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He-Man Actor, 31, Lands Wild Role as Cult Survivor/Supermodel

Hoyt Richards was once the highest-paid male model ever.

Actor Nicholas Galitzine has another strange, hunky project in the works. The 31-year-old actor, who played the iconic comic book hero He-Man in this month’s Masters of the Universe movie, will star as male supermodel Hoyt Richards in an upcoming feature film from auteur filmmaker Gus Van Sant. Other details about the upcoming feature haven’t been revealed yet, but Richards, 64, is widely known as the first-ever male supermodel. He was also in a cult led by Frederick von Mierers, called Eternal Values, to which he gave millions of dollars he earned from modeling. A new HBO docuseries, Bring Me the Beauties, details Richards’ experience with von Mierers, who helped the young model enter the fashion world but also believed himself to be an alien consciousness occupying a human body. Aside from his leading role in Masters of the Universe, Galitzine also stars as Elliot Matthews in The Sheep Detectives alongside Hugh Jackman.