allure of the older guy: part 3

As some guys get older, their looks start to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Mel Gibson, anyone? Yet some guys just look hotter when they age. And some don’t even look that good in the beginning. But flash forward some years and you realize they have turned into very sexy men. In this post I have the next example for such guys: Patrick Dempsey.

Patrick Dempsey (43)

I guess the picture just speaks for itself. Recently I came across two movies that had Patrick in small roles: Outbreak (1995) and Scream 3 (2000). Outbreak is a solid thriller about a dangerous and contagious virus and I had seen it many times. Yet I hadn’t noticed Patrick was even there. Oh sure, his role was tiny but still, I had thought that the guy who played the part was just an ordinary looking someone. And when I saw him in Scream 3 the first time, I hadn’t noticed him yet again. But then I came across a showing on TV and I spotted him as Dempsey. Because now several years had passed since the first episode of Grey’s Anatomy was launched and I had a pretty good idea of who he was and what he looked like. Not that he looked the same. Of course once you can recognize him and everything but the difference in his looks are extremely remarkable.

And then there came Grey’s Anatomy. The show started in 2005, when Patrick was about to turn 40. The leading female Meredith Grey meets him in a bar and hooks up with him in the first episode. The next morning, she awkwardly and hurriedly lets him out of the house. She finds him hot but she is not exactly a relationship person, and she especially doesn’t start dating a guy after a one night stand. So she goes to work to the hospital, where it will be her first day as an intern doctor. But then she runs across the guy- it is Derek Shepherd and he happens to be her boss. Actually, rank-wise speaking he is her bosses’ boss. Meredith and her intern friends refer to him as McDreamy behind his back, and rightfully so. Oh, and his appearance pulls me into the show. The guy I failed to notice had matured into a sexy,attractive actor in his 40s. Here are some pictures that show why he deserves the nickname.