Funny story – several of the leading contenders to play creepy-hot-pervert Julian Assange are on this week’s Hot Guy Friday. I swear I didn’t plan for it! But when you look at Assange’s pasty face, what actor are you reminded of? What actor could pull off both the creepy, pervert aspect of Assange, AND the ballsy, sensual genius aspect? I ask because Hollywood is making at least one movie about Julian Assange, according to Page Six. Honestly, it’s not the worst idea. For a while now, I’ve been thinking about how this whole international controversy would probably make a good movie. But casting is important!

A movie about secret-sharing villain Julian Assange is being fast-tracked before he can leak his own life story. Assange has said he is penning a book that could become a screenplay.

But Josephson Entertainment and Michelle Krumm Productions have stolen the WikiLeaks founder’s thunder by optioning the biography, “The Most Dangerous Man in the World,” by Andrew Fowler, who interviewed Assange last year. Krumm said the book would become a “thought-provoking thriller.”

But who’ll play Assange? Paul Bettany? Liam Neeson? Or perhaps Tilda Swinton?

[From Page Six]

Paul Bettany would be a good choice, honestly. Same coloring, similar eyes. And Bettany’s a good enough actor where Assange wouldn’t just be one note. He can be creepy and weird, and funny and charming. Liam Neeson is a no go – too old to play Assange, and Liam is just too big and ass-kicking. Tilda Swinton is a kind of hilarious choice. What about Michael Fassbender? Think about it… that could really work. As could Viggo Mortensen, Cillian Murphy and Ralph Fiennes.

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This morning, the first thing I watched on television was Matt Lauer’s interview with Julian Assange (below). Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has been released on bail in the UK, and he’s under “house arrest” at an English country estate (mansion), and he’s taken to the airwaves to proclaim his innocence and slam what he calls the international “smear campaign.” Now, I’ve been following the Assange situation, and I have mixed feelings about Assange as a man and as a “defender” of transparent government, and the politics of the whole situation. I’m not really going to get into all of that, because this site if for mostly superficial things, and at the end of the day, I’m a pretty superficial person (at least I can admit it!). Anyway, I have something terrible to admit. I’m kind of attracted to him. He’s got that smug, smarmy, accented, quirky-nerd hot thing going on. After watching Lauer interview him, I was kind of turned on:

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Is he smug? Absolutely. Do I think there are some conspiracies afoot? I do, actually. Do I think he’s probably a massive douche, even if he isn‘t the super-villain that people claim he is? Yep. So WHY am I attracted to him?

Anyway – I sent the video to CB, and she assured me that she was strangely attracted to him as well. She even jokingly considered him for HGF (the horror!). Maybe we’re attracted to him because he’s a different kind of baller, you know? There are so many male celebrities who try to act like they’re so tough and hard, and meanwhile this pale, prematurely gray nerd is the hardest baller out there. Thoughts?

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