Hot or Not: Rebecca Hall

Recently, I learned that British actress Rebecca Hall has starred in some particularly steamy sex scenes in the acclaimed BBC production the RedRiding Trilogy. Although apparently she doesn't bare all, it can only help that she's finally decided to embrace her narrowly withheld sexuality. This development has, at least for myself, re-opened a debate of vital importance: is Rebecca Hall hot or not?

Mainstream audiences were first introduced to Rebecca Hall in The Prestige, where she plays Christian Bale's tormented wife. Constantly made-up in frumpy Victorian garb--and a terribly worn-up hairdo that her naturally pretty face struggled to overcome--this role did little to endear me to her attractiveness. But one could still see there was more under the surface of her of intentionally understated appearance in The Prestige.

Her next major role was in Vicki Christina Barcelona, in which she yet again had to act opposite the unworldly hotness that is Scarlett Johannson and her Boleyn girls (that's my euphemism for Scarlett Johannson's boobs), not to mention Penelope Cruz (and her... Bandidas?). Despite that, she acquited herself well as Scarlet Johannson's more sexually conservative friend that Javier Bardem still bangs.

In Frost/Nixon, Hall finally plays a character that isn't a prude either because of choice or sex-sapping Victorian conventions. As the film's only real offering of sexuality, Hall seemingly relishes the opportunity to show off her sleek, deliciously well-proportioned body. That combined with her demure and hard-earned sensuality help to make this clearly her most attractive role to date (I'm a sucker for reserved British beauty, especially when packaged with such knowing seductiveness).

But if this were simply a question of sexiness of personality, then there wouldn't even be a debate. You decide.

Source: Aceshowbiz