Masculine Idols: These 5 Actors Are Much Tougher on Screen Than in Real Life

Sometimes even the toughest guys on screen can have conventionally unmasculine personalities and interests in real life, presenting the art of acting by performing complete opposites of who they really are and convincingly showing the required strength.

Here are five examples of how an actor can fool the audience and portray manly characters in movies and TV shows that do not necessarily resonate with them.

Tom Hardy

The actor stated in an interview he didn’t consider himself really masculine and he always felt like an outsider to boys, feeling “intrinsically feminine”.

Besides, he said his desire to play manly characters might come from overcompensating for it, though it doesn’t bring a doubt on his convincing acting skills in Mad Max: Fury Road or Venom.

Hugh Jackman

Wolverine from the X-Men film series, brilliantly portrayed by Jackman, literally evaporates male strength, as his face and body are built very manly. Whereas, the actor’s creativity and amusing personality is reflected in his songs and dances in numerous videos and ads, as well as in quite an atypical movie for him, The Greatest Showman.

Bryan Cranston

The leading Breaking Bad actor, whose name is strongly associated with the tough and cold-hearted Heisenberg, is more the type of a guy who likes to keep it cool in his private life. He is described as a warm and funny person, “one heck of a fascinating, nice guy”, who always emphasized the evil and toxic nature of his characters.

Henry Cavill

One of the main DCU stars and The Witcher ’s athletic Geralt’s actor is famous for portraying strong characters of traditionally masculine appearance with a pile of muscles, while in his spare time he prefers to spend time with his dogs in peace. Now that’s the Clark Kent energy we deserve!

Nick Offerman

Despite portraying Ron Swanson, a stereotypical “manly man”, who cried only two times in his life, in the Parks and Recreation comedy show, the actor seriously criticizes the traditional concept of masculinity, saying that he is not masculine, but rather “totally normal like anybody” and believing that we don’t need “to gender everything we do”.

Sources: Daily Mail, Route, The Connecticut Forum