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When I sat down for a screening of the new movie Patti Cake$ on Tuesday night I thought I knew what I was in for thanks to the trailer - an underdog rapper movie a la 8 Mile just with a big white girl as our lead. And I got that. But what I didn't expect was a cornucopia of good-looking guys surrounding her. At first I intended to do a post on Siddharth Dhananjay, who plays Patti's best friend, and who I found completely adorable. Then I realized I could also do a post on Mamoudou Athie, who plays her new friend and producer.
But Siddharth and Mamoudou, adorable though they may be, are both relative newcomers and the pickings are sparse. That's when I remembered the third male lead in the movie - the dickhead Danny who rap-battles Patti and gets introduced rolling pizza pies in sexy slow-motion, played by a certain McCaul Lombardi. He seemed familiar, I thought. And sure enough...
... speaking of "dick heads" he played the enthusiastic flasher Corey in Andrea Arnold's brilliant and lively film American Honey last year. I remember him! He's pretty hard to forget. And then when I got to looking I realized he's done some modeling too...
... and I guess he was in a Lana Del Ray video? Anyway before I knew what was happening I had dozens upon dozens of pictures of him gathered up. And so McCaul wins for today! And seeing as how he's got several projects lined up already don't be surprised if you keep seeing him. For now though you can do just that - see him, dozens of ways - if you justhit the jump...