Really, calling Brad Pitt “sexy” is pretty hack.
For years he’s been topping such “most sexy” lists as People‘s “Sexiest Man Alive” (he was voted number one in 1995 and 2000). Harpers Bazaar has referred to him as “the Great Hunky One.” Vanity Fair labeled him an “All-American Heartthrob.” Tell us something we don’t know, already.
It doesn’t take a Rhodes scholar’s smarts (or a gazillion magazine articles) to realize Pitt’s a helluva sexy guy.
Just look at him. Perfectly balanced features; firm, square jaw; smoldering cerulean eyes; shaggy sand-blond hair (at 38, there’s obviously no Rogaine in his future), all topping a lean, well-built, six-foot frame that moves with an easy confidence. As Dustin Hoffman once remarked, “Next to Brad Pitt, everyone else looks like an onion.”
(What’s more, he can act. There’s a reason he’s gone from making $38 as an extra in 1987’s Less Than Zero to earning nearly $20 million for last year’s Spy Game opposite Robert Redford, the sexiest man alive of a few decades ago whom Pitt eerily resembles.)
The thing is, there’s more to Pitt than just what meets the eye. There’s nothing sexier than a great-looking man who couldn’t care less that he’s great looking.
Ultimately what’s most attractive about Pitt is that his absurd handsomeness belies his down-to-earth modesty, a humility that prompts him to make such statements as: “I don’t care about the question if I’m beautiful…all that hysteria about it gets on my nerves. What kind of an achievement is it, if someone looks good? None!”
Jennifer, can we be you? Just for a day? Please?
How He Did in Our Poll Last Year: Pitt took third place in our poll last year, behind Mel Gibson ( No. 2) and Ricky Martin–remember him?
Sexiest Role:
You could list any of them. So we’ll go for weird-sexy here and cite his homoerotic turn in Interview with the Vampire (as much for his love/hate relationship with Tom Cruise as for the scene in which he practically plants a big one on Antonio Banderas‘ lips).
Sexiest Scene:
Years later, it’s still gotta be nearly every scene in the epic 1994 romance Legends of the Fall (the movie wasn’t great but hey, it’s worth seeing manly man Pitt shirtless, long-haired and riding a great steed). If you must narrow it down, let’s say it’s all in the look he gives Julia Ormond in the scene where she tells him, “I’ll stay with you forever.”
Best Quote:
“I’ll tell you what I’ve learned in my span in dating,” he once told Rolling Stone. “The dating span of good and bads. If Madonna‘s Truth or Dare is her favorite, run. Run. If she was taking notes during the Sharon Stone cross-your-legs scene in that hit movie Basic Stinky, run. Run!”
Physical Feature We Love:
Crinkling at the edges, impossibly blue, behind them a hint of laughter at some hidden joke that you just missed hearing…his lake-blue eyes have it, all the way.
In His Future:
The Coen brothers movie to which Pitt was attached as the lead, To the White Sea, is pretty much dead in the water. For now, he’ll be seen making a cameo in the upcoming Confessions of a Dangerous Mind .
