My latest actor fixation
Hi friends! I appear to have developed a new celebrity crush, which I should talk about for the record and so there is a chance anyone will read the rare-fandom fics I've started writing for some of his characters.
<-- It is this guy, Zahn McClarnon, a.k.a. Mathias on Longmire ♥, a.k.a. Akecheta on Westworld and Hanzee Dent in the second season of Fargo, a.k.a. Grant Johnson (not Tonto) in the Jesse James episode of Timeless and a vampire (!) in one episode of Midnight, Texas, a.k.a. a side character in at least three Jason Momoa projects: Frontier, Braven and The Red Road. Plus the requisite host of Western frontier period pieces, none of which I've tried yet.
…This post keeps not getting finished because I go down half-hour tangents on Google Images and Pinterest.
Usually I like my actors tall and slim. Zahn is slight, but he's small-he's my height, 5'6"-and I'm enjoying that more than anticipated. He also joins a decades-long tradition of crushes I've had on men with long hair (*cough* Jon Campling), although I'm interrogating that more than usual here, given the history of white people fetishizing Native people's hair, at least in the United States. Zahn is part Irish and part Hunkpapa Lakota, of the Standing Rock Sioux.
So much of what I enjoy about watching him lies in the body language and delivery. Aside from that, I love the twinkle in his eye when he plays characters like police chief Mathias and vampire Zachariah. I love that his voice is fairly high-pitched and that his dialogue sometimes sounds like a croon. He has beautiful hands, and I love that he shows them off by doing things like this or driving with one wrist on the steering wheel. I love that he steals scenes, and conveys that there's much more to some of his characters than the scripts make explicit, and, you know, acts, shifting from sweet to menacing in a moment, portraying characters who are dry or slow or melodramatic or nasty or tormented or wide-eyed with wonder.
I enjoy that he hangs out with Taika Waititi and Gil Birmingham and Cliff Curtis and stuff and snuggles up to costars (see also) and photobombs Jason Momoa.
Can you believe it took three sittings to write this much? I want to do a series of reviews like with the Paul Bettany project of 2015, especially in preparation for these fics in progress, but I guess they will go in separate posts. (People were upset he didn't get nominated for an Emmy for his standout Westworld episode! Longmire turned out to be a wonderful six-season watch! Midnight, Texas a total hoot, with bonus threesome vibes!)
Thank you for listening. :)
ETA: You know, it's funny; when I was a kid, even through high school, having a crush on someone, whether an acquaintance or an actor, resulted in teasing, which pushed me to hide or deny or feel embarrassed. Now, thanks to fandom, I've grown more comfortable declaring things like this to the world. Past experience suggests there'll be others who either share the sentiment or empathize. No judgement.
Originally posted at https://bironic.dreamwidth.org/372345.html, where there are
comments.
<-- It is this guy, Zahn McClarnon, a.k.a. Mathias on Longmire ♥, a.k.a. Akecheta on Westworld and Hanzee Dent in the second season of Fargo, a.k.a. Grant Johnson (not Tonto) in the Jesse James episode of Timeless and a vampire (!) in one episode of Midnight, Texas, a.k.a. a side character in at least three Jason Momoa projects: Frontier, Braven and The Red Road. Plus the requisite host of Western frontier period pieces, none of which I've tried yet.
…This post keeps not getting finished because I go down half-hour tangents on Google Images and Pinterest.
Usually I like my actors tall and slim. Zahn is slight, but he's small-he's my height, 5'6"-and I'm enjoying that more than anticipated. He also joins a decades-long tradition of crushes I've had on men with long hair (*cough* Jon Campling), although I'm interrogating that more than usual here, given the history of white people fetishizing Native people's hair, at least in the United States. Zahn is part Irish and part Hunkpapa Lakota, of the Standing Rock Sioux.
So much of what I enjoy about watching him lies in the body language and delivery. Aside from that, I love the twinkle in his eye when he plays characters like police chief Mathias and vampire Zachariah. I love that his voice is fairly high-pitched and that his dialogue sometimes sounds like a croon. He has beautiful hands, and I love that he shows them off by doing things like this or driving with one wrist on the steering wheel. I love that he steals scenes, and conveys that there's much more to some of his characters than the scripts make explicit, and, you know, acts, shifting from sweet to menacing in a moment, portraying characters who are dry or slow or melodramatic or nasty or tormented or wide-eyed with wonder.
I enjoy that he hangs out with Taika Waititi and Gil Birmingham and Cliff Curtis and stuff and snuggles up to costars (see also) and photobombs Jason Momoa.
Can you believe it took three sittings to write this much? I want to do a series of reviews like with the Paul Bettany project of 2015, especially in preparation for these fics in progress, but I guess they will go in separate posts. (People were upset he didn't get nominated for an Emmy for his standout Westworld episode! Longmire turned out to be a wonderful six-season watch! Midnight, Texas a total hoot, with bonus threesome vibes!)
Thank you for listening. :)
ETA: You know, it's funny; when I was a kid, even through high school, having a crush on someone, whether an acquaintance or an actor, resulted in teasing, which pushed me to hide or deny or feel embarrassed. Now, thanks to fandom, I've grown more comfortable declaring things like this to the world. Past experience suggests there'll be others who either share the sentiment or empathize. No judgement.
Originally posted at https://bironic.dreamwidth.org/372345.html, where there are
comments.