is everyone just pretending that julia roberts is very attractive

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[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah, I don't know that I would have been kicking her out of the bed in the 80's, but I think it's fair to say she was "80's hot"? A funny time when hair had to be puffy and big mouths were popular.

She was pretty. There were prettier women, but they weren't in Pretty Woman, so...

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think also hollywood has not just had the hottest possible people as actors even if that might seem to make sense if they did for money making reasons. But actors, men and women, get jobs from a mix of nepotism and having unique or interesting faces. Of course the casting couch. Being great at acting plays a small roll but really acting is easy and there's plenty of good ones who can't get jobs.

[–]Hematomato 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

having unique or interesting faces

Yeah, this, right here.

I've watched plenty of B-movies where they just hire the most conventionally attractive people they can find. They always suck. Everyone looks so same-y that sometimes I can't even keep track of the characters.

I was just watching that Netflix show "The I-land" the other day, and it suffers badly from this problem. Everyone's pretty, but no one stands out in any way.

[–]NastyWetSmear 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a fair point. There might be more market in someone who has an attractive body, a not unattractive face, but some features that make you say: "Oh, the guy with all the gums?" or "You mean the chick with the pointy nose?"

Something that the human eye, even one who has trouble with faces, would instantly lock onto.