First Monday of the month I want to do my #MCM (Man Crush Monday), partly because there are so many people out there who should be recognized for their work!

This week's #MCM is Alec Utgoff. I feel like in the U.S. most people would recognize him as one of the villains from the movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. I don't want to give away too much if you've never seen the movie (and want to) but he plays the son to the main Russian villain. His character is Aleksandr and he spends his time in the U.S. working under the direction of his father who is still in Russia.

(Source: IMDB)

In addition to Jack Ryan, he's been in The Tourist (with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie) and will be appearing in two upcoming films (both of which I'm super excited about): San Andreas (with The Rock, a disaster film based on the San Andreas fault line) and Mortdecai (credited just below Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Gwyneth Paltrow, Paul Bettany, and Jeff Goldblum).

On the set of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (Source: Google)

If you have Netflix Jack Ryan and his film The Seasoning House are available and if you have Hulu (free or Plus) you can watch the original series The Wrong Mans (season 1 and season 2/ep 1 are free, the rest of season 2 you need Hulu Plus). The Seasoning House is about a group of young women being prostituted to the Russian military with one deaf/mute orphan in charge of taking care of the girls. When she sees her chance to escape she takes it, that's when most of the movie plot takes place, as they are trying to get her back. The Wrong Mans is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum and is a hilarious British comedy about two guys who get framed for a murder they didn't commit and now they are trying to get themselves out of trouble but only keep running into more. Again, Alec's role is that of the Russian villain.

Josif - The Seasoning House

Alec was born in Kiev, Ukraine, but moved to the UK at a young age and pursued acting. I don't know what it is about that Russian-type look but I'm always drawn right into them, especially when they are close to my age. I think their cute, I cannot explain why. (Side note: I used to be obsessed with Anthony [Anatoliy] Federov from season 4 of American Idol, he too was from Kiev). Since he was born in Ukraine, but did schooling in the UK, he is fluent in both Russian and English (among other languages) so he has both the Russian accent and the English accent. I don't think it can get more adorable than that. I'll link to a few video clips below so you can see what I mean. (Source: IMDB Biography)

This link will take you to a clip from The Wrong Mans where he is playing a Russian character (the accent is adorable, can't help it haha)
http://youtu.be/Vsj5Mc91kCg?t=15m23s

These clips below are interviews with his English accent