Was James Spader really a "Heartthrob" in the 90s? I just don't see it. This fucking dweeb right here?
I was watchin the first episode of Buffy the vampire slayer, never got around to watching it. Anyways one of the characters, the I'm guessing Rich hip girl was giving buffy a quiz on whether or not she was cool, and she said "James Spader?" and the correct cool response was "He needs to call me!". Was this like a grunge thing or something? Nerdy guys were definitely not even in in the 90s.
Kek!
Dorky was in vogue in the 90's. Also the voice.
Reminder that Hal Emmerich is based off of James Spader in this movie.
Which was directed by Rolland Emmerich (hint hint)
Also starring Snake Plissken.
Plus it was released at the time they were developing Metal Gear Solid.
This is just my theory though I never saw it anywhere else, but seems pretty obvoius.
Didn’t know who he was in the 90’s so I doubt it.
In my mind he's always been Shatner's buddy in Boston Legal, which is an old show with an old audience. I watched it with my parents who are literal boomers. Spader's never been hip.
Wow, he had another show after Star Trek? I never knew that. When was that?
>Was James Spader really a "Heartthrob" in the 90s?
He always played a snobby dickhead in the 80s
Looks pretty good desu
more like late-80s but definitely. ever since pretty in pink.
Mid 2000s, as for Star Trek actors Odo is in it as well. Anyway the Shat's been in lots of stuff since Trek, he had a fun role in Miss Congeniality and its sequel.
But 90s teenagers wouldn't have known him from his 80s stuff though. That dog don't hunt.
We are left to believe that Teenage girls were fawning over James Spader from Crash and Stargate. That's the joke that Joss Whedon is making...
Teenagers fawning over a nerdy actor. What did he mean by this?
yeah they would, movies kicked around for at least a decade in the theater->secondary run theaters->cable->broadcast tv pipeline back then.
Dude looked chad as fuck in Pretty in Pink
He's no Michael Shanks
He looks like a child diddler
I want to beat you.
Anyone ever see this kino? Rob Lowe is pretty cool in this
Lol at all the nerds in this thread that have never heard of Sex Lies and Videotape.
He cute
I know, I said chad as fuck didn't I?
big hair best girl
he was the coolest of the chads at the chad table
>dweeb
Which police academy movie is this?
Spader always played high iq rich boys with deviant sexual tendencies.
Oh shit wall bros
how did Hasbro know Daniel Jackson was destined to be a turbochad?
Today the girl wouldn't even be needed. It would be Spader and Lowe as gay frenemies.
lol he got bullied by French Stewart
wtf
boggles the mind
He looks like Bezos now.
"Dream Lover" is an underrated masterpiece.
>wtf
Like milk. Doesn't matter, he's a guy and actually has chops.
What the Fuck happened?
Absolutely not.
ok, jose
1 > 3 > 2
He look unrecognizable in Music Of Chance. Kino film though
ive never liked him
his voice is kinda cool i guess
dempsey was a way harder sell for sex symbol but now he fine
he was the paul dano of the 90s
>Was James Spader really a "Heartthrob"
No, he's Canadian.
He was pretty hot tbqh
>But 90s teenagers wouldn't have known him from his 80s stuff though. That dog don't hunt.
Assuming people in the 90s didn't have video tapes, TV, or parents, yeah.
john hughes was never not a massive thing
looks like classic paul dano in this role
>That's the joke that Joss Whedon is making...
there's your problem. also he cast Spader as the voice of Ultron in Avengers so he probably had a hard on for the guy
Paul as Danial in a Stargate remake would be kino
He became 62
Did he shave his head for at he Blacklist or did he suddenly go bald? He was on the office the year before and still had hair seemed weird how he suddenly went full chrome dome.
James Spader?
Oh you mean Dick Cheney?
>watch seinfeld from a young age
>find out minor role was played by famous guy 5 years later
He was going bald and shaved for the role.
This is why he was a heartthrob. Stef from Pretty in Pink. The choice was Stef or Blaine, most girls thought Molly Ringwald’s character was out of her mind for choosing ugly weirdo Andrew McCarthy.
I look like him wtf
Is that Judge Reinhold?
She wouldn’t be needed but she’d be black
Not really. He was just buddies with other heartthrobs like Rob Lowe and Johnny Depp. The 90s generally skewed younger as a whole though. Leo DiCaprio, Joey Lawrence, JTT, Keanu Reeves.
omg the wall!
this creepy kike looks like such a faggot
no, but he was also in two episodes
theory?
3>1>2
There's something about a man that's satisfied with himself that gives a +5 to the rating.
Teenagers weren't as generationally isolated as they are today. Most of us grew up watching movies our parents and older siblings liked. There was a broader common pop culture we all shared.
>fawning over Spader in Crash
Nobody saw this movie in the 90's.
Whedon grew up in the late 70's and 80's. Nothing any of the characters in Buffy say is realistic. It's a show with mannered dialogue and performances, and was written by an annoying geek. You might as well complain that the hitman in Pulp Fiction don't talk like actual hitmen.
Him making love to prime Madchen Amick in Dream Lover