A question
Jun. 16th, 2015 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverSo this question came up today - my husband asked me and my best friend, "Is Matt Smith handsome?" We both answered no, but the Doctor is charismatic and attractive.
What do you think? Objectively, without considering him playing the Doctor or any other role, or as himself (since from all I've seen, he's a very dynamic guy), is Matt Smith facially handsome?
We then talked a bit more about different actors, and my friend and I agreed on most points. Tennant's handsome, but not overwhelmingly so. (In fact, when telling my sister about him last week - she had no idea who he is - and showing her a picture, she said, "You think he's handsome??") Like Smith, he's far more handsome when backed by either personality or talent. Hiddleston is our favorite of the hyper-popular British actors (neither of us finds Cumberbatch handsome), and that took the conversation into the Avengers, where again, we both agreed that Chris Evans is best-looking of the bunch. I was actually surprised at how much she and I agreed; I thought she was more into the more rugged type of male face. I definitely prefer more boyish faces.
What do you think? Objectively, without considering him playing the Doctor or any other role, or as himself (since from all I've seen, he's a very dynamic guy), is Matt Smith facially handsome?
We then talked a bit more about different actors, and my friend and I agreed on most points. Tennant's handsome, but not overwhelmingly so. (In fact, when telling my sister about him last week - she had no idea who he is - and showing her a picture, she said, "You think he's handsome??") Like Smith, he's far more handsome when backed by either personality or talent. Hiddleston is our favorite of the hyper-popular British actors (neither of us finds Cumberbatch handsome), and that took the conversation into the Avengers, where again, we both agreed that Chris Evans is best-looking of the bunch. I was actually surprised at how much she and I agreed; I thought she was more into the more rugged type of male face. I definitely prefer more boyish faces.
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Date: 2015-06-17 03:49 am (UTC)Matt Smith isn't conventionally attractive, but he's not ugly, either. I don't know that I'd call him handsome, though.
Obviously, I'm attracted to Tennant (understatement of the century), but even though I had seen all the Harry Potter movies, I didn't make the connection that he was Barty Crouch Jr until later. I had no idea who he was before I started watching Doctor Who. His portrayal of the Doctor was definitely what made him attractive to me, but I am a sapiosexual, so there's that. I find him handsome now, but I imagine he probably would've flown under my radar if I had never watched Doctor Who.
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Date: 2015-06-17 04:49 pm (UTC)I didn't know who DT was either. I remember seeing HP4 in the theater and telling my husband that I'd heard that that guy is going to be the next Doctor, but that's it. I never saw anything else he'd done until I started watching DW in 2013, and his Doctor just blew me away - both the characterization of the Doctor and his performance. And then Alec Hardy - that's my favorite role of his and the one that made me a fangirl.
"Sapiosexual". Thanks for the new word! I'm definitely a sapiosexual.