Actors Who Were Called Too Hot/Not Hot Enough For Role
You really can’t win in Hollywood.
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Emmy Rossum almost didn’t get to star as Fiona in Shameless because producers felt she wasn’t capable of not being pretty.
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“They didn’t want to see me; they wouldn’t even [let me] audition,” she said. “They thought my image was too glamorous, that I couldn’t not be pretty.”
2.
Conversely, Andrew Garfield lost out on the role of Prince Caspian in the Chronicles of Narnia series because he “wasn’t handsome enough.”
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He had made it down to the final two, but they went with Ben Barnes instead.
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Jennifer Lawrence was originally turned down for her role in Winter’s Bone because she was “too pretty” — she had to prove to them she was “not cute.”
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Lawrence took a red-eye (they had just moved casting to New York) and then auditioned again. She said of getting the role, “That always helps. Red-eye. Not showering. No makeup. Eventually they went, ‘Oh, she’s right. She’s not cute!'”
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According to Kate Beckinsale, director Michael Bay didn’t think she was attractive enough for her role in Pearl Harbor because she “wasn’t blonde and [her] boobs weren’t bigger than [her] head.”
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“I didn’t make sense to him as an attractive woman,” Beckinsale told Yahoo Entertainment. “So there was a lot of panic and concern over, ‘How on earth are we gonna make her attractive?'” Beckinsale was put on an intense workout regimen and diet.
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Director Joe Wright originally didn’t want Keira Knightley to star in his film Pride and Prejudice because of her good looks.
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“Then he met me and said, ‘Oh no, you’re fine!'” Knightley joked.
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After being recast following the pilot for Stumptown, actor Mark Webber went on a social media rant about how he was allegedly fired for not being attractive enough.
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Webber wrote, “Look, I’m a straight white male so I know my journey has been way less painful in this warped industry, but I’m being recast in a network television…
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