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An Irish actor who’s wowed audiences with delicate, intimate performances in Normal People, Aftersun, and All of Us Strangers, and who’s already inspired numerous Reddit threads devoted to his thighs, Mescal is given a chance to step up as an old-school, matinee-idol leading man here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
How can a leading man so steeped in American iconography have taken so long to make a Western?
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
Being a leading man in a box office draw, all of that stuff is cool.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
The festival will dedicate another retrospective to iconic Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune, Akira Kurosawa’s long-time leading man.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 13 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1827, in the meaning defined above
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“Leading man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leading%20man. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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leading man
noun
: an actor who plays the leading male role in a play or movie
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