Sam Reid Nine Times

I can feel my Gen X flaring up when I say I'm glad I've been onboard the Sam Reid train for several years now, and I'm not just posting these new photos because I only found out about him thanks to the new Interview With the Vampire series that I binged this past weekend. I was an original fan, man! Before they sold out! Anyway that does mean you should click on our Sam Reid tag, there are plenty of wonders to discover therein. For today though we've got these fresh ones of him for Schön! magazine -- there is also an interview if you're curious what our newfangled (fang, get it) Lestat's got to say for himself. Or just hit the jump for the photoshoot...

I've Crossed Oceans of Time for Lestat

I didn't get much accomplished over this past weekend as my brain needed a rest, but one thing I did manage to do was binge the entire run of the Interview With the Vampire series -- yes, it's universally accepted that bingeing entire television series counts as "an accomplishment" now. Don't side-eye me. It's in the dictionary. Look it up. No I won't say which dictionary. It's not my job to do all of the work, jeez! Anyway Interview With the Vampire rules. Rules. RULES. I had exceedingly low expectations going in but it defied those by leagues of sexy, funny, gory goodness. Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid and Eric Bogosian and Bailey Bass are all terrifically cast and the show delighted and surprised every single episode. (How funny it is was the biggest surprise for me.) Anyway I want season two right this second -- here's Variety talking to the show's creator (and yes this is spoilery so don't read it if you're not done with the entire season) about what to expect from season two, which will basically be as far as I can tell the second half of the book. I haven't read any Anne Rice since I was in college but this show's got me feeling like revisiting. So who's watched? Opinions? Hit the comments!

Pics of the Day

The first photos from AMC's upcoming Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire series (and good for Anne -- RIP queen -- for getting that above-the-title treatment) have arrived, showcasing actors Sam Reid (mmmm we love him) as Lestat and Games of Thrones' Jacob Anderson as Louis, aka the Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt roles from Neil Jordan's 1994 film adaptation we all still remember well enough, I assume. There are a couple more photos at People, where these ones came from -- the series is out sometime this year. What do we think at first blush?

Feral Island Nuns & Their Hot Priest Prisoner

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As alluded to in this morning's "Gratuitous Sam Reid" post there is a brand new series out for y'all to binge this week, and binge it you shall -- binge it you must!!! I binged it last week and it is a real binger. It's an Aussie series from 2019 called Lambs of God and aside from Mr. Reid the real spectacle is its three leading women, all of whom we're great big fans -- there's Essie Davis, who we fell for thanks to The Babadook, there's Ann Dowd, who we fell for because we have watched things in the past ten years of which she has starred in all of them, and there's the still terribly underrated Jessica Barden.

As for Barden we've loved her ever since the movie Hanna, where she stole her every scene as the normal girl that the weirdo girl Hanna befriends after she escapes from her assassin lab. Since then Barden's proven her greatness in movies like The Lobster (she's the girl with the bloody noses) and on the TV series Penny Dreadful and The End of the F***ing World; really any time Jessica Barden shows up you know you're in for a treat and here, once again, she proves that truth.

Lambs of God has that tremendous trio of actresses playing, wait for it, three semi-feral nuns (!!!) living in total isolation inside of a crumbling monastery on a remote and inhospitable island -- they're all a little mad in the way of cinematic nuns, with their ecstatic visions and whatnot. Then one day whammo out of the weeds appears a ridiculously handsome priest (played by the aforementioned Sam Reid, ridiculously handsome) and, well wouldn't you know it shit goes down. Some real shit!

The series won several AACTA awards (that's basically the Aussie version of the Oscars) when it aired there last year and now y'all can see it here in the US, thanks to the new streaming service called Topic, which seems to specialize in international television shows that you can't see anywhere else -- check out their website right here. The series premieres on Topic this very day and I very very much recommend it -- it's gothic and outrageous and well-acted, kind of like The Devils meets Dark Shadows. I had an absolute blast with it. I mean look at these three actresses and tell me you don't want to watch this right this second and I'll call you full nutso:

Good Morning, Sam Reid

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I have been waiting for the actor Sam Reid to get a good role ever since he starred opposite the great Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Belle in 2013 -- he's one of those ones that are SO handsome (see our previous posts for proof) that it's got to be hard to know what to do with him. (I doubt any of us feel too bad for Sam Reid.) Anyway he's got a terrific role in the TV miniseries Lambs of God, which screened on Aussie TV last year and which is making its US streaming debut today -- but I'll have more to say on that in a minute. For now, it's early, let's just luxuriate in the Gratuitous Sam Reid aspect of the series after the jump...

Sam Reid Four Times

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Has anybody seen Sam's new Prime Suspect series? 

Is it any good? I need to look at him!

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Good Morning, Sort Of Gratuitous Sam Reid

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I almost kind of don't even want to do this post, wishing the actor Sam Reid a happy 29th birthday; I have held out on him for a very long time because he should not be rewarded for bad behavior -- he's been around for five years now, pretty much since starring in Roland Emmerich's William Shakespeare flop Anonymous, and after taking a more-than-cursory glance (more of a scouring, really) of the places where such things would be it appears that Sam Reid in those five years hasn't doffed a single bit of clothing. Not a bit!

Please, I beg of someone to prove me wrong. Was there a bit in Belle I am forgetting? That Hatfield & McCoys miniseries didn't seem to have any trouble getting at least one dude half-naked -- maybe Sam's bared torso was floating around there too? Tumblr seems to be infatuated with his unrequited bromance with Max Irons in the recent film The Riot Club...

... but it would appear that stayed snog-free. I mean really, Sam Reid. You get your career jump started by Roland Emmerich for god's sake and this is how you treat us? There's one thing making me do this post, then. Well there are two. #1, goddamn Sam Reid is gorgeous. But #2: goddamn he is gorgeous and goddamn he and fellow actor slash pretty boy Douglas Booth seem to be inseparable.

INSEPARABLE. As you'll see, after the jump where I've collected all these gorgeous fully-dressed (sigh) pictures, he and Douglas Booth sure do seem very... tight. Hit the jump for the rest...

Future Savior Sexy Father

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Even though I've never seen the actor Wilson Bethel in anything it seems pretty clear to me that looks-wise he was born to play a Michael Biehn part. Look at them! They could be related!

Bethel is one of five names up for Biehn's role of Kyle Reese in the new Terminator movie - for a hot minute there was talk of Garrett Hedlund but I guess he passed. Instead they're aiming for a smaller name now...

... small in name, but big in pretty obviously. Those dudes are from left to right Boyd Holbrook, Thomas Cocquerel, Sam Reid, and Jai Courtney. Holbrook you might remember as the dude with the porn-stache who shows up to replace Matt Damon in Liberace's bathtub affections in Behind the Candelabra...

His name's actually been rumored as long as Hedlund was. Cocquerel hasn't been in anything really, but he's very attractive. I wonder how he got his name up in here?

Meanwhile Reid is one fine-ass ginger that I remember noticing in Anonymous, before I turned Anonymous off halfway through because it was an unwatchable, awful movie.

And Courtney's been bouncing around by the strength of his fabulous T&A from terrible movie to terrible movie for a bit now. We've ogled him previously. Here is his sex face in that pervy Spartacus show.

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