A sea change in a muse

The Nick muse has a checkered history. (yes, we decided to just adopt the name)
It's detailed at Spotter's Field Guide to the Common Nick Muse

But of late, he's been undergoing a sea change in appearance. This happens occasionally.

He has always looked like Aaron Stanford:

But he's very modern looking. His face isn't one that dates much earlier than 1950 (you could see him doing 60s and 70s movies) Oddly though, he wears medieval dress (as Will Scarlet) about as well as Christian Slater, which is to say better than Costner but nowhere near Rickman's panache.

And right now, I'm writing him in the 1920s. And I'm thinking he may be morphing. Because this is much closer to the Charlie Doyle in my head than the young man above


The clothes aren't quite right and forgive the 1930s blur to the film. But that's TOTALLY a Charlie look.  Earnest and a little goofy and a lot romantic. Nick muses usually don't have a romantic bone in their bodies.


And you cannot tell me this is not a latter phase Nick Boyd, trained assassin, calm and collected, good looking and wearing the formalwear instead of letting it wear him. Stanford NEVER looks comfortable or put together in that level of formal.

So, maybe historic Nicks end up being James Mason instead.