Thursday, April 30, 2009

Kevin McKidd

A steel blue-eyed glint, a hint of five o'clock shadow, a chiselled jaw-bone  - Kevin McKidd is our very own Ging Bond. Looking quiet chipper and a long way from the junkie he played in Trainspotting, McKidd is a pioneering nugget, as his pallid features have infiltrated mainstream American TV in the role of a doctor on wishy-washy drama serial Grey's Anatomy (like Scrubs but for menopausal women). In this role he is doing a marvellous job of subverting any lingering flame headed stereotypes by being all alluring and rugged, and not at all prissy and emasculated. He might still need to slap on factor 261 when he walks out of his pad in Hollywood Hills, but he is at least leaving a trail of gaping jaws behind, marvelling at his freckled, pasty visage, and vulnerability to the sunburn index.




Right: Kevin McKidd, staring intensely, with a coy smirk that says 'Look at my porcelin features you lowly tanned serf.'