I actually cannot think about anybody ever pondering Winona Ryder is just too ugly for a job, however right here we’re.
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Winona Ryder not too long ago talked about being informed she wasn’t engaging sufficient to be a star within the ’80s. Specifically, she’s talked about prior to now that at a selected ’80s audition a casting director stopped her mid-sentence and informed her, “You shouldn’t be an actress. You aren’t fairly sufficient. It’s best to 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 assume 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 engaging sufficient for roles. When he had a bit half in Brokeback Mountain, he says that director Ang Lee informed him he wanted to look extra good-looking throughout a take.
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Jessica Alba was equally informed she wanted to “be prettier” and “cry fairly” throughout her character’s dying 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 wish 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 function 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 function, “That at all times helps. Purple-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 wish 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 “every little thing 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 who was taking part in 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 function 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-about fairly sufficient to play herself in an unnamed sketch present early in her profession. The community (which is not on the air, based on 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 taking part in polished and “cute” roles virtually prevented her from being solid because the much less conventionally engaging Ruth in Glow.
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In an interview with Vulture, which claimed that the character wasn’t meant to be “conventionally engaging,” Brie mentioned, “they didn’t assume I used to be proper for the function.” She mentioned that for her auditions she would put on exercise garments with no make-up and tie her hair again, saying she wished to show them mistaken that she may do the function.
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Benedict Cumberbatch was initially deemed “not horny sufficient” to play Sherlock in Sherlock by BBC execs.
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“You promised us an attractive 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 wished Moffat to solid somebody sexier.
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Conversely, Scarlett Johansson was “too horny” to star in The Woman With the Dragon Tattoo.
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Director David Fincher mentioned, “Scarlett Johansson was nice. It was an excellent audition, I am telling you. However the factor with Scarlett is, you possibly can’t await her to take her garments off.” The function went to Rooney Mara as a substitute.
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In line with Kate Beckinsale, director Michael Bay did not assume she was engaging sufficient for her function 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 informed Yahoo Leisure. “So there was quite a lot of panic and concern over, ‘How on earth are we gonna make her engaging?'” 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 wonderful!'” 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 engaging sufficient.
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Webber wrote, “Look, I’m a straight white male so I do know my journey has been means much less painful on this warped trade, 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 function went to Jake Johnson.
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Minnie Driver virtually did not star in Good Will Looking as a result of the producer did not assume she was “scorching 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 function, for which she was nominated for an Oscar.
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In line with composer Anne Dudley, Poldark govt producer Damien Timmer was fearful girls would not discover star Aidan Turner engaging.
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Dudley reassured Timmer than they’d — and she or he was proper. Turner rapidly turned a serious 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 informed by a director, “I’m not searching for the sexiest lady; I’m searching for the lady subsequent door.”
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She did not identify the precise movie, however she did identify The Different Boleyn Woman as a component she wished that did not go to her.
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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 at last, Melissa De Sousa was thought-about “too fairly” to play a “down-on-her-luck stripper” in Hustle & Stream.
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De Sousa mentioned she begged them to see her anyway, and that she ended up display screen testing, although the function in the end went to Paula Jai Parker.
Which of those was probably the most surprising? Received every other examples of actors being informed they had been too engaging or not engaging sufficient? Tell us within the feedback!
