Imagine being the person being told: yeah, so we only hired you to challenge beauty standards. Not because you’re the best at what you do, oh no no, but because you’re ugly af
If you pay me her salary, you can motivate it however you want.
It looks like this picture was taken the moment they told her
Except she’s absolutely gorgeous herself, as was made clear when they removed the prosthetics. None of the claim makes any sense 😂
You could tell she was beautiful even with the prosthetics.
True
To be fair, she’s definitely a breakout star of the show. I believe that before Witcher she had mostly worked in theatre, and even then was new to the industry.
They just mean not white
Oh. I thought she was the Hollywood version of “ugly”
I’m now at a point that I can’t watch American media at all because everyone just looks the fuckin same.
Generic actress no.495 with horrifyingly white teeth Vs generic actor no.5638 with horrifyingly white teeth
It’s even sadder when you have an actor(ess) that is beautiful in their own way and then gets surgery or something else to conform to the way everyone else looks.
Erin Moriarty pictures just make me fucking sad.
She was literally the first person I thought of when reading this as well.
I looked up a recent interview for The Boys season 4 and I have no idea what y’all are talking about. At most, she changed the type of makeup she regularly does and lost weight/aged out of her baby face. Your face can change a lot, especially in your 20s. I’m also not sure what wasn’t conventionally about her at any point.
Thinking she’s had surgery when she hasn’t is more toxic for beauty standards than if she did have work done. Lip fillers, natural changes, and makeup aren’t some work of the devil. There are people who do actually have problems, but not everyone does.
Except she has had surgery?
https://www.screengeek.net/2024/02/02/erin-moriarty-plastic-surgery-accusations-response/
She hasn’t owned up to it but very much did not deny.
Edit: for the record I had no idea there was a whole thing around her a Megan Kelly. Can’t agree with all the hate.
That said, I’m replying to a comment about people having surgery/other medical procedures/drastic makeup etc that causes great changes and she was the first one that popped into my head. She hasn’t denied the surgery. Just said Kelly was spreading false news. But in all her statements she has never denied the surgery from my understanding.
I also don’t agree that it’s “fucking sad” as commenter above me states. She can do whatever she wants it’s her body. Having surgery or not doesn’t matter at all. I still hold that she looks drastically different from 5 years ago regardless of the reason.
She didn’t age out her baby face. That was the surgery.
Usually I don’t notice but it was pretty jarring in Book of Boba Fett. The guy was all dusty living in a desert and then he smiles and his teeth are blindingly white. I was like… Damn Disney you can’t afford the makeup department to dirty those up a bit?
What’s is this with the teeth? Are they all wearing fake teeth? Don’t tell me everyone has such a great mouth hygiene and dental care with sugar in everything you eat in US?
Serious answer? Yes. They often have either bleached teeth, which eventually destroys them so then they need veneers (fake front) and after that they get dentures.
What.
Just…what.
Where are you getting this information? You’re talking about the US, where we have excellent healthcare for people who can afford it, and those people can fuckin afford it.
Being rich does not make people smart.
…okay? What does that have to do with anything? Are you okay?
They spend a lot of money on the appearance of their teeth, instead of spending it on the health of their teeth. Seemed pretty obvious to me.
that’s a pretty ironic comment lol
Imagine thinking that
where we have excellent healthcare for people who can afford it
Is something to be proud of.
Christ on a bike
I don’t think that was being stated as a point of pride. It’s just the shitty state of things here.
Sorry, but he is obviously proud of that. Look at his response https://lemm.ee/comment/12363119. He is clearly so much smarter than the rest of us, so he doesn’t realize the dumb shit he is saying hahahaha.
Are you ok
Is the most condescending, cunty, redditesque remark of the last year
Americans have really white teeth compared to the rest of the world, especially in hollywood
A fact many Americans are trying to kill because “fluoride in the water is bad”
You prefer the yellow teeth snaggletooth actresses?
yellow = anything less white than #FFFFFF ? god damn
You mean the realistic teeth actresses?
You bet your ass.
Challenge beauty standards of a character that was supposed to be unrealistically beautiful.
Was she? I could swear in the books she was described as not conventionally beautiful
You’re right. They just made her drop dead stunning in the games, so that’s how the bulk of the fandom envisions her
I’m pretty sure the whole thing is that witches in the witcher universe can shape their faces however they want so they all choose to be super pretty? Am I misremembering or did yennefer make herself “not conventionally beautiful” on purpose?
You’re completely correct.
“Unlike priestesses and druidesses, who only unwillingly took ugly or crippled girls, sorcerers took anyone who showed evidence of a predisposition. If the child passes the first years of training, magic entered into the equation – straightening and evening out legs, repairing bones which had badly knitted, patching harelips, removing scars, birthmarks and pox scars. The young sorceress would become attractive because the prestige of her profession demanded it.”
This is just another way in which the TV show butchered the original, although it is far below the ladder in comparison with the fact that they turned the endless interesting philosophical debates into dull, uninteresting conversations.
It could also really mean “Non-white for racist audiences”
I’ve still never met a man who actually won’t recognize that a hot woman from another race isn’t hot. They can be insanely racist and still call a hot black woman hot. This casting director is a moron.
You want to challenge beauty standards? Cast Steve Buscemi as Geralt and Lizzo as Yennifer.
It seems like a lot of people are just not reading the article or the context of the quote:
Now, this is not Holland saying that Chalotra is ugly, or that they cast someone ugly to play the role of the most beautiful woman in the world. … Rather, Holland is saying that she is challenging the “standard of beauty” by casting a woman with slightly darker skin.
I do understand that traditional Western fantasy is predominantly white, but I disagree fundamentally with the notion that the “standard of beauty” for most people is being white. I don’t think anyone in the entire world outside of a tiny, tiny sliver of absolute racist scumbags would look at Anya Chalotra and think anything other than “This woman is jaw-droppingly gorgeous.” Casting Chalotra may challenge our perceptions of fantasy as white (a complicated discussion on its own) but it does nothing to challenge any standard of beauty.
Emphasis is mine.
She was actually made up to be pretty ugly for most of the first season, but they hotted her up at the end as the result of some magic shit.
I watched it once four years ago, so don’t remember the details.
Most sorceresses in that universe enhance their beauty/youthfulness with magic. Most sorcerers do not because they’re taken more seriously as they age. It’s essentially a commentary on what each gender derives power from. Yennefer is like 80 years old by the time the main story begins.
In the books yen uses magic to hide her hunchback and ugliness. Geralt being a Witcher and therefore trained/experienced to analyse magic in front of him quickly sees through the illusion. If the show had the character look uglier to begin with then that’s probably a result of adapting the books. I haven’t watched the show as I don’t really like adaptations. Btw it’s not just Yen that uses magic to hide ugliness either, almost all other sorceresses do as well in the books including Triss.
Interesting, in the show it isn’t really an illusion, they physically change her.
It’s also like that in the books. In the book Geralt can somehow see it in her eyes. He says they’re the eyes of a hunchback or something along those lines.
Maybe he’s not sure and it’s just a hunch.
“I have non white friends”
All my friends are non white…
I kinda get what they mean. It’s not that she’s ugly, it’s that she’s hot as fuck but doesn’t look like a generic “hot actress”
I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I don’t think she’s that hot.
Your eyes broken bro
Either that or their beholder is broken.
