Personally, yes I did find Rumple sexy in an oddly sinister bad-boy kind of way. But if anyone had asked me at the time, before Skin Deep, I doubt that I would have admitted it because I honestly thought there was something slightly wrong with me to find that character sexy. I was greatly relieved to find that I was not the only person out there mesmerized by more than his magic. However I will say, that they did change something about his make-up from the pilot because I can hardly recognize his face in the pilot – it doesn’t even look like Robert Carlyle at all to me. And in the pilot you don’t see his “Rock Star” outfit and he doesn’t walk around with his
characteristic “strut.” For me it’s the combination of the toned down make-up, the Rock Star outfit and the way Rumple carries himself that I find sexy – I think it’s the “bad-boy” thing he’s got going on (I’m willing to overlook the rotting teeth, it’s all about the complete package ya know). In the pilot, I think he’s just plain creepy – but his character still drew me in at that point and I was immediately in love with his character because I think Robert Carlyle is just an awesome actor.
But Skin Deep, for sure did me in. Like I went from, “interesting that I would find that green creepy guy even remotely attractive, something must be seriously wrong with me” to “excuse me while I wipe the drool off my chin but that man is HOT!!!!”