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BENICIO DEL TORO: ‘I DON’T CONSIDER MYSELF A HOLLYWOOD HUNK’

Posted by Adam

Thursday February 11, 2010

Benicio Del ToroBENICIO Del Toro can’t understand why people find him attractive.

The 42-year-old actor — who was rumored to have had a brief romance with Scarlett Johansson — is always bemused when he finds himself mentioned in Sexiest Actor polls, but is pleased with the attention.

“I don’t know, what is sexy? It’s part of the game and I’m not complaining,” he told Parade magazine. “But I have never seen myself in a magazine and gone, ‘Whoa, he’s a hunk.’ I’m just an actor and I make movies. I’m not kidding.”

Benicio plays a werewolf in new horror movie The Wolfman and has revealed he drew on his mother’s death when he was just nine years old to fuel the anger felt by his lycanthropic character.

“Anger is not a hard emotion to get to as a male actor,” added Benicio, who appears alongside Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt in the film.

“Where does it come from? Life, I guess. I remember the anger I felt when my mother died of hepatitis when I was nine. It was a terrible time in my life and I still feel it.

“I guess it helped make me something of a rebel when I was in school. And I did get into some trouble. I didn’t get good grades, and a lot of teachers turned their backs on me.”

Del Toro recently admitted he doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to relationships.

“I haven’t had a good track record in terms of my relationships because I’m into doing my own thing,” he said in December.

“I like having a lot of time to be by myself and read and be kind of in my own world. So that’s often not easy for women to accept and I can understand that.

“But I’ve learned to be more giving of myself in general over the last few years and it’s made things less complicated in some ways.”

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  • http://RealSimple L

    he doesnt have a good track record not because he likes to do things by his own ..its because the guy likes to have group sex ..and hes into stripper ,so no respected actress will go with him ..

  • cc

    I think he is HOT it is the bad boy thing that makes him sexy

  • http://RealSimple Gucci

    he always use the story of the death of his mother..we got it your mother died ..move on

  • H

    I think he is definitely sexy.
    I guess he doesn’t get it because he’s not completely full of himself…good for him.

  • Gia

    OMG!!! I love this actor, i dont care about his personal life if he likes stripping, or orgies, who the hell cares. He’s awesome in ACTING. hE’S ALSO LATINO which makes him so much better. He’s not the only actor using previous traumas to benefit or enhnace his acting techniques. Well, there you go., he’s got a hit again. Buena Suerte Benicio!

  • Megan

    I’m a big fan of Del Toro; he’ one of Hollywood’s must underused actors. And he’s sexy in an unconventional way.

    I don’t deal in any actor’s personal life, so just as long as he’s doing well these days.

    • PATRICIA

      SUPERB ACTOR, ENJOY WATCHING HIM IN ANY MOVIE HE HAS MADE, DON’T SEE ENOUGH OF HIS SEXY BOYISH FACE. WAS EXCEPTIONAL IN “THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE”, LEAVES A LASTING IMPRESSION FOR THIS FAN!

  • http://showbizspy adrienne

    Fine actor, ruggedly handsome man, sexy.

  • tereza

    Benicio is a perfect example of the reversed side of beauty striving, perfection seeking, glamorous Hollywood. What makes him outrageously sexy is the fact that he is different and remains himself. He may not be a typical handsome hunk, but he is much more, because his acting makes him unique, his gestures, smile, his attitude, accent, everything about him – that´s one hell of charisma for one single guy! And I think he is pretty much underrated. I absolutely love this chap, and I wish him all the best….watching him is always a tremendous excitement!

  • Monica Alicea

    Hi my name is Monica Alicea I look from whats within not whats always the out come or what another person feels or thinks or how they judge or put you out to be, I see this wounderful acter for how I see him to be. I dont judge on what ever you do that maybe others might feel its wrong, because we all have skeletons in our closet the world will never be satisfy with what where, we do or say in life anyway there no wrong or right way to be hello we wasnt born perfect im not perfect an some things in our life that happen to us depending on the trama we might not ever get pass people need to respect that! like I here now that I never new befor that you love strippers exc. ok thats not going to change the fact on anything do what makes you happy, and I respect how you feel on you not seeing your self as a hoolly wood hunk what I see is the person who had his trails and tribulation in life and accomplished so much through the years and became an wounderful actor in my eyes thats the hooly wood hunk go gettem tiger