The Growing Pains audience must in fact have been 700,000 x larger than originally presumed by the Nielsen Ratings System – and loyal to a fault. It’s the only way I can make any sense of Leo’s enduring fame.

you are correct

My friends insisted I didn’t like him because I am not that into white dudes but I knew he was never hot!

You told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. He went from 80s Ruby Rose to smells like Old Milwaukee and Salems.

It’s true that his acting is massively over-rated, but I thought the fucked up drug crawl in Wolves was hilarious and perfectly performed. Scorsese knows how to use him.

In the 90s, I knew I was supposed to be in love with him like all the other teen girls, but was never into the pretty, androgynous look. I was oddly proud of him when he turned into a real actor (He’s all grown up!) but now he’s turned back into a joke again. Weird career trajectory.

When Titanic came out I thought he was cute, because I was enough younger (pre-teen) that he looked normal rather than eerily baby-faced. Not sure I even considered him “hot” at the time, since his characters were kind of too bland to spark my desires.

I think around 2005ish he went through a short period where he looked his age. Like in the movie The Departed I remember thinking he finally looked age appropriate. I feel kind of bad for him honestly, you look like a child until you’re thirty then suddenly you age like 40 years?

I legit laughed out loud and had tears in my eyes reading this. Fantastic and on point.

He also can’t act unless someone throws a bucket of water on him. Every movie he’s in, there’s at least one scene where he gets dripping wet. Without that water, he has no talent.

ARE YOU ME? We are one in the head. Everything, everything you just said is so accurate...sob...you may be my person!! He’s a flabby fetus face!!

ugh YES! i never got the attraction to him! especially since he seemed to have permanently greasy hair back on the 90s.

I do enjoy some of Leo’s roles but this is factual. If I saw that guy making eyes at me at the bar I would quietly pay my tab and leave.

He also can’t act unless someone throws a bucket of water on him. Every movie he’s in, there’s at least one scene where he gets dripping wet. Without that water, he has no talent.

Somehow, I agree with all of what you said completely, but I also still think he is and always has been hot.

“He also can’t act unless someone throws a bucket of water on him. Every movie he’s in, there’s at least one scene where he gets dripping wet. Without that water, he has no talent.”

Damn, someone just dragged the shit out of Leo!

JULIET CHOSE POORLY

On the other hand, Kate Winslet was always hot, both then and now.