Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You don't know me, but I'm the least shallow person in real life. I value people based on their smarts, their kindness, their ethics, etc. Couldn't care less about their looks. But when I consume entertainment, I want everyone to be pretty (except the "bad guys" who should be ugly and menacing). I'm so tired of casting directors trying to make people "relatable" so they cast ugly or mediocre people.
That guy in The Bear? He's ugly! Timothee Chalomet? Ugly! (A decent actor, but still ugly.) Everyone in The Perfect Couple? Just not quite good looking enough. Liev Schreiber? Ugly!
This includes commercials - I don't want to see people who are size 12 with mediocre looking children. Even in commercials I want everyone to be good looking. I'm sick of people looking relatable - I want escape to a fantasy world when I watch a show. I want thin and toned and enviable skin and hair and minimal body fat. I don't want to see a mole on your face - it doesn't give you character, it distracts me from the story, Rachel McAdams.
I was talking with a friend about this and she asked if I want everyone to be good looking on reality shows too. And I think ... yes. Nobody less than a 7. You can be the ugliest of your pretty friends, but not actually ugly. I don't want to watch Love is Blind or whatever, where a bunch of ugly people have to pretend they're not upset at how fat or ugly the person they matched with actually is.
Stick to old movie musicals maybe. Happy endings. Pretty sets. Like An American in Paris.