How do movies ask for “ugly” actors?

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Or things seen as “negative” otherwise, like specific disabilities (eg. achondroplasia)

I see a lot of ways it could sound offensive. How do they ask for them to audition? Surely they don’t put it bluntly like “need blonde, ugly man.”

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American here, but one of my favorite things about tv series from the BBC is that they cast REAL looking people in their productions. It is almost as if they purposely avoid giving roles to individuals who are overly good looking…and they seem to particularly avoid those who are surgically altered to be so. The major networks in the US of A seem to have a strong tendency to do just the opposite.