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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Often times they’ll just hire an average looking actor and make them look bad using makeup and they’ll very bad because they cast the rest of the roles to attractive people
There’s an agency called Ugly that specialises in this, but tbh looking at the people there they aren’t terrible looking, and many of them are attractive just in unconventional ways (e.g. tattoos).
[https://www.ugly.org/2016/men/men-1](https://www.ugly.org/2016/men/men-1)
https://www.ugly.org/2016/girls/girls-1
This is not an answer, but an observation. In an episode of Friends there is this really tall and overweight preteen girl who has to dance on Ross’ feet at a wedding after a bunch of the smaller girls did. He freaks out about it, and the episode ends with his feet being injured.
Imagine being that young girl grown up and thinking ‘Oh cool I played the fat, ugly girl on a TV show’
Idk. Just seems so fucking mean, I get it’s a job, but like in that case that girl couldn’t have been more than 15.
They are blunt. They ask for ugly people. If you are an actor, you need to have tough skin and a realistic idea of what you look like.
Actors like Michael Cera and DJ Qualls are very aware of how awkward they look, but most understand that confidence can make up for a lot.
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.
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