Claire Danes in the beast in me

[Anonymous]

she looks so old in the show because she is playing an older person here is how she really looks a few days ago

[Anonymous]

She’s a phenomenal actress and I would happily watch her in anything. I really appreciate that she doesn’t have obvious make up on in this and looks like such a regular person. Matthew Rhys isn’t looking too good in this, in my opinion. He looks drawn and scrawny, and it’s making him look older than he is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:she looks so old in the show because she is playing an older person here is how she really looks a few days ago

She looks like a Connecticut mom here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She’s a phenomenal actress and I would happily watch her in anything. I really appreciate that she doesn’t have obvious make up on in this and looks like such a regular person. Matthew Rhys isn’t looking too good in this, in my opinion. He looks drawn and scrawny, and it’s making him look older than he is.

This is true. There is something going on with the lighting and the camera work to make them both look that way, probably intentionally. Though his wife on the show looks good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s a phenomenal actress and I would happily watch her in anything. I really appreciate that she doesn’t have obvious make up on in this and looks like such a regular person. Matthew Rhys isn’t looking too good in this, in my opinion. He looks drawn and scrawny, and it’s making him look older than he is.

This is true. There is something going on with the lighting and the camera work to make them both look that way, probably intentionally. Though his wife on the show looks good.

A lot of actors get airbrushed on shows so we don't see their face lines and wrinkles. Look at The Morning Show and the ridiculous smooth faces. And when not going to these extremes, I've noticed they are doing a "soft focus" thing on Mariska Hargitay this season on SVU as well, she looked a lot older (I love her either way so not a criticism!) last year with more regular lighting. So I think in this Beast show, we are really seeing actors as they are. Brittany Snow' skin does not look so perfect either, she's just a bit younger and does more cosmetically. But I think it's sad we're on the edge of forgetting what actual aging humans normally look like on tv.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s a phenomenal actress and I would happily watch her in anything. I really appreciate that she doesn’t have obvious make up on in this and looks like such a regular person. Matthew Rhys isn’t looking too good in this, in my opinion. He looks drawn and scrawny, and it’s making him look older than he is.

This is true. There is something going on with the lighting and the camera work to make them both look that way, probably intentionally. Though his wife on the show looks good.

A lot of actors get airbrushed on shows so we don't see their face lines and wrinkles. Look at The Morning Show and the ridiculous smooth faces. And when not going to these extremes, I've noticed they are doing a "soft focus" thing on Mariska Hargitay this season on SVU as well, she looked a lot older (I love her either way so not a criticism!) last year with more regular lighting. So I think in this Beast show, we are really seeing actors as they are. Brittany Snow' skin does not look so perfect either, she's just a bit younger and does more cosmetically. But I think it's sad we're on the edge of forgetting what actual aging humans normally look like on tv.

It's not necessarily airbrushing -- you can do a lot with lighting. I haven't yet seen The Beast in Me but there are many shoes that use more naturalistic lighting that shows fine lines and textural imperfections in skin and just offer a more natural, real life image on the screen. Pluribus is doing this, especially in close ups of Rhea Seehorn. When you combine with limited or no makeup, it makes even very beautiful people look a lot more down to earth.

There are soft-focus cameras out there that will essentially air brush subjects. They use them on the View for instance. But I don't the Morning Show is using them -- I think they are just using lighting and hair/makeup to make their subjects look as polished as possible. There will also be scenes where one person looks intentionally perfect and the other doesn't, and it's clearly the result of makeup and lighting and not using different cameras for each character.

I like shows and movies where I can see the characters real skin, I think it genuinely makes it feel more real. Like literally I relate to the characters more when they look more like real people. For certain stories, that makes a huge difference.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s a phenomenal actress and I would happily watch her in anything. I really appreciate that she doesn’t have obvious make up on in this and looks like such a regular person. Matthew Rhys isn’t looking too good in this, in my opinion. He looks drawn and scrawny, and it’s making him look older than he is.

This is true. There is something going on with the lighting and the camera work to make them both look that way, probably intentionally. Though his wife on the show looks good.

A lot of actors get airbrushed on shows so we don't see their face lines and wrinkles. Look at The Morning Show and the ridiculous smooth faces. And when not going to these extremes, I've noticed they are doing a "soft focus" thing on Mariska Hargitay this season on SVU as well, she looked a lot older (I love her either way so not a criticism!) last year with more regular lighting. So I think in this Beast show, we are really seeing actors as they are. Brittany Snow' skin does not look so perfect either, she's just a bit younger and does more cosmetically. But I think it's sad we're on the edge of forgetting what actual aging humans normally look like on tv.

It's not necessarily airbrushing -- you can do a lot with lighting. I haven't yet seen The Beast in Me but there are many shoes that use more naturalistic lighting that shows fine lines and textural imperfections in skin and just offer a more natural, real life image on the screen. Pluribus is doing this, especially in close ups of Rhea Seehorn. When you combine with limited or no makeup, it makes even very beautiful people look a lot more down to earth.

There are soft-focus cameras out there that will essentially air brush subjects. They use them on the View for instance. But I don't the Morning Show is using them -- I think they are just using lighting and hair/makeup to make their subjects look as polished as possible. There will also be scenes where one person looks intentionally perfect and the other doesn't, and it's clearly the result of makeup and lighting and not using different cameras for each character.

I like shows and movies where I can see the characters real skin, I think it genuinely makes it feel more real. Like literally I relate to the characters more when they look more like real people. For certain stories, that makes a huge difference.

If you really want to see what lighting and makeup can do, check out the show Kevin Can F*** Himself with Annie Murphy. It's filmed in two styles -- one a gritty drama about a woman with an abusive husband, and the other a peppy sitcom about an affable man and his nagging wife. Ultimately the concept was a bit too hard to execute and I stopped watching, but it is really fascinating to watch scenes where they will move back and forth between the two styles. The characters are in the same costumes but it looks completely different. They sometimes also have two sets because the sitcom requires that standard multi-cam set where the cameras are all behind the "fourth wall", and the gritty drama is filmed single-cam in a way that requires a more dimensional environment. It's fascinating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She’s a phenomenal actress and I would happily watch her in anything. I really appreciate that she doesn’t have obvious make up on in this and looks like such a regular person. Matthew Rhys isn’t looking too good in this, in my opinion. He looks drawn and scrawny, and it’s making him look older than he is.

This is true. There is something going on with the lighting and the camera work to make them both look that way, probably intentionally. Though his wife on the show looks good.

A lot of actors get airbrushed on shows so we don't see their face lines and wrinkles. Look at The Morning Show and the ridiculous smooth faces. And when not going to these extremes, I've noticed they are doing a "soft focus" thing on Mariska Hargitay this season on SVU as well, she looked a lot older (I love her either way so not a criticism!) last year with more regular lighting. So I think in this Beast show, we are really seeing actors as they are. Brittany Snow' skin does not look so perfect either, she's just a bit younger and does more cosmetically. But I think it's sad we're on the edge of forgetting what actual aging humans normally look like on tv.

Re: the Morning Show -- Greta Lee, Nicole Beharie, Karen Pittman on Morning Show have had no work done. Neither has Marion Cotillard. All look great. No one is going to forget what real faces look like. In a few years, normal faces will be prized. Count on it.

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