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John Benjamin Hickey: Actors & SKIN

I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.

John Benjamin Hickey

Finding North (1998)

Screwball romance involving a woman who gets fired from her job as a bank teller when her friends arrange for a stripper to appear at the bank for her birthday. She then meets a man (Hickey) whom she had earlier seen jump off a bridge and had assumed had committed suicide. With nothing else to do, she follows him to Texas.

I think the first time I saw actor John Benjamin Hickey on screen was in 1997's Love! Valour! Compassion!  I remember being in school, and renting a VHS copy, not for the story, but for the male nudity.  I wasn't familiar with Hickey at the time, nor his impressive theatre credits, including two different productions of the film I was enjoying.

Although I went on to become a huge admirer of his acting and career, I missed many of his most notable television roles.  I do however remember watching his memorable turn as Neil Gross, the owner and founder of Chumhum on both The Good Wife and The Good Fight.  I remember how sinisterly sexy Hickey was in the role

Sex and the City (1998)

Sine first seeing him on screen, I've gone on to eventually see his turns in The Ice Storm, The Bone Collector, Pitch Perfect, Truth and Salem's Lot.  On television, I've enjoyed Hickey in dozens of roles and still have The Big C on my 'to watch' list.

The Big C (2010-2013)

Hickey's ass has certainly held up well, with butt baring scenes spanning the late 1990's through 2020.  Check out my separate piece featuring his frontal scenes in Love! Valour! Compassion! in the post just BELOW:

John Benjamin Hickey on Instagram

Sublet (2020)

A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.

John Benjamin Hickey in Love! Valour! Compassion!

Eight Men, On Summer, you figure it out....

Gregory invites 7 friends to his secluded home: Bobby, couple Art and Perry, John, Ramon, AIDS-afflicted James, HIV+ Buzz. They spend the summer navigating relationships, illnesses, and personal dynamics.

I remember that even before renting Love! Valour! Compassion! on VHS, the attention over the nudity.  Mostly it concerned seeing Jason Alexander's ass, who was at the height of his fame during the final seasons of Seinfeld.  Years later, when I got online, it was Randy Becker's nude scenes that seemed to get the lion's share of attention.

Understandable, sort of, at the time, Alexander was the most famous actor in the cast.  Becker was the young hottie in the group, and in the movie.  I fell into the trap of salivating over the young hottie myself.  Re-watching again though, it's John Benjamin Hickey and his character Arthur, who I zoom in on, both actually, and emotionally.

'You're right, I'm butch; I can catch a ball, I genuinely like both my parents, and I hate opera. I don't know why I bother being gay.'

Arthur

Of all the characters, I'm probably most like Arthur, and I too, would follow the young Ramon, (Becker0 down to the wharf to skinny dip with.  I think Hickey's character also showed the most nudity, with several clear frontals including the scenes in the field, and on the wharf, shown here.