Lior Ashkenazi is HOT

I will have to try and find "Late Marriage". I do remember when it came out, seeing the ad and reading some reviews and thinking to myself how handsome the star looked in the ad. But "Walk on Water" is the first movie of Lior's I've actually seen. He certainly does have star quality and charisma - its the eyes that really do it for me.

I agree with you that foreign actors are refreshingly uninhibited when it comes to sexual scenes compared to their uptight American counterparts, as Lior and Ewen MacGregor plus dozens of other lesser-known European actors have shown. A nude scene featuring a known American actor has become exceedingly rare nowadays, but I don't know whether to blame the actors or the studios, which seem so conservative anymore compared to the more freewheeling decades past. Also, foreign actors don't seem to be as horror-stricken to play roles which have a gay context as American actors are. Why is it we still seem like smirking teenagers in comparison to foreign countries in our treatment of sexuality?