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

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 55 points 5 months ago

If you pay me her salary, you can motivate it however you want.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 5 months ago

It looks like this picture was taken the moment they told her

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Except she's absolutely gorgeous herself, as was made clear when they removed the prosthetics. None of the claim makes any sense 😂

[–] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You could tell she was beautiful even with the prosthetics.

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[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

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.

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[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 128 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] varnia@lemm.ee 57 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Being rich does not make people smart.

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[–] ramirezmike@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Americans have really white teeth compared to the rest of the world, especially in hollywood

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[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Imagine thinking that

where we have excellent healthcare for people who can afford it

Is something to be proud of.

Christ on a bike

[–] Duranie@literature.cafe 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't think that was being stated as a point of pride. It's just the shitty state of things here.

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[–] trollbearpig@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I love how people like you sometimes stumble into weird truths hahaha. Like yeah, the stupid medical system you guys have in the US sucks even for people with money (luckily I'm from a latin american country that's not yet a pro/anti US dictatorship, but soon ...). Like it's that ridiculous, even people with money in the US end up fucking themselves medically, that's the freedom you get from that stupid healthcare system hahahaha. And people like you have stockholm syndrom.

Sadly this is infecting my country too, famous and rich people now have pennywise white teeth lol. For now I don't feel too bad for them, fuck these pricks wasting money in this shit while people go hungry here. But I do feel a bit sad for them.

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 44 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Erin Moriarty pictures just make me fucking sad.

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[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 13 points 5 months ago

Case is point: the actress that was playing Starlight in "The boys"

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 121 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Challenge beauty standards of a character that was supposed to be unrealistically beautiful.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Was she? I could swear in the books she was described as not conventionally beautiful

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're right. They just made her drop dead stunning in the games, so that's how the bulk of the fandom envisions her

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[–] cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 105 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They just mean not white

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh. I thought she was the Hollywood version of “ugly”

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[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 95 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It could also really mean "Non-white for racist audiences"

[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

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[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 80 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The likely explanation is that the publication intentionally misrepresented what the casting director said. They were probably talking about how what they DID with her in the first season challenged beauty standards. They intentionally made her "ugly" for the story. The casting director might not have meant they hired her because she wasn't conventionally attractive, but the publication knew they could get more clicks by quoting her out of context.

Also, this thread has been kind of toxic about beauty stuff which makes me sad :(

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 104 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 40 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's far more simple than that. The students are predominantly nobles, and they pretty much completely cut all ties to their previous lives.

So why would you send a hot daughter to become a witch when you can marry her and make political gains? You send the disfigured one so you don't have to waste any more money on her.

The 5th son doesn't need to be disfigured to be essentially useless in the political world.

[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 48 points 5 months ago

that would be a decent assumption to jump to if you didn't know the real answer i guess...

sorceresses in the Witcher were largely discarded children that were sick or disfigured. they eventually use magic to "fix" their bodies. many of them are obsessive about thiz and use magic to be the most beautiful person in the room because of their disfigured past.

there is very little connection between high birth and being a sorceress in the Witcher. all of the specific examples we hear are of farm peasents being scooped up just to take the burden off their parent's hands.

this is a bleak story, many of the sorcerers and sorceresses in it are at Best morally grey. it is not beyond most of them to take that child and experiment on them if they don't have the aptitude for magic. they are also sterile. much like witchers, they must take in outsiders to propagate.

unless the show has its own lore or something. IDK i stopped watching after season 2 was completely its own story, unrelated to the books at all.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tell me you that you haven't read the books without saying " I haven't read the books".

[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly trying to figure out if they're an LLM or not

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[–] hellofriend@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Not sure where you're getting that from. As far as I know none of the sorceresses' familial backgrounds are explored aside from Yennefer's. Either in the Netflix show, the books, or the games. Additionally, magical ability is exceedingly rare and not confined to the nobility. The chances of the majority of the sorceresses being from noble families is extremely low.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 38 points 5 months ago

Even when she was made up to be ugly they couldn't bring themselves to mess with her perfect tits though. They didn't commit that much.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting, in the show it isn't really an illusion, they physically change her.

[–] GeoGio7@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] Maultasche@feddit.de 32 points 5 months ago

Maybe he's not sure and it's just a hunch.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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”

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I don't think she's that hot.

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Your eyes broken bro

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Either that or their beholder is broken.

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 30 points 5 months ago

she's a smoke show, dude

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