17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Chris Tucker

1997′s The Fifth Element is an underrated sci-fi gem for many reasons—one of which is Chris Tucker as the flamboyant and fabulous Ruby Rhod.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Guy Pearce

There were a multitude of mysteries revealed in 2001′s Memento, but we never did find out why Pearce was sporting a blonde buzzcut.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Peter Facinelli

For his role in the Twilight saga, Facinelli took a page from Tom Cruise and went ash blonde as Dr. Carlisle Cullen.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Wesley Snipes

Speaking of looking like a tool, check out Snipes in 1993′s Demolition Man.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Nicolas Cage

For 2011′s Drive Angry, Nicolas Cage went blonde—and looked like a tool.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Freddie Prinze Jr

Sarah Michelle Gellar was a no-brainer to play Daphne in the live-action Scooby-Doo movies. Shoehorning her Latino husband in as blonde all-American Fred Jones was less successful. (Where did Prinze’s eyebrows go, anyway?)

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Joshua Jackson

We first encountered the future Dawson’s Creek studlet as Blaine Tuttle, the blonde boarding-school twink blackmailing a closeted jock in 1999′s Cruel Intentions.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Jack Black 

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Robert Downey Jr

Both actors went blonde for 2008′s Tropic Thunder—except for the portion of the movie Downey was in blackface. (It’s not as racist as it sounds.)

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Sasha Baron Cohen

To portray a vulgar gay fashionista in 2009′s Bruno, Cohen opted for a summery Justin Bieber hairdon’t.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Tom Cruise

Before there was Twilight there was 1994′s Interview with a Vampire, which saw Tom Cruise go blond as the omnisexual bloodsucker Lestat.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Colin Farrell

An Irishman with bleach-blond hair as Greek emperor Alexander The Great? Seems like an odd way to go, but it was enough to turn on Jared Leto’s Hephaistion in 2004′s Alexander.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Javier Bardem

Penelope Cruz’s babydaddy hit the peroxide to play Bond villain Raoul Silva in 2012′s Skyfall. Sure the guy was a cyberterrorist and psychopath, but his bleach-blonde hair was the true crime against humanity.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Jared Leto

The 20 Seconds to Mars front man has dyed his locks so many times—starting with 1999′s Fight Club—we’re surprised he has any hair left.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Benedict Cumberbatch

To play the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2013′s The Fifth Estate, pale English actor Benedict Cumberbatch  dyed his hair platinum blond. It was not a good look.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Bradley Cooper

Cooper has sported blond locks at various points in his career, usually successfully (like in the photo left). But his orange dreadlocks in 2012′s Hit and Run ( right) were hideous—intentionally so, we pray.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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Ryan Reynolds

In 2009′s Paper Man, Blake Lively’s better half plays imaginary superhero Captain Excellent. With those shocking yellow locks, he must get his power from the sun.

17 Male Stars Who Have Gone Blond—Did They Have More Fun?

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 Adam Levine and Tom Brady recently debuted new blond looks—Levine on The Voice and Brady at the Met Costume Institute gala. But do blonds really have more fun? We take a look at some A-list actors who have lightened their locks, either for a role or just for the hell of it.

James Franco

Around the time he was doing press for 2013′s Oz the Great and Powerful, James Franco gave his auburn tresses a makeover. Powerful? sure. Great? you be the judge.