Chris Briney Is Ready to Be a Movie Star
Just when I thought I was finally released from the clutches of The Summer I Turned Pretty, I found myself getting dragged back by photos from the show’s finale event in Paris on Wednesday. Not only did they announce a movie, but something caught my eye: Chris Briney, who plays Conrad Fisher on the show, looked amazing. His hair was tousled just so, he was wearing an incredibly chic suit, and he was carrying what one of my colleagues referred to as a “bitchy little bag” (complimentary).
After doing a little research, I realized that over the past month or so, Briney has seized on TSITP mania by accepting a ton of invitations and looking really good when he shows up. He’s never really looked bad, per se, but earlier this summer he had a boy bob and was at the TSITP premiere with his farmer’s tan on full display:
He could do better, and you know what? He did. By the end of August, he was at a Red Sox game looking downright rugged. This isn’t the star of a streaming TV show enjoyed by teenagers and adult women — this is a movie star. He had, to borrow a phrase, turned his swag on.
In September, Briney attended the U.S. Open with Ralph Lauren, which served as his announcement that he was not playing around. RIP to the bob, hello to this fabulous haircut. And look at how he’s mastered his smolder!
During New York Fashion Week, Briney popped up at the Calvin Klein and COS shows, two brands that really work with the sort of elevated-classic thing he’s got going on right now.
To top it all off, the audio-erotica platform Quinn has been teasing a Briney-narrated story all week, with nearly every comment being a young woman absolutely losing her mind. “Chris Briney you’re literally everywhere and I’m all for it ????,” one woman wrote. Exactly.
We must give it up to the person on Briney’s team who decided it was time for him to turn the heartthrob dial all the way up and become inescapable. They have done important work here, and I salute them.
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