#celebrity-persona

#celebrity-persona

The minute Colin Farrell sat down, I knew I was going to like him. The best way I can put this is he looks like a star and he walks like a star, but when Colin opens his mouth to talk, the Hollywood falls off him. That suave celebrity you see in movies and on the red carpet? In reality, he is a darling.

Both were a byword, too, for male beauty, fully alive to the almost laughable impact of their handsomeness, yet ill at ease, now and then, with their perches on the pedestal. "You're always dressed right, you always look right, you always say the right thing. You're very nearly perfect." So says Jane Fonda to Redford in "Barefoot in the Park" (1967), in which they play newlyweds. "That's a rotten thing to say," he replies.

I don't feel like I'm on in the way sometimes I hear that word... I don’t feel like I, you know, I turn it on like that. It’s not performed.