Why Can’t Hollywood Find Another Ryan Phillippe?

Draft Sean Ford. If he can be prevailed upon to leave all the revolution stuff behind.

I feel like blonde men went out of style for a long time after the 90’s. Young white male beauty in the 90’s was very much California blonde. The 2000’s went more Mediterranean.

The Hemsworth brothers are pretty.

Do you mean attractive men of limited talents with no box office record to speak of, OP?

Cause there seem to be no shortage of them.

Ever time we discuss Ryan Phillippe, I feel like rehashing the "gay face" debate, the differences between str8 people's perspective of gayface and gay/bi perspectives. I'd say Mr. Phillippe has gayface. And many believe he's bi but fucked himself over (like so many other dudes) by seeking out beards. But that was back inthe day when even broadway gays had difficulty leveling up or just getting more than ensemble gigs, if they were out.

r2 Oh, they remain in style but there's a struggle to what's the acceptable version. It's sort of the love/hate dynamic. white blond blue eyed cis gays are literally worse than hitler but why won't they fuck me.

[quote] Do you mean attractive men of limited talents with no box office record to speak of, OP?

Glenn Powell is the first that cums to mind.

What about his son Deacon?

Because men who look like Ryan can make much more money and get more fame for a much lower effort through Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and OnlyFans. Ryan was a beautiful hoe who got lucky, thousands of other pretty boys who spread their ass didn't make the cut or get the right role.

He was so fucking pretty

Well Ryan did become an Instahoe posting thirst traps on vacations. That's what he was always destined to be.

He's content creator for a gay audience. Reese's money and Cruel Intentions' residuals aren't paying for those trips around the world.

Yes, he lives quite a well-off lifestyle. The money he made in the 90s surely couldn't be paying for it all, I would imagine.

Channing Tatum

Channing Tatum looks like total white trash next to the beauty of Ryan.

Ryan Reynolds, Zac Efron, Jason Momoa, Chris Evans, Michael B Jordan and Alex Pettyfer.

Not as dainty or androgynous as young Ryan but still very goodlooking.

I would say Josh Hartnett and Chance Crawford too but both have the same career as Ryan now, TV and low budget indie movies.

Zac Efron? Chace Crawford? Is this some kind of joke? These clowns can’t even hold a candle to Ryan at his CURRENT age.

R15 Okay.

Tik Tok influencers like Noen Eubanks are the new hot blondes.

Hollywood should focus on finding talent. TikTok is for the no-talent pretty boys.

Nobody gives a shit about TikTok except a very narrow age range of people. It doesn't have mass popularity.

R19 I agree and that's why most TikTokers have an Instagram or Twtter to post stuff on there because of it. More people have Instagram or Twitter while TikTok is still niche. Also these hoes need old gays to give them money (since teen girls aren't paying them).

Because Hollywood wasn't looking for another mediocre actor who never became a box office draw.

But Hollywood is mostly made up of mediocre actors who never became a box office draw, R21. Only none of them look as good as Ryan did.

Straight men pay for movie tickets. There's more straight men than gay. Ryan's look does not appeal to straight men at all. He leans too heavy on the feminine angelic side (big lips, big blue eyes, wide nose, milky skin, blonde curls) and has a gay voice. Nobody wants to see that as an action hero or rough everyman role. As for Ryan's unnaturally good looks, he started on a soap opera and managed to do a few Hollywood roles. He got lucky. Ryan only stands out because he played the a gay teen in a soap opera which was groundbreaking and was in teen classics like Cruel Intentions, 54 and I Know What I Did Last Summer. Without that, he'd be forgotten.

TV has tons of gorgeous men actually but they tend to be regulated to content mostly consumed by teen girls and women. Taylor Kitsch, Matt Bomer, Jensen Ackles, Shemar Moore, Tom Welling and David Boreanaz also started on TV and did some Hollywood movies.

Ryan Phillippe is a mediocre actor who got lucky with a few teen movie roles. Late 90s teen movies cast a lot of eye candy of soap opera and WB/CW caliber. He also married Reese Witherspoon which gave him fame by her association. But he was never a big Hollywood star despite the OP arguing he was. Ryan was part of many a gay millennial's youth though as Cruel Intentions, 54 and I Know What You Did Last Summer was rerun to hell and back on cable. I disagree he is the last beautiful Hollywood male. OP just has a crush on Ryan and is projecting.

[quote] big lips, big blue eyes, wide nose, milky skin, blonde curls

Is Ryan mixed race? Is his skin white?

While they aren't blond, I think Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Josh Hartnett, Colin Farrell, Tom Welling, Brandon Routh, Matt Dallas and Steven Strait are just as beautiful.

[QUOTE] Ryan Phillippe is a mediocre actor who got lucky with a few teen movie roles. Late 90s teen movies cast a lot of eye candy of soap opera and WB/CW caliber. He also married Reese Witherspoon which gave him fame by her association. But he was never a big Hollywood star despite the OP arguing he was. Ryan was part of many a gay millennial's youth though as Cruel Intentions, 54 and I Know What You Did Last Summer was rerun to hell and back on cable. I disagree he is the last beautiful Hollywood male. OP just has a crush on Ryan and is projecting.

The only projections I see are these long diatribes from hating ass motherfuckers like you. Who said anything about him being a big Hollywood star? I don’t give a fuck about box office numbers, I’m strictly talking about his beauty and raw sex appeal. They remain unmatched

Your opinion is not a fact. Most Hollywood men are attractive by default. Not everyone likes pale blonde white boys.

Matt Dallas in Kyle XY. Sexy and gay.

Ryan was something special. Truly beautiful.

Matt Bomer

I know we have one or two Matt Bomer obsessives on here, but he has no sex appeal at all. He's attractive, but he's like a Ken doll. Not much personality either.

I think this site is filled with people who like to think their opinion on beauty is more important than it actually is especially in regards to celebrities who will never fuck them anyway. Most gay men would not turn down Matt Bomer or Ryan Phillippe. Sex appeal is subjective. Matt has a personality like everyone does, he's just smart and knows what to say to the media. Being an actor is a job just like working at a service desk.

Try Dean Young

Dean Young is probably what Ryan would have been had he not been cast in One Life To Live.

^^R34, Ryan was hot and steamy, but not skanky like whatever that is.

R36 Yes, Ryan is soo classy and not at all a whore.

The first one was terrible so why would you want to find another.

Jesse Metcalfe

Chris Zylka

Josh Hartnett at middle-age is still gorgeous

Nobody was like Ryan. He was beautiful and had a certain sensuality.

^ Okay, Ryan we get it. Thank you for joining us.

He's not dead, r42.

His career is dead though.

Ryan was and still is beautiful. The only young actor who is, in my opinion, as attractive is someone I read about only on DL, and that’s Froy. Go ahead and mock me, but Froy is beautiful. Not as breathtaking as Ryan, but lovely.

R46 Thank you for enlightening us, Ryan. You should ask Froy out on a date.

Matt Dallas is still hotter

Ryan was kind of a like a PG-rated version of the 80s gay porn twink Kurt Marshall. That's why the old queen who started this thread is obsessed.

Ryan's fans were little kids in the 80s, no idea who Kurt Marshall was.

R50 You really think older gays weren't watching Ryan's stuff in the 90s and 2000s? He was in mainstream stuff. DL has threads on young twinks like Jack Dylan Grazer, Shawn Mendes, Froy Guttierez and Timothee Chalamet and I'm pretty sure it's not made up of just women and young gays.

Ryan's fans are mostly younger Xers and older Millennials. Believe me, people my parents' age had no idea who the fuck he was back in the day.

Most of his income from escorting is likely from Boomer and Xer gays who have money.

Ryan is a fuck-up though. He could have had a better career but he turned down a lot of roles and now he does direct-to-streaming movies and some TV work. He knocked up Reese and married her and his infidelity became known and resulted in their divorce. His personality is acting like a cocky str8 teenage boy. He has abuse allegations by one ex. One of his kids doesn't even talk to him anymore. He has another kid he doesn't seem to have a relationship with. He is now just a Instahoe who makes money off of selling nudes. I mean if that's your thing, go for it. I agree that he was a beautiful man when young though now he looks his age which is catching up to him. His Instagram shows plastic surgery and overuse of photoshop and filters. I doubt he looks like that in real life.

He looks pretty much the same as he always has, maybe a little subtle eye work which most people in LA get. He is not "selling nudes." JFC you don't think that wouldn't be known?

His nudes leaked. He sends them out to girls, boys or sugar daddies.

R55 Stop simping for him. He doesn't a give a damn about you and probably mocks you for being such a simp. Since he's a cocky str8 frat boy.

r57 I'm not the one who posted bullshit. He has nudes, who doesn't? You send them out to people you're fucking or want to fuck. Doesn't mean you're a whore. What are you, 105 years old?

[QUOTE] Ryan was kind of a like a PG-rated version of the 80s gay porn twink Kurt Marshall. That's why the old queen who started this thread is obsessed.

I’m 32.

Ryan wasn't THAT dreamy. He looked cheap and still does. Pretty boy sure. But trash.

We don't need another. He still looks stunning! Face body and cock. Yes those leaks were real.

OP: It ain't easy to find an actor who can't act that much. Even in Hollywood.

R60 = Freddie Prinze Jr.

I don't know what gay face is :( I know he's gay. Reese is gay and so is her daughter. He's the most intense actor I can think of. Even more intense then Steve mcQUEEN.

Ryan and Reese are both smart and charismatic. I don't know how they got along because both seem A type personality

I’m actually watching Cruel Intentions right now. Ryan Phillippe looks anemic. And he has that Justin Timberlake pubic-hair-on-the-head thing going on. Not attractive.

[quote] I don't know how they got along because both seem A type personality

He seems decidedly non-type A.

[quote] Ryan Phillippe looks anemic. And he has that Justin Timberlake pubic-hair-on-the-head thing going on. Not attractive.

Lemme guess - you've seen hotter guys on the streets of Hell's Kitchen and Weho.

R67 he's so angry and intense. Maybe I'm wrong. His career certainly was not the career of an ambitious person. Love being contradicted.

[quote] he's so angry and intense.

On screen he presents the anger of a teapot about to boil over but that dissipates when the pressure is relieved. In real life he seems to have negative energy brought on by weed and not having to work.

You mean why can't Hollywood find another tall, blond Adonis like Tab Hunter? Because Tab broke the mold.

Ryan posted a clip of himself swimming naked on his IG Stories yesterday:

swimming pool of water yet this middle aged thot is THIRSTY.

Actors with noses like him are told to get nose jobs now.

An ass like his just doesn't come around that often.

We’re still waiting.

Amen and hallelujah, OP. I love Ryan back then and I think he's gorgeous today. He just opened up a restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Hideaway, which is kind sexy and fun. Who would have ever thought his cock would better than I could have dreamed. That cemented my love. I'm sure he made out well from Reeses and I love the idea of a man getting paid off to have fun while the wife has to be the bread winner.

He was the most beautiful thing back then.

That's my Dad!

The three Irishman were just as gorgeous: Colin Farrell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jamie Dornan. And then the Latins, too. Gael Garcia Bernal, etc. Shame about Rhys Meyers.

10 years younger than Ryan, Louis Garrel is gorgeous, though a completely different type.

[QUOTE] Louis Garrel

🤢

Colin was better looking all along. Aging better now. Better actor, more personality, kinder person, and equally hot and big dick.

r81 none of them were as gorgeous as Ryan.

He was and still is delicious.

Jude Law. Much better looking. Better actor. Aging better.

OP has a preference for pulpy trash.

Jude Law? Are you a frau, R87?

Ryan is still hot AF at nearly 50. DL has talked about him being a drunk/druggie but I don't see how he could look as good as he does at his age if he was a regular user. Maybe he indulges occasionally, but with a face and body like that he couldn't be a full-time user.

There is no way he would look that good if he was an alcoholic or drug addict. Staying away from those things (and food of course) is the key to looking great forever.

Ryan's face work has him on a fast track to look like a rich lesbian. You're blind, OP.

Is he biracial?

Yes, R95. He’s white and Italian.

Meanwhile, Farrell looked like a handsome mature man at the Oscars this year. Ryan at the Oscars? Didn't think so. Can't act his way out of a Fleshlite tube.

Did we discuss how Ryan beats up his girlfriends? That should be a fun discussion. You start, OP.

I've never heard that.

r94 he still looks like himself. He's certainly had some fillers, but they all do that.

r98 that girl was a psycho stalker and basically broke into Ryan's house. He physically threw her out, he didn't beat her.

r97 why are you comparing Ryan and Colin Farrell? They have nothing in common, are two totally different types.

Ethnicity: English, smaller amount of German [including Alsatian German], distant Scottish and Swiss-German

Jesus, RyGod is gorgeous in R102’s pic.

A bonus that he has a beautiful cock as well. Glad we could see it.

I mentioned several handsome guys who are not Ryan's type, but equally handsome. Other people have also done so.

The issue is you have low visual intelligence and a puerile fetishism about "type" and the one you prefer. So you are unable to compare apples and oranges on fruit quality and tastiness, even though they aren't the same fruit.

You're very simple.

r105 this thread is about Ryan's beauty, not your personal fetishes. TIA!

r105 take your boner for Colin Farrell to another thread.

R90 Don't listen to him - he still wears me out most of the time!

Are you 14 years old? A big fat 14 year old girl in LURV with Ryan?

Because your thread is titled:

Why Can’t Hollywood Find Another Ryan Phillippe?

So people are giving you examples of others.

And all you can manage is a hissy stampy fete put down of every good nomination of peers.

r109 "Why Can’t Hollywood Find Another Ryan Phillippe?" means current twentysomething actors, i.e. "who is the modern day version of a young Ryan?" You've been listing Ryan's contemporaries.

And you are a miserable, sour, cunty, failed conversationalist. Bye.

R110 gets it.

He's a parking valet somewhere in LA right now.

[quote]"Why Can’t Hollywood Find Another Ryan Phillippe?" means current twentysomething actors

Or younger. Ryan started as Billy Douglas on One Life to Live when he was 17.

I beat off SO MANY TIMES to that shot of his bare ass in Cruel Intentions.

And Sean Patrick Thomas in his underwear.

And Eric Mabius and Josh Jackson in their underwear.

What do all the teenage girls watch nowadays? Euphoria? Who is the hot guy on that? Jacob Elordi. He's pretty handsome.

I jerk off to Ryan.

We’ve all jerked off to Ryan.

I jerk off to Ryan.

Does anyone know where to find the jack off video? All I've seen are screenshots.

R120, see R311 of the below-linked thread:

[quote]Why Can’t Hollywood Find Another Ryan Phillippe?

Because current, woke Hollywood doesn't value beauty.

In fact, they have disdain for it.

Wokesters are all about promoting ugly/obese/average Joes.

One thing I'll say for social media, at least it gives the real beauties of the world a platform.

So many Instagram/TikTok/Onlyfans models are much better looking then many of the Hollywood stars today.

And a lot of them are blonde/blue-eyed, so I don't know why that poster upthread said that blondes are no longer fashionable.

Just because woke Hollywood has become anti-blonde (deblonding Aquaman, He-Man, Supergirl,) does not mean the rest of the US or the world is the same.

Ryan is hot and looked angelic when young but is boring, has a horrible speaking voice for acting and can't act. He doesn't appeal to the masses. It takes way more to be a star than looking hot

Also OP, it's not Hollywood's responsibility to find someone who didn't make any money in the box office to begin with. Straight men don't give a shit about pretty boy himbo no-talents and women don't even really care for that type as they mainly follow actresses. They'll find a new The Rock, Leonardo DiCaprio or Jim Carrey leading man because those people made money in the box office. Men's looks are not the big draw for moviegoers. And also, why are being so dismissive and condescending to other posters who are posting beautiful men like Colin Farrell and Louis Garrel? In my opinion those guys are way hotter and they have personality and charisma something Ryan lacks.

R122 What are you rambling on about? Bring your nonsense to those incel threads. Nobody gives a crap about male influencers except gays and teenage girls. And Hollywood cares about money and that was always more important in a capitalist industry. Men are not judged by their looks in Hollywood but how well they can entertain. That's why Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne were big stars.

R117 17? Eh.

I didn't know we were looking.

Deacon just had an album release party. Ryan and Reese were both there, with the daughter.

R127 Look at my boy - he's all grown up!

RyGod & Reese reunite for Deac’s album release party

Still waiting for another Ryan.

OP, ho please.

Ryan is still fucking hot. A gay 11 year old me used to love watching 54 - my parents were oblivious as to what films I was renting, just for his nude scenes. Yummy.

They’re coming out with a Cruel Intentions TV show. Maybe whoever plays the Sebastian character will be as hot as RyGod.

R132 I know just what you mean!

[QUOTE] Ryan is still fucking hot. A gay 11 year old me used to love watching 54 - my parents were oblivious as to what films I was renting, just for his nude scenes. Yummy.

Ryan made me and a lot of other guys realize we were gay.

Lmao another of him? He was a bad actor and barely A List.

Paul Walker is finer and sexier than Ryan P. has ever been. Unfortunately he died a few years ago.

[quote] Paul Walker is finer and sexier than Ryan P. has ever been.

Not anymore.

A few years? November makes 10 years since Walker died

They can't find another Ryan P because of the need for waiters.

Isn’t he around 5’6”?

He’s 5’11, R141.

5'9", but he's tall where it counts.

They're all working for Helix Studios

There’s something to the notion that blonds aren’t fashionable, though many are actually fashionable as instagram stars, like Jack Wright or people like that. Sam Dezz(ani), etc. When Ryan Phillippe was a movie star (for half a minute) I thought he was almost too cupid-like and nubile-looking. I don’t think he took. Off with straight men, I think they thought he was too pretty.

[Quote] Because Hollywood wasn't looking for another mediocre actor who never became a box office draw.

but somehow they got 2 other Ryans who have so-so looks and talent

Brandon Flynn looked good in the new Hellraiser movie. He seemed like he could’ve made for a good Ryan replacement.

Look at this poor excuse for a new Ryan in the Cruel Intentions series.

Watching I Know What You Did Last Summer on Netflix just so I can see Ryan. 🫠

There’s a lot of hype about actors and actresses but he was TRULY beautiful when he was younger. I didn’t even follow pop culture at that time in my life but even I noticed how gorgeous he was.

Straight male studio heads are intimidated by pretty guys. They’d rather cast guys with faces like the stone heads of Easter Island.

Why can’t Ryan Philippe find acting.

They found Adam Driver.

I’m assuming R153 was in response to R151.

I made the R2 post.

R145 At his peak, he was in eye candy movies. “Little Boy Blue”, “I Know What You Did Last Summer”, “Studio 54”, and “Cruel Intentions” were eye candy films predominantly for teenagers.

They would always play those movies on premium channels like Cinemax or HBO before the soft core porn movies began.

I think there were different strategies pre-internet and the early internet era.

It’s like the “Queer As Folk” reboot failed because the original series was really just soft core porn dressed up before porn became more accessible online.

Pausing and jerking off to movies or sex scenes was a norm in the 80e and 90s.

I think Ryan’s look catered to this. He was pretty and sexy and he was cast in very shallow movies that catered to this.

By the time someone like Alex Pettyfer came along, movies had to be made with more “substance” and message.

Hollywood eased up on sexual exploitation but TV has turned it up which again, makes sense to me as I was saying about the 90s. Like those Ryan Murphy shows are nothing but taking pretty guys and putting them in sexual situations to exploit and he dresses it up as something.

He is a self aware bad actor which is the worst kind. Ben Affleck and Keeanu Reeves are not great actors but you aren’t reminded that they’re acting throughout the entire film or show. Self aware actors are not inherently bad actors, just most don’t know how to channel it.

[quote]Ryan's look does not appeal to straight men at all. He leans too heavy on the feminine angelic side (big lips, big blue eyes, wide nose, milky skin, blonde curls) and has a gay voice.

I never thought Ryan had "gay voice." On the contrary, I've always felt his voice sounds unnaturally deep in a very affected way, and maybe he worked hard to develop that kind of voice so he wouldn't be thought of as gay.

Alex Pettyfer gained a bad reputation on set but is actually quite talented. Don’t ever compare him to Ryan. The only comparison is that they are both highly highly good looking, naturally, without plastic surgery or some overly manicured body & face. They are just naturally fucking pretty and not fem looking but just beautiful people.

R156 I never thought he was a bad actor because I thought he always served his purpose in the movies I saw him in.

The tragedy was the 90s was still too uptight for homosexuality in mainstream movies and “Studio 54” suffered.

And then if they remade “Studio 54” today they’d cast some young ugly ass brunette rodent actor to get naked and do the gay sex scenes that should have happened in the original!

[quote] some young ugly ass brunette rodent actor

Hmmm. I wonder who you have in mind.

I had to rewind Ryan’s IKWYDLS locker room scene three times. The director let that camera eat him up. Had Ryan in the shower, Ryan walking around with just a towel. The director sure took his time filming that part.

Absolutely, R161. And then, of course, there was the spectacular butt shot in CRUEL INTENTIONS.

Believe it or not, I don't remember, was there also a butt shot in the shower scene in IKWYDLN?

No, unfortunately, R162. You can see the cheeks under the towel but that’s about it.