Noodle Boys, these men who embody the new masculinity in Hollywood

According to the Urban Dictionary website, there are several ways to define a Noodle Boy. He can be both “the male equivalent of the main girl” and “generally white,” or an overtly male “lacking strength and muscle mass,” or even “a feeble creature without strength or power, worshiped by tyrants.” Not so complimentary definitions, except that in 2024 Noodle Boys (noodle boys, French) establish themselves as the new standards of male beauty in Hollywood.In this large family we find the king, Timothée Chalamet, whose sex appeal continues to grow after his role. Call Me by your name In 2017. Then some servants.

All of these men are between the ages of 21 and 28 (rarely over 30) and have one thing in common: their physical characteristics are far removed from the muscular standards of Arnold Schwarzenegger and other testosterone-fueled actors making way for slim silhouettes, curly and silky hair, sculpted jawlines… in short, much more feminine features.

This phenomenon, fantasized by the trend of “gnawing men” in social networks, reached an unprecedented scale on October 27 in New York. That day, all the New York lookalikes of Timothée Chalamet gather at the Washington Square Park arch for a giant pageant like this, a group that was widely shared on TikTok and crowned with a surprise appearance by Timothée Chalamet. himselfturns into a real phenomenon.

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“There’s a real desire to have something other than this kind of aggressive, belligerent, overtly predatory white masculinity,” he said. New York Times Jeffrey McCune, professor at Frederick Douglass and head of the black department at the University of Rochester. according to him, for example, 29-year-old actor Ashton Sanders perfectly embodies “a certain form of black vulnerability” on screen. We can also quote the sculptor and romantic Simon Bassett (Chronicles of Bridgerton) or British actor Paapa Esiedu, who is believed to play Severus Snape in the new series Harry Potter From HBO, a fan of pearl necklaces and suit jackets worn next to the skin.

Blurring the lines between the feminine and the masculine is their motto Noodle Boys who go so far with their celebrity that they lend their subtle masculinity to major brands, like Paul Mescal, who appears in the front row of the Gucci fashion show, or Jacob Elordi, who embodies this new elegance of the most feminine perfumes, Chanel N° In the last commercial of 5. But there is nothing new. Already in the 1990s, after the series Rocky With Sylvester Stallone, new, quieter male faces with a more relaxed body appear in cinema; Titanic weird johnny deppEdward Scissorhands. So understand that fewer men today make a big deal about their toned bodies now that being smooth is more than enough.