Men in Tights
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Men in tights
We pay homage to the men who make watching period pieces such a popular pastime; the costume drama heroes - those gallant, dauntless, often brooding, frequently heroic, fiercely passionate, regularly lovelorn, forever gorgeous...men in tights.
Clive Owen
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Clive Owen in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Home-grown talent Clive Owen cuts a figure fit for a queen as the dashing adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh in Elizabeth: The Golden Age - tempestuous passions, high seas and hose and doublet, it\'s a winning combination as far as we\'re concerned.
Joseph Fiennes
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Joseph Fiennes in Elizabeth
Though Clive Owen certainly had some pretty big breeches to fill. Champion smoulderer and period drama darling Joseph Fiennes was the first to lay claim to Queen Elizabeth\'s heart in the first film charting the early days of her reign and set the benchmark for intense and brooding love interests.
Joseph Fiennes (again!)
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Joseph Fiennes Shakespeare in Love
And he\'s at it again as the man who made Shakespeare sexy. Whether it was the intense and soulful stare, the hopelessly romantic nature or the fact that he composed sonnets instead of sending your bog-standard Milk Tray, we all fell a little bit in love with the meltingly gorgeous Joseph Fiennes as the young and struggling playwright.
Jonathan Rhys-Myers
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII
You can scrap that mental picture of a gluttonous, ginger-bearded and many-chinned King Henry VIII and say hello to a far sexier sovereign in the form of Johnathan Rhys-Meyers in the series The Tudors. This is a younger, honed and toned Henry hell-bent on bedding Anne Boleyn - be prepared for debauchery, smouldering and pouts by the palace-load.
Colin Firth
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Colin Firth Mr Darcy
There\'s nothing like a BBC costume drama for creating a heartthrob in a ruffled shirt, and there was certainly nothing like the brooding Colin Firth\'s Mr Darcy for setting the nation\'s pulses soaring. The Jane-Austen-meets-wet-tshirt-contest scene is the stuff that pause buttons were made for...
Domnic Cooper
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Dominic Cooper as Earl Grey
The costume drama is well and truly back in fashion as this Autumn\'s blockbuster The Duchess is sure have us girls swooning over the lovlely Dominic Cooper as the political activist Earl Grey (yes, the tea man) who steals Keira Knightley\'s heart
Kevin Costener
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Kevin Costner as Robin Hood
\'For the good of all men, and the love of one woman, he fought to uphold justice by breaking the law\'...and aided by Brian Adams\' super-ballad he managed to set the cinema-going female half of the population swooning too. Everyone was forgiven for developing just a teeny little crush on Kevin Costner when he took to Sherwood Forest as the original romantic hero, Robin Hood.
Heath Ledger
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Heath Ledger as Cassanova
Grand passions and being the greatest lover of all time were the dominant themes in Casanova and Heath Ledger played the Venetian saucepot of old with aplomb. Plenty of swashbuckling, even more sex and one very high swoonability factor.
Rupert Penry-Jones
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Rupert Penry Jones Persuasion
Jane Austen certainly knew the man-menu to make a woman go weak at the knees - gallant, gorgeous, brave, hint of vulnerability and lashings of sex appeal. As luck would have it the BBC also knows a thing or 2 about viewer ratings and getting the right swoon-inducing actor to carry out Austen\'s vision. And so we saw sexy spooks star Rupert Penry-Jones swapping the suit and spy gear for a thoroughly dashing getup to take up the mantle of Persuasion\'s lovelorn Captain Frederick Wentworth. And swoon we did.
David Bowie
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David Bowie in labyrinth
And finally, we couldn\'t resist putting in David Bowie as the evil Goblin King Jareth in that ol\' classic, Labyrinth. OK, we know it\'s not strictly a costume drama, though he is a man wearing tights - well, jodhpurs - but they most certainly are tight.
Eddie Redmayne
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Eddie Redmayne in Tess of the D\'Urbervilles
Having played minor roles in Elizabeth: The Golden Age and The Other Boleyn Girl, costume drama stalker Eddie Redmayne finaly gets his teeth stuck into a starring role as the flawed hero Angel Clare in the BBC adaptation of Tess of the D\'Urbervilles
