Homofication: Alessandro Nivola

It’s Homofication Week on Up Your Alley! So I went and saw Coco Avant Chanel last with my photog BFF Brandon. Brilliant movie. BRILLIANT! Made even more so by a certain Alessandro Nivola. The first time he graced the screen, I believe there was an audiable sigh throughout the theatre and no joke: this guy’s charisma in this film was incredible, though not nearly as incredible as Audrey Tautou.

Even more fitting was the moustache he sported for the entire film:

I’m really getting into this Movember thing!

So he’s married to a woman…pffft. That’s what Homofication is all about.

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