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One of the things that annoys me the most is when the heroes go into a dingy greasy spoon diner in the middle of nowhere and the waitress looks like a cover model. And then, because it costs more if the actress has lines, the heroes don't even interact with her.
That's why I don't like american tv shows as much. Mand di i love the Inbetweeners or peep show for example. When real people play real people. Not 30 year old top models play 16 year olds. And the have one fat extra to make fun of.
I always like Buffy The Vampire Slayer. They tried to play off that Alyson Hannigan was the 'plain' looking girl.
American productions don't allow for normie women; they all have to look like rock stars.
It's especially gross in something like ready player one. I know it's already a shit ass movie, but in the book, i'm pretty sure the people are described as pretty normal or uglier and fatter. The love interest is supposed to be "ugly" and they casted a beautiful woman and drew a scar on her face. But not an ugly scar, because someone might not be able to jerk off to her. Or game of thrones. No one is really as ugly as they are supposed to be.
Kathy Bates went for an audition for the Sylvester Stallone movie, 'Paradise Alley.' She told Stallone she'd read the script and every single woman was described as 'beautiful.'
Another story I like. I saw "Erin Brockovich" with Julia Roberts. At one point in the movie Roberts interacts with a beautiful waitress. I rolled my eyes but at the end of the movie I checked the credits. The waitress was a cameo by the real Erin Brockovich.
My son, who is an actor and a cinephile, complains about how movies and shows all have actors who look like actors, and don't look like real people. He often talks about "iPhone Face," where a character in a period piece like a 19th century western, looks like they know what an iPhone is.
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Luis Guzman is one of my favorite New York actors. Born and raised in the City, trained in the City, always played NYC locals. Maybe a cop, maybe a psycho, but always a New York City guy.
One day his agent calls him; they want him for a movie, The Count of Monte Cristo. He's flabbergasted. He plays New York, that's what he does. But he goes in and auditions and they decide they want him.
I remember seeing him and recognizing him and saying 'no way.' Then he starts acting and it's like, yeah, there were Puerto Ricans in the 1800s.
Yeah, I love him, too. He's always great.
My wife loves Asian period dramas and this is a hugely common thing that drives me nuts. It doesn't matter if you've got period clothing and scenery etc. If the "lowly common girl" has a perfect complexion, teeth, and obvious cosmetics it just breaks it.
The Viking ladies with shaved arm pits...
Yeah some of them back then would probably have been able to braid more than just the hair on their head...
Having had a few Scandi-descended girlfriends, I concur. But on average, they're nowhere near as hairly as Slavs or Armenians. Not that anything's wrong with body hair.
This is one of the good things British shows have. People looks like people.