Hero Moment of the Week – Oded Fehr ~Sigh~

I keep meaning to get away from film heroes and actually feature a hero from a book, seeing as I write books.  Seems simple, but I keep recalling yummy heroes from films and television and just have to rush to remind you guys about them.

That’s what happened this weekend.

My daughter, Kate, and I rarely agree about heroes.  Remember Ross from Friends and his laminated card of five “free” famous people that he could sleep with if he ever met them (and could convince them to sleep with him, I hasten to add)?  He spent a week swapping out that final list of five, then met Isabella Rosellini, who he’d just bumped off the list, and tried to hit on her?

Kate and I have our own differences of opinion on our top five list.  I have mumble mumble [Antonio Banderas] mumble a few names on my list, and she has a whole different set of names on hers, including the likes of Johnny Depp, etc.  (Although he’s incredibly cute in Chocolate with that Irish accent, I must say.)

But when it comes to Oded Fehr, we’re firmly in agreement.  We watch The Mummy and The Mummy II just for him.  Oh, Brendan Fraser is cute ‘n all, in a WASPy sort of way, but ohmigoodness, Oded Fehr has the dark ‘n dangerous thing going for him…and that voice!  He does all the voice overs for both movies, and Kate and I could listen to that voice alone.  Gives us shivers.

Neither of us can understand why he hasn’t really broken through into major star status, unless its a racial thing.  Or perhaps it’s just because he’s been in the wrong place at the wrong time…who knows.  As far as we’re concerned, it’s a damn shame.  He’s got the looks, the voice, as so far as we can figure, he can act just fine (and does it really matter?  If Nicholas Cage can get star roles with his acting ability?  With all due apologies to Nick Cage fans out there, but he really isn’t hasn’t got the biggest range.)

So we’re going on a hunt to dig up movies he’s appeared in, just to see how he’s fared in those.  That’s our mission this season.  We had such fun this weekend dusting off The Mummy I & II and reacquainting ourselves with his velvet voice and dark-eyed stare!

I went on a search for some updated images of him…and that boy has aged very well indeed.

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