A brave new beautiful

  He's reedy like a long-distance runner; his flopsy curls tumble like overcooked fusilli. He's attractive but in a way you can't always put your finger on. He's Hollywood's white boy of the moment, and he has ambled into the movie industry to counter the broad and built look that the Marvel cinematic onslaught helped usher in during the 2000s.
  It began, perhaps, with Timothée Chalamet. (Only in Hollywood can you be an elder at the advanced age of 28.) Since at least Call Me by Your Name in 2017, Mr Chalamet has typified the impish handsomeness of so many rising young male actors. Their jawlines are so angular they look as if they've been run through a contouring app, and they appear to weigh less than the barbells that Chris Evans or Hugh Jackman must bench press each morning. [...]
  “It's a quieter kind of brooding masculinity,” said Drew Ayers, associate professor of film at Eastern Washington University who has written extensively about the beefed-up look of action stars going back to before the Marvel moment. “It's less in your face and assertive.”
  This crop of stars project their authority not from their brawn but “from a different source,” Mr. Ayers said – be it their personality or their actions onscreen.
  “I think, positively, it offers a different version of masculinity that the power doesn't have to emerge from your body,” he said.