Byrne: Naturally Beautiful

That picture shows Rose Byrne at her least attractive. Her least.

That’s a publicity photo from Sunshine, where the Australian-born Byrne plays a character who, despite being endlessly compassionate, might as well be a dude. She doesn’t play up her sexuality, never makes out with Cillian Murphy, and generally does whatever necessary to keep the audience from getting distracted at her painful, natural good looks. It doesn’t really work — if you put the Scarecrow and Rose Byrne on screen together, it’s not hard to imagine who the audience is going to want to look at — but the point is that Byrne looks effortlessly great even when she isn’t supposed to. She can also fake a really good American accent and that’s super hot for some reason and god dammit I need to move to Australia.