The Talented Mr Fugly

I was watching a commercial for The Holiday last night — you know, the movie where Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet switch houses, and romantic shenanigans ensue? — and it occurred to me that I don’t particularly buy Jude Law as a romantic lead anymore. I don’t know if this is because I know too much about his real-life predilection for nannies and Sienna Miller, or if it’s because he’s morphed from being this guy:

To being this guy:

I don’t really want that guy showing up at my vacation house and romancing me. I’m a little scared that that guy is going to show up at my vacation house and rob me. And while the suit itself is lovely,  this shirt/tie combination makes me want to show up at his vacation house and burn it down:

Something about him just gives me the wiggins, and the wee curly mullet doesn’t help, either.  In the ad, there’s a scene where he and Cameron Diaz are going somewhere in a car together, and they’re all looking at each other coyly, and I am not thinking, “Aw, look! Those two are totally going to fall in transatlantic love!” I am thinking, “He is totally going to murder her and dump her body in some abandoned English field.”  Which I am pretty sure is not exactly what they were going for.

On the other hand, maybe the movie is secretly about serial killers. What do I know? I just hope Kate Winslet makes it out alive. I love her.