Charles Melton is so hot right now. Thanks to his latest role, Charles has everyone talking. That is why he is the subject of today's Man Crush Monday. Let's do a deep dive into our hot #MCM: Charles Melton.
The 32-year-old hottie is currently making headlines for his super sexy role in the Todd Haynes' film May December. It is currently streaming on Netflix, so please go watch it and watch Charles hold his own acting with megastar co-stars Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. He proves that he is also one of the greats by playing a love interest to the greats.
The darkly comic film is very loosely based on the Mary Kay Letourneau story in which a teacher groomed and had sex with her student. When she got out of jail, they got married. In this film, Natalie is an actress researching a Mary Kay-like role, so she goes to the source to study the couple and see what she can learn...but she gets in too deep!
He even shows his ass in a scene that is a bit of a spoiler. I'll post it at the end of this blog post so that you can skip it if you want to. Regardless of whether or not you watch the scene, you might be wondering: where did Charles Melton come from? Let me tell you!
He was born in Alaska to a white American father and a Korean immigrant mother. Since his father was in the military, they moved around a lot and Charles even spent five years in his ancestral South Korea. Eventually, however, they settled in the small town of Manhattan, Kansas, which is also the setting of the HBO show Somebody Somewhere (no nudity in that gay friendship story, just pointing out that it's a small world!).
He originally played football and played as a defensive back at the Kansas State University football team, but he never finished school. At 20 years old, he dropped out and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream job: acting! Thank goodness he did!
He worked his ass off auditioning, taking classes, and working as a dog walker to make ends meet. He finally broke through when Ryan Murphy took a liking to him and cast him in American Horror Story and Glee.
In American Horror Story: Hotel, he played Mr. Wu who got to strip down in Room 33. He plays a cocky businessman who tries to have a threesome with two Swedish models, but he didn't realize those babes had murder on the mind. He meets his bloody end, but that would not be the end of Charles Melton. Far from it!
He starred in a series of films, but he also had a recurring role in Riverdale. Compared to his hot male co-stars, Charles Melton is coming out ahead. Who saw that coming? Well, if you have always thought Charles was a cutie then you did. Congratulations!
Now let's watch that May December scene where he shows his ass:
