"The English Patient" was just the one where my admiration for him turned from sheer respect in his acting talent to pure animal lust. Or, I should say - pure animal lust was added to my sheer respect in his acting talent, since that's never changed.
OMG, Ralph Fiennes!! I still feel like a teenager about him! He is a fiend: I
loved him in "Schindler's list"... I mean come on, that guy made me lust after ahorrid nazi ! I am not sure I would have resisted if I'd met him in person in the 40's, he a horrid nazi, I an activist in the French resistance... Ok, maybe