Lee Joon-Gi has those gorgeous smoky vamp eyes, just like Rudolph Valentino did back in the silver screen days of the 1920s. A friend of mine calls Valentino the OG Oppa because in the hella early days of the US silent film industry, he was the first film star to truly build a huge devoted fan base with his bad boy roles and sexy looks. Can’t speak to his acting skills, cuz that choppy old school silent film shit all looks ridiculously comical to me.
Valentino was an Italian-American actor who generally played the sexy villain who seduces all the lovely ladies, and his body was always on display, lol. (Kinda like the shower scenes kdrama actors have before they’ve gained enough clout to exclude them in their contracts.) He was built pretty nice, with a swimmer’s body that looked especially good in tails and white tie. When I was looking up pics of him, I kept finding awesome stuff that reminded me of various kdrama stars, like Lee Soo-Hyuk’s swimmer’s shoulders. So you’ll see a few more Valentino same-sames here in a sec...
