I actually cannot think about anybody ever pondering Winona Ryder is simply too ugly for a job, however right here we’re.
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Winona Ryder recently talked about being advised she wasn’t enticing sufficient to be a star within the ’80s. Specifically, she’s talked about up to now that at a particular ’80s audition a casting director stopped her mid-sentence and advised her, “You shouldn’t be an actress. You aren’t fairly sufficient. You must return to wherever you got here from and you need to go to high school. You don’t have it.”
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“She was very blunt — I truthfully suppose that she thought she was doing me a favor,” Ryder mentioned of the casting director on the unnamed audition.
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Winona’s Stranger Issues costar and onscreen love curiosity, David Harbour, has additionally mentioned not being deemed enticing sufficient for roles. When he had a bit half in Brokeback Mountain, he says that director Ang Lee advised him he wanted to look extra good-looking throughout a take.
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Jessica Alba was equally advised she wanted to “be prettier” and “cry fairly” throughout her character’s loss of life scene in Implausible 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
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Emmy Rossum virtually did not get to star as Fiona in Shameless as a result of producers felt she wasn’t able to not being fairly. “They did not need to see me; they would not even [let me] audition,” she mentioned. “They thought my picture was too glamorous, that I could not not be fairly.”
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Equally, Jennifer Lawrence was initially turned down for her position in Winter’s Bone as a result of she was “too fairly” — she needed to show to them she was “not cute.”
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Lawrence took a red-eye (they’d simply moved casting to New York) after which auditioned once more. She mentioned of getting the position, “That at all times helps. Crimson-eye. Not showering. No make-up. Ultimately they went, ‘Oh, she’s proper. She’s not cute!'”
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Final month, Emma Thompson says she was deemed “not fairly sufficient” by male executives to do nude scenes, which misplaced her roles. “I’ve additionally by no means conformed to the form or look of somebody they could need to see bare.”
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4 Weddings and a Funeral author Richard Curtis did not need Hugh Grant to star within the movie as a result of he was too good-looking.
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Grant claimed Curtis did “all the things in his energy to cease me getting the half.” Curtis would later say, “The completely key factor for that movie after I was writing it was that the one that was enjoying the lead wouldn’t be handsome. That was absolutely the beginning thesis of the movie” as his reasoning for why.
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And Andrew Garfield misplaced out on the position of Prince Caspian within the Chronicles of Narnia sequence as a result of he “wasn’t good-looking sufficient.”
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He had made it right down to the ultimate two, however they went with Ben Barnes as a substitute.
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Mindy Kaling wasn’t thought of fairly sufficient to play herself in an unnamed sketch present early in her profession. The community (which is not on the air, in line with Kaling) supplied her the present, however then had her audition for the a part of herself, and rejected her.
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Alison Brie claims that her previous enjoying polished and “cute” roles virtually prevented her from being forged because the much less conventionally enticing Ruth in Glow.
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In an interview with Vulture, which claimed that the character wasn’t meant to be “conventionally enticing,” Brie mentioned, “they didn’t suppose I used to be proper for the position.” She mentioned that for her auditions she would put on exercise garments with no make-up and tie her hair again, saying she needed to show them mistaken that she may do the position.
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Benedict Cumberbatch was initially deemed “not attractive sufficient” to play Sherlock in Sherlock by BBC execs.
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“You promised us a horny Sherlock, not him,” Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat claimed they mentioned.
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BBC execs reportedly thought the identical of David Tennant as Casanova in Casanova, and needed Moffat to forged somebody sexier.
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Conversely, Scarlett Johansson was “too attractive” to star in The Woman With the Dragon Tattoo.
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Director David Fincher mentioned, “Scarlett Johansson was nice. It was an awesome audition, I am telling you. However the factor with Scarlett is, you’ll be able to’t look ahead to her to take her garments off.” The position went to Rooney Mara as a substitute.
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Based on Kate Beckinsale, director Michael Bay did not suppose she was enticing sufficient for her position in Pearl Harbor as a result of she “wasn’t blonde and [her] boobs weren’t larger than [her] head.”
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“I didn’t make sense to him as a horny lady,” Beckinsale advised Yahoo Leisure. “So there was a variety of panic and concern over, ‘How on earth are we gonna make her enticing?'” Beckinsale was placed on an intense exercise routine and food regimen.
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Director Joe Wright initially did not need Keira Knightley to star in his movie Satisfaction and Prejudice due to her attractiveness.
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“Then he met me and mentioned, ‘Oh no, you are high-quality!'” Knightley joked.
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After being recast following the pilot for Stumptown, actor Mark Webber went on social media to speak about how he was allegedly fired for not being enticing sufficient.
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Webber wrote, “Look, I’m a straight white male so I do know my journey has been approach much less painful on this warped business, however I’m being recast in a community tv present as a result of I’m not good-looking sufficient for the executives,” calling his therapy “degrading.” The position went to Jake Johnson.
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Minnie Driver virtually did not star in Good Will Searching as a result of the producer did not suppose she was “sizzling sufficient.”
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Driver known as it the rudest factor anybody had mentioned to her in Hollywood — she later revealed it was Harvey Weinstein who mentioned it. Fortunately, writers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in addition to director Gus Van Sant fought for her to get the position, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.
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Based on composer Anne Dudley, Poldark government producer Damien Timmer was nervous ladies would not discover star Aidan Turner enticing.
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Dudley reassured Timmer than they might — and she or he was proper. Turner shortly grew to become a significant heartthrob.
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After being named Esquire’s “sexiest lady alive” in 2005, Jessica Biel mentioned she struggled to get work and was advised by a director, “I’m not in search of the sexiest lady; I’m in search of the lady subsequent door.”
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She did not identify the precise movie, however she did identify The Different Boleyn Woman as an element she needed that did not go to her.
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Meryl Streep was thought of “too ugly” to star in King Kong.
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Producer Dino De Laurentiis truly mentioned “che brutta” (“how ugly”) in entrance of Meryl when she got here to audition — she understood and fired again in Italian. The half went to Jessica Lange as a substitute.
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And eventually, Melissa De Sousa was thought of “too fairly” to play a “down-on-her-luck stripper” in Hustle & Circulate.
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De Sousa mentioned she begged them to see her anyway, and that she ended up display screen testing, although the position in the end went to Paula Jai Parker.
Which of those was essentially the most surprising? Received some other examples of actors being advised they have been too enticing or not enticing sufficient? Tell us within the feedback!
