Sexiest moment in television history (maybe)
Call me a freak, but one of the hottest thing I’ve ever seen (or heard) on television was on the medical show ER, when the amazingly beautiful actor Goran Visnjic, who plays Dr. Kovac on the show, recites long lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Croatian. The ER doctors are all stuck in a sexual harassment seminar for the day, there’s a raging snow storm outside and the teacher is late, and the doctors are killing time by talking, fencing, and recalling their old days as theater students.
Visjnic, an actor who left his native town of Sibenik to work in Hollywood, played a very successful Hamlet when he was a young theater star in Croatia. Rumor has it that Madonna thought he was so hot she decided to hire him for a music video so she could get to fondle him. And they say money can’t bring you happiness…
Seriously, I admire the way the writers of ER have been pretty daring from the start, trying out things that other shows would not dare attempt: a live show with only a couple of cuts, a show completely backwards like the movie Memento, etc. I love the fact that they decided not to translate or subtitle Hamlet when the actor says his lines in Croatian during that episode. The writers took a chance, knowing that the average american television viewer would switch channels while some foreign actor went off on Skakespeare. On the screen, all you have is the gorgeous face of the actor and cryptic words flowing out of his mouth like the sweetest poetry. * drool *
There’s a repeat of that episode tonight at 10pm (on Global, I believe). I guess I’ll have to watch it again.
