Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Good Morning, Gratuitous Callum Turner II


It's usually a pretty good sign that I should post about somebody if that somebody's name shows up in more than one totally-unconnected place in a twenty-four hour span, and yesterday actor Callum Turner's name showed up in two places within about a half-an-hour span -- no needs to bait me so hard, Callum! (Wait, what am I saying?) First instance: I read this new interview with Cary Fukunaga & Edgar Wright in Interview Magazine and Fukunaga mentioned he's been hard at work on a new project, so I googled -- the new project is a fictionalized WWII miniseries called Masters of the Air whose cast is chockablock with pasty pretty boys like Callum and Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan (okay I might be the only person who calls Keoghan a "pretty boy" but I stand by that) and so on. This movie's been shooting for awhile now -- here is a photo that Fukunaga took of Callum and co-star Fionn O'Shea:

(Sometimes I wonder about Cary, y'all...) And the second instance was the news that Callum has been cast in the leading role in George Clooney's new movie (speaking of "straight" men I wonder about), which is a 1930s Olympian rower flick (mmhmm see what I mean) called The Boys in the Boat... now I personally think Clooney's a pretty lousy director. But if you saw his Catch-22 miniseries (the best thing Clooney's done, by the way) starring Christopher Abbott and Rafi Gavron and Austin Stowell and a parade of hot young fellas parading about in the tiniest shorts you ever done seen, well, then Clooney turning his "straight eye" on the Olympian rowing team of 1936, pictured here...

... well who cares if it's any good? It will be watchable whatever happens quality-wise, the same way that White Squall remains watchable all these many years on. Anyway these seem like big "gets" for Callum, who's been nipping on the edges of stardom for several years now -- I posted this site's first "Gratuitous Callum Turner" post in 2018 (right here) and since then he's hopped into the Fantastic Beasts cast and co-starred in the most recent Emma movie. Maybe 2022 will be his year. His whole look, which I would call Josh O'Connor adjacent, is fairly popular right now. (I mean it's always been popular with me but pop culture seems to be digging it, I mean.) So let's look! Hit the jump for a couple dozen photos I've never posted before (and a few I have)...  

























Okay and here below are some bonus treats -- I'd included the below gifs in my first post on Callum but Google got angry at me because of the nudity and in a moment of weakness I took them down... and I have regretted it every day since! So let's try posting them again and let's just see what happens, as they're so worth it...







3 comments:

Lee4rdg said...

Oh my! He’s a big boy…

George G said...

"Josh O'Connor adjacent" indeed, down to the full frontal predilections!

Anonymous said...

About those rowers, third from the right? Surly not.