Which is Hotter?

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Last night came word that director David Lowery -- who made one of my favorite movies of the decade with A Ghost Story, although his remake of Pete's Dragon (which I still haven't seen) is probably more apt to the conversation at hand -- is going to tackle Disney's live-action Peter Pan movie, following in the footsteps of blah blah all of their other live-action remakes of their animated features which I have totally stopped watching at this point. But I might see this one? David Lowery is very talented, and Peter Pan exists as an idea outside of the Disney movie more than say The Lion King, which i think gives him more room to wiggle. They're also titling it Peter Pan and Wendy so I imagine they'll maybe recognize that Peter Pan is actually a girl's story this time out? Imagine that! Anyway I'll also probably watch it because Jude Law is probably going to play Captain Hook, and as Colin O'Donoghue attests I love me a Hot Hook. On that note I ask y'all...

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Good Morning, World

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I know in theory there is pleasure to be had from cornball comfort-food television but man alive, and I say this with all the love in the world for Dolly Parton in my heart, her Heartstrings program on Netflix nearly busted my saccharine-meter. Picture all those little smoking wheels and springs going "yoing yoing yoing" out of it like a cartoon clock on overdrive and that was me, with this show. Granted I only managed to watch one and a half episodes, including obviously the one that starred my beloved Colin O'Donoghue...

... as a pond-prone bad-boy cowpoke called "J.J. Sneed" after Dolly's 1970 song. Did anybody watch this episode, or any of Heartstrings? I know some of you people watched Heartstrings. I heard there's a gay episode -- should I watch it? Or should I just stick with staring at all of these gifs of my beloved Colin O'Donoghue giving us the rest of his PG-rated skinny-dip (also known as "his best on-screen shirtlessness to date" if you can believe it) after the jump...

Good Morning, World

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I could look this up but it's more fun to ask you people these dumb questions and see if anybody replies - is Once Upon a Time still on? I think it must be since IMDb lists Colin O'Donoghue here's time on the show as through 2018 and it's only just been 2018 for a couple of weeks, but who knows how such things work. It's a mystery. Anyway if OUAT is still on... what??? How??? What??? I mean I ought to be more generous, the show has employed everyone from Colin here...

... to Jamie Dornan to Eion Bailey to Julian Morris to Sebastian Stan... granted these are all somewhat interchangeable pretty young white men, but still, pretty young white men gotta eat too. But these gifs aren't from OUAT anyway - they're from an actual movie that Colin made called The Dust Storm in 2016, and I've somehow never posted them. It's Colin's 37th birthday today and we'll celebrate that by doing just that... not that this is enough, but we're used to that with him by now...

Irish Eyes Are Swooning

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A happy 36th birthday to the laddy O'Donoghue,
you pretty pretty man. (gif via)

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Colin O'Donoghue Checks His Balls

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And I think he's offering to check yours too?
Holly Jollies!
(It's for a Cancer Society in case
you couldn't work that out.)

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Top of the Good Morning To Ya

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Alright so Colin O'Donoghue swirling around in a kilt (via) doesn't technically have anything to do with morning-time, which is the purview of these "Good Morning" posts, but I'm distracted, waiting to buy tickets for the Scary Movies fest at FSLC which go on sale in a couple of minutes, so this will have to do. You've all been nagging at me about it anyway, so two birds and what not. If you ask me the video needed more of what Shirley MacLaine meant when she hollered, "It TWIRLED up."

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I Am Link

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--- Mad To Love - According to Rosie Huntington-Whitely (the fashion model that gets to molest Jason Statham in public places) Mad Max Fury Road director George Miller invited Vagina Monologues creator Eve Ensler to the set of that film to talk to all the pretty girls playing pretty girls in danger about making their characters come off as more than one-note victims. That sounds positive! Oh and here are a bunch of new clips from Max, which i won't be watching because I'm seriously just ready to be sitting in the theater already.

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--- See A Penny - Did you guys watch the first episode of Pretty Dreadful? Over at The Film Experience Nathaniel took a look at it along with a further assorted list of recent NSFW-ness in pop culture, some of which we'd already discussed here at this blog but all of which delighted me all the same. Back to Penny Dreadful though - Out magazine talked to Reeve Carney about being sexually adventurous and naked on the show, which is all of interest.

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--- Real Gold - The great Jacki Weaver will be romancing the great David Wenham in Goldstone, and as if that wasn't enough the movie will also co-star Ryan Kwanten. (thanks Glenn) That's a lotta Aussie hotness in one spot. I even like Jacki enough that it took me a whole minute or two to consider taking her out of the movie so it's a romance between Wenham and Kwanten, while usually that's the first thing I'd think.

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--- 44 Flop - I was really sad seeing this article at Deadline on what a massive flop Child 44 turned out to be - Child 44 is that movie starring Tom Hardy, Joel Kinnaman, Jason Clarke, and a bunch of uniforms and haircuts, amongst others. Sad because I wanted to see it and I like all those actors and don't want them to get blamed for it, and also - I literally had no idea it had come out? Am I part of the problem? (Don't answer that.)

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--- Love Interest - Once Upon a Time's lusty pirate Colin O'Donoghue and Outlander's buff (and oft butt naked) warrior Sam Heughan have taken to publicly romancing each other on Twitter - there was some sort of competition going on involving the two of them being up for TV's top leading man and the two of them seem pretty intent on, ahem, topping the other. Apparently whoever loses will dress up like the other one's character. The contest ended yesterday but I can't find who won. Colin in a kilt or Sam in leather pants? What say you?

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--- Putting The D In - Like the Mad Max clips posted above I'm not going to bother watching these clips from the upcoming comedy The D Train because I'm already sold on the movie - even if it is Jack Black that I'm going to have to deal with in such circumstances, "James Marsden having gay sex" is always a "yes" around these parts. Have you guys seen the TV commercials for this film though? I swear that they're ending them with the sound effect of James Marsden getting penetrated. I am not hallucinating. I would know that sound anywhere. Anyway moving on, in this interview Jack says that Jimmy smells like "ocean breeze" which seems about right.

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Good Morning, Colin

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We were wrong! We were wonderfully wrong! I love how many of you emailed or commented at me with the exact same thing - WE WERE SO WRONG - with the news that an earlier clip of Colin O'Donoghue with his shirt off has been unearthed. (Earlier than this music video his furry chest recently starred in, that is.) It's from the show The Clinic that he co-starred on around 2006-ish, and you can watch the entire video below. Thanks to this YouTube uploader, where you can see a ton of clips of Colin on the show!

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For All Colin O'Donoghue's 2000 Parts

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Well if I hadn't made my pledge to use up all of this week's "Good Morning, World" posts on the Best Actor nominees these pictures from behind-the-scenes of that shirtless music video Colin O'Donoghue starred in (finally breaking his shirtless cherry after a very long, some might say too long, build up) sure would've won today's top-o-the-mornin-to-ya honor. 

These are off the Facebook page of Christina Perri, the musician who finally gave Colin's chest hair the safe space it needed to breath, to run free and wild (and thanks to the anonymous commenter for the link), like chest hair's meant to do. Her efforts should not go unrewarded. Go buy her album! Maybe next time she can get him naked from the waist down! With that though dizzying your mind, hit the jump for a few more pictures here...

Colin O'Donoghue Has Taken The Plunge

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The shirtless plunge! 

Our prayers have finally been answered!

These are from the music video for Christina Perri's song "The Words" - I watched this video with the sound off because I'm at work but I already know that Christina Perri deserves all of the Grammys for this song - every single Grammy! All the Grammys from previous years too. She got Colin O'Donoghue shirtless, dammit!

And in a bathtub! Did I mention he takes a bath? And he carries an axe (earlier in the video, not into the bathtub, that would be weird) and he smells flowers and he tosses around in bed looking like this:

Today is a glorious, glorious day. (This previous picture was the closest Colin had gotten for a camera before, by the way.) Y'all need to thank MNPP-reader Leo for alerting me to this, by the way. Thank him in the comments! And hit the jump for my microscopic capping of this scene because it's an historic moment!

Which Is Hotter?

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Colin O'Donoghue as Captain Hook on Once Upon a Time

or Garrett Hedlund as Hook in the upcoming Pan movie?

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poll by twiigs.com

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See more of Colin here, and see more of Garrett in Pan here.

This post is in honor of tonight's Peter Pan Live on NBC,

where clearly Christopher Walken will win Sexiest Hook Ever.

Colin O'Donoghue Three Times

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This dude's seeming no-skin stance is starting to resemble nothing less than Vivian's refusal to kiss on a trick on the mouth - that's some coy bullshit! (click to embiggen, thanks Mac)

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Well We're Getting There

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(via) We have yet to even see Colin O'Donaghue 

entirely shirtless, but this is a step in the right direction.

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Colin O’Donoghue Six Times

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He and Michael Fassbender have really really got to play brothers at some point. The incestier the better.

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Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... tippling with Colin O'Donoghue. 

I was tempted to add "Just the tippling..." - let it be known that I showed restraint one time. For a second, until I didn't. Anyway it is literally an impossibility that he still hasn't taken his shirt off anywhere. WTF. Who's running that Once Upon a Time show? Get with the damned program, folks. Do your duty!

In related news, I can't believe I'm just now noticing how much he looks like Michael Fassbender. They could play brothers. (Cue incest comments.) Irish boys be making me smile...

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Which Is Hotter?

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poll by twiigs.com

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See more Eion here and more Colin here.

I'm still not watching Once Upon a Time but it's pretty clear its casting director shares with me one of my particular favorite of types - fuzzy Irishmen with jet black hair and bottomless blue eyes? Yes please.
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Pic of the Day

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Blimey! Blow me down! Hornswaggle...? Whatever, that's our first look (via EW) at our new fave lusty laddy Colin O'Donohue playing the nefarious seafarer Captain Hook on that ABC show about fairy tales that I do not watch, and it's pretty much all I was hoping for when I heard the blue-eyed Irishman was cast. Chest hair, check; stubble, check; guyliner, check. I'll meet you below deck, Colin!

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Hooked On Colin O'Donoghue

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(thanks Mac) This news is a few days old but I lost it in the shuffle - the actor Colin O'Donoghue, who made me feel like a dirty filthy-minded sinner as the pretty pretty priest who faced off against Sir Tony Hopkins in the execrable possession movie The Rite, has a job! Hooray for working actors! Especially if they have eyes that will slice you right in half with one sultry come hither. He's joined the cast of ABC's apparently successful fairy tale drama Once Upon a Time as the feisty pirate Captain Hook. Arrr matey he can batten down my hatches anytime. I'd gladly walk his plank! Et cetera, et cetera. (pic via Colin's Twitter)

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The Rite in 150 Words or Less

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It feels cruel to single out The Rite's pretty-boy priest Colin O'Donoghue as being the biggest problem with the film - he's very pleasant to look upon, especially when fully collared up, and since this was his first starring role to lay the blame upon him feels like it could limit our future opportunities to look upon him. And yet... yet... god does he give a lifeless performance. One flat note from start to finish, while Anthony Hopkins grows broader and bigger filling up every frame screaming out words like "Kissylips!" with abandon, and O'Donoghue just bats his gorgeous blue eyes blankly. It's not entirely his fault - one gets the feeling Hopkins sucks the air right out of every room he enters these days - but whether his drab performance is a symptom or the cause of the film's deathly dullness it don't matter, it's DOA.

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Bless Me Father, For I Want To Sin... With You!

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I doubt I'm the only one taking notice of the pretty boy in a priest collar in the trailer for The Rite (the latest in a long string of movies wherein Sir Anthony Hopkins is invited to develop fangs the better to chew the scenery with). His name is Colin O'Donoghue and if that name doesn't clue you in he's an Irish laddie, and man alive he's got the dark-hair-light-eyes combo that'll melt my sinner's loins every damn time.


But here's a very important question that I can't quite distinguish the answer to- are his eyes blue or are they green? They look different in different pictures!


If you embiggen that they look greenish on the right but blueish on the left. How am I supposed to obsess if I can't keep it straight? God! (Blasphemer.) But seriously...

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poll by twiigs.com

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Anyway he sort of reminds me of this dude who showed up in that Sexy Priests of the Vatican calendar a few years back. You know he's popular in the heavily-incensed dark back-rooms of the Holy See.

Anyway what do we think of The Rite's prospects? My hopes are near nil save Mr. O'Donoghue's prettiness, and the latest trailer gives pretty much everything away anyway.
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