If I Needed Saving I Would Want…

On my very, very long drive up to Cape Cod over the 4th I had a conversation with my brother about this post.   Usually he just asks me how my blog is doing, I say it’s going well, and we leave it at that but when I told him about this upcoming post it spawned quite a conversation.  I told Kevin that I had made a list of actors in specific roles that I would want to save me if I was ever hurt, kidnapped, dying, or in general just needed saving.   Together we shot down a lot of the people on my original list, no pun intended. They had to be, as my brother said, “a normal dude”. That means no super heroes, no guys with special powers, and no actors with things (weapons, cars, gadgets, ect.) that do not or could not potentially exist.

When I asked my brother who his top three super heroes to come save me would be he said, “Superman – duh, Ironman, and the Green Lantern – unequivocally the most powerful.  Kelly, really anyone in Marvel comics. So Kel, that means you can’t have Thor on your list.”   You better believe Chris Hemsworth as Thor was in that original post, sign, oh well!

This was honestly such a fun conversation. Once we had a list of nine actors we Googled the top action stars of all time and as I read out the results Kevin’s best reaction was, “Mel Gibson in Braveheart – meh – he saved a country not a person, so no, doesn’t get to be on the list”.  And just because I know I am going to get at least one comment, this has nothing to do with guns, it has to deal with actors playing roles in movies that I love.   After all that, this is my list of Hollywood actors I would want to save me: 

Liam Neeson in Taken

Bruce Willis in the Die Hard Series

 
Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson  in the A-Team

Daniel Craig in the James Bond Series

Jason Statham in the Transporter Series

Bradley Cooper, my boyfriend, in The A-Team  

Sylvester Stalone in Rambo

Matt Damon the Jason Bourne Series

Clint Eastwood in the Man with No Name Series

Denzel Washington in Man on Fire

Vin Diesel in The Fast and Furious Series

If you made a list of men you would want to save you, which Hollywood actors would be on it?