story of a Mariel boatlift refugee who becomes a cocaine kingpin that made him a legend.
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But the storyline was utterly familiar, as was the leading man: the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, Roy S. Moore, who was on trial here Wednesday for the second time in 13 years, on judicial ethics charges that could again cost him his seat on the bench.
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Gray is hampered, to an extent, by treading in the tracks of Werner Herzog, who went to South America with Klaus Kinski, his leading man (or, as Herzog calls him, "my best fiend"), and returned with the extraordinary "Aguirre, Wrath of God" (1972) and "Fitzcarraldo" (1982).
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But Rachel is so invested in not losing her leading man that she manipulates him into staying for the day so that they can finish the episode, leveraging the fact that he is still trying to rebuild his public reputation and land a sports announcer role.
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Machado might fit better as part of the Yankees' ensemble of stars than he would as a leading man with the Philadelphia Phillies, who dove into free agency last winter by signing Carlos Santana and Jake Arrieta and want to make an even bigger splash now.
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On Golf ST.-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Tommy Fleetwood sat at one end of the dais on Sunday night and blew kisses across the table to Francesco Molinari, who emerged, with Fleetwood's help, as the leading man in Europe's Ryder Cup victory against the United States.
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That advocacy paved the way for an actor like Hanks to deliver a moving portrayal of a gay attorney living with HIV in the mid-1990s -- and it didn't seem to preclude him from going back to being the leading man in multiple Nora Ephron rom-coms.
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Cast as a leading man from early in his career, Kirk Douglas, who died Wednesday at 21964, commanded the screen with a booming voice and chiseled physique, but he also showed enough humility to allow for more complicated heroes — and even a couple of outright heels.
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Gradually, though, Mr. Hemsworth was allowed to cut down on the piety and self-seriousness so that, maybe, by the time "Thor: Ragnarok" opens in November, what's left is a leading-man foundation that takes him from subpar Laurence Olivier to peak Charlton Heston or Mel Gibson.
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"Miss Saigon" opened in London in 21988, with an acclaimed white British actor, Jonathan Pryce, wearing prosthetics to alter the shape of his eyes and makeup to alter the color of his skin as he played the show's leading man, a scheming Eurasian pimp called the Engineer.
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The structure to support Sandler's relentless output dates back to 1998, when Sandler met Amy Pascal, then a Sony executive, at a promotional event for "The Wedding Singer," his first rom-com with Drew Barrymore, which proved he had the range to play a sweetheart leading man.
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But when his leading man steps forward to ruminate upon Richard's lonely and too-brief life, the prevailing aggression of the production — this is the most physical "Richard II" in years — gives way to a glimpse of a fallen monarch with the soul of a poet.
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Before the recent documentary about and memoir by Scotty Bowers (also known as "pimp to the stars"), there was a 1989 biography of Grant, written by Charles Higham and Roy Moseley, that proceeded from the premise that the charismatic leading man was at the very least bisexual.
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For all of the networks' promises of radical inclusion and fearless storytelling, I await the FX, Netflix, or Freeform series with the chutzpah to give viewers, for example, a Black, trans dad leading man, who actually talks about being Black and trans, working hard to make ends meet.
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Joe Amabile, lovingly nicknamed after his job as a produce buyer in Chicago, stopped by the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday and discussed the possibility of handing out roses as The Bachelor's next leading man "Well, yeah, maybe," he told Lea Michele, who was filling in as host.
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Even in the fictional TV world, The Mindy Project had a habit of traveling to Staten Island — a place actual science has proven has one of the worst commutes in all of America — at lightning fast speeds to deal with leading man Danny Castellano's (Chris Messina) native borough.
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The leading man in the Uncharted series, Nathan Drake, made the dickheads list, primarily because while he's rarely short of a wise crack, and some people love that half-tuck, he doesn't half run about the world royally fucking over ancient ruins and dismantling the remains of forgotten societies.
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As the show's de factor leading man, Aziz Ansari takes a backseat and lets everything else about his show shine; the audacity of a black-and-white Italian episode, the arresting charm of Alessandra Mastronardi, the ordinary citizens of New York, the endearing Eric Wareheim, the inimitable Lena Waithe.
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Prior to being named the leading man of The Bachelor, the former professional football player vied for love on Becca Kufrin's season of The Bachelorette; following their breakup, he headed to Bachelor in Paradise where he reconciled, then split up from, his on and off again girlfriend Tia Booth.
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Brody tried to refashion himself as a blander sort of leading man by playing action-hero for Peter Jackson's King Kong, and while the film was a hit, a forgettable performance contributed to him falling out of favor with the arbiters of cinematic taste who once celebrated him.
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But what Hollywood initially did with Hammer makes sense: This is an industry that has forever conflated image with ability, and in this topsy-turvy world, regular-looking guys with leading-man charisma like Michael Shannon become supporting stars while chiselled character actors are pigeonholed as bland leading men.
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Between #TeamDean and #TeamPeter, fans of the franchise are waiting with bated breath to find out who the next leading man of The Bachelor is, but Rachel Lindsay and her fiancé Bryan Abasolo are throwing their own pick into the mix — and it's definitely not who you might expect.
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The announcement of a new Doctor — which came out after the Wimbledon's men final — is part of a longstanding tradition for Doctor Who fans, who see a new leading man take on the iconic role every few years or so as the Doctor regenerates into a different form.
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He didn't necessarily need to do this—Rain Man and Jerry Maguire were picture perfect examples of how to execute a leading man arc—but there he was, trying to be seductive in Interview with the Vampire, emote madly in Magnolia, and hang on in Eyes Wide Shut.
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The louring, dark-hued splendour of the Cave of Wonders constitutes one of various high points of Bob Crowley's designs, just as Gregg Barnes's costumes indulge baubles and bangles and the kind of sartorial make-over for its leading man that one more traditionally associates in musicals with women.
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Mr. Herzog's most entertaining documentary may be "My Best Fiend" (Saturday), his remembrance of his combative friendship with Klaus Kinski, his five-time leading man, whose tantrums on the sets of "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" and "Fitzcarraldo" made him as much a force of nature as the jungle.
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The former leading man of the reality show surfaced Saturday from a home he's been staying at in Huntington Beach, CA ... and as he made his way out to the balcony, certainly looking like someone who was down and out and going through it -- COVID-19, that is.
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The winner of six Emmy Awards and a member of the Television Academy Hall of Fame, he was a leading non-leading man, a vivid second banana whose deferential mien and skill as a collaborator made him most comfortable — and often funniest — in the shadow of a star.
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A gang of plutocrats, fronted by a master of disguise and suave thuggery named Turner (played by German cinema's favorite villain, Fritz Rasp), plot to steal a rocket designed by an aging mad scientist from his earnest young protégé, the entrepreneurial astrophysicist Helius (the popular leading man Willy Fritsch).
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Any trace of magnetic sexy leading man is erased: fat and bearded with a matted rat's nest of dreadlocks, disheveled and ranting, Phoenix is at the center of this elaborate hoax, one so poker-faced that it caused epic confusion in the entertainment press as it was being shot.
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Mr. Leon, in the early stages of developing a revival of "Children of a Lesser God," had lined up a leading man — Joshua Jackson, best known for television work including "The Affair" — but no leading lady, so he asked Ms. Ridloff to pinch-hit at an early table read.
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LONDON — Londoners responding to a knock on their front doors in recent days may have been surprised to see a familiar face grinning back at them: Hugh Grant, one of the country's most recognizable actors, who made his mark as the floppy-haired, bumbling leading man in romantic comedies.
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Mr. Bean, a playwright of wide-ranging satirical scope, is best known on these shores for "One Man, Two Guvnors," his knockabout transposition of an 18th-century Goldoni comedy to the British seaside of the 1960s (seen on Broadway in 2012), which made a star of its leading man, James Corden.
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The company's leaders, dissatisfied with what they saw during an early run-through of the show (a "lions' den," in Cirque lingo, comparing the executives to predatory carnivores), abruptly ousted the show's leading man and said they wanted the running time cut by 10 percent, to get it under two hours.
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Looking back on the first night of his search for love, the 36-year-old leading man of ABC's hit reality show reveals that he was almost instantly skeptical of contestant Liz Sandoz, whom he had me and slept with months before he started handing out roses on The Bachelor.
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During the season finale of Dancing with the Stars on Monday night — during which Brown competed as one of the final four contestants — ABC aired a teaser from the upcoming season of The Bachelor that featured a surprising reunion between the Alabama native and the show's new leading man, Peter Weber.
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The "man" in "Letter to a Man" is the impresario Serge Diaghilev, who spotted Nijinsky in 1908, when he was the nineteen-year-old prodigy of St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Ballet, bedded him, and then made him the leading man of the Ballets Russes, the company he founded, in Paris, in 1909.
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Now ahead of the fifth anniversary of the car crash that killed the actor at age 40 in November 2013, his friends, family and Hollywood peers want the world to know what Paul was really like: a kind leading man who cared more about surfing and his daughter Meadow, now 19, than fame.
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While the pilot opens in a way that would look comfortable in a Bourne thriller, it soon switches gears to small town family drama thanks to the introduction of both the breezy seaside burg of Bristol Cove and Ben Pownall (Alex Roe), our leading man and son of Bristol Cove's founding family.
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PEOPLE Now caught up with Chris Harrison this week, and the longtime franchise host — who is also hosting the 16th season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire — opened up the decision to cast Arie Luyendyk Jr. as the next leading man instead, revealing Kraus' Bachelor journey might not be over just yet.
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Potential presidents are measured against an ideal that's a combination of leading man, God, father, hero, pope, king..." Price also noted, shrewdly, that the media was not immune to the desire for a monarchical president: "The press may be better at rationalizing their prejudices, but the basic response remains an emotional one.
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No matter what, seeing a super-macho, hypermasculine leading man like Ryan Reynolds end up on the receiving end of a strap-on dildo will hopefully demonstrate to audiences that it's fun and totally okay to experiment with power dynamics during sex, as long as both partners are willing and consenting adults.
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Brown, but his first foray into the leading man big-leagues was in the thriller-action film Dracula 2000—a breakthrough that wasn't as titillating as Brad Pitt in Thelma and Louise, as contentious as Denzel Washington in Carbon Copy, or as captivating as Russell Means in The Last of the Mohicans.
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Jasen Wade, who has crisp blue eyes and the kind of chin you could use to shave ice, said that when he works as a leading man in these independent movies — most of which are low budget affairs shot in just a couple of weeks — he makes $200 to, occasionally, $450 a day.
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Which is probably just another way of saying that like De Niro and Cage, he is, at heart, a character actor — and so much of the confusion about his hotness stems from the fact that he manages to combine the skill of a character actor with the charisma of a leading man.
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Wojcik points to the 1950s Hollywood leading man Victor Mature — whom the film critic David Thomson once described as "an incredible concoction of beef steak, husky voice, and brilliantine" — and to Arnold Schwarzenegger as examples of masculine camp: Their personas are all muscle and sinew, masculinity as nothing but dudes punching other dudes.
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He's not The Bachelor, he just plays one on TV. B.J. Britt, who plays season 2's leading man on Lifetime's UnREAL, is one of the few people who knows what JoJo Fletcher is going through as she searches for love on The Bachelorette – and he has a very straightforward piece of advice for Fletcher.
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The word "diversity" is really in the hot seat right now when it comes to the entertainment business, so I do love the fact that our leading man is someone that you've never seen before, and his [character's] family, [who are Filipino], had a Thanksgiving that has never been showcased on national television before.
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A good deal of the conversation surrounding Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film The Revenant—which tells the revenge story of a frontiersman in colonial North America—has to do with Leonardo DiCaprio, and whether or not he'll get his first Oscar for the gut-wrenchingly intense performance he delivers as leading man.
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While there were a lot of likable, well-coiffed guys this season who'd make a fine leading man, Bachelor nation has made it abundantly clear who it wants to be handing out the roses next season and that man is Luke Pell, a smoldering-eyed war veteran with a big heart and sexily monotone voice.
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There's a refusal to make himself likable or relatable — it's hard to think of another current American leading man who asks for less of our love than Phoenix — and yet in James Gray's ''Two Lovers'' (2009), in which he plays a suicidal photographer, he's as sympathetic and endearing as any actor of his generation.
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During a yachting holiday gone wrong, aristocratic Raffaella (played by Mariangela Melato, who plays the female lead in many of Wertmüller's films) ends up stranded on a desert island—a place where, Wertmüller explains in her email, "society and social borders don't exist"—with Gennarino, a member of her boat's crew (Wertmüller's leading man of choice, Giancarlo Giannini).
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"Yes" is only one word, but when you're running Paramount at a time when the industry is in serious financial decline and trying to decide whether you're going to release a very long cut of a gangster movie (with an unknown for a leading man) that wasn't really a gangster movie, "yes" is a very expensive word indeed.
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Those first two movies were about the movies, with Janet Gaynor in 1937 as a naive North Dakota farm girl with actorly aspirations and Judy Garland in 213 as a singer who's been touring with a band, and Fredric March and James Mason played respective versions of the love interest, a leading man with a drinking problem.
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For more on Heath Ledger, including the revealing new documentary about his life and legacy, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday A Knight's Tale — 2001 If 10 Things I Hate About You wasn't enough proof that Ledger had plenty of charisma and star power, A Knight's Tale cemented his status as a leading man.
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The status of Hollywood leading man — a role newly acquired by Chadwick Boseman in historical dramas like 22016 and Marshall and Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station and Creed, where both men capture the gravitas and romantic possibility of anonymous everymen in the mold of Denzel Washington — is ill-suited for Stanfield's narrow frame and irrepressible physical energy.
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Her story is rich with memorable characters — the eccentric aunt she moves in with who owns her own theater, albeit one in major disrepair; the larger-than-life leading lady; the chorus of showgirls; the alluring leading man — and a vibrant setting, all of which come tumbling down when Vivian finds herself in the midst of a sexual scandal.
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The star is set to make his leading-man debut in the drama-thriller Careful What You Wish For, in which his character – a college student named Doug Martin – gets tangled in an affair with a stunning woman, Lena Harper (Isabel Lucas), who is married to a powerful investment banker, not thinking about the consequences that may arise.
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In addition to three-time Coen leading man Clooney, all three of its marquee players (Damon, Moore, and Oscar Isaac, whose two scenes are easily the picture's best) have starred in Coen movies, the narrative is filled with Fargo echoes, and it even includes a scene in which a bellowing fat man is immersed in flames.
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The Big Sick is a lot of different things: a laugh-out-loud-funny comedy about the standup circuit, a touching true story of love overcoming obstacles, a smart and specific tale of immigration and cultural difference, a compelling argument that Kumail Nanjiani deserves more leading-man roles, and a reminder that Holly Hunter freakin' rules.
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Yes, there is always the chance that ABC will opt for a Bachelor from a past year — it happened with Nick Viall and Arie Luyendyk, Jr., in recent years — but since 2018 Bachelorette cast-off Colton Underwood nabbed last year's Bachelor honors in fence-jumping, there's an OK chance that 2020's leading man will be from Hannah's season.
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When he accepted the award, Iñárritu repeated themes he touched on in his Best Director speech earlier in the evening: it was a tough movie to make, but hey, he had a tough crew behind him — like Leonardo DiCaprio, who also won a Golden Globe tonight for his role as The Revenant's gristly leading man, frontiersman Hugh Glass.
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And yet—just to prove to you that EPL couldn't be any more EPL—there are rumors that train wreck Mourinho is in the running to take the place of Louis van Gaal at the head of one of England's most venerated clubs, despite van Gaal leading Man U to a steady fifth place in the standings.
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Then, last year, on Facebook, the former President issued a fresh roster of recommendations, this time with extra quirks: Oliver Sacks and Carly Simon, a book about the making of " High Noon ," and " House of Spies ," by the indefatigable Daniel Silva, whose recurrent leading man, over seventeen books, displays a knack for espionage, judicious homicide, and art restoration.
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It featured Mr. Rockwell, less than a week after winning best actor at the Golden Globes for his role in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," making use of the whole set at Rockefeller Center as he found himself in various (clichéd) leading man situations — all while Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" played in the background.
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Her story is rich with memorable characters — the eccentric aunt she moves in with, who owns her own theater (albeit one in major disrepair); the larger-than-life leading lady; the chorus of showgirls; the alluring leading man — and a vibrant setting, all of which come tumbling down when Vivian finds herself in the midst of a sexual scandal.
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