I didn't think Sebastian Egan was dad material at all. Not good husband material either-- LOL-- as the hard-bitten, hard-drinking, investigative journalist, but I could imagine a love interest being worked in somehow. And Dante is the sexiest persona of all of them. Martin's not bad, either.
I was thinking more of how he is ageing - not bad at all - yum! - from our personal perspectives but we are not in Hollywood, obsessed with youth and a six pack! Our darling man is starting to look his age; perfect for the roles he plays now but problematic, going forward, as Hollywood casts ever younger people in roles associated with older folk - so a woman of 30, not able to play the ingénue as they did at 19 with all the other new, fresh faces there always are to choose from, might find themselves playing the mother of someone only a couple of years younger than them - ridiculous - but that's how things are there. And did we really think it was appropriate for Martin to just so happen to be married to a super-model? Wasn't Amber Valletta one of the breed who didn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 but we are supposed to buy the idea that she is a suitable spouse for a deep cover FBI agent? Really - how would they meet? Or Eva Longoria in "Any Day" - it's Hollywood nonsense. Here/Europe once the youth and beauty bit fades, you can transition nicely in to the character parts, and if you never had the looks, you can still have a very good career with all of the other roles available.
I can't see Sean getting a role like "Troy" or "Sharpe" which he did, not only just based on his talent, but in part, based on his dashing good looks then. I can, however, see US casting agents seeing him getting older and as some of them can't see beyond the most recent thing you have done, he could be playing a lovely Dad like Ned for quite some time. Sebastian is part of that group of roles I would think - they will see that and think of him for older character parts when they should be seeing someone who can do pretty much everything - including wearing a dress, what more do these people need, never mind walking on cobbles in stilettos which, as a woman I can't do, I don't know how he managed that!
Again, to me, of course, he could still do amazing action roles and there is the "Taken" franchise with an opening, or something in a similar vein, that he would be perfect for, it just takes a role that reminds people of what he can do so hopefully, to me, there is more Dante in S2 that will remind them!
Sean Connery was playing parts with romantic involvements into his 60s, wasn't he? It all depends on the story, on the part. I would hate to see our Sean doing boring dad roles yet (Ned Stark-type heroic dads are a different thing); he has too much magnetism and intensity for that. He was hot in Cleanskin.
Personally, I found the Sean Connery and ever younger women thing sillier and sillier - how realistic in any way was a man his age being involved with Catherine Zeta Jones for example, not believable at all, even if was Sean Connery! And I didn't say boring Dads - I just meant that age range and what Hollywood sees that as meaning, and more importantly, the roles it denies people they see in that way. And yes, he was fab in "Cleanskin" - the perfect, age appropriate, dressed young and trendy but not too much so, and relevant, role for him - more of those I say!!!
I agree it's too bad they didn't do Odysseus sooner after Troy; Sean was so great in the role, but I think it needs to be done by a man in his 40s. Oh... just looked it up and Kirk Douglas was in his 30s when he did it.
Yes, it is a shame, he really was the perfect Odysseus, and Zeus for that matter.