He made women everywhere swoon as Samantha's well endowed, sex-crazed neighbor in the 2008 feature version of Sex In the City so at home, it's no surprise that French actor Gilles Marini keeps it just as steamy.
"I'm always like, 'Are the kids sleeping yet?' " the sexy star (and father of two) said at Thursday's Capcom Launch of Lost Planet 2. "The honeymoon stage has never ended for us, and for that I am very lucky … Every time I go to bed with my wife, I feel like it's the same as the first few months we are together."
Though his naked on-screen romps have resulted in a flood of attention from female admirers, Marini, 34, says Carole, his wife of 11 years, "is laughing all the time."
In fact, one recent incident involved two women who bet on whether or not Marini was circumcised.
"I didn't go for it, but I promised them that it was no CGI effect. It was actually me," he says, with a laugh.
But, notes the actor, there are many advantages to these sometimes-awkward female encounters.
For one, it results in "more sex with my wife," he insists. "It has been 11 years that we've been together, and I went to bed at 3 in the morning last night," he says. "So it's been good!"
Gilles Marini proves why he's one of this year's Sexiest Men Alive, striking an effortlessly je ne sais quoi pose while lounging in Miami on Thursday.
Gilles Marini, Sex & The City: The Movie pin-up, is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after undergoing surgery on his shoulder.
The actor was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Tuesday for a scheduled operation to repair a separated shoulder.
Marini took to his personal Twitter.com page just hours after surgery to reassure fans he is recuperating - but also suffering.
He writes, "Out of surgery!! Went well, it was much more damage in my shoulder. But the Doc fixed it. P.S: pain is coming, it's gonna be a long night."
Sex and the City stud Gilles Marini who is currently dancing his way shirtlessly into America's hearts on ABC's wildly popular Dancing With the Stars features prominently in two 2009 calendars - Magnifique published by 10%, and the Bedtime Stories 2009 wall calendar published by Provocateur.
Both calendars showcase multiple images of Hollywood's hottest new hunk in photographs taken by internationally acclaimed French photographer Fred Goudon.
Marini and Goudon first met in Paris, where the photographer introduced him to the world of modeling.
Marini is favored by many to win the Dancing With The Stars reality show competition this week against Shawn Johnson and Melissa Rycroft.
The season finale of Dancing With the Stars will air tonight at 9:00 pm (ET) on ABC.
Marini will next be seen as Vanessa Redgrave's husband on FX's Nip/Tuck.
For more on Gilles Marini's 2009 calendars, click here.
He’s been ailing since last February, but Gilles Marini is hanging in thanks to his partner Cheryl Burke’s “trick” choreography.
“I used only my right arm [for the jive]. Go check it out,” Marini says of Monday night’s high-energy jive on Dancing with the Stars. “She makes sure I only do what I can do. I didn’t use my left arm. I need surgery because the bones [in the left shoulder] have separated. So after the show I will get surgery and that will take a day and about three weeks to recover and I’ll move on with life.”
Two seasons ago Burke’s partner Cristián de la Fuente tore a tendon in his left bicep while performing the samba. De la Fuente had surgery last May and told People, “I’m one hundred percent better now.”
Marini is confident he will be fine, too, and says the injury may have been avoidable if he’d only listened to Burke.
“I tell you, I did not listen to her. I did not pose my arm, I just yanked at it when we did the cha cha because I did not know better and I completely separated it,” Marini says. “Now I know better and it will be fine.”
He made women everywhere swoon as Samantha's well endowed, sex-crazed neighbor in the 2008 feature version of Sex In the City so at home, it's no surprise that French actor Gilles Marini keeps it just as steamy.
