| Controversial piece about the acting skills of Gerard | | | | guy you felt you could lean on? He was nuts. Then |
| Butler. | | | | there was the terrible P.S I Love You - Gerard was so |
| Look what is it with this gorgeous guy? Like many | | | | annoying, it was a relief he passed away a third of the |
| thousands and millions of drooling dames the world | | | | way through. It didn't help that there was no chemistry |
| over I have been crazy about Gerard since I first saw | | | | between him the normally excellent Hillers Swank. So |
| him in the spectacular movie version of Phantom of | | | | what's gone wrong? |
| The Opera. He was sublime in this role - sympathetic, | | | | Since 300 our Gezza seems to still be somehow |
| yet beastly. Passionately reckless yet vulnerable and | | | | playing every role like the heroic King Leonidas - in |
| boy could he belt out those songs! | | | | such a way that I am afraid can be only described as |
| I thought - hang on! Do we have an honest to | | | | pure ham. I worry so much that every time I see this |
| goodness manly man loaded with charisma along the | | | | beautiful person on screen I get a feeling I call The |
| lines of a Clark Gable at last??? What a wonderful | | | | Butler Sink. It's a real shame because he is a lovely |
| contrast to the whiny, pasty-faced fey guys we are | | | | chap - I so, so want him to be great, he can light up the |
| used to in the acting profession. I eagerly rented | | | | screen, he can really move the audience, but since his |
| Gerard's back catalogue and adored him as the | | | | success I fear he is trying too hard - like he cannot |
| pretend Pa in Dear Frankie - again all man yet | | | | believe his luck and he's got to be OTT to prove he |
| sensitive with it. He was also brill in One More Kiss - | | | | deserves the work. Well Gerard you do deserve the |
| who played the ex boyfriend whose dying ex comes | | | | work. You are wonderful - let's see you be that "real" |
| back to spend her last days with him - and who | | | | person we can once again adore and sympathise with, |
| wouldn't? | | | | and not the wide-eyed "I'm so lucky that I have got to |
| But after seeing some of his latest - Butterfly on a | | | | be so great in this part" desperate thespian. Man, it's |
| Wheel - out-acted by Pierce Brosnan in this one, the | | | | only acting, it's not rocket. Take a leaf out of Spencer |
| dude was more hysterical then the character of his | | | | Tracy's book - "Know your lines and don't bump into |
| wife played by Maria Bello concerning the kidnap of | | | | the furniture" You're a natural at not bumping into the |
| their daughter. What happened to the calm collected | | | | Ikea, you used to do it so sexily too! |