LOVE STORY star Paul Anthony Kelly covers the latest issue of GQ Hype magazine photographed by Matthew Leifheit and styled by Marcus Allen.
“I was kind of thrust into this position with no time to think about anything else,” Kelly says. He spent three weeks working with a dialect coach and an acting coach, collecting back issues of George (the political magazine JFK Jr. cofounded), and listening to the Profiles in Courage audiobook (JFK wrote it, JFK Jr. read it) nonstop. Kennedy’s physicality was another challenge. “I had to beef up a little bit, which was great,” he says. “I was model size before, so I had to go from a 38 US size/48 European to then like a 52—that’s two sizes. Pretty big jump in three weeks, but we did it.”
“We live in a time when everyone is hairless and beefy and ripped and whatever,” he continues. “I keep it au natural. I have chest hair, I own it. I don’t really want to fit into anyone’s mold. I did that for so long being a model. I’ve definitely had to shave it down for shoots and whatever and fit that mold. But now I’m in the business of breaking that mold and creating my own…. Maybe being objectified a little bit as a model and perhaps held at a certain degree prepared me for what’s next.”
“He had a type of body and a type of look that hearkens back to stars of old,” Love Story executive producer Brad Simpson says of Kennedy. “It really is Richard Gere in the ’80s. It’s really Tom Selleck. It’s these men with broad shoulders and they are in shape, but they’re in shape because they’ve been throwing a football around, not because they’ve been working on every muscle in their body for a Marvel movie. And they have hair on their chest. We live in a world of electrolysis men, and it was a real challenge to find that sort of guy—a guy that women and gay men are attracted to, but also guys want to hang out and have a beer with.”
Photographs by Matthew Leifheit
Styled by Marcus Allen
Grooming by Kumi Craig
[Photo Credit: Matthew Leifheit for GQ Hype Magazine]
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