Jeremy Allen White and the Perennial Appeal of the Sexy Scumbag

No one is doing the sexy scumbag thing quite like Jeremy Allen White. Shameless stans have been trying to tell us that for more than a decade. But this summer their unwavering thirst is finally paying off. Having wrapped an 11-season stint as Lip Gallagher on Showtime’s debauched family dramedy last year, White is now the breakout star of FX’s juicy restaurant production The Bear. And in his second act playing Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto—the talented but tortured young chef at the heart of the hit series—White once again manages to make misery look sexier than sanity ever has.

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White’s portrayal of Carmy, and Lip before that, draws upon a long pop culture lineage of sleazeball idolatry. Think Ryan Gosling in A Place Beyond the Pines. Nicholas Cage in Moonstruck. Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems. Machine Gun Kelly in, uh, real life. Perpetually embroiled in some kind of self-inflicted crisis or crusade, there’s something undeniably hot about watching a man commit to suffering if nothing else.

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