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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elegance is something people are born with, it is inate. It has nothing to do with background and money.

Many of the world's most elegant super models came from modest or impoverished backgrounds.

Your theory is bunk.[/quote]

Idk, Dakota Johnson for instance always seems posh to me: looks, way she holds herself, way she talks. She cannot play poor or normal wealth at all. With models you do not get a full picture of the person and their speech.[/quote]

Dakota Johnson doesn't have poise. She sits with a slump. She is much more naturally trailer park than mansion house.[/quote]

Dakota Johnson is a weird example because while obviously she grew up very rich, her upbringing wasn't like "to the manor born." She mostly grew up on her dad's ranch in Colorado, riding horses and then visiting her parents on movie sets. It's a weird, nontraditional upbringing even among wealthy kids, which is why she has such a weird personality. It's not trailer park, it's not mansion house. It's weird Hollywood nepo baby bubble, but not even like the classic LA or NYC nepo kids where they have a specific type.[/quote]

Yeah her family is a bit unusual even by Hollywood standards. Her mom grew up with lions as pets and Dakota’s neighbor was Hunter S. Thompson. Kind of like Winona Ryder whose parents were connected in the art/literary scene but raised her on a commune.

But I also do think the us, in general, has way less of an entrenched class structure than say, the UK, so the whole “too posh to play a character” thing is less of a real issue, even in period pieces. In the UK, you have someone like Helena Bonham Carter who is a true aristocrat (not just umc or new money) and has a whole career built on playing other aristocrats in a way that only someone like her can. (Though she is an amazing actress, too). [/quote]

Didn't Bruce Willis and Demi Moore raise their daughters in like, Idaho or somewhere? Similar thing with those three girls. Weird AF. [/quote]

Yeah, they were living away from the public eye in Idaho, but then they moved back to Los Angeles at one point, and ended up with Ashton Kutcher (who isn't that much older than the oldest girl) as their stepdad. Talk about a sudden shock.[/quote]

Ashton is ten years older than Rumer (who I think is the oldest of the three). To his credit, he must have done a good job because the girls and he have stayed in touch even after he and Demi divorced and he's supported them at their various ... pursuits. [/quote]

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