PaleyFest09 – “The Mentalist”

Italian Vanity Fair (March 2009

TV Guide magazine named “The Mentalist” star Simon Baker TV’s Sexiest Actor, beating out “Grey’s Anatomy’s” Patrick Dempsey, who held the crown for two years.

Simon plays repentant fake psychic Patrick Jane on the hit show that airs on CBS and in my dreams he plays a prince who rides a white horse and saves me from a … wait … sorry. That’s private. You also may remember the actor and his eyebrows from “The Devil Wear’s Prada.”

“My wife said to me this morning ‘I could take a photo of you right now and they might take that title away from you’,” Simon joked to TV Guide “That is the kind of encouragement I need as I go off to do a photo shoot about having to be sexy.”

The other handsome hunks on TV Guide’s “sexiest” list included “True Blood’s” Ryan Kwanten and hot daddy Matthew Settle from “Gossip Girl.”

Simon’s on the front cover of the March 26th issue of TV Guide and I’ll have scans as soon as I can grab a copy!

Cosmopolitan (April 2009)

TV Guide (January 5, 2009)

Inland Empire (March 2009)

There’s more than meets the eye for the Mentalist when Patrick Jane is temporarily blinded by an explosion in “Bloodshot,” airing March 17. “so much of mentalism is about seeing and watching and observing,” says coexecutive producer Gary Glasberg, who wrote the episode. Simon Baker’s Jane must use his other acute senses to solve the case of murdered financial adviser, so he’s excused if he can’t keep his hands to himself. “There are characters that he might normally be intimidated by that he actually touches and feels in a comedic sense,” Glasberg says. “They react with surprise—and amazement—at how intuitive he is. Simon had so much fun with it” When Jane turns out to be the real target of the killer, he searches his own past, with flashbacks. Says Glasbert, “There’s a little bit of insight into what he was”

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