All people tend to date those who are in their same "pool" so you're right that movie stars almost surely wouldn't date Pete if he were in a different pool - but they are in a pool with a lot of men who are a lot better looking than he is - and still they flock to him. He’s not handsome but he has his own style (which is important) but he’s also gone through a lot of therapy (his dad died in 911 when he was a child) so he knows himself well, and cares about being a good partner. Most men could make improvements in those areas.

Clearly it's not tired to say that men don't know what women want because I hear over and over things that no women I know cares about that men are still insisting they do - mostly because it's what they find "impressive" in a man. And pretty much all research on this topic confirms this.

https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a19535604/top-20-traits-she-wants/