Let’s face it: Harrison Ford can only play Indiana Jones for so much longer. Who’s waiting in the wings to succeed him and other Hollywood leading men? The Fug Girls offer up their thoughts, writing for New York:
Chris Pine = Harrison Ford: The new Jack Ryan has “literally been cast in a role formerly occupied by Ford. How much more proof do you need?”
Sam Worthington = Russell Crowe: But “Crowe's a much better actor, even if none of his movies changed the face of cinema, blah blah Avatar blah.”
Taylor Lautner = Orlando Bloom: “Do you hear that screaming from the tweens gathered outside Taylor's hotel room? Five years ago, those girls were screaming for Orlando Bloom.”
Robert Pattinson = Christian Bale: “If any young actor seems Method enough to lose 60 pounds for a role, it's Pattinson.”
Zac Efron = John Travolta: They both got started in musicals, though “it’s hard—but really, really amusing—to picture Efron in Face/Off or Pulp Fiction.”
Shia LaBeouf=Michael Douglas: They're equally smarmy, and LaBeouf's been cast as Douglas's acolyte in the Wall Street sequel, so there's got to be something there, right?
Gerard Butler= Mel Gibson: He's a rugged, amiable, tan everyman who's done a blend of action and creepy romantic comedies; both have worn kilts; "Gerard" is one of Mel's middle names
Channing Tatum=Bruce Willis: The kid's got guns, he isn't afraid to wear undershirts and squint, and he's got a slew of thrillers coming up about things like cops, black-ops soldiers, and assassination targets. Plus he and Bruce share an ability to talk without fully opening their mouths.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt=Tom Hanks: Like Hanks, Gordon-Levitt started in TV, is an incredibly likable and rubber-faced actor who can cross at will between comedy and drama — we could see him handling both Big and Philadelphia — and he has hosted Saturday Night Live without embarrassing himself.
Bradley Cooper=Matthew McConaughey: They're both legitimately funny, when they're not skating on their looks (Matthew). In fact, had He's Just Not That Into You or The A-Team been made five years ago, McConaughey totally would have been in both of them, rather than hanging out on the beach doing shirtless push-ups. And they were both in Failure to Launch, so maybe McConaughey actually did pass Bradley the torch of being Hollywood's go-to good-looking tan guy who plays the charming dude you don't totally trust.
Ryan Reynolds=Matt Damon : Matt Damon isn't done yet, but the world could always use another guy who is both charmingly self-deprecating and fitted with action-movie biceps. And Entertainment Weekly has worn down our collective resistance by continuing to insist Reynolds is the funniest, coolest actor alive.
Alex O'Loughlin=George Clooney: He's got a certain charm with a dangerous edge, the likes of which we saw in Doug Ross. And CBS is convinced he can be a TV star if they can just find the right series (post-Moonlight, it was Three Rivers, and now they're trying a new Hawaii 5-0); the network's entertainment president Nina Tassler used their names in the same breath while discussing actors who made the most of their TV chances.
Chris Evans=Paul Walker: Evans fills an archetype: He's as bland and white-bread as Walker was in The Fast and the Furious, yet just cute enough to keep getting hired.
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