Robert Duvall Gets Low and Hairy

As if you needed another reason to love the seminal actor of such cinematographic behemoths like The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now... well, here are 5 more reasons we dig Robert Duvall, whom is promoting an independent drama “Get Low,” which opens in limited release on Friday.

1) He looks pretty bitchin with a beard (as if there was any doubt)!

2) He makes the bushy beard look natural... he accomplished this with the help of great makeup artists... the big beard above is actually fake (taking 45 minutes to an hour a day to apply), but attached to his own beard which was used later in the movie.

3) He has a "guy from Italy" who makes him his beards... freaking awesome... the lap of luxury, or should we say chin.

You can check out a nice Q&A with the man himself in the Wall Street Journal, here:

Robert Duvall on His ‘Get Low’ Beard, Horton Foote, and Good Eats

If you can't beat em, wear a bowtie

The Momentum Of Failure claims it's totally acceptable to fake a beard (or mustache) if you can't (or don't want to) grow one.

We at Build-A-Beard have one word for that:

LAZY.

I mean, when Nick Cave wanted to man up, he did it for real.

See:

when Nick Cave decided he was tired of not being awesome**?

He didn't go half-assed.

Now even his Glamour Shots will fucking kill you.

Yeah. Grow a real beard or shut up, that's what Tim Harrington says.

**note: we here at Build-A-Beard do, in fact, acknowledge that Nick Cave has never been anything less than awesome. His new molester 'stache just makes him moreso.