It'll be a scorcher this summer … at least inside movie theaters, where there's no shortage of hot and handsome actors headed to big screens nationwide. Whether your preference is big and brawny, suave and educated, or strong and silent, there's a fella at the Cineplex waiting for you in Summer 2011.
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Chris Hemsworth
Thor
This Australian-soap-actor-turned-Hollywood-action-star reportedly beefed up so much for his role as Thor between his initial fittings and a final screen test that he couldn't fit into his costume. That's OK, Chris, you'll have no trouble finding help to get you out of that bulky armor. And aside from all his gorgeousness, he's charming and affable in his interviews, and still feels lucky to get to work with people like Anthony Hopkins. That's refreshing. Mostly, though, it's fun to watch him in 3-D.
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Ryan Gosling
Crazy Stupid Love
Canadian actor and former Mouseketeer Ryan Gosling made all the girls swoon in the romantic drama The Notebook, but from the trailer, it looks like all the girls might be panting over him as Steve Carrell's smarmy-but-super-hot wingman in this summer's dramedy Crazy, Stupid, Love. Emma Stone's character sums it up when he takes off his shirt and she says "Seriously! It's like you're Photoshopped." Oh, it really is.
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Jackson Hurst
Tree of Life
Tree of Life stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, but who cares when Jackson Hurst is in a small role displaying his soulful blue eyes and general yumminess. So it's not a starring role, and it's a small indie movie, and he's probably best known for his work on Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva ... but man, is he gorgeous. You definitely want to start watching, and keep watching (and watching and watching), this actor.
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Ryan Reynolds
Green Lantern
The CGI action sequences would probably be worth watching anyway, but with Ryan Reynolds in a skin-tight costume, The Green Lantern is a must-see. Some of us have had a crush on Ryan since he appeared in the early '90s Nickelodeon teen soap opera Fifteen. But by the time The Proposal came around in 2009, everyone was on board. Luckily, this is a summer with two Ryan Reynolds movies, so if comic-book-space-traveling movies aren't your thing, there's always the R-rated body-switching comedy, The Change-Up.
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Justin Timberlake
Friends with Benefits
Not everyone was in love with the small, curly haired lead singer of 'N Sync, though he did have the market cornered on preteen girl crushes. Justin Timberlake, the actor, naked and singing "Closing Time" (badly) will likely appeal to a much broader subsection of the population. While another rom-com about a no-strings relationship starring an actress from Black Swan seems redundant, this looks pretty funny. Hopefully he's shirtless for the same percentage of the movie that he is for the trailer, because that would definitely be something worth seeing.
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Michael Fassbender
X-Men: First Class
The half-German, half-Irish, and all-handsome Michael Fassbender was clearly not old or craggy enough to play Rochester in the adaptation of Jane Eyre that came out this spring, but he sure was fun to look at. The fun should continue when he stars in the upcoming X-Men: First Class. Even if he weren't so handsome, it'd still be worth watching the new X-Men prequel because he absolutely has the chops to pull off a character as complex as the pre-evil Magneto.
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Chris Evans
Captain America: The First Avenger
With all his whining and carrying on about the difficulty of accepting the role of Captain America, it was initially hard to get on board with the Chris Evans mania, but the scene in the trailer where the chamber opens up and there he is buff and shiny ... well, it was really easy to get on board the Chris Evan train after that. The big question though is, Who got to rub Chris Evans down with oil? That's gotta be the best job in Hollywood.
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Taylor Lautner
Abduction
OK, so Abduction actually opens in early fall. But come on! With all those dimples and cheekbones and biceps, he deserves a spot on the Movie Manhunt. In Abduction, Lautner trades playing a bare-chested werewolf high schooler for playing a high schooler involved in some sort of conspiracy in a tight T-shirt. That'll work.
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Tyrese Gibson
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
He's modeled for Tommy Hilfiger and Guess, and from what we've seen from stills and trailers, Gibson seems to be modeling far too many clothes in Transformer 3, unfortunately. In addition to his modeling and acting credits, he is also an R&B singer, a rapper, a former MTV VJ, and an author. Which is great ... now how about taking that top off, Tyrese?
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James Franco
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The handsome James Franco is not only an actor, he's also working on a Ph.D. in English at Yale (and considering starting another Ph.D. at the University of Houston), he's a creative writer, a painter, and has taught at NYU. Watching him cut his own arm off in 127 Hours was gross, but he's so well rounded, we can let that one can slide. And he's playing a smarty-smart scientist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, so it's easy to keep his braininess in mind. So maybe he doesn't take his top off in every movie — who cares? He'd actually have something interesting to say if you got a chance to look into those big, deep-brown eyes.
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Jon Hamm
Bridesmaids
He taught drama at a high school in St. Louis before moving to Hollywood, and he probably had pretty good attendance in his classes 'cause who would miss the opportunity to sit in a room with Jon Hamm? In this summer's Bridesmaids, he plays the worst-boyfriend-ever to Kristen Wiig's character. But even then, he looks so, so good. Besides, everybody's already used to seeing him as a less-than-ideal boyfriend/husband from watching Mad Men.
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Jason Momoa
Conan the Barbarian
When he was younger, Momoa worked as a model. But not these days — no surprise as, really, how many clothes are big enough for that guy?! Luckily for all of us, it doesn't look like he'll be modeling much clothing at all in Conan the Barbarian. There's just something about the huge, beefy, muscular, brawny Momoa, who could lift just about any woman up and throw her over his shoulder without ever losing his stride, that's able to awaken the latent mate-selection strategies of the pre-historic primate that lives in the modern-woman's brain... Anyway, we're really excited to see those pecs in 3-D as well.
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BONUS FEATURE: Super Sexy! — Just Not in This Movie
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Justin Timberlake
Bad Teacher
JT has been a Mouseketeer, a Star Search contestant, everybody's favorite SNL host and special guest, and a teen popstar. In Bad Teacher he plays a preppy, buttoned-up, wealthy, do-gooder who teaches at a public school. Sorry, JT, this isn't your best look. Friends with Benefits, thank God, gives him the opportunity to get his sexy back.
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Harrison Ford
Cowboys and Aliens
The stony, tough-as-nails law enforcement officer in the old West just isn't as hot as the archeologist who fought Nazis in the 1930s and '40s. Indiana Jones with his fedora, half-buttoned shirt, and boots with a whip on his side was crazy, adventurous, Depression-era hot. As a detective protecting a young Amish kid in Witness he was crazy, useful, barn-raising hot. As an old, craggy sheriff, he's just an old, craggy sheriff. Sorry.
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