Filmmakers keep giving dark eyed actors blue contacts. Looper, Black Mass, Robin Hood (2010), now This. It's distracting and the actors look like vampires. Surely Gordon levitt couldve performed the role with his own eye color and nobody would care.
Damn you Lindelof!
Because Phillipe Petit's eyes are blue. If that distracted you, you're in love with Joseph, i think.
shareIf you're not someone's identical twin, you can't look exactly like that person, of course. But if someone is playing a real-life person, they often want the person to look as close to that person as possible that you can believe it's that person. Eye color is too prominent of a feature. If the eye color doesn't match, the person won't convincingly look like that person. Sela Ward played Jessica Savitch in a TV movie. They dyed her hair very blonde, but I couldn't believe it was Jessica with Sela's eyes as dark as crude oil. And Jim Carrey is very tall with dark brown eyes, and played someone short with blue eyes. Though Jim put his heart in that role, the appearance was too different.
shareI just watched this on a 2D 46" TV, and I didn't even notice that he had blue contacts as it wasn't really visible. I played a few scenes back to see this, and I could only notice it when his head was in profile, looking up at the tower from ground level. In that scene the light struck his left eye enough that I could see the blue.
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