RIP Godfrey Gao

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I was shocked last night to read that the Taiwanese-born and Canadian-bred model turned actor Godfrey Gao, only thirty-five years young, had died -- he's been one of our favorite posting subjects all this decade, even though we never got to see any of his actual acting. His only real role over here was in the Mortal Instruments movie -- otherwise he mostly worked in China, because our movie-makers are fools who've only recently realized that Asian Men can be Leading Men. I had been hoping that this turning point post Crazy Rich Asians might mean work over here for Godfrey specifically,  since he's one of the most beautiful humans I've ever seen -- he made beautiful Henry Golding look like a puddle of puke! -- but obviously that's not to be. Our thoughts are with the people he knew in the real world today, and feel free to click back through our archives for a ton and I do mean a ton of photos.

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... exploring the depths with Godfrey Gao. 

Godfrey does not post shirtless selfies nearly as 

often as someone who looks like Godfrey should

so this here is a righteous treat, y'all. (via)

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Good Morning, Godfrey Gao

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I've been really wanting to do some staring at our old pal Godfrey Gao (I highly recommend clicking thru his archives) lately but I haven't been able to find an excuse... so I went looking for one and I found the video at this link which I don't believe I recall ever posting before, so there, excuse. Oh and then...

... I found another video, hooray. Funny how these things sort themselves out when you force them to. Hit the jump for a little "Good Morning" ballad of gifs from these two videos...

Godfrey Gao Sixteen Times

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It's been awhile since we checked in on the Taiwainese-Canadian beauty Godfrey Gao, whose only real credit here in the US was the movie adaptation of the Mortal Instruments book series that didn't end up doing too well - still we'll always hold it dear for bringing Godfrey into our lives. Click through our archives to see more of him. He personally shared two recent foreign magazine photo-shoots on his Instagram; you can hit the jump for all the pics...

Godfrey Gao Eleven Times

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Catching up with some recent photo-shoots of the gorgeous Mr. Gao (via) -- you can of course see many many many previously posted pictures of his gorgeousness in our archives. But for now let's all just hit the jump and take in this most recent batch....

Godfrey Gao Seven Times

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Hey Hollywood! You seein' this?

Can you get on this? (Lots more of this right here)

Please and thank you. Hit the jump for five more...

Godfrey Gao One Time

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The gorgeous Mr. Gao is rocking some serious beard these days, and I am digging it. He is turning 31 today as well - happy birthday, beautiful! See loads more of him right here.

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Godfrey Gao Three Times

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(via, thanks Mac)

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Good Morning, Kevin Zegers

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A happy 30th to Kevin Zegers today - it's a shame he hasn't really found that role after Transamerica, he was very good in that, I thought. I blame whomever's idea it was for him and gratuitous god Godfrey Gao to  play boyfriends in those City of Bones movies and never give them a love scene. 

Anyway as far as actors on Instagram go Kevin keeps a fairly respectable one, light on the "Me! Me! Me!" ness that plagues his peers (which we exploit with glee, natch) - it seems like he's got a solid and happy personal life; this being somebody who started acting at the age of 8, this is cause to celebrate. But then we wouldn't be writing this post if we didn't find some stuff to show off, so hit the jump for a few shots (with a bonus extra gif from Transamerica worth a good hard glance or three)...

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... quenching my thirst with Godfrey Gao.

That's from a Chinese web-series called Never Give Up Dodo, which you can see the first episode of right here. I swear, Tumblr is the biggest time-suck ever created. Oh... suck.

As happens every time I get pulled into a Gao-spiral (see here and see here) I gathered up a bunch of pics - hit the jump for it...

Kevin Zegers Five Times

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(click to embiggen) Why do they release things like this over the weekend? Maybe if Flaunt had dropped these pictures during the week last week his new movie wouldn't have been such a flop. Alright it still would have, The Mortal Instruments looked awful from every angle... save the Kevin Zegers is boyfriends with gorgeous Godfrey Gao one. They really should've pushed that harder. I could barely even find pictures of them together. They needed to show much more of this:

I Am Link

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--- In The Navy - Did I know that there was an Navy SEAL movie starring Mark Wahlberg, Eric Bana, Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch and Taylor Kitsch coming out? I I feel like I would remember that. Here's the trailer and some pics for Lone Survivor, a title which makes me worry for everyone not named Mark Wahlberg.

--- Rim Again - While it's best to remain cautious, Deadline's saying that the good box office showing for Pacific Rim in China - it's WB's best opening there ever - could mean good things for a sequel. The movie still has a long ways to go to get into the black though, so let's not go nuts. Still I loved the movie and would love a sequel, so my insides are begging for this. And hey, maybe they'll get Charlie Hunnam (or Idris, dare I dream) pants-less next time.

--- Bad BO - Speaking of flops heard round the world, over at The Film Experience Michael C is taking a look at this Summer's hot topic - is the Summer Blockbuster dying? Massively budgeted crap like RIPD is crashing and burning while smaller-priced fare like The Conjuring soars... what does it mean? And will someone explain to me why I didn't like The Conjuring? I'm still kind of perplexed about it, given everybody else's positive reaction.

--- Gangster Swap - As I mentioned yesterday I just watched some of Brian DePalma's Scarface the day before, so this strikes me as some strange coincidence, the word that Harry Potter director David Yates is thinking about remaking it. Yates was (or is) supposed to make a movie with Tom Hardy about Al Capone, but that's been in limbo for a bit, so maybe he'll do this instead? I was gonna say Tom could play the lead but Pacino was egregious enough of a race-wrong face for the role.

--- Hump Tales - This is the sort of news that gets a raised eyebrow - Chinese director Zhang Yimou, he of Raise the Red Lantern and Hero and so on - is maybe going to replace Tim Burton as the director of an English-language Hunchback of Notre Dame movie (possibly titled Quasimodo) starring Josh Brolin. I don't know what to even say about that.

--- Mortal Siggy - Even though the first one hasn't come out yet (and to these eyes, save some possible Kevin Zegers on multiple-gratuity-recipient Godfrey Gao - see here and here - action, looks terrible) the studio's thinking aloud that they're considering Sigourney Weaver for a big part in the second Mortal Instruments movie. Apparently she'd be the big bad leader of the big bads, or whatever. I'm always willing to watch Siggy slum, although I wish she'd make something great again.

--- Woman From UNCLE - Elizabeth Debicki, who certainly was fine in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby as golf-pro slash vapid gossip Jordan Baker, is taking the female lead in The Man From UNCLE movie opposite Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. I like her but I was really hoping there was no "female lead" and this movie would be nothing but sex-eyes between those two. Sigh.

--- Buffy Lives - Raise the banner, Sarah Michelle Gellar has spoken and said she would make a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie if "the story was right." Yeah yeah this will never happen. But hey, I thought that about a Veronica Mars movie once upon a time, too.

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Gratuitous Godfrey Gao II

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In "Dear lord what a dangerously dumb oversight on my part" news, I allowed nine months to pass since my last gargantuan gratuitous post for actor (and male model, natch) Godfrey Gao, and in the time since he has had approximately twelve hundred billion hot photographs of himself taken. Approximately. And not just photographs! Take a gander at this jeans commercial...
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I know it is hot outside, but it is getting hot in here, am I right or am I right? He's so sickeningly pretty I want to slap him silly. (Whether it's my hands that I'm slapping him with I'll leave up to you.)

Anyway even if I allowed too much time to pass this post here is timely, since I've been seeing the commercials for that Mortal Instruments movie all over the place, which will be his introduction to American audiences when it comes out in August. And playing gay no less. And playing gay with Kevin Zegers no less.

From what I hear the two of their characters are side-characters and so we probably won't get a lapse in the action where they go at it for ten minutes, unfortunately. But that's the movie I'll be watching in my mind the whole time! (And we will see him in his underwear, we already know.)

So like I said we've got a ton of pics to share, about seventy more actually - you know the drill - hit the jump and wade in deep, y'all.

Gratuitous Godfrey Gao

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I was all set to wish Kevin Zegers a happy 28th birthday but whilst looking for a decent picture of him on Tumblr I stumbled upon some worthwhile information. I already knew that he's playing gay in the movie adaptation of the popular YA series The Mortal Instruments - what I didn't know is there's another gay around and he'll be played by this here horribly attractive fellow named Godfrey Gao. 

I dunno what age these books aim towards but according to Gao's character's wiki there's flirting and kissing involved between Zegers' character and Gao's in the first book... so you know, bring that shit on. Neither of them are the main character though, so who knows how much play they'll get.

Anyway as these pictures make clear, Gao was a model before making this stab at an acting career, and no doubt he'll always have work at that at least. Obviously. Hit the jump for lots and lotsa (to the tune of 45 more pictures) proof!