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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Imagine being the person being told: yeah, so we only hired you to challenge beauty standards. Not because you're the best at what you do, oh no no, but because you're ugly af

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If you pay me her salary, you can motivate it however you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It looks like this picture was taken the moment they told her

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

To be fair, she's definitely a breakout star of the show. I believe that before Witcher she had mostly worked in theatre, and even then was new to the industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Except she's absolutely gorgeous herself, as was made clear when they removed the prosthetics. None of the claim makes any sense 😂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You could tell she was beautiful even with the prosthetics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Challenge beauty standards of a character that was supposed to be unrealistically beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Was she? I could swear in the books she was described as not conventionally beautiful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You're right. They just made her drop dead stunning in the games, so that's how the bulk of the fandom envisions her

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the whole thing is that witches in the witcher universe can shape their faces however they want so they all choose to be super pretty? Am I misremembering or did yennefer make herself "not conventionally beautiful" on purpose?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You're completely correct.

“Unlike priestesses and druidesses, who only unwillingly took ugly or crippled girls, sorcerers took anyone who showed evidence of a predisposition. If the child passes the first years of training, magic entered into the equation – straightening and evening out legs, repairing bones which had badly knitted, patching harelips, removing scars, birthmarks and pox scars. The young sorceress would become attractive because the prestige of her profession demanded it.

This is just another way in which the TV show butchered the original, although it is far below the ladder in comparison with the fact that they turned the endless interesting philosophical debates into dull, uninteresting conversations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I'm now at a point that I can't watch American media at all because everyone just looks the fuckin same.

Generic actress no.495 with horrifyingly white teeth Vs generic actor no.5638 with horrifyingly white teeth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s even sadder when you have an actor(ess) that is beautiful in their own way and then gets surgery or something else to conform to the way everyone else looks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Erin Moriarty pictures just make me fucking sad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She was literally the first person I thought of when reading this as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I looked up a recent interview for The Boys season 4 and I have no idea what y'all are talking about. At most, she changed the type of makeup she regularly does and lost weight/aged out of her baby face. Your face can change a lot, especially in your 20s. I'm also not sure what wasn't conventionally about her at any point.

Thinking she's had surgery when she hasn't is more toxic for beauty standards than if she did have work done. Lip fillers, natural changes, and makeup aren't some work of the devil. There are people who do actually have problems, but not everyone does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Except she has had surgery?

https://wegotthiscovered.com/celebrities/what-happened-to-erin-moriarty-erin-moriartys-plastic-surgery-explained/

https://www.screengeek.net/2024/02/02/erin-moriarty-plastic-surgery-accusations-response/

She hasn’t owned up to it but very much did not deny.

Edit: for the record I had no idea there was a whole thing around her a Megan Kelly. Can’t agree with all the hate.

That said, I’m replying to a comment about people having surgery/other medical procedures/drastic makeup etc that causes great changes and she was the first one that popped into my head. She hasn’t denied the surgery. Just said Kelly was spreading false news. But in all her statements she has never denied the surgery from my understanding.

I also don’t agree that it’s “fucking sad” as commenter above me states. She can do whatever she wants it’s her body. Having surgery or not doesn’t matter at all. I still hold that she looks drastically different from 5 years ago regardless of the reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

She didn't age out her baby face. That was the surgery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's is this with the teeth? Are they all wearing fake teeth? Don't tell me everyone has such a great mouth hygiene and dental care with sugar in everything you eat in US?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Serious answer? Yes. They often have either bleached teeth, which eventually destroys them so then they need veneers (fake front) and after that they get dentures.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What.

Just…what.

Where are you getting this information? You’re talking about the US, where we have excellent healthcare for people who can afford it, and those people can fuckin afford it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Being rich does not make people smart.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

…okay? What does that have to do with anything? Are you okay?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

They spend a lot of money on the appearance of their teeth, instead of spending it on the health of their teeth. Seemed pretty obvious to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

that's a pretty ironic comment lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine thinking that

where we have excellent healthcare for people who can afford it

Is something to be proud of.

Christ on a bike

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that was being stated as a point of pride. It's just the shitty state of things here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, but he is obviously proud of that. Look at his response https://lemm.ee/comment/12363119. He is clearly so much smarter than the rest of us, so he doesn't realize the dumb shit he is saying hahahaha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Are you ok

Is the most condescending, cunty, redditesque remark of the last year

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Americans have really white teeth compared to the rest of the world, especially in hollywood

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

A fact many Americans are trying to kill because "fluoride in the water is bad"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Usually I don't notice but it was pretty jarring in Book of Boba Fett. The guy was all dusty living in a desert and then he smiles and his teeth are blindingly white. I was like.. Damn Disney you can't afford the makeup department to dirty those up a bit?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You prefer the yellow teeth snaggletooth actresses?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

yellow = anything less white than #FFFFFF ? god damn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You mean the realistic teeth actresses?

You bet your ass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She was actually made up to be pretty ugly for most of the first season, but they hotted her up at the end as the result of some magic shit.

I watched it once four years ago, so don’t remember the details.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Most sorceresses in that universe enhance their beauty/youthfulness with magic. Most sorcerers do not because they're taken more seriously as they age. It's essentially a commentary on what each gender derives power from. Yennefer is like 80 years old by the time the main story begins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh. I thought she was the Hollywood version of “ugly”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It could also really mean "Non-white for racist audiences"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’ve still never met a man who actually won’t recognize that a hot woman from another race isn’t hot. They can be insanely racist and still call a hot black woman hot. This casting director is a moron.