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What happened to Hollywood faces? Why everyone is so mundane now?

posted 4 months ago by emori (3096)
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You watch trailer and every single face is forgettable and like they came from the next street. While Mean Girls had such memorable faces of basically every character. That was stellar casting.

Same with remake of Charmed. Original had memorable actresses. Remake had nobodys. And countless examples. 90210, Firends, Buffy, Merlose Place, I know what you did last summer.... Then was Heroes, Lost.

Every famous tv show and movie ensemble had such an amazing cast. Casting directors watched auditions and managed to pick up the most interesting, different faces to star in their tv shows.

And now it's nothing. Every tv show or remake has the most bland and forgettable faces. It's like all interesting actors vanished. Thats why "Movie Star is Dead". Because stars used to posses that Charm and Magnetism. And new actors don't have it.

In recent years only Game of Thrones and The 100 comes to my mind who managed to hire memorable faces. And Stranger things had good casting of kids. Adults were meh apart from Steve.

[–] TimeTunnel (4670) 4 months ago

tl;dr. 🐭

[–] fc31 (4600) 4 months ago

If you put beautiful people in a room, they are going to start mounting each other, and that is just #metoo law suits waiting to happen.

I would imagine it is torture to have such people around you, but you can't do anything about it.

So I think hiring more bland sexless actors/actresses is safer, for lack of a better word, in term of HR anyway, progress due to social movements.

[–] emori (3096) 4 months ago

Nah, It stared before MeToo.

And actors werent like Super Hot and Pretty. They just had that charm and presence about them. They were Memorable.

Its like something happened to peoples faces. Or do interesting people stopped coming to auditions? Or casting directors work bad? Or too many nepo children show up and auditions and get picked up ignoring ordinary people?

Many of those Movie Stars were nobodies. Ordinary poor people. It feels like nepo babies are sucking out air from Hollywood.

[–] TimeTunnel (4670) 4 months ago

🍿 🐭

[–] fc31 (4600) 4 months ago

Are you sure? Because the word 'metoo' was popularised in 2006, the hashtag #MeToo started in 2017 though.

[–] TimeTunnel (4670) 4 months ago

Perhaps meteor? 🌠

[–] fc31 (4600) 4 months ago

You seem to be in holiday mood :)

[–] TimeTunnel (4670) 4 months ago

I just know who the OP is. 🐭 ☺

You can expect the next novel, maybe new for you.
I've seen all 'chapters' before.
Somewhere else posted by other people.

[–] MEWsHusband (54) 4 months ago

Hiring unnattractive actors so they don't have sex? U wot.

[–] TimeTunnel (4670) 4 months ago

Mew mew. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

[–] MEWsHusband (54) 4 months ago

Yes, she's the best actress. Mew mew on my friend.

[–] TimeTunnel (4670) 4 months ago

I'm certainly not your "friend", you little wannabe cat. 😼

[–] MEWsHusband (54) 4 months ago

So if you're not my friend, why do you keep replying to my posts. You seem to really like me.

[–] TimeTunnel (4670) 4 months ago

And I certainly don't like annoying socks as you're one of many here. 🧦 ☻

[–] fc31 (4600) 4 months ago

So far that is the working theory, but it is a discussion, so I welcome alternative theories.

[–] Melton (2307) 4 months ago

People used to be chiselled out of life. Now they’re all phone-addicted automatons with no personality.

[–] SageMaster33 (859) 4 months ago

anti male gaze and diversity.

[–] Evoken (1168) 4 months ago

Yep, that's very much it.

[–] fc31 (4600) 4 months ago

How do you explain the bland and forgettable male actors?

[–] SageMaster33 (859) 4 months ago

anti male gaze and diversity.

[–] fc31 (4600) 4 months ago

Very funny.

[–] HelpMeRhonda (1155) 4 months ago

Charles Nelson Reilly once said on Dinner for Five, that movie stars aren’t the same anymore, because they weren’t born on the stage.

When an actor is on stage, they must have presence or else they’ll yanked off the stage Apollo Theater-style. That presence later translates to film. Do as many actors do stage work as they used to?

[–] TimeTunnel (4670) 4 months ago

Now that's true.
A birth on stage is a real life show. 👶

[–] Kowalski (58945) 4 months ago

😂THAT IS FALSE...AND FAIRLY SILLY TOO.

[–] fc31 (4600) 4 months ago

If you watched the new 'Frasier' and compared it with the original.

If you watched 'that 90s show' and compared it with the original.

You won't say that.

[–] Kowalski (58945) 4 months ago

YOU NAMED TWO BAD SHOWS THAT I AND MANY OTHERS HAVE NO INTEREST OF WATCHING...BIG WHOOP.

[–] fc31 (4600) 4 months ago

Although the new shows are bad, but the originals are definitely worth a watch.

Why do you think they are making it again?

[–] Boromir (9712) 4 months ago

I tend to agree.

I tried watching the new Scream movie, or at least attempted to, and there was something very dull and forgettable about the actors' faces. No charisma, no presence, nothing unique—I wouldn't recognize them on the street. The same issue applies to the trailer for this movie; something just doesn't work in the casting process. It's as if Hollywood wants to educate us about something, but we have no idea what exactly. Apparently, there is something else that motivates people in the film industry, not just to entertain the audience.

Take a random movie like Clueless (1995) with Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, and Donald Faison they all memorable - both the main and secondary characters. Even movie like Superbad, a film that may not fit the conventional definition of 'sexy,' yet they have unforgettable faces and a strong stage presence.

[–] emori (3096) 4 months ago

Yes. First Scream was epic with every character being memorable and interesting. From last scream I don't think I even remember anyone's faces. Except Ortega. But only because she was hyped with Wednesday. If it weren't for Wadnesday - I would not even notice her or remember.

While everyone remembers David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore.

[–] whynotwriteme (7129) 4 months ago

Attractive, charismatic performers are probably considered exclusionary and "lookist" today. Bland nobodies are where it's at.