Loads of the strain common people really feel to look a sure manner comes from the sweetness requirements pushed on us by Hollywood. Working actors are sometimes pressured to vary their appearances to suit a sure mildew, however typically, they refuse and construct careers as their genuine selves.
Listed below are 15 actors who have been pressured to vary their appearances to get roles however refused:
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In 2023, Jenna Ortega informed Harper’s Bazaar, “As a toddler actor, there are two jobs that you would be able to get: you’re both the youthful model of somebody otherwise you’re taking part in someone’s daughter – and there have been simply not many main Hispanic actors who I could possibly be that for. So numerous the roles that I used to be going for rising up would by no means work out, as a result of I didn’t look [a certain] manner. That was actually arduous, to listen to that one thing you couldn’t change was what was stopping you [from succeeding]…I wished to dye my hair blonde in order that I’d appear to be Cinderella.”
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In 2024, Kate Winslet informed Harper’s Bazaar, “There is a bit [in the 2023 film Lee] the place Lee’s sitting on a bench in a bikini… And one of many crew got here up between takes and stated, ‘You would possibly wish to sit up straighter.’ So you may’t see my stomach rolls? Not in your life! It was deliberate, ?”
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Whereas Kirsten Dunst was filming Spider-Man, a producer shocked her with a dentist go to to straighten her tooth. Nevertheless, she refused.
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In 2023, Rosie Perez informed Selection, “[My former agent] informed me that if I dyed my hair blonde and bought a nostril job, ‘I can get you extra jobs. Since you’re not Black.'”
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The strain to get a nostril job “was fed to [The Boys actor Claudia Doumit] for a lot of, a few years.” Throughout a panel at SDCC 2024, she reportedly stated, “Ever since I used to be a younger age, I assumed to myself, ‘After I ebook my first job, I am gonna get a nostril job. I am gonna receives a commission for that, after which I am gonna get a nostril job.’…Then I booked my first job and I did not get a nostril job.”
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In 2024, Joel Kim Booster informed Vulture, “[In an Instagram Stories Q&A] somebody straight up requested me, ‘Whenever you get well-known, are you gonna repair your tooth?’ It was the primary time somebody had clocked me for having dangerous tooth. At that time in my profession, I didn’t essentially have the means to deal with it. My response was merely, ‘No.’ And I internalized that response to such a level within the years since that, as I’ve develop into an increasing number of profitable, I type of delay addressing any dental work.”
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In a 2023 Vogue video, Florence Pugh stated, “I had a bizarre chapter at the start of my profession, however that was as a result of I wasn’t complying. I believe that was complicated to individuals, particularly in Hollywood. Ladies in Hollywood, particularly younger girls in Hollywood, are clearly placing themselves in all these methods with the intention to get no matter alternative that they should get as a result of that is simply the best way that it has been.”
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Early in her profession, casting administrators would inform Amber Riley, “I believe you’ll want to lose a bit of weight.” She was solely supplied harmfully stereotypical roles. She “did not perceive why individuals could not settle for [her] for who [she] was,” however she determined to cease going to auditions as a result of she did not wish to “conform and harm [her]self” to succeed in a sure dimension.
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In 2017, Alex Newell informed StyleCaster that, once they auditioned for the musical Kinky Boots, “They stated my weight would inhibit me from taking part in the position, which isn’t true, however to every their very own.”
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In 2016, Ashley Benson informed Well being, “It is come up a couple of occasions in the previous few years, like, ‘You are too fats for this.’ And I am simply sitting right here like, ‘Wait, what? Would you like a skeleton?’ However I really feel good. I do not wish to lose 20 kilos as a result of I need not.”
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In 2014, Robin Wright informed City & Nation that, when government producer David Fincher pitched her Home of Playing cards, “I used to be sitting there going, ‘You are 45, and you are not gonna get a face-lift.’ I used to be actually contemplating that stuff, as a result of in Hollywood the strain’s there.”
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In her 2023 memoir My Title Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand stated that, time and again, individuals within the leisure business suggested her to get dental crowns and a rhinoplasty. She wrote, “I assumed, Is not my expertise sufficient? A nostril job would harm and be costly. In addition to, how might I belief anybody to do precisely what I wished and no extra?”
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Whereas Debra Messing was filming A Stroll within the Clouds, the director allegedly pressured her to get a nostril job. In 2017, she informed Elle, “I would by no means been on a movie earlier than. I used to be doing a love scene with Keanu Reeves. We began filming and the very well-known director screamed, ‘Lower’ and stated, ‘How shortly can we get a plastic surgeon in right here? Her nostril is ruining my film.'”
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Firstly of her profession, Sophia Loren was typically suggested to change her look. In 2014, she informed The Hollywood Reporter, “I at all times tried to not hear to those individuals. They have been saying that my nostril was too lengthy and my mouth was too large. It did not harm me in any respect as a result of once I imagine in one thing, it is like conflict. It is a battle. However even Carlo [Ponti, my husband] stated, ‘ the cameramen, they are saying that your nostril is just too lengthy. Perhaps you must contact it a bit of bit.’ And I stated, ‘Pay attention, I do not wish to contact nothing on my face as a result of I like my face. If I’ve to vary my nostril, I’m going again to Pozzuoli.'”
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And eventually, in 2015, Halle Berry informed Yahoo Magnificence that she feels pressured to get beauty work performed. She stated, “It’s strain. Whenever you see all people round you doing it, you’ve got these moments once you suppose, ‘To remain alive on this enterprise, do I have to do the identical factor?’ I will not lie and inform you that these issues do not cross my thoughts, as a result of someone is at all times suggesting it to me. ‘, in the event you simply did a bit of little bit of this and that, carry this up, then this may be a bit of bit higher.’ It is nearly like crack that individuals are making an attempt to push on you. That is what I really feel like.”