Now this is my idea of eye candy! This is my PC wallpaper for the time being. He comes from a very artistic family, Manhattanites. His dad worked for
Sports Illustrated and his brother is a novelist. Thomas's break out performance is in
Prom, a surprisingly uncloying Disney fantasy on that urban legendary rite of passage, and how different couples manage to get together for the Big Night. The plot mechanics are poorly contrived and we've seen it all before in a different context (
Carrie even did it as horror), but the cast is cute and there's a quasi-bisexual subplot of a nerdy boy not wanting his good-looking best pal to get a date with a girl, but every scene McDonell is in he steals even without a lot of lines. There is a seething sullenness about him that is just beneath the surface. In the above photo the seeming resemblance to Ralph Macchio is coincidental, a play of light and makeup. It is interesting that McDonell will star with Johnny Depp in an upcoming flick. If I were Johnny Depp, I wouldn't want to parade my old ass around a movie set with a hot young stud like McDonell standing in the wings, rather in the manner of Anne Baxter (only, in this case, it is STEVE Harrington). The director of Depp's
Don Juan DiMarco, surely one of the worst bores ever released, said Depp had taken "the mantle" from Brando. Maybe so, but McDonell may take it from Depp.
