Tahar Rahim Eleven Times

What's that you say? A new photoshoot of Tahar Rahim looking exxxtremely fine for something called L’Équipe magazine? (via) Yeah we'll bite. Or rather -- since Google Translate tells me that "L’Équipe" means "The Team" in French I guess I'll take one for The Team. From The Team. If The Team is Tahar Rahim. I will take one, several, from Tahar. 

Anyway we're extremely excited that Tahar is in Alpha, the new movie from Raw and Titane director Julia Decourneau -- I don't care that the reviews were mixed out of Cannes! I will make up my own damned mind thank you very much. Tahar's already got us halfway to heaven, as is. Hit the jump for the entire shoot...

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Tahar Rahim is So Alpha

This week has been wild with excellent movie news and today's getting off to another excellent start with the word that Raw and Titane director Julia Ducournau has lined up her next movie and it will star our boyfriend Tahar Rahim! It's to be called Alpha and it's described as the director's "most personal, profound work yet" but that's it, that's all they're giving us. Oh and it will co-star actress Golshifteh Farahani, who was in Jim Jarmusch's Paterson with Adam Driver and the Extraction movies with Chris Hemsworth and most importantly of all she was in Asghar Farhadi's fantastic 2009 film About Elly -- if you've never seen that one seek it out immediately. Farahani and Rahim have that in common -- he starred in Farhadi's film The Past, which was also wonderful. If you're gonna cast your movie casting it with Farhadi alumni ain't a bad way to go!

Good Morning, I Quit Smoking 15 Years Ago Today

Well it's that time again -- every May 5th I celebrate two personal things (and no neither of them are Cinco de Mayo, but if you celebrate that a happy one to you). One -- it's my anniversary with my boyfriend. And two -- I quit smoking cigarettes on this day in the year 2008, and I have been doing this post here on this website for fifteen straight years ever since. All year long I set aside a folder of images I stumble upon of our favorite sexy actors smoking...

... be it in film, photoshoot, or personal life. I might be happy I quit, and I don't encourage any of you to pick up the habit... but gosh if it can't be sexy to look at all the same. I don't make the rules! Some things are just the way they are. So this morning let's hit the jump and roll around like animals in filth in the hot bad habit of it all...

Good Morning, World

As I said the last time I posted a couple of photos of House of the Dragon actor Fabien Frankel back in September, I feel some ownership over Fabien's lil' breakout (to be, at this early point still) since I knew the second I laid eyes on him opposite Tahar Rahim in The Serpent that he could be going places. The two of them oozed so much homoerotic chemistry how could I not sit up and take notice? Anyway this new shoot is for Man About Town magazine (via) and there will probably be more to come but I'm being a little lazy this morning, posting the first photos I saw. But they're good and worth posting, wouldn't you say?

Tahar Rahim Two Times

Ohhh that beard is looking good. (via) 

Fabien Frankel Two Times

Can I call it or can I call it? The second I saw Fabien Frankel here standing opposite Tahar Rahim in just their briefs on the Netflix serial killer series The Serpent I knew I'd spotted a star, and here he is covering Wonderland magazine a mere year later thanks to his big role in the Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon. You can see the cover image over here where I swiped these from -- are we all watching HOTD? I think it actually hooked me last week and then this week's episode was another good one. Anyway I do hope we get more photos from this shoot but let's just enjoy these two for now.

Today's Mood

Same, Tahar Rahim, same. At about four this afternoon my brain just trailed off and it ain't never done come back. Oh well! In the legendary, iconic words of Miss Nomi Malone, "Shit happens." I got what I needed to get done today done before that, so I'm 100% free, I give myself permission, to go stare at butts and other gay ass stuff now. So that's what I am gonna do dammit! Bye until tomorrow....

Hey remember when this happened pic.twitter.com/yOnWl7J1o9

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 3, 2022

Good Morning, World

It was Tahar Rahim's birthday yesterday -- he turned 41 -- and we'd hate ourselves if we didn't wish him a happy belated. Just hate ourselves! Thankfully we've got a couple of new photos of the actor from photographer Pierre Arnaud to share. There's also news I don't think I have mentioned -- last month he joined the cast of Madame Web, Sony's Spider-verse movie (a la Venom) that has our beloved Dakota Johnson in the lead. Am I worried about this movie about a clairvoyant mutant being a weird mess? Of course I am. Sony hasn't shown much skill at all in figuring out their superhero thing yet. But with Dakota and Tahar (not to mention Sydney Sweeney and Emma Roberts!) I'll be there, watching what they come up with. I did it all for you, Tahar! Hit the jump for two more photos...

 

I Quit Smoking Fourteen Years Ago Today

Cue up your best cancer cough and prepare for imminent arousal, as it's our favorite smoke-tastic time of year again -- May 5th, when I annually celebrate the day I stopped smoking cigarettes with a massive collection of photographs of celebrity actor people posing with butts in hand. The smoking kind of butts! Not the other kind -- after all we post the other kind of butts being handled 364 days a year. Today's for the simple smoking sort.

Anyway it's kinda nuts I've been doing these posts for fourteen (!!!!) full years now (click here for the entire archive) and I still haven't come anywhere near to running out of photographs -- I do keep a folder of these all year long to build up to the moment, but still, this is the easiest job I assign myself. And that's probably why I've managed to keep it up! 

But disastrously deadly health side-effects aside nobody's stopped taking these photos in the slightest. And there's something kind of horribly reassuring about that to me? Don't get me incorrect, I am incredibly glad I qui, and I don't recommend anybody start and/or continue smoking... but it remains the second sexiest damn thing I can see beautiful men doing. I'm sorry! It just is and does and I have the proof of it! Now hit the jump for dozens...

Good Afternoon, Gratuitous Tahar Rahim

While I am not 100% sold on the top news here I am 100% sold on the top Tahar Rahim of it, not to mention the excuse it gives me to post a big batch of pictures of him for the first time in several months, so let's do it. Tahar has just been added to the cast of Ridley Scott's next movie Napoleon, which is about Napoleon. Tahar is not playing Napoleon, which is good, because he would pretty obviously be terrible casting for Napoleon himself. No Joaquin Phoenix is playing the diminutive conqueror, and Vanessa Kirby his Josephine -- Tahar is set to play "Paul Barras, the powerful Commissioner of the Revolutionary Army." Oh sure, him. That Paul Barras.

Anyway as I just recently bitched on Twitter I'm personally of the mind that Ridley Scott hasn't made a great movie in thirty years (since Thelma and Louise, if you're doing the math), and that there have only been sporadic bouts of quality in all that time since -- I think Prometheus and The Counselor are pretty fun, if too messy by ten. And in this here year 2022 I'm especially soured towards Ridley since I think both House of Gucci and The Last Duel are total and absolute garbage fires -- indeed as bad as Gucci is at least it knows it's trash (even if it's too boring to truly ever achieve actual lasting camp fun), but we've got serious minded people out here pretending The Last Duel isn't just the dumbest fucking amateur-hour thing, which has made that particular movie especially ireful to me. Oooh Sir Ridley tell me more about how "Rape is Bad" -- cutting edge thinking there, my dude.

So mostly I'm of the mindset that Ridley should just retire and spare us -- I am tired, good sir, and would like to be able to look at my Alien and Blade Runner blu-rays without wincing. I can already picture this bloated Napoleon movie in my head too, just some water-logged Kingdom of Heaven blathering that I do not have enough life left to sit through. And yet! I love Tahar. I mean... I really love Tahar. And I am also generally pro-Joaquin and pro-Kirby, as well -- it's not like Scott can't cast great actors. He gets them, he gets them all together, and then... nothing. Anyway I'll just shut the hell up now and go sulk quietly to myself about how I'm going to be forced to see this movie -- I got my day's budget of vitriol out into the world. I'm good. Now for the positive. Hit the jump for a heap more Tahar pictures...

Tahar Rahim Five Times

Alrighty I've unfortunately got some off-line work that's got to be done this afternoon, so I'm off probably for the remainder of the day -- I will leave you with this new photoshoot of Tahar Rahim for L'Officiel Paris magazine though (via), so all's not for naught. Have a nice rest of your Hump Day while you hit the jump for the rest...

I Am Link

I haven't done a link round-up like this for ages! They always end up taking way more energy than they ought to -- I mean the whole idea is to present news in bite-sized portions, but I can never keep myself from rambling. You know me. But also I don't know if, due to the pandemic, we've had a period quite so thick with movie news as  the last several days has been -- aww, nature is healing! (Wear a mask.) Let's get to it.

-- Two Big Ds -- The actor who calls himself Brad Pitt has just joined the cast of Lost City of D, which already has Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum attached. I thought I'd posted about this movie when it was first announced but the archives say no -- anyway it sounds like a broad re-do of Romancing the Stone; Bullock is playing a romance novelist, Tatum is playing the Fabio-type model for her book covers, and the two of them get dragged into a romance and also a kidnapping adventure in the jungle while on one of her book tours. DH says Pitt's role is a cameo, one he did in exchange for Sandy doing a cameo in his forthcoming action-thriller Bullet Train. 

--- Take A Bite Outta -- Even though the news is only a couple of weeks old I'd already forgotten that Evan Peters was going to play Jeffrey Dahmer in an upcoming Ryan-Murphy-produced miniseries, so it's good to have this interview with him in Variety remind me. (thx Mac) He briefly talks about prepping for the part, alongside mostly speaking about his Kate Winslet detective series Mare of Easttown, which is out this weekend. I don't know where that series came from, it really snuck up on me. I only heard about it for the first time like a week ago and now it's here!

--- Leftover Man -- If that Justin Theroux shirtless cover-shoot for Esquire magazine that I shared yesterday wasn't enough for your Theroux-thirst then you can head over to Interview Magazine, where he's also chatted up alongside some fine beard photography -- he's got that Mosquito Coast TV program hitting on Apple soon (already?) and that's what all of the press is for. That said this chat is a good reminder that he is a naturally very funny individual, hotness aside. 

--- Real Thick And Juicy -- I am sure you've all been happily following along with all the talk of Chris Meloni's ass ever since he (and it) popped back up on SVU a couple of weeks ago, but if you missed it Meloni has been milking his ass for all it's worth (god, phrasing) -- EW rounded up some of the fun, bouncy chatter. Jump on it and bounce, baby! (thx Mac)

--- Bad Fish -- I've become sort of a stealth fan of the Danish actor Pilou Asbæk in a few things over the past several years -- Lucy, Ghost in the Shell (in which he had a Lot of Look, seen to the left), Overlord, and of course his welcomed snarky turn on Game of Thrones last few seasons, which really needed the snark, so I'm happy to hear he's just been cast in the Aquaman sequel in an unspecified role. It will probably be a villain, since he's European. This is known as the Mads Mikkelsen rule.  

--- And Finally I was happy to read yesterday that the actor Fabien Frankel had landed a big role in the Dorne-centered Game of Thrones spin-off prequel called House of the Dragon; as seen below Frankel really grabbed my attention opposite Tahar Rahim in the Netflix series The Serpent, which I've mentioned here on the site oh once or twenty times.

Also -- hello Fabien Frankel, please be in lots of things after this, Fabien Frankel pic.twitter.com/GQ5UXiJjzb

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 4, 2021

Tahar Take Away

How funny that the last post before the weekend one week ago was a Tahar Rahim post and it's happening again! Hysterical! The funniest thing to happen in ages!!! Okay maybe "funny" wasn't the right word but whatevs, you get my gist. Anyway I know a couple of you watched The Serpent on Netflix when it dropped last week because you said so, but maybe more of you have? I don't really have anything more to say on it but I'd love to hear if you do...

... but I am here because Interview Magazine has dropped this new photo-shoot today (thx Mac) along with a chat with one of my favorite living actresses, Miss Carey Mulligan. I've only skimmed the chat so far, I'll read it on my subway ride home in about ten minutes, but I did spend some time with each and every one of these new photos -- god I love his head. Is that a weird thing to say? He's just got a terrific shaped head. Face. Head. Face and head and all of it. Anyway get more Tahar head after the jump... 

And If You Need Another Reason...

... to watch The Serpent, now on Netflix, 

well there you go. You're welcome!

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Tahar Rahim Nine Times

I talked a lot about the show called The Serpent back in January when it was airing on the BBC, but as of today the show has dropped on Netflix here in the U.S. so it's up to y'all to go, watch it, and then report back if you thought I was right about it being terrific, or if I'm a dip-shit per usual. The show stars our boy Tahar Rahim here as the real-life 1970s tourist-murdering Charles Sobhraj, who lured hippie foreigners into his Nepalese hotel of sin and vice only to poison them for their passports and cash. It's fucked up!

But then Tahar Rahim, even under all that fake tanner he wears on the show, could lure and poison me any day so I get it. These photos are via Man About Town magazine, which has a nice little chat with the actor -- somehow these are from January and I didn't see them until today? I don't know. I was posting a lot of Tahar Rahim in January thanks to this show and I guess these ones just got lost in the shuffle. But now no longer! Hit the jump for the rest...

Tahar Rahim Two Times

All the usual suspects were looking good last night at the Globes -- in particular I thought Josh O'Connor (I've got a thread on him going here), Riz Ahmed, and our boy Tahar Rahim here. Did you have a favorite dressed fella at the Globes? Or thoughts on the ceremony? Share in the comments! I'm listening...

Good Morning, World

On second thought Good Morning Only

to these new photos of Tahar Rahim.

Click to embiggen and Hit the jump for more...

Tahar Rahim One Time

Much as I love Tahar I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch The Mauritanian -- the subject matter's been a hard hill to climb. Have any of you watched it yet? I'd love convincing! (via)

Tahar Rahim Seven Times

Huzzah Flaunt magazine has bestowed upon our weary heads a brand new Tahar Rahim photoshoot and interview this Friday afternoon -- it has been after all an entire week since the last one we posted, so we were hardcore jonesing. It's a good reminder I suppose that I should watch his Guantánamo drama The Mauritanian this weekend while I still have the time, pre-Sundance. I was hoping we'd have a date for when his other project The Serpent, the BBC drama about a real-life 70s serial killer that I've praised a couple of times, was going to drop onto Netflix here in the US, but they still haven't as far as I can tell announced that yet. I hope they do soon! I want to hear what y'all think. For now I suppose let's enjoy this lovely sweater-filled photo-shoot here, after the jump...