The ugly Hera?

Hahahahaha! Yes, I thought that too about Hera. The thing is, her performance was quite good, and it shouldn't always be based on physical beauty. Anyway, besides Hera, just look at the rest of the cast; everyone else was extremely pretty; Hercules & Hebe had to be about the MOST gorgeous on screen couple in movie history..they were aesthetically flawless. In fact i thought this whole production was really gorgeous, down to the sets, the costumes and the film score!

"IMdB; where 14 year olds can act like jaded 40 year old critics...'

This movie was horrible.

However, I don't understand why people can't grasp the fact that Hera was not in this movie. The "Hera" you saw was an Oracle, and Hera spoke through her. Hera was not physically present at any point in this film.

Damn Right!

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Who played Hera? I cannot find her listed in the cast.

And what significance in those facial tattoos?

I don't agree that the character was some priestess instead of Hera herself; somehow she looked the same when Hercules was 20-something as she did before he was born, so my money is on her being the goddess herself. I wouldn't call her ugly; Hera was not one of those beauty/lust Olympians like Aphrodite.

So dumb. She was only Hera when she wore the white contacts. Duh.

I think the actress might be Ivana Staneva, who was "young Marique" in 2011's "Conan the Barbarian", which also had a lot of Russian-sounding cast-members' names, Sean Hood in the writing credits, and Millennium Films production. I'm not sure why the actress isn't credited! Tell me if you think it's the same actress.