In a movie stacked with pretty people, hot Professor Bhaer’s presence feels like a given, but for those familiar with the original story, the casting choice comes as a delightful shock LittleWomen
Photo: Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Greta Gerwig’s Little Women adaptation offers a host of small but significant updates to previous versions of the film. There’s a lush, modern take on late-19th-century dressing; a romantic, ambiguous ending; and — crucially — Gerwig’s choice to cast a hot, French Professor Bhaer.
Indeed! Garrel is best known for his beautiful scowl, and his 2003 role in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, an extremely horny film about an American student who falls into an incestuous love triangle with two siblings. The rest of his career has followed a similarly poignant — and erotic — thread. Many of his roles were courtesy of his father, French New Wave director Philippe Garrel, who often cast his son as the brooding, sexy artiste .
To be fair, in the realm of film adaptations, dashing Professor Bhaers are nothing new: a young Gabriel Byrne, Michael Fassbender, and Paul Lukas have all been past-Bhaers, all of whose jawlines and actorly charisma distinguish them from the homely old professor Alcott offered in the original text. But none of these Bhaers have been as overtly sexy as our coq au vin; casting Garrel is a choice. It’s like putting Brad Pitt or Jennifer Lopez in a role.
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