Good Morning, World

Sometimes I feel like I'm stretching the boundaires of what a "Good Morning, World" post is supposed to be -- it's supposed to be, in a perfect world, a photograph of an attractive actor doing something morning related, like waking up in bed, showering, or standing around in a bathrobe and boxer shorts with milk and cereal. But not today! No stretching for Fabien Frankel today! (Don't say it, don't say it...) The dreamy House of the Dragon and Task actor (who's been on our radaer ince The Serpent way back) gave us an ideal "Good Morning" post today with his new photoshoot for The Gentlemen's Journal. You can read his interview over here. And then you can hit the jump for the photos...

Good Morning, World

I did start watching the HBO series Task before I got swallowed up by NYFF duties but it's fallen by the wayside for the past few weeks -- that doesn't mean all of my Spidey-senses didn't start a'tingling once our dear House of the Dragon hunk Fabien Frankel was seen to take his top off however (thx Mac). Swoon! Nobody spoil anything for me please but if you'd like to tell me generally if the show is worth picking back up once I'm not so busy again I'd like to hear it. I wasn't sold on the first couple of episodes save Fabien and Mark Ruffalo looking like adorable little fur-baby brothers that had me screaming "Make out!" every time they shared the screen. 

Fabien Frankel Nine Times

I was wondering when the magazine industrial complex was going to catch up with House of the Dragon's Fabien Frankel -- proper exploitative photoshoots of this man have been hard to come by as of yet, but finally somebody (The Glass magazine specifically) bit! When I posted that hot pair of photos of Fabien yesterday I actually already knew this shoot also existed but held off posting it so we didn't O.D. on his hotness. (Indeed even as I do post these I know of another even newer shoot -- perhaps we'll post new Fabien every day this week!) Anyway I think we've recovered enough from yesterday that we can handle these sexy snaps. Take a few deep breaths and hit the jump for them all...

Good Morning, World

These two photos of House of the Dragon hottie Fabien Frankel feel appropriate to this Monday morning because 1) last night's episode of that show was pretty major and I am still in emotional recovery this morning from it, and 2) it is disgusting July hot right now and the red of these photos is very much my mood after my sweaty rancid commute this morning. I am this same color! God I hate Summer so much. The fact that I was born right in the middle of it (my birthday's in a week, wink wink) has always seemed like the cruelest of jokes. Devil season!

Good Morning, World

Whoops I am being lazy again! Yesterday I shared two photos of House of Dragon actor Fabien Frankel with you from Man About Town magazine because they were the first images I saw online that morning and they seemed plenty. Well today I am sharing one additional yet single and solitary photo of Fabien from the exact same photo-shoot, and I didn't even see this one this morning -- I saw it last night and I decided you know what? Good enough. And it is! Good enough! I mean look at them legs. Just begging to be tossed over one's shoulders...

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?

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.

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