We talk about The Walking Dead here at UPROXX a lot, and Daryl Dixon is the obvious fan favorite. But we don't talk about the actor who plays him, Norman Reedus, enough. Going through The Walking Dead images every week for the recaps, I've drawn an inescapable conclusion about the guy: He's a true American bad ass. He's funny. He's well liked. He's friendly, and he's got a great head on his shoulders. He's come a long ways since his days as a fashion model, the co-lead in The Boondock Saints, and as a music video actor (did you know he's in Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees video and, more recently, a Lady Gaga video?). Dude's just an all around fantastic guy, and I think we should take a moment to show our appreciation for a guy that just straight up rocks. Here's 11 photographic reasons why Norman Reedus the biggest bad ass on the planet.
1. He's Hilarious on the Set
2. He's Great with Fans
3. He Chills with Zombies
4. He Truly Appreciates His Special Effects Supervisor, Greg Nicotero
5. He Wears Awesome Slippers
6. What Other Dude (Besides Eddie Izzard) Could Pull Off a Tutu Yet NO ONE Would Question His Sexuality?
7. He's the Only Bad Ass On Television with a Hello Kitty Obsession
8. He Likes Real Kitties, Too
9. He's Also a Dog Lover. You Can Always Trust a Dog Lover
10. He's Great Role Model. He's Great with Kids. Only a Guy as Cool As Him Would Name His Kid Mingus Reedus
11. He'd Be a Great King. In fact, He'd Look Great on the Iron Throne
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I was not born with ovaries, but I might have just formed some.
Signed up at Big44. The offer was NOT as you promised, Gor. FOR SHAME!
Now if you excuse me, I have to go buy a new computer.
They really need to give this guy a dog companion on The Walking Dead…or I would watch a spin off with him and a dog fighting zombies.
Would.
Yes! Darrel and Hooch. The dog would constantly be bringing back zombie bones (that are still moving).
If a dog can make Jim Belushi likable (K-9) it might transform Reedus into a deity.
he’s also SMOKING HOT
not that that automatically makes him a badass, but you know…..it helps
It’s not weird that I found the tutu picture hot, right?
Daryl is the bomb-diggety, but Boondock Saints is as big a piece of crap that has ever been put on celluloid. There is no other answer.
Troy Duffy is going to show up any second and berate the shit out of you.
But first, let us pray.
Youre not alone Mookie. Boondock Saints was shit!
I will not stand for this blasphemy. Boondock Saints was a great movie. Boondock Saints 2 is another matter.
anyone who would use the term “bomb-diggety” has no right whatsoever to comment on the Boondock Saints…
13. He has a metal eye socket from a severe auto injury.
“Sploosh!” – Patty Boots
Yeah whatever the male version of Sploosh is, which I guess is just Sploosh… with seamen.
I once kicked him out of the bar I work at about 4 or 5 years ago. He was fine and almost charming at first. Then as he proceeded to get drunk he told me how all the Twilight Kids wanted nothing more than to be him.
By the end, my boss asked me a question and he proceeded to interrupt and tell her “Why don’t I kick you in your vagina?”
I kicked him out after that. To his credit, he didn’t make much of a fuss about it.
Yikes.
I’ve heard from associates that he’s also a rather tiny man. Truth? Or is he just as small as any other actor?
He was a bit on the small side, but actor small.
That sucks. No excuses, because a guy saying something like that is not cool, but maybe he is just really shitty at holding his liquor. I know awesome people who are terrible drunks…
I’m guilty of much much worse.
That sounds hilarious to me, but that’s also because I’m a terrible person.
Whoops, meant to reply to Cuneform, now I look like quite the fool. An April’s fool if you will.
I met him at a convention and he was pretty slender, but around 5’10”. Also, he had sunglasses on the whole time, so I’m pretty sure he was shitfaced then too.
Thaaaat was supposed to be a reply to the post above.
Those are some awesome slippers.
This article just made my day
Norman is the man!!!
I was at a horror convention a few years ago where a girl was following Norman. It turns out she’d been hitting on him for hours and he kept turning her down. By the end of the day she was just wondering around bawling. It was fantastic.
I had a roommate who worked at a film festival back when the second Boondock Saints came out and he got to hang with Norman one night, said the guy is totally what you expect: cool as sh*t to everyone, funny and loves to get drunk.
Yessshh. The Iron Throne. Well, he’s already a Saint, so he might as well be King too. Whoever said BS sucks up there, you are in big trouble mister. Bomb-diggety…indeed. Tisk, tisk!
Blaylock has it cold…..Boondocks was def! No Smokin Aces, or no Shoot Em Up for that matter
I would still treat him like a large soft serve cone though~~~~blush