Why does James Marsden keep making these horrible movies?

To think he thought he was too good for Magic Mike, but clearly not too good for Sonic the Hedgehog.

Did he not learn anything after making Hop?

He's pretty but not serious. Perhaps he likes making silly movies.

He got offered one of the lead roles in a $90 million studio film, and he took it, as most actors of his status would.

It's not like he's an A-lister who's at the top of every casting list.

beautiful body, beautiful face

R2 one of my favorite things about Marsden is that for every prestige or serious project he’s in, he (or his agent) book two or three more that are goofy or lowbrow light entertainment. He’s nimble at playing in comedy and never a chore or an embarrassment to watch. He clearly has a great time making silly movies and probably gets paid more to do them.

His comedy is underrated, almost. In SEX DRIVE he gave one of the all-time funniest performances in broad American comedy and no-one noticed.

Because it is all he is offered.

His trainer friend has a great nose! And body.

His face seems so different everytime I see him in something: one time he's handsome in a sort of routine handsome way, the next his face looks half-chipmunk, like the work of a seaside promenade caricature artist or an art student exercise to draw a face using spheres, cones, and cylinders.

Comedy really is his strong suit. I don't think he'll ever be getting Oscars from playing a deep, dramatic role. I just don't think it's in his wheelhouse. I think he could do it and not embarrass himself, but there's something about him that tells me he doesn't have it in him.

Why do people think these actors have their pick of the hottest projects?

The most buzzed about scripts are not being offered to James Mardsen.

He’s a charmer in every project. I read that he lives in the San Fernando Valley in a middle class neighborhood with his family and he’s suburban dad.

[quote]in a middle class neighborhood with his family and he’s suburban dad.

Do his kids actually live with him full time? I would assume they stay with their mom. James and their mom are divorced.

James also accidentally knocked up this brazilian one night stand, so he's got another kid with her.

His babymama was involved with another guy, her and James Mardsen had met up in Miami fucked, and when she went back to her boyfriend she found out she was pregnant with Mardsen's baby. So the widely reported gossip went.

R17 he shot his splooge into a pickup. She got pregnant. What is accidental about that?

[quote]What is accidental about that?

She told me she was on the pill!

Something impish about his face. Never thought James Marzdipan was good looking.

That's a set up and not accidental.

It makes me sick and angry when guys that hot aren't gay.

He’s unusual for his cast-type in that he’s played gay or gay-leaning characters on film more than a few times and without any to-do. Guys of his generation who are that generically attractive, mainstream and All-American don’t typically embrace these roles without downplaying them or pandering/baiting, but James admirably does neither.

Off the top of my head he played gay/bi in THE 24th DAY (Out), HEIGHTS (closeted), SEX DRIVE (closeted), & THE D-TRAIN (downlow). Arguably his character in DISTURBING BEHAVIOUR was curious but nothing came of that sadly, and there are those who think that his X-Men character Scott Summers is gayer than a springtime meadow but YMMV.

Of course I realise his filmography is long and he needs/wants the work, so we shouldn’t be too flattered. Still, it’s nice.

It always amuses me that his early tv roles billed him as ‘Jimmy Marsden’, and that he was the original Griffin in Party Of Five (for one episode in the first season). What could have been if he’d stayed with that show..

There's something about a dark-haired white guy that really makes me hard. Maybe it's the contrast between hair color and skin color.

[quote] Off the top of my head he played gay/bi in THE 24th DAY (Out), HEIGHTS (closeted), SEX DRIVE (closeted), & THE D-TRAIN (downlow).

Suck it, Kurt Cameron!

R11 Exactly. Film scripts probably have to be rejected by a few people before they get to him.

He’s also been primarily a supporting actor, so of course he would jump at being the (human) lead in a studio film. The only hit film he’s ever led was Hop, which is probably what got him on the casting list for Sonic.

[quote] Suck it, Kurt Cameron!

Who is Kurt Cameron? Is that the name of the giant pustulous boil on Kirk's left behind cheek?

He sort of looks like Hugh Grant in R17’s pic. Apparently he has the same studly habits too..

There's always been something playful about him that keeps him from being a boring, mainstream superstar. They never want the fun guys for leading men. They want the brooding, vacant ones. He's definitely more on the character actor side of things. I think the same of Chris Pine. They're both gorgeous, but not afraid to look silly or ugly themselves up.

I don’t find Chris Pine “gorgeous”. Marsden is, however.

Chris Pine has a face that can be gorgeous with the right light and angle and he usually looks better in motion.

Is Marsden sure his son doesn't really belong to Steven Tyler?

He aged out of being Cyclops for Bryan Singer's X-Men series.

He probably didn't show the hole or take the pole either.

Why didn't he become a bigger star? Quite mystifying.

He’s not much of an actor. He’s a model that was so pretty that someone said “your face belongs on film/tv”. It’s happened many times.

He became a bigger star than Linda Day George ever did, R36.

He was effortlessly sexy as Corny Collins in "Hairspray" even though he played it with a goofy quality.

I love him.

R41 he was the best part of it

To me, he'll always be Teddy from Westworld . . .

He's got a beautiful face and body, but he's not a serious dramatic actor, although he does have a gift for comedy. His career is pretty much as good as it could have been, although I wish he would be asked to do better comedies.

I'd also like to see him do more musicals. He would be a good Sky Masterson.

I'm sorry he didn't get to do one of the two princes in "Into the Woods"--he'd be perfect for that (or is his voice too light to do justice to "Agony"?).

He already sorta played the Prince in Enchanted.

R44 is right. It’s that “aw, shucks” amateurish-quality he has that makes people respond well to him onscreen, and makes him perfectly suited to comedy. He’s like a man out of time that way, from an age such as the ‘50s where it was paramount that ‘actors’ be all-rounder good-looking charismatic entertainers of middling talent over brooding superstar thespians.

And yes, were his voice trained he’d be the ideal candidate for revivals of dusty upbeat musicals like WONDERFUL TOWN, CRAZY FOR YOU, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE etc. because of how he warmly comes across.

‘24th Day’ annoyed me because Marsden & Speedman did not kiss once. I get it wasn’t necessary for the plot but hello, fanservice? Wasted opportunity.

I imagine if Marsden were into guys irl he’d like big blond bashful types like Scott, but maybe that’s the movie talking.

‘24th Day’ annoyed me because Marsden & Speedman did not kiss once. I get it wasn’t necessary for the plot but hello, fanservice? Wasted opportunity.

I imagine if Marsden were into guys irl he’d like big blond bashful types like Scott, but maybe that’s the movie talking.

This thread is needs more photos...

Here's one from his younger days

Remember when he beat Blossom on a “very special episode”?

R35 I remember hearing gossip about that at the time. The story went that Cyclops/Scott Summers only got one anticlimactic (death) scene in X3 because of a chain of events; Marsden wouldn’t put out for Singer thus angering Herr Direktor enough to get the writers to cut his big scenes out (and then lobby for Marsden’s firing), which was the last Divo straw for the Execs at Fox and the perfect excuse to boot Singer off the project, whose replacement in Brett Ratner was equally creepy but more inept & lazy and thus unwilling to re-render Scott’s character and make him a significant part of the movie.

I never quite believed it fully, though, given that even back in the early-mid aughts Marsden was too old for Singer’s tastes and there was already a gaggle of twink actors around the set for him to choose from. Marsden seems bi to me but I can’t imagine him on the casting couch, there’s something too cornfed about him. I don’t dispute that Bryan’s an asshole and Ratner talentless, however.

He works out at my gym. So does Luke McFarlane.

r53 - ummm so Singer waited three movies to try and get in his pants? No. Marsden is pretty fluid and will fuck anyone to get role. Most of the time he doesn't have to he is pretty charming, but if you leaned in to kiss him, he would kiss back. He is het in his public life but won't turn down a hot lay male or female.

Wasn’t he and DL fave Shaun Mendes rumored to be an item? I read it here and elsewhere....

My friend was casual friends with James Marsden at Oklahoma State.

He said James was totally straight, very nice and dumb as box of rocks.

He isn’t fluid. He is a straight boy. Like 99% of the world. Enough with the made up bullshit stories.

He’s gotten hotter as he’s aged.

I thought he was pretty good in the recent Netflix show ‘Dead to Me.’ He acquitted himself well acting opposite Applegate and Cardelini, both of whom were superb.

r59 99% of the world is straight? got it.

r62 why? Because you say so? Most studies show that when given more options that number drops. If the options are just straight or gay then yeah 10%, Give then more options of Straight, Mostly Straight, BI, Fluid, Gay then that Straight number drops. I never said he was gay, I said he was fluid.

Is he circumcised though? Big fat cut dong?

R63 how do you know that James Marsden is sexually “fluid”?

Have you got proof or are just fapping with your head up your ass?

He’s on Colbert and he looks great!! Damn. Better with age, indeed.

He won’t regret Sonic The Hedgehog, as Sonic already has a following that goes back to early video consoles. The movie is going to be very, very successful. If he has even a small percentage of the profits, he is going to be very wealthy.

Does he take his shirt off in it, R67?

Marsden is DILFY as fuck! I didn't even read this thread. I know what I see! I want him inside me, deeply!!!

[quote]He won’t regret Sonic The Hedgehog, as Sonic already has a following that goes back to early video consoles. The movie is going to be very, very successful. If he has even a small percentage of the profits, he is going to be very wealthy.

Going back and changing the animation for Sonic and the trailer for the movie made a world of difference.

It was the first time Twitter was almost universally happy and excited to see something.

James looks cockeyed at R50, and he's finally starting to age. You can really see it in that photo.

As for his goofy looking son, you alter James' features just a little bit, and you'd end up with him looking like his son. You can definitely tell that they're related.

It just so happens that James' facial features are arranged much better than his son's features.

He’s gorgeous. I even loved him in Hairspray.

"Oh, and Logan? Stay away from my girl."

That's all he is offered?

Strike while the iron is hot.

Though maybe he could ride the Dennis Quaid thing and stay fit and age well and keep getting offers for horrible movies for some years.

Was on "GMA SS&K" and said his first job was the pilot of "The Nanny".

I especially loved him in Hairspray, R72.

One thing that surprised me about him is that he did a movie with a nearly all-black cast, "Death At a Funeral." And he was really good in it.

Interestingly, he did a second movie recently, again with a nearly all-black cast. (I couldn't find it in his filmography, though)

I like when actors take roles that go outside of what's supposed to be "normal" for them.

Update on his latest project:

[quote]Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog got off to a solid start on Thursday night, scoring $3M from shows that began at 5PM at 3,150 locations. That number is the same as what Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World made last year with a $3M Thursday off 6pm showtimes before going to a $55M opening weekend. Other titles that Sonic is being compared to include Lego Batman ($2.2M 5pm previews, $53M opening), Lego Movie 2 ($1.5M 4pm previews, $34.1M opening), and MGM/UAR’s animated movie Addams Family ($1.25M 4pm previews, $30.3M opening)

[quote]One thing that surprised me about him is that he did a movie with a nearly all-black cast, "Death At a Funeral." And he was really good in it.

And he was naked on the off the whole time.

Agree with the poster above: gorgeous, friendly and probably dumb as a box of rocks. Modeled, lucked out (because he IS gorgeous) and got into tv/film. Apparently has an excellent agent who keeps him employed. Harmless.

[quote]To think he thought he was too good for Magic Mike, but clearly not too good for Sonic the Hedgehog.

It seems more like he's desperate for a cash cow franchise and someone mistakenly believed that Sonic, like several prior bad ideas, would be that cash cow.

Most likely he wants to make movies he can actually take his kids to.

He makes bad movies because child support.

The movie has been well reviewed, the audience loves it and it's making money. What's "horrible" about that?

Sometimes bad roles happen to good people.

He doesn’t seem desperate to take his shirt off on-camera like Wahlberg and Rock and the Magic Mike guy.

That makes him more appealing.

Dear lord R89, I could never be that coordinated. Ever.

I'm horrible at dancing.

I give James and Zac a TON of credit for their dancing and singing abilities.

I think that James Marsden's Taco Bell commercials were his best work.

Oklahoma has given us Brad Pitt, James Marsden and Jax from Sean Cody. Something in the water.

Brad Pitt's from Missouri.

William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, the proprietor of a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counselor.

You think he's made some bad movies, his brother Jason replaced Butch Patrick on [italic]The Munsters Today[/italic] in the late 1980s. A cash grab if ever there was one.

The movie is a monster hit, so all of you who bashed Marsden for making it can just go fuck yourselves.

Our James has come through

R47 I've sung a lot of opera, and I was very impressed by Marsden's voice in "Hairspray". I thought he sounded terrific. He has a voice that Hugh Jackman thinks he hears himself when he's singing. If only. Marsden and Jeremy Northam both have better singing voices.

Marden has a wonderful tone when he sings. It's a truly lovely voice. Jackman wishes he had a voice like that. His voice is so nasal and wobbly.

[quote]his brother Jason replaced Butch Patrick on The Munsters Today

They are not brothers.

Saw him at the Mandarin a couple of years ago in Colombus Circle. Strikingly handsome up close. Almost doesn’t look human.

James Marsden is essentially a slightly younger (5 years) version of Casper Van Dien.

Is Marsden really that much a better actor that he continues to be cast in roles while Van Dien only gets the occasional guest spot on tv shows?

James' movies still go to theaters. Casper has been direct to DVD for ages.

James' oops baby is 9 or 10 now. Not shocking he did Sonic. A good paycheck and something his kid could see. Keri Russell said she did Star Wars to "impress my middle school age son".

I haven't seen James at the gym in months. But he did bring his ex-wife to work out with him once. I guess they're still friends.

A fair number of celebs come to my (not fancy at all) gym, but only one has ever been paparazzi'd: a former Pretty Little Liar.

Does anyone have stories of James having the homosex in the gym, or elsewhere?

He has always set off my gaydar.

[quote]Is Marsden really that much a better actor that he continues to be cast in roles while Van Dien only gets the occasional guest spot on tv shows?

Marsden is more of an "every man." Very attractive but not too attractive. He can be non-threatening or threatening. He can be goofy. He can be sweet. Good enough acting. You could pretty much fit him in anywhere. Someone once said you could watch an entire movie and not know James Marsden was in it which is one of the reasons he has been working so long.

He can play Liz Lemon's boyfriend "Criss Chros" on 30 Rock, Zoe Saldana's husband in the black remake of "Death at a Funeral" or a psycho husband in a comedy like "Dead to Me." He doesn't take up too much space and does his job well.

Casper always seemed to have much more of a presence. That man has chiseled features. He is a lead. That doesn't always equal longevity if you don't get the breaks you need.

[quote]The movie is a monster hit, so all of you who bashed Marsden for making it can just go fuck yourselves.

The most successful video game movie in HISTORY.

(And I also hate to say it but they can thank the Twitter outcries about the issues with the original animations and the fact that they listened & spent money to fix it for that.)

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