Ryan Gosling, Liam Hemsworth and Tom Hardy? Are Foreign Hunks Replacing American Stars? (E ON LINE)

Thu., Mar. 15, 2012 5:23 PM PDT
by Leslie Gornstein

All of the biggest male movie stars used to be from the good ol’ USA. Now American kids are swooning over Liam Hemsworth and Tom Hardy. Where have all the American idols gone?
 
                                                                                            —Sigh, via the inbox 


Oh, knock it off. If you look at the top 10 or so male stars of the moment, you'll see that Taylor Kitsch comes from...oh, wait. He comes from Canada. Well, there’s Ryan Gosling! He's...oh, scratch that. He's Canadian, too. So what is going on here?

I dug deep, and I found the one person you can blame for all this... Take a look at IMDB’s top 20 stars of right this very second. Then narrow it down to just the men. The list includes the aforementioned Kitsch, Hemsworth, Hardy and Gosling, plus Josh Hutcherson, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Armie Hammer, Channing Tatum, Leonardo DiCaprio and Liam Neeson.

Of those 11 criminally beautiful souls, five come from outside these United States—the U.K. or Canada, to be precise. The other six salute the Stars and Stripes. Why so many foreigners? And why specifically from the U.K. and its historically linked offshoot, Canada?


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