In case you thought it was only women who were regularly subjected to overenthusiastic photoshopping, just take a look at poor Matthew McConaughey, the front man for Dolce & Gabbana’s new The One Gentleman. Read more here and here. The title, by the way, comes from McConaughey’s statement to People magazine about the inspirations for the new fragrance.
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His shoulders look so narrowed down and his face gaunt! He looks aged some ten years older…
He looks like he needs a sandwich.
And throw in some french fries and a milkshake while you’re at it.
Sounds tasty!
And put his scruff back on. I am not always a fan of the unshaven look, but he needs it and wears it well.
Thinking they hired him before they thought through the flankers — he was a good fit for The One, a less good fit for The One Gentleman. So they just altered him to fit, LOL…
I really HATE the unshaven look but I’m going to have to agree with JolieFleurs on this one. He looks odd without the scruff, however, to emulate the gentlemanly persona, D & G obviously had to clean him up. With his strange behaviour that others have written in about, I cannot imagine him as a gentleman. He is, granted, handsome, but I don’t like him because he doesn’t use deodorant. I don’t know how Penelope Cruz could stand him when they were dating. I saw him in The Wedding Planner and he is a good actor.
It almost looks like they’ve photo shopped his head onto someone else’s body.
I suspect that’s exactly what they did.
I was thinking the same thing! Immediately I noticed how weird he looks – he’s kink of a beefy muscle body guy. It looks like they put his head on the body of some scrawny 17 year old! Ack – photoshop disaster for sure! And they airbrushed all his cute smile wrinkles off…. ack. What a mess. If they wanted Matthew M for their ad campaign, then they should actually *use* him in the campaign!
I was just thinking the same thing: the head and body don’t go together at all! And just the idea of M.M. as the “gentlman” and all gussied up in a tux is just weird….talk about bad casting.
What a shame. McConaughey is such a good looking man just as Nature made him. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Persackly.
How odd for an actor who was regarded as the square jawed (but not “square” personality type.
Wow, he is totally beige and metrosexual – the exact opposite of the Texas cowboy persona he projects.
Oddly enough, McConaughey is known for not wearing deodorant and his co-stars are on record for complaining about his unwashed manliness!
Ew, ick! It looks to me like a latex Matthew McConaughey mask, not even the face of a real human being — let alone the actual MM. And how do you pick someone like him, who has a pretty public and outsized personality that is pretty much the opposite of buttoned-up, urbane gentleman, as the front for this campaign? None of this makes any sense.
Hmm. This effectively kills any interest I might have in this perfume while at the same time making me desperately want to watch Dazed and Confused right *now*!
My fav MM movie is “Sahara” – I confess I like Steve Zahn too – I have a thing for goofy guys with great smiles. And I have a girl crush on Penelope Cruz since I saw Vicky Christina Barcelona and Broken Embraces….
I literally did not recognize him.
At least they called it “The One Gentleman” and not “Gentleman The One” to match “L’Eau The One” and “Rose The One”, which were just stupid.
Hey, he’s wearing a shirt!
Not only is that not his body – but what the heck did they do to his face? Why is his head so narrow? How revolting.
At a glance, this resembles Daniel Day-Lewis.
Maybe I’m not as familiar with McC, but this doesn’t strike me as that bad. I’m not sure why…
It doesn’t look like him – I mean, the person in the ad isn’t inhumanly weird, the way it sometimes happens, but the photoshopping is really obvious if you know what he really looks like.
Like I said, I guess I’m being a philistine again. I like the way the guy generally looks, but I’m not seeing what everyone else is seeing. To me it’s not outrageously different from this:
http://www.accesshollywood.com/content/images/122/400x400bd/122569_matthew-mcconaughey-attends-the-dolce-and-gabbana-the-one-for-men-during-milan-fashion-week-milan-it.jpg
A lot of us are used to seeing him like this…
http://www.hollywood.com/photo/Matthew_McConaughey_Matthew_McConaughey/2400427/7067325
Well, my link didn’t work – that’s not the picture I wanted. I’m so computer illiterate sometimes.
Photostreams like that rarely link to a specific picture, so I don’t think it’s you.
Yeah, that is a weird picture of him, though. Like he is trying to look like this ad. He is usually blonder, more windblown, devil-may-care-ish.
Nothing says ‘a gentleman has respect for himself, that is the basis of his respect and consideration for others’ like getting stoned and playing the bongos at midnight naked until the neighbors call the police. Sorry, that’s all I know of the guy.
Definitely displays the perils of Photoshop- he looks way better au naturel! Maybe that could be a flanker Dolce and Gabbana The Au Naturel One. Now, that could be an ad campaign…MM or , swoon, Hugh Jackman..yum
Yeah… they would not need to photoshop that ad…. just a set of bongos
Hahaha that looks nothing like Matthew McConaughey!
I thought it was a fundraising appeal for World Vision or Feed the Children (Feed the Actors?). If we all pitch in, maybe we can be sure he gets three square meals every day…and a roof over his head. Is the idea that the fragrance smells so good, you’ll forget to eat when you’re wearing it?
There should be a worldwide ban on using Photoshop (or any equivalent) in advertising. Period.
This is horrid! I didn’t know that was McConaughey until I read the article. They made him look absolutely awful-like a mutant! Why can’t they just let people look like people?
LOL – you’re right Dixie: it’s very creepy. Reminds me of one of those science fiction stories in which a handsome young person’s body is taken over by an old, corrupt, dying rich person, or by alien pod people!
OMG no joke but I really am not a fan of him at all and when I saw this pic I thought of how much BETTER he looked!!!! LOL!!! I’m bad!!! : )