It’s amazing how much a bad haircut can affect your self esteem. I had a very bad experience with some bangs last year (I should have known, thick, chunky bangs are not a good look. And they take forever to grow out). Anyway, Javier Bardem is learning what millions of women the world over already know – a bad haircut can leave you feeling depressed and unsexy.

Josh Brolin made a joke about how depressed his co-star Bardem was by a bad haircut, but it sounds like it has a grain of truth:

Josh Brolin claims: “He was depressed during the process…He felt like he wouldn’t have sex for three months. Full-blown depression. I mean, bad.

“(He) didn’t like the way he looked. He’d stay home for hours on end. He wouldn’t go out.

Bardem himself admits that the unusual look had a psychological effect on him.

He says: “You see yourself, you see the haircut. You don’t realise that it’s affecting you in a very delicate way, through your own psyche.

“What happened to me was that after a couple of weeks, I was a little bit – a little bit – strange to myself. There was something that was not familiar. It was like, ‘What am I doing here?’”

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If you check out the mop he’s sporting in the movie, it’s less the hairstyle that’s acting as a contraceptive and more the serial killer demeanor. Even the sexiest of men can’t really pull off a pick up line that goes something like “Hey baby, how about we go back to your place for a little love, before I cut you into tiny pieces with an axe I sharpened just for you? For you, baby.”

Another interesting little tidbit I picked up from the film is that apparently Javier Bardem knew very little English before he took on the Oscar-nominated role of Anton in No Country For Old Men. I haven’t seen this movie yet, but I’m getting more and more interested the more I hear about it. Except it looks violent and scary and I couldn’t even sit through Harry Potter and the three headed dogs without freaking out. At which point my five year old told me “Mum, it’s just a dog.” Somehow I’m not thinking that No Country For Old Men is going to be an appropriate movie to take him to for comfort.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Javier Bardem is shown in a still from No Country For Old Men, thanks to AllMoviePhoto and taken by Richard Foreman for Miramax. He is also shown with his normal hot-looking hair at the SAG Awards on 1/28/08, and National Board of Review Awards on 1/15/08, thanks to PRPhotos.