It’s true, Carey Mulligan is not hot enough for this role

Cassie says at one point to Al (the rapist) that Al may have trouble remembering her because she wasn't attractive enough to be noticed back in med school. I think it's better for her to be closer to a regular girl.

Let's say they cast Margot Robbie instead. Then some would complain "How can someone who looks like a supermodel struggle to find a higher paying job, and be stuck at home with her parents at age 30?" Surely some rich "sugar daddy" or some rich boyfriend would take care of her.

And if you've seen Margot Robbie all made up, many men in that club would not believe someone that looked like her was always alone and drunk. Almost looks like a setup. Carrie Mulligan would be more believable in that situation, wouldn't she? And in the end it doesn't really matter much what they looked like. Cassie's goal was to prove that acting drunk, out of it, and vulnerable late night at a club would almost always equal getting preyed upon.

I do not find it inconceivable for someone with full hair and makeup done and looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/0GAY322.png

would be completely ignored every night at a club.

But when the premise is that you are going out as eye candy, as bait to reel in super shallow d-bags, then you need to be able to present yourself as the kind of woman who is so hot as to be able to lure jerks like that to their doom

you only need a real basic level of hotness for this ... basic symetry and a pulse ...
And the dirtbags will be like "any port in a storm" and " free fuck right here ..."
or "that there s a 5-beers date "

Weird the story was framed as a volley in the culture wars. The more obvious reading is that she was annoyed someone criticized her looks. Which is understandable when your appearance is your livelihood & you're not even ugly. Like when a virile pro athlete has to take criticism from a couch potato sports writers. It's absurd but that's the gig.

And he didn't even say she was ugly, just that she wasn't the "femme fatale" type. Maybe he could have couched it in terms of that old Newsradio bit, pretty vs. cute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7iU2HFUXaU

She is hot enough for the feminists yet the feminist are hating this film.

You can't compare her to Gosling in Crazy, Stupid, Love. Because he was a character that was supposed to be hot. She's not written like that. She's just a normal girl.

For the the Twitter guy to implied that she was not beautiful enough is really a low blow. Why would you criticize someone's look in a movie not about that? I'm against cancel culture for sure, but I can see why Mulligan respond to him like that.

Was she pretty enough to act as bait for those d-bags? Of course, men's standards are way lower than women's. You don't have to be pretty to be hit on in bars, you just have to be "available".

She's no Gal Gadot, yes, but she is beautiful.

She's 35 – looks 45, playing someone who's meant to be 30. That was enough to take me out of the film. She just wasn't right for the part.

She looks better than what Juno Temple looks like now (and Juno is four years younger). I mention Juno because she's been sleazy in a far amount of movies, and this sort of role would have been right up her alley before she got too thin and haggard.

So it's true what they say: masturbation makes you blind!