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
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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?
that's a pretty ironic comment lol
Americans have really white teeth compared to the rest of the world, especially in hollywood
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.
No, you were very much misreading the comment. They just threw a crazy factoid out there. And then followed with a non sequitur about “rich =/= smart.” And why would my confusion mean I love privatized medicine?
I mean, you’re not wrong about me being smarter than the rest of you. I’m just choosing to ignore the part where it’s only in my head. Because I’m so much smarter. (jk)
Unfortunately it's true. It's pretty well known in beauty/aesthetic procedure spaces, which many celebrities inhabit. It's why so many have samey looking teeth, it's wild.
its not completely wrong. getting cosmetic veneers is a pretty common practice in hollywood. they don't cause your teeth to decay or whatever, but lots of celebs have them.
Don’t forget the wholesale smoking since they’re teenagers.
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?
Might not be any bacteria that cause tooth decay.
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.
Case is point: the actress that was playing Starlight in "The boys"
I am American and I am not offended by this. I'm not even sure I disagree
They just mean not white
Oh. I thought she was the Hollywood version of “ugly”
Exactly
shes half indian, so I understand the director
Is this the women from Mr Robot or do I suck at faces?
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.