How are 14 heartthrobs who were very successful in the 80’s and 90’s today

Like photography, film and television are also great ways to go back in time to relive some moments from the past. Movies and series offer us images that transport us to other decades and make us remember who were the great heartthrobs who marked the time.

With that in mind, the awesome.club decided to go back in time to remember who and what heartthrobs were in the 80s and 90s, especially to see how beauty standards have changed since then.

John Travolta has won over more than a generation both through his strength as an actor and through his dancing and voice. After leaving millions of viewers stunned with his role in Grease, in the 80’s we could see the actor in productions such as A Shot in the Night and Saturday Fever Continues. John is still very present in the world of entertainment and his most recent work has been in the films Trading Paint and Fanatic.

Richard Gere is an actor with an impressive track record on screen. Although his film appearances began in the 1970s, it was in the 1980s that he made a huge leap to fame, particularly for the character he played in American Gigolo. However, the success achieved with this film was only a small sample of everything that was yet to come. In the 1990s, he stunned the world with the smash hit Pretty Woman, which also happened more recently in Dinner.

Christopher Lambert, an actor of French origin who found his space in the crowded world of Hollywood productions, was very successful in the 80s.
Greystoke – Legend of Tarzan, King of the Jungle and Highlander – The Immortal Warrior are two of his best-remembered roles from this era, but other hits later followed, including Resurrection – Scrapbook and Ghost Rider – Spirit of Vengeance.

The son of a ballerina and an actor, Kurt Russell began his career in the world of cinema in the 1960s, and his great goal was to become one of the most recognizable faces in the world of action films. In the 80’s, he was the protagonist of great films, among them The Adventurers of the Forbidden Quarter and Tango and Cash – The Avengers, while in the 90’s we saw him in Stargate. Most recently, the actor was part of the cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, A Christmas Carols: Part Two and Fast and Furious 9.

Rob Lowe started working as a model at the age of 8, and his interest in the world of cinema awakened at the age of 12, when he started acting in theater plays. In the 80s, Rob started working in cinema, but perhaps the film that launched him once and for all in the world of fame was The Road to Life, alongside other very popular actors such as Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon and Ralph Macchio. More recently, he participated in some productions, such as Super Tiras 2 and How to Become a Conqueror.

It was in the late 60’s and early 70’s that Tom Selleck started working as an actor. He is a man who is distinguished by his mustache, which is perhaps why his most remembered role is the detective in the 1980s series Magnum, PI. Another character who attracted a lot of attention was Peter from the movie Three Men and a Baby.

Tom never stopped working. His most recent (and current) work is on the Blue Bloods series.

Although he also started a few decades earlier, his path to success and his big leap to fame came in the late 70’s and early 80’s, when famous director George Lucas gave him a break in the Star Wars saga and when he entered as the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. Yes, Harrison Ford turned into Han Solo and, some time later, into Indiana Jones. And from these successes he established himself in the world of entertainment as one of the most famous names.

Son of famous actor Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas followed in his talented father’s footsteps and grew into one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. He participated in many films in the 80s and 90s, including Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct, making his gift for acting clear from the beginning of his career. Maybe that’s why he’s still very successful. Now 77, he can be seen in films like Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Endgame and in the award-winning series The Kominsky Method.

Another great heartthrob of the 80s and 90s is actor and film and television producer Matt Dillon. Her roles in films like The Wilderness, The Unlimited Dream and Who’s Gonna Keep Mary? were decisive in consolidating his work as an actor between the public and the critics.

Matthew Broderick inherited his parents’ love of art and eventually became a great actor. Godzilla and Inspector Gadget are just two of the many movies he worked on in the ’90s. Most recently, he worked on Lazy Susan.

His big leap into the world of fame came in 1995, playing “Gasparzinho” as a real boy. In the year 2000 he was also very successful with the film Premonition. In 2022, Devon Sawa played opposite actors such as Bruce Willis and Luke Wilson in the movie Gasoline Alley.

John Cusack is another name that was very successful at that time. With successful films such as Quero Ser John Malkovich and Con Air — The Escape Route, the actor established himself as one of the great actors in Hollywood at the time.

Today he is known for his role as Raymond Reddington on the popular series The Blacklist; however, his career as an actor is already many years old and has a beautiful filmography. In the 90s, James Spader worked on Stargate and on Crash: Strange Pleasures.

Films such as The Crazy Life, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Maximum Speed ​​are just a few on the list of this great actor, who recently participated in The Dropout alongside actress Amanda Seyfried.

Kadu Moliterno was born in the interior of São Paulo, but was marked by the image of the carioca surfer on television. One of his most outstanding characters was Juba, from the series Armação Ilimitada, which was on the air from 1985 to 1988, being hugely successful among the young people of that generation.

What other heartthrobs from the 80s and 90s do you think were missing? And what is your favorite movie from that time?