Brandon Sklenar Thirteen Times

One of these days I might even bother to see Brandon Sklenar in an acting project, but for the time being I am more than happy to come across him whenever he does these beefcake photoshoots for magazines (see also) -- oh wait! I looked at his IMDb and he was the male lead in that movie Drop. I saw that. It was fine? He was fine? I don't really remember it that well which is a shame because Meghann Fahy deserves projects one remembers. Maybe he does too!

Who knows. Actually scanning down his older movies -- Vice! Mapplethorpe! Midway! -- I guess I've seen him in plenty. I guess what I mean to say is "I will never watch that Blake Lively movie where everything went haywire and I first learned his name." And that much remains true. I'll probably end up seeing The Housemaid (his next movie) just because I love Amanda Seyfried, but that very much might be a "wait for home" thing.

Anyway I'm rambling because I'm trying to type this fast as my lunch is sitting in front of me getting cold (while the rest of me gets hot due to these photos) -- these photos coming at us via Flaunt magazine; you can read the chat with him here. Or, hey even better, you can just stare at him half-naked and soaking wet -- and do I spy with my little eye... pubes??? Oh Brandon. You shouldn't have -- ten more times after the jump...

Good Morning, World

And so we're back! From virtual Sundance! We just walked in to find Brandon Sklenar here with that hot smile upon his face... okay I will stop while I'm behind. Did somebody say behind? Which is to say -- g'bless Paul Feig who's gone from making some great female-centered comedies to making some great female-centered trashy thrillers where he also makes sure to have his beautiful leading men flash their big meaty behinds therein. First there was Henry Golding in last year's Another Simple Favor and now we have the meatiest of them all Brandon Sklenar in The Housemaid, as seen down below. Paul Feig, who knew -- you're a true ass connoisseur. Thank you, good sir. Anyway yes I am indeed back on blog from my Sundance stuff -- there will be reviews coming! But for now, as we greet this Hump Day morning, let's just take a moment or two to bask in a big meaty something sure to brighten it:

Brandon Sklenar Nine Times

Congratulations to actor Brandon Sklenar, who has now captured my attention! I guess he plays the third leg (ahem) in the Blake Lively romantic triangle movie It Ends With Us out this weekend, about which I know nothing and care nothing -- it was a hit book right? Really though please don't tell me what it's about or if my description of it as a "romantic triangle" or if Brandon here is indeed playing "the third leg (ahem)" -- I will never ever in my life see this movie. But that's not your fault, Brandon, because as I said...

... you now have my attention! These photos are for Flaunt magazine and there's a whole interview with him over there and everything. Or there seem to be words between these photos -- probably as you're experiencing here, ignoring my words, I couldn't see the interview as I kept losing my eyesight from Brandon's hotness every time I scrolled through. So let's dispense with all of this chatter and get to the goods! Hit the jump for them photos...

Smoke Em If Ya Got Em, Brandon Sklenar

I cannot speak personally pro or anti this weekend's thriller film The Housemaid because I had to miss my screening of it when I fucked up my ankle a couple weeks back -- all I've heard are mixed things though, and those mixed things trend toward the "It's not nearly as campy as it needs to be" so I'm not exactly running out to see it myself. But when it hits streaming? Sure. Probably. I love Amanda Seyfried (who gives a tremendous performance in her other Winter 2025 movie The Testament of Ann Lee). And this marks the third photoshoot (via) of noted hunk Brandon Sklenar that we've posted here at MNPP (see here and see here) so clearly he's in the plus column as well. Anyway it probably won't be as much torture as I found the latest Avatar movie (the other movie out this weekend) to be, so there's that. 

Oh and I guess Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is also out today but I have nothing to say about that movie -- less than nothing. I saw it during NYFF and it left zero point zero percent of an impression on me. Completely forgettable hetero nonsense that totally wastes Laura Dern. Blergh! All that said you might wonder why I'm running through all the movies out this weekend here on a Thursday... well it's because I just found out right this very minute that my office will be closed tomorrow. So it's looking like a three-day weekend for moi! Huzzah! And then next week's a two day week, and then I'm off for nearly two weeks! I'm not saying this to rub it in your face... I'll leave it to Brandon to rub things in your face. Happy weekend!

Good Morning, World

So who out there saw The Housemaid? I did, I did, although I got to it pretty late -- I didn't see it in theaters, I only got around to it once it'd hit VOD. Anyway it came out on 4K blu-ray yesterday so I'm here to say that it's perfectly fun and twisty trash; I do like this turn that director Paul Feig's made in his career, from straight-up comedies to camp thrillers. He brings his queer-seeming sensibilities (I still don't understand how he's married to a woman but whatever, there's room under the rainbow for him, says me) to movies like this and the Simple Favor series... by which I mean he films Brandon Sklenar as he's seen in these gifs here (or these even nuder ones here) and he films Henry Golding as seen in this older post. Seriously. Nobody's exploiting beautiful dudes like Paul Feig is right now.

Who Wore It Best?

I'm kind of annoyed that the Instagram account Portiswasp beat me to this punch because it'd popped into my head last week when I saw actor Brandon Sklenar (above right) wearing this stylist-fave mesh shirt for Interview Magazine and realized I'd seen it everywhere lately and had since then been meaning to do this exact poll. Alas I was too slow and you can see the entire collection of menfolk who've rocked the shirt at their link. Me I'll focus in on four of the fellas, all of whom (save Skelnar until now) had already been featured  here at MNPP in this nip-barer of a fashion choice. (Glen Powell here, George MacKay here, and Kit Connor here.)

online polls

That said those four aside the correct answer is 

probably actor Ishaan Khatter, because goddamn.