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My son, who is an actor and a cinephile, complains about how movies and shows all have actors who look like actors, and don’t look like real people. He often talks about “iPhone Face,” where a character in a period piece like a 19th century western, looks like they know what an iPhone is.

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Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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Luis Guzman is one of my favorite New York actors. Born and raised in the City, trained in the City, always played NYC locals. Maybe a cop, maybe a psycho, but always a New York City guy.

One day his agent calls him; they want him for a movie, The Count of Monte Cristo. He’s flabbergasted. He plays New York, that’s what he does. But he goes in and auditions and they decide they want him.

I remember seeing him and recognizing him and saying ‘no way.’ Then he starts acting and it’s like, yeah, there were Puerto Ricans in the 1800s.

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- barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, I love him, too. He’s always great.
  
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phx@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My wife loves Asian period dramas and this is a hugely common thing that drives me nuts. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got period clothing and scenery etc. If the “lowly common girl” has a perfect complexion, teeth, and obvious cosmetics it just breaks it.

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- Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The Viking ladies with shaved arm pits…
  
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  - phx@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah some of them back then would probably have been able to braid more than just the hair on their head…
    
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    futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Having had a few Scandi-descended girlfriends, I concur. But on average, they’re nowhere near as hairly as Slavs or Armenians. Not that anything’s wrong with body hair.
    
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is one of the good things British shows have. People looks like people.

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