Hollywood is all about “it” actors; whether it’s the newest girl to appear in a Bond movie, or the newest guy who is seemingly being stuck in everything we see, there’s always someone they’re shoving down our collective throats. Most of the time, these people have their moment in the sun and then fade off into obscurity, only really popping up when they do something weird in their personal life (I’m looking at you Alicia Silverstone), but sometimes they have actual talent and stick around in the acting game. Josh Lucas is the kind of “It Guy” who stuck around, and we’re all better off from it, in an entertainment sense at least. The man who saw his star rise with rolls in “Sweet Home Alabama” and “The Hulk” should’ve faded away after he proved that he didn’t sell too great as a leading man, but instead he decided to start doing more character work, and his career has been going strong for over a decade now because of it. With work in things like “The Lincoln Lawyer” and “The Firm”, Lucas’ career shows no sign of going anywhere…his hair is another story though. Yes folks, his follicles have gone “Stealth”…that’s a movie, I swear.

Back when he first hit it big, he was already rocking a hairline that didn’t appear to have staying power, so when he started balding soon into his fame, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone. For starters, he was already almost thirty when he got big, having acted in smaller rolls for over a decade before. Secondly, some people just go bald. Lucas’s receding hairline is nothing more than a standard case of male pattern baldness. Had he found his stride earlier, we’d all be saying how he’s always had such great hair, but to my knowledge he was always missing a little down in front. These days, Lucas has about a five-head, which is nothing terrible for a man in his forties. What’s even less terrible is how he’s handled it; he hasn’t. Just like a man should, Lucas is letting his hair go gracefully, and instead of getting a hair transplant or a weave system, he’s just playing older rolls and styling himself differently. It helps that he’s a handsome dude, so women aren’t likely to go; “Yuck, get that balding troll off my screen!”; they’re too busy being charmed by his dreamy-ness (that’s a term girls use right? I’m married, so clearly I know nothing about women who aren’t legally bonded to me).

So in the end, Josh Lucas is balding the right way, and it’s for that reason that I ‘d like to offer him a place in The Bald Army. I’m going to say that “LT. Lucas” has a nice ring to it. Welcome aboard Josh!