Romantic heroes

[girlyswot]

The Romance Writers Association have provided the following list of the top ten best romantic leads...

(HT: Smart Bitches Trashy Books)

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Would anyone like to have a serious discussion about the characteristics required for a romantic male lead? No? Just the drooling then.

Comments

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

I'm not very familiar with Richard Armitage or David Tennant, but the only person I have a real objection to is number one. I just don't get Johnny Depp.

The characters I tend to fall for in books and films are usually more about the wit than the looks. But it has to be actual wit and I have to understand it. Looks don't hurt, though.

Nice old ER pic of George Clooney. I was just saying today how I wish Sisters the NBC show he was on prior to ER) was on DVD. I loved him in that.

Hmm... the ones on this list who would be on my list (if not my top ten) are: Hugh Jackman (obviously, he's my Richard), Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, and probably George Clooney. Sean Bean and Colin Firth are possibilities (I like the way the latter kissed both Brigit Jones and the Mom in what a girl wants, and the former is so often a villain that I didn't really catch on to his appeal until watching the entire Sharpe series while the Admiral was at sea).

There are probably others that I would rather see up there -- but as I established by my anti-Johnny Depp-ness, I'm not exactly mainstream in my tastes.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Chocolat? That was the first film that I really got Johnny Depp in. He often plays weird or creepy - and does it very well. But in Chocolat he plays sexy and knee-meltingly, heart-stoppingly sexy, at that.

I adored Sean Bean in Sharpe, too.

[gabrielladusult.livejournal.com]

I loved Chocolat. Vianne is one of my models for Gabriella Du Sult. I still didn't want him in that. He just makes me shrug.