12 Days: Love Actually's Thomas Brodie-Sangster

From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things

 Want to feel old...

In 2015, my Classic Christmas day 12 Days post featured Jimmy Stewart . Although I personally prefer Shop Around The Corner over It's A Wonderful Life, Stewart's films are synonymous with Christmas. Although Love Actually is not, nor may never be, the classic that It's A Wonderful Life is, It is one of my favorite holiday films and I have probably watched it 20 times since it's debut in theaters back in 2003.

 I love everything about Love Actually from the music to the most manipulative romantic scenes. I love Hugh Grant dancing to the Pointer Sisters, Colin Firth's Jamie proposing to Aurelia, Rodrigo Santoro in his undies, trying to have sex with Laura Linney, and Andrew Lincoln showing his cards to Keira Knightley. No matter how many times I have watched, I never can stop a tear rolling down my cheek when Emma Thompson is alone in her bedroom listening to Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now. Joni is joined on the soundtrack by many other great artists, including The Bay City Rollers...

 Bye Bye Baby plays as Daniel (Liam Neeson) says goodbye to his wife, and Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) says good bye to his mom. I loved the relationship between Daniel and Sam, and although the final airport run and kiss was a little drawn out, Sam's kiss on Joanna still brings a smile. Thomas Brodie-Sangster was only 13 during the filming, but believe it or not, he is now 26. I never really thought of featuring Thomas before, I always thought he was that 'cute little kid' from the film. But.. after seeing the actor on Game Of Thrones a few years ago, and googling to find he was now 23, a post seemed in order. 

 I decided to wait for a Christmas piece, given that except for Game of Thrones, Love Actually was the only other project I had seen him in. I started reading Maze Runner the book a few years ago, but didn't realize until putting together this piece, that Thomas is also one of the films leads. 

 Thomas has been busy in both television and film, and had a small role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Thomas will also be seen in the next Maze Runner movie, The Death Cure, due out in 2018. Finding out that 'cute kid' was now 26 was a bit depressing, but nothing that a repeat viewing of Love Actually wouldn't cure!

 Game of Thrones 

2013-2014

 Maze Runner 

2014

 Accused 

2012

Favorite Pic of the Day for December 25, 2016

From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things

Mr. Herzog by Gordon Nebeker

Bryan Hawn Teaches That Peeping Tom

From: Boy Culture

Well, that'll teach 'im ...

Golden Yellow Christmas Packages

A favorite...Golden Yellow for Christmas.
From: Speed o Rex

Shawn Alexander

Adam Ayash

Luke Severin

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Or whatever it is! Hanukkah! Kwanzaa! They’re all good!
December 25, 2016
From: Badwolf Blog

 From the bottom of my butt, I wish you a happy whatever you’re doing today, and I thank you for making my 2016 so much better, just by reading the things I write and saying things back to me. I #lovewhatido and it’s all because of you guys.

I am so lucky to do what I do and so grateful for you! 😘😘😘

 Here’s a little winter holiday acrostic my friend James wrote for me that made me smile really big for about a whole day:

 Poem for Tyler

Come to Earth

Bright eyes, shards of heaven come to earth

Angelic form and visage, come to earth

Diamond the soul, come to earth 

Wise Apollo he of light, come to earth

Öden All father, come to earth

Lucifers gift of fire, come to earth

Fay child of love, come to earth

Thank you all for making me feel so loved. 😊

Getting Our Christmas On! Mr. Herzog by Gordon Nebeker

From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things

 His eyes-how they twinkled! his cheek dimples how merry!

For Christmas 2015, viewers were gifted with the wondrous site of Mr. Herzog on a step latter, hanging an ornament high on the tree. Gordon Nebeker snapped a few holiday shots while he and Mr. Herzog were shooting earlier in December just in time to help  celebrate the holiday.

 Gordon is one of the kindest, and most generous of souls, and always supportive with a request or support for the site. So.... when he told me he was heading down to Florida for Christmas, and meeting again with Mr. Herzog along the way... I had to ask! Now I think I may have been pushing it to ask Gordon to stick that step latter in his trunk, but Gordon was fully aware of my love of both Mr. Herzog, and his penchant for decorating tree's while completely naked. The problem this year.... the Christmas tree was not in a toasty and comfortably heated living room. 

 'The forest we were in was 95% deciduous trees with their leaves now all over the ground. Finding a pine or fir tree was a more difficult task than I thought it would be, but 3/4’s into our shoot we found a small grove of young pine trees and that is where we got our “Christmas” on. It was a bright sunny day but the temperature was 43 degrees and there was a “high wind advisory” posted at the entrance to the forest and they were not kidding! The combination of strong wind gusts and low temps was almost too much, even for the Marine!' 

'If you look close up and carefully, you can see the goose bumps on his legs in some of these photos. In total, I was only able to get about half the number of photos on this outing than I normally take but it was, as always, a fun and rewarding shoot. Mr. Herzog was flattered to be requested for a Christmas edition of Favorite Hunks for a second year!'

Gordon Nebeker

Special thanks to Gordon Nebeker and Mr. Herzog for baring the cold and wind to give everyone checking in this Christmas morning a surprise in their stocking. Check out more of Gordon's work with Mr. Herzog HERE:

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