Happy Birthday today December 7th

Happy 36th to actor Nicholas Hoult!

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Sexy Lexy

I've featured actor Nicholas Hoult on the site many times before, including a close-up look in my series Actors & Skin. (HERE:)  Somehow though, this remains one of my favorite shots.  The unintentional (maybe) slutty pose, exposing his undies and a bit of skin always does the trick!

 

Heroic Heinie

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Thespian Toros

Although Nosferatu was released on December 25th, I've yet to see any decent caps or images to have included it in my Sex In Cinema post.  Although there is plenty of beefcake, the frontals are rumored to be prosthetics.   Hopefully though, we'll see some rear nudity from Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult and super stud Aaron Taylor-Johnson. (Above)

Happy Birthday today December 7th

Happy 35th to actor Nicholas Hoult!

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The Future Belongs to the Mad

'Fury Road was made off the back of a penguin.'

  James Nicholas 

James Nicholas was Fury Road director George Miller assistant, and provided some of my favorite quotes in Kyle Buchanan's book, Blood, Sweat & Chrome.   If you don't know Miller's name, I'm sure  you know his work.  In addition to writing, producing and directing the first three films in the Mad Max franchise, Miller also directed; The Witches of Eastwick, Lorenzo's Oil, Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two.

It was actually Happy Feet Two that in some ways was responsible for Mad Max: Fury Road  being made at all.   Miller originally came up with the concept for the film in the late 80's, but it took until 2012 to finally get the film made.  In the meantime, it went through hundreds of changes, through the  hands of many multiple creatives, and was started and stopped at least twice, once, just as filming was about to begin.

Originally Miller wanted Mel Gibson back as Max, but with the passage of time, not to mention Gibson's personal and public struggles,  Miller realize the actor was no longer the right actor to step again into Max's shoes.  A casting hunt began with many other actors considered.  At one point, Miller considered casting both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who he thought would be perfect for the film.

In the end, the role of Max was narrowed down to Jeremy Renner, Armie Hammer and the actor who eventually took on the role, Tom Hardy.  Tom had years of critical and box office success in Europe, but it wasn't until Bronson, in 2008, that he was considered an actor who could take the lead of a mainstream box office hit.

After receiving Buchanan's ok from Amazon this past summer, each evening after dinner, I took the book and sat on my porch reading each page and each chapter both quickly and slowly.  I went through the book fast, but kept stopping to re-read certain portions, especially about the process of getting the actors ready for their roles.  Then, later that night, I would re-watch all, or parts of the film that I had been reading about.  Buchanan had me wanting to closely re-watch scenes that were discussed by the actors and creators in such detail within the book.

Although the film is really one long road picture, it's divided into several distinct sections.  It begins with Max's capture, and then moves on to my favorite part of the film, Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and the wives, escaping from the Citadel and from Immortan Joe.  The chase is on and really ups the intensity once Max and Furiosa  meet.  The remainder of the film is Max, Furiosa, Nux (Nicholas Hoult) and the wives on the run from Joe and cult of followers. 

Although most may have thought of Mad Max films as created for male audiences, Fury Road is at it's core, a feminist celebration.  There are no stereotyped female characters with Furiosa, the wives, and the fantastic 'Many Mothers' leading the battle to take down Joe and take back their home and lives in the Citadel.  

Although I love all of the women from Fury Road, this is FH, so it's the men that I'm featuring in the next few posts.  Check out more below as well as my Actors & Skin feature on star Tom Hardy on the NEXT PAGE HERE:

Actors & Skin: Nicholas Hoult (Part 2)

'It was chaos out there, to be honest .'

Nicholas Hoult

Skins (2007-2008)

In Mad Max: Fury Road, actor Nicholas Hoult plays Nux, a member of Immortan Joe's army of War Boys. Immortan Joe uses cruelty to rule over the settlement known as The Citadel.  The War Boys actually start out as War Pups, and if they survive long enough they then become War Boys. Most of  them are plagued by cancer and it's because of the his disease that Nux first comes in contact with Max, or at least in contact with Max's blood...

Hoult's Nux has one of the films most distinct character transformations, going from being loyal to Immortan Joe, to working with Max and Furiosa to save the wives and bring them home to take back  the Citadel.  Initially, director George Miller was on the fence about casting  Hoult.  George worried about the size discrepancy between Nicholas and Tom and that the character of Nux was younger than Nicholas was at the time.

'The second audition was four hours long, and I'd never been through something like that.  You were asked to sit opposite your partner, look at them, and say everything you're feeling and thinking.  We were also given these single words or phrases to repeat over and over again to each other for about twenty minutes.'

Nicholas Hoult

When Nicholas left the room, George turned to casting director Ronna Kress, who been championing for Nicholas for the role, and said, 'Yes, I see it now.'  Nicholas was quickly hired for the role.  I previously posted an Actors & Skin piece on Hoult back in 2020, (HERE:)  For this piece, I updated with a few more caps and another hot naked walk-a-way from Hoult from the series The Great. 

True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

The Great (2020-2021)

Nicholas Hoult: About A Boy

The Weatherman (2005)

Because art is typically visual, change is organically part of it's core.  Part of my fascination with images of the male form, is seeing the progress and change in artist's style and technique.  In addition, it's interesting to watch a model's progression, both with experience and over time.  This is especially true with actors, who become inadvertent models in the process of creating and promotion.

These elements of change, are part of the reason I love doing the feature Actors & Skin.  In part, it's about bringing together all, or at least most, of an actors revealing resume.  A bonus element however, is also seeing and enjoying an actor's body over time, both the positive elements, and the less desirable changes as well.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course, and we all see things differently.  There are some actors, who showed skin in their teens in twenties, whose bodies never look as fit and hot again.  There are other actors however, who seem to thrive as they get older, and whose bodies look at their peak, in their thirties, forties and beyond.

Actor Nicholas Hoult only turned 30 this year, but's he's been acting, and visually modeling, all of his three plus decades.  Hoult began acting at the age of 3, professionally at 7. The English actor became known to many at the age of 12, after appearing as Marcus in 2002's About A Boy.  Five years later, when Hoult was 18, he did his first nude scenes for the UK version of Skins.

Hoult has gone on to appear nude on television and in film close to half a dozen times, most recently in the 2020 series The Great.  Many of you have seen his beautiful butt walk from the show, but if you haven't, and want to check out more of Hoult's heinie, on PAGE 2 HERE:

Favorite Pic of the Day for June 3rd

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Nicholas Hoult by Tom Craig

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Actors & SKIN: Nicholas Hoult

Not all actors can transform seamlessly from child actor into adult roles.  I think one of the reasons Hoult did it so well is because he took his time.  Many child actors seem to rush from playing children to adults without stopping in the middle.  So many young actors take on these wild mature adult roles that they're not really ready for, and can create shocking, and abrupt reactions from their audience.

Hoult didn't go directly from playing a cute kid to taking on roles playing lawyers and hit-man.  Hoult wisely embraced those transitional years, the awkward teen years, and played the inexperienced young man, before taking on parts playing the strong and mature man.

At only thirty, I believe  Hoult has appeared nude on film seven times.  In addition to the three scenes and projects that I'm featuring here, Hoult also appeared nude in True History of the Kelly Gang, (2020) Sand Castle, (2017) Newness (2017) and Kill Your Friends. (2015)  This means, Hoult has filmed nude scenes when he was in his teens, his twenties and and now in his thirties.

Skins (2007-2008)

My last best mate's Maxxie. He's a bit new, he's a bit cool, he's a bit gay.

Tony Stonem

A Single Man (2009)

'I always think there’s loads of nudity in most things you see. The ocean scene, it’s not too awkward at the time because you’re in the moment, you’re in character and you have their thoughts and feelings about it. Tom explained everything very clearly and I understood it all very well, so it wasn’t awkward then. It is mostly when “cut!” gets called and then you’re stuck there, at work, in the buff, which I think is a lot of people’s worst nightmare.'

'We had to do it three times. There were fires at the time and there was ash in the air and I got ash in my eye and we had to stop after three, which Colin was very thankful for (laughing)! We got along very well. He’s very relaxed and calm and certainly a fantastic actor, so he’s very present in the moment when you’re doing a scene with him. It makes it very easy on you.'

Nicholas Hoult

The Great (2020)

Nicholas Hoult has admitted he finds sex scenes 'very difficult' to film and often bursts into fits of giggles during takes. The actor, 30, found it tough to keep a straight face in his love scenes with Elle Fanning in the Hulu series The Great where she stars as Catherine the Great while he plays her husband Peter III.

'They’re very difficult to do because they are very, very funny, and just ridiculous. And already, you’re in a slightly uncomfortable position doing that. But then add the sprinkle of hilarity on top of that and it becomes, yeah, very difficult not to start giggling. And I giggle a lot. So that was trouble for me.'

Hoult, The Daily Mail