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Sutherland: When a girl like that steals 

your hat, always cheaper to buy a new one.

A happy 45th birthday to the great Tom Burke today! I didn't realize he's been acting for almost thirty years now but it does make sense now that I realize the first thing I ever saw him in was the sleazy Aughts thriller Donkey Punch in 2005 with my beloved Julian Morris -- and repeatedly at that because he's the guy who has the threesome with Julian and a girl and there is a lot, and I mean a lot, of homoerotic tension between the two guys in that scene. 

Needless to say I have seen that one scene more than I've seen any movie on Sight & Sound's Greatest Films list haha. I never really put that together with Burke when he started showing up in classier fare though -- in 2013 there was N.W. Refn's Only God Forgives and then it wasn't until Johanna Hogg's The Souvenir in 2019 that he really grabbed me again. (What a performance that is though.) 

After that I knew who he was proper, so when he popped up in Miller's Furiosa, Soderbergh's Black Bag, and my beloved Oliver Hermanus joint Living as quoted up top -- and I'd say the sequence between him and Bill Nighy is probably the film's peak -- I was always excited to see him. Anyway I think he's become one of our finest actors and I wouldn't be surprised to see him be an awards-magnet for a role in the next few years. Big fan! 

What's your favorite Tom Burke performance?

Phil Dunster Twelve Times

Because I never watched Ted Lasso all I picture when I see Phil Dunster is him getting pounded by Julian Morris in the miniseries Man in an Orange Shirt back in 2017 -- ahhh sweet sweet memories. I didn't even know who Dunster was when that aired but in the time since I have come, with that newfound recognition, to appreciate the scene even more. Anyway all that is to say that because of that -- and because of this Ted Lasso scene I was very aware of even if I didn't watch the show -- Dunster's always been an ass-first kinda guy for me, and I'm glad to see the photographer for Schön! magazine clearly agreed with me, given the above photo. Make sure to get his good side! Anyway blessedly big-bottomed Phil is on a show called Rooster (the joke's write themselves) now -- anybody watching? Tell me about it in the comments if you are, but first please hit the jump for these photos...

Guess I Should Catch Up With Surface

I couldn't find any information whatsoever on that photo of Oliver Jackson-Cohen fully mounting Phil Dunster, but since they're both on the second season of the Apple+ series Surface I'm assuming it has to do with that? I watched the first season of the show it feels like ages ago (and posted about it many times) and yet I keep forgetting the second season dropped -- this image however has smacked that forgetfulness right off my face. Dunster wasn't on the first season but he does have a previous work connection to Olly -- they didn't share scenes but they were both in the 2017 miniseries Man in an Orange Shirt, and they both played gay in it! Oliver was partnered with James McArdle in the WWII-era portion of it, while Dunster got railed by Julian Morris in one of the greatest scenes ever committed to celluloid. That was pre-Ted-Lasso though so at that time I was paying more attention to my boy Julian -- no more though! Now I have room for them both in my.... heart. Anyway I doubt Surface will reach those heights, but it gave us that picture up top and for that we are forever thankful. 

Good Morning, World

Until these photos the most interesting thing about actor Finn Jones to me was that he was really good, comfortable friends with Julian Morris and Julian's husband Landon Ross (see these photos) -- I also have a vague memory of him saying some annoying things politically (like far left annoying -- not far right, which would be truly unforgivable) which had turned me off at some point? 

Anyway abs like this will grab a lot of attention and right a lot of wrongs, is my point. I have no idea what he's doing these days career-wise, since Iron Fist was kind of a flop and it doesn't seem like Marvel will be rebooting it like they are Charlie Cox's perfect Daredevil, but whatever it is he's doing these gray sweatpants need to be his costume for it: 

Good Morning, World

Spoiler alert: until the last moments of this nine secondS of Julian Morris bathing in an Hawaiian waterfall (via) I thought he was naked and the big dog (not a euphemism) was blocking the nudie view -- alas, not to be. I then considered editing the gif so it circled back before the dog moved and y'all could be left with my initial impression, living your lives blissfully ignorant of those accursed shorts. But I am too selfish for that. Y'all must suffer like I did. Eat from the tree of knowledge, bitches! On that note good morning, everybody.

Phil Dunster Nine Times

I think I tried to watch one episode of Ted Lasso and wasn't into it, but I know I'm far from the norm on that one -- what a shock! Me bucking the mainstream! I'm such a maverick, y'all. So esoteric and shit. I only drink vintage Tab I buy off eBay -- that's how fucking cool I am. Aaaanyway...

... I've still managed to post about that show's resident hottie Phil Dunster a couple of times anyway, because... well look at him. (These photos are via Behind the Blinds magazine.) I think about those skimpy black briefs he wore once often, and then even before Ted Lasso he got positively plowed on-screen by Julian Morris so of course I was there. And here I am again, with these brand new pictures. Hit the jump for the rest...

Good Morning, World

In the lead up to the Oscars both 

Jamie Dornan and Julian Morris were seen facializing

themselves, so natch we must ask:

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These Two Can Destroy Me Any Time

Now here's an on-screen duo for the ages -- Michael B. Jordan and Yahya Abdul-Mateen are set to co-star in a movie called I Helped Destroy People for Amazon that will be written by Ben Watkins, who previously wrote the series titled Hand of God (which I only know of because Julian Morris was in it half naked one time). IHDP is based on a New York Times article telling the true story of an FBI agent who infiltrated New York's Muslim communities after 9/11 and who became so angry at the Bureau's despicable behavior that he began leaking confidential documents to the press. I am not sure who's playing who in this, THR doesn't say, but I can tell you one thing right now -- the sexiness will be distracting from the very serious topics at hand, and I will probably make more inappropriate puns like this post's title in the future. Sorry in advance!

Which is Hotter?

This morning I wished the Hemsworth brother they call Liam a happy birthday, but then not long after I realized that January 13th is actually chockablock with birthday hunkery, as it also marks the blessed births of Michael Peña, Orlando Bloom, Now Apocalypse fur-monster Beau Mirchoff, and the now-official-gay Julian Morris... 

On top of Liam Hemsworth [full stop] today is also the birthday of Michael Peña, Orlando Bloom, Beau Mirchoff, and Julian Morris!!! Good grief somebody give them a group party, then oil me up and throw me into the middle of it pic.twitter.com/3LszcuqJGm

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) January 13, 2022

... that's quite the fantasy roster anyway, and it seems not right not to mark the occasion here on the site proper. So let's pit two of them against each other in a hotness fight to the death! For now we'll do it via a poll, but if they want to send me a video of themselves naked wrestling for the win I'll make sure to post that...

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Good Morning, Julian Morris

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Congratulations to long time MNPP fave Julian Morris, who (I won't say finally, I won't say finally) came out this morning on Instagram by acknowledging his 18th anniversary with Landon Ross, a Los Angeles based artist who you might recognize as, well, Julian Morris' constant companion. Yes we all already had this figured out if you were paying them even the slightest bit of attention, but congratulations to them on 18 years -- that shit is a lot, I speak from experience! -- and also to Julian for releasing the exhausting weight of not being able to openly acknowledge that. It's so fucking exhausting! I speak from many years of experience on that as well, at least as far as a good solid half of my family went. Anyway I have swooned over Julian since the very first time I saw him, as a demon twink in the oh so classic film called Donkey Punch...

... meaning I've been riding this roller-coaster for 13 years myself, and I'm personally gratified that we got another one! Him and Landon might be our hottest openly gay  celebrity couple now? My type-wise, anyway. So more than anything what I am saying is that we deserve this! In all seriousness big congrats to the couple -- I downloaded Julain's announcement photos so we could look at them in a larger format if we so desire after the jump...

Good Morning, World

Aww a little gift from Julian Morris for this morning via his Insta -- everybody go give him a hand! I think these are outtakes from his for-the-ages photoshoot from Yummy magazine back in the day? (There are more shower snaps, with more to see, at that link -- I very much recommend it.) Hit the jump for a few more...

Good Morning, World

Haven't checked in on actor Julian Morris and his roommate Landon Ross in awhile, so here are a couple of social media photos of note of them on vacation with some friends that have been making the rounds recently. I'd say these shots are the clearest indication that Julian and Landon are more than just friends, at least since this happened. But what business of it is mine -- Julian hasn't acted in anything since before the pandemic, they're just off living their best lives, and I wish them well. (And yes part of me wishing them and us all well includes the addendum that we should be wearing masks and probably not traveling in the middle of a pandemic, natch.) 

Good Morning, World

The show called Ted Lasso on Apple+ that stars a boisterously moustached Jason Sudeikis is yet another show of the many many shows that have slipped between the cracks for me, so we have a reader to thank for alerting me to this scene from the show's fifth episode, which spends some morning time with the actor Phil Dunster in his itty bitty black briefs. Speaking of slipping through the cracks, am I right?

I am right. Do any of you watch the show? I have heard good things but they are things I hadn't paid much attention to, I will admit -- I honestly didn't even know it was a show about soccer players until this morning, as I made these gifs and discovered that there are also lots of locker-room scenes on the show as well? Should I be watching Ted Lasso? I should, shouldn't I?

Now as for Phil Dunster I didn't recognize his name at first blush but soon discovered he has been mentioned here on MNPP before -- he's the random dude that Julian Morris fucks... excuse me, has enthusiastic homosexual intercourse with... in that half of the miniseries Man in an Orange Shirt, covered thoroughly and I do mean thoroughly right here. And that scene just managed to get hotter, now that we're more familiar with Mr. Dunster. Speaking of... let's all get more familiar with Mr. Dunster after the jump...

Good Morning, World

I feel terrible that I missed wishing Julian Morris a happy birthday earlier this week -- he turned 37 on Wednesday -- and so here, a lil' make-up thanks to a photo I'd never seen before. Blessings to him, blessings to us via him, blessings blessings and blessed. And now let's get this week over with! I need it to be the 20th already, dammit.

Today's Fanboy Delusion

Today I'd rather be...

... lap dancing with Josh O'Connor

and Jamie Hauer-King. (via)

I'm not sure how Josh and Jamie know each other -- a quick scan of their respective IMDbs showed me no overlap -- so I'm just going to go ahead and assume that all the cute British actors of their age know each other, and give each other lap-dances at home. Seems right by me. Click here for more of Jamie by way of MNPP since...

... we're all about to become way more familiar with him because he's playing Prince Eric in Disney's upcoming live-action Little Mermaid but we here at MNPP first fell for him thanks to his spin on ye steadfast crush object o' Laurie in a Little Women adaptation, this one the PBS version from a couple of years back. He was good! And speaking of cute guys in that Little Women our boy Julian Morris posted some Instagram content earlier that we should catch up on, hit the jump for that...

Your Julian Morris Picture of the Day

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Thanks to Chris Royal on Instagram (and to "yah" on Twitter for directing me to this) for sharing this photo of himself sharing a sofa with the actor Julian Morris and Julian Morris' uhh live-in good friend Landon Ross at Burning Man last year -- I feel like zooming in here is a necessity?

I have never in my life wanted to be within one thousand miles of Burning Man and yet I am sitting here looking at this photo and I am thinking to myself that maybe everything I have ever thought I have known about myself has been a mistake? An utter failure of imagination? I want to go to THIS Burning Man.

That could be the advertisement for Burning Man. Anyway props to Julian for finding further ways to drive those of us paying attention to this "is he or isn't he oh he definitely, definitely is" saga absolutely batty...

Does this count as Julian Morris coming out or what? (I'm tired of pretending he isn't, and he seems pretty tired of it too) pic.twitter.com/FUK6ZO9oIS

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) February 29, 2020

Good Morning, Yummy Julian Morris

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It seems appropriate to end the week the way we began it, by drooling over Julian Morris. (click to embiggen) Basically every day a new magazine called Yummy Zine has been dropping a new shot of the actor -- six photos in total, and not a single stitch of clothes to be seen. I don't know what we did to deserve such a week... well yes I do, we have suffered through three years of nightmare living, nevermind. We deserved this. Our gratitude to Julian and Yummy for understanding that. Go buy a copy of the magazine at their site!!! Anyway they say that's the last shot of Julian so I figure instead of making you click back through the Julian archives to see everything one by one I'll gather them up in one place, after the jump...

Julian Makes a Happy Liar of Me

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(via, click to embiggen) I figured I was going to be proven wrong this morning when I posted the fourth photo from Julian Morris' Ongoing Naked Campaign To Kill Me Dead and said it was time to move on and post other things after two straight days of this -- I knew more would be coming and the second they did I'd be right back on the case. And here we are. Who cares, we're all gonna die from the cold flu any second, let us enjoy naked Julian Morris while we still can. (See the previous three ass-tastic photos here and here.)

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Good Morning, Julian Again

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Yes, it's another Julian Morris photo. I guess that's what we are now. MNPP now stands for "Many Nude Picturesof Prettylitteliarsstarjulianmorris." I'm okay with that. Are you okay with that? Either way it's what it is. I actually had this one last night when I posted the one last night but it had InstaStory typeface all over it and I was hoping we'd get a crisp clear copy by this morning -- we did not, so I photoshopped it. You're welcome. You can see the other other pair of photos at this link. Now let's try to be serious bloggers for the rest of the day -- Julian has devoured us for twenty-four hours now! We can't go on like this forever. (We can.)

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Julian Morris One More Time

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I started the day today with two photos from Julian's new and very naked photo-shoot, and now given the opportunity it looks as if I shall end the day with a just-released third photo (via, thx Ryan). If I could start and end every single day until the end of time exactly like this I would, dear god I would. Julian knows what we need to get us through these trying times. An end. His end, specifically.

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