Good Morning, World

A happy 44th birthday today to Iranian actor Shahab Hosseini, who can currently be seen at a theater near some of you in The Salesman, the new film from A Separation director Asghar Farhadi. He even won the Best Actor prize at Cannes for the movie, and he is very very good indeed. I just reviewed this movie last week - read the review right here. If you don't follow me on Twitter you missed a co-exoration:

.
And obviously that's why we're here this morning.That said, good luck finding much more erotically charged out of Shahab than this Flashdance picture of him here:

I am somewhat blindly assuming this is a cultural thing -- but if anybody wants to correct my American ignorance please do -- that it's difficult to find even so much as a shirtless picture of this respected actor. Thinking back through the films of Farhadi and Abbas Kiarostami, aka the only Iranian directors whose work I have regularly gotten my eyes onto, I can't think of much if anything in the way of beefcake or the beefcake adjacent. What are the cultural norms regarding male beauty there? Anybody have any insight?