In small but significant number of beginning filmmakers and casting executives reconsider Hollywood's attitude to breast implants, Botox, collagen-injected lips and all kinds of plastic surgery.
TV executives at Fox Broadcasting, says for example, they have begun to recruit more natural looking players from Australia and the United Kingdom since more than well endowed positions, freakishly young professional crowd shows up for auditions in Los Angeles is suffering from too much sameness.
"I think all either looks like a drag queen or a stripper" said Marcia Shulman, who oversees casting of Fox network's scripted performances.
Independent casting directors as Mindy Marin, who worked with Jason Reitman film "Up in the Air", invites talent agents to prevent clients from having surgery, especially older celebrities as she argues, lose their jobs because their skin is too tense or swollen with. Said Ms. Marin: "what I want to see is real."
Even extras get once-over. Sande Alessi, who helped cast "Caribbean Pirates" movies, said she is offering to photograph actresses in their bathing suits, tell us if they can keep the photo for their audition books.
Professional courtesy? Not necessarily. Moviemakers prefer actresses with natural boobs for costume dramas and period films. So much so that when the Walt Disney Company announced recently for extras for the new "Pirates" movie, casting call indicated that only women with real boobs need apply. By taking a photograph, Ms. Alessi said, "we need not ask, we."
Step towards a ' less is more "is operated by a number of conflicting social and technological trends, said more than a dozen films and TV professionals.
Cosmetic improvements still popular, with 10 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures are performed in the United States in 2009, according to the American society for aesthetic plastic surgery. At the same time, the proliferation of HD television — as well as a curious generally trained eye – has made it easier to find a celebrity poorly sewn hairline or botched eyelid lift.
Men, is, of course, not immune to the lure of a youthful Surgeon a scalpel. But there are women, to no surprise that most closely, is to be examined.
Botox is the enemy in a post-"Avatar" 3D infatuated Hollywood, where the ability to crumple a mouth to a frown is as necessary as to remember their lines. More frightening is how young plastic surgery supporters become. In January was the actress Heidi Montag on the cover of people magazine, touting the 10 cosmetic procedures that she received one day. She is 23.
"Era" I see great since I did this to myself "has gone through," said Shawn Levy, Director and producer of "date Night" and "night at the Museum" movies. "It is seen as ridiculous. Ten years ago had actresses feeling that they had to get plastic surgery to get the part. Now, I think it works against them, go to a casting session hurts look fake even chances. "
Few in Hollywood are willing to admit that the Chin reduction or mini eyebrow lift. (Remember when Jennifer Grey M?deret nose job, a move that some say are damaging his career?) Celebrities are more open to discuss a previous drug problems or sex addiction, because there is less concern a confession which will damage their careers. But with so many types of cosmetic rejiggering is often painfully obvious results and difficult to fix.
Ms. Shulman, Fox met an agent recently to discuss hiring an actress who apparently had work. "What she did to his face?" Ms. Shulman said she asked the agent. "He said," nothing ". I lightly. I am thinking only not to argue. I said, ' she is not for me then. " ”
Head shots, is even more reliable. Ms. Marin said she sometimes checks AwfulPlasticSurgery.com, an advertising site that portrays the surgically enhanced confirm suspicions about who did what. When Ms. Alessi casting "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" in 2007, she received hundreds of head shots. Some of the actresses who arrived for the audition, however, saw nothing out of their photographs.
"They would have these huge puffy lips and frozen units," said she. "you say to yourself," Oh, I can't use you. "I don't mind if they do a little bit of something, but it may not be obvious."
An actor can also lose a role of a Director, if the suspect surgery was performed or not. John Papsidera, a casting director for "Batman" films, "he said, a Director (he declined to say which one) recently discussed whether to hire an actress in his early 20s to play a teenager, falling in love. The actress was talented and naturally beautiful. But what is stopping the Director was his suspicions that such young, she already had breast implants.
No comments:
Post a Comment