Men like him just as much as women do. They want him on their team, being charming, being a goofball, making all the guys feel unaccountably good about having come along that day. As a star, he is an interesting phenomenon. Most people who have heard of him would not be able to name one of his films, but that doesn't seem to make a jot of difference. He was famous as Dr Ross, but he is more famous now.
Nobody is sure why.
He says he is lucky not to have had any smash hits because it means he hasn't been typecast. The closest he has come to blockbuster since is Wolfgang Petersen's The Perfect Storm , but he felt that didn't fit the mould because, for starters, almost everybody in it dies. In fact, I think I buried that particular genre. In the process, however, he found himself in a league where he could get Out of Sight or David O.Brown's Three Kings happening, just by volunteering to be in them. And if this seems like a no-brainer, remember that no lesser actors than Nic Cage, John Malkovich and John Cusack did, indeed, do Con Air .