I warned them, after seeing razor burn on the crotches of skaters in the 2002 Winter Olympics, but did anybody listen to me? “No,” they said. “Everything will be peaches and cream.” But a peaches and cream complection on screen requires one in real life, not the imperfect complections of actual PEOPLE.
And yeah, when Jessica Simpson started advertising the efficaciousness of some pimple cream I sat up and took notice because I had seen her “before” pics.
Re Kristin Kreuk yeah those are some seriously mangled up choppers. Can’t see how she even gets dates.
Russian porn has some of the worst teeth ever, yellow fangs sticking out in all directions.
I don’t see a problem with Kristin Kreuk’s teeth, at least from the picture linked above. And in regards to Patricia Arquette, I’ve always found her to be incredibly attractive, and her teeth are a flaw that makes her seem more like a regular person. However, as far as I can remember, PA is the only actor or actress whose teeth I even noticed, except for a fascination I have for trying to peer into actors’ mouths in period pieces. So far, not a one has had evidence of 20th century metal fillings, but I just got a HDTV last year, so it’s just a matter of time…
BTW: I read once but can’t find a cite: Jaclyn Smith had a gap in her front teeth right up to the end of Charlie’s Angels, so you can’t find any pictures of her in that era with a toothy grin. The reason I remember it was because the article noted that, ironically, her father was a dentist. I think there was something about having to take too much time away from the camera for her to get them fixed, so she had them fixed after the Charlie’s Angels series concluded.
I have fluoride stains, wherein some sort of fluoride treatment many years ago left white streaks on my teeth, making my teeth look discolored. So I tend to try to make that sexy, mysterious smile that Jaclyn always had, but it doesn’t work out that well for me.
What the fuck are you people talking about?
Kristin Kreuk and Patricia Arquette are both smoking hot, and I like their teeth. I get distracted by actors with their perfectly-aligned, dazzling white, obviously fake teeth. I don’t mind seeing a tooth or two a little out of alignment. I agree, that’s the kind of flaw that makes them even more beautiful.
Has anyone else noticed Tom Cruise’s perfectly centered big front tooth?
Agreed. The bleached whiteness of most actors’ teeth today is impossible to overlook, while small flaws are totally natural. We should start a campaign to darken teeth.
Take Orthodontal Overwhiteness Totally out of Hollywood. TOOTH.
[or Take Orthodontal Overwhiteness Totally Out Of Today’s Hollywood Y’all. TOO TOOTHY]
She can get a date with me any day.
Grant Imahara from *Mythbusters * had some impossibly crooked front teeth in his first season, but has since had them straightened.
This. Especially when they are playing a role not set in modern times, where there was no way the character could afford or even access a dentist.
Wow I feel like I’m being misread.
I used Kristin and Patricia as examples of attractive women who’s teeth I find distracting. I did not say they are not attractive; in fact I’ve called them both attractive and pretty in this thread.
I have also never, ever said or implied that people need to have “perfectly-aligned, dazzling white, obviously fake teeth.” You act like if I don’t see bonded teeth, I think the person must have been in a horrible accident. That’s not the case at all.
To repeat; I don’t know anyone in real life who’s teeth are as distracting as Patricia Arquette’s. So, for the excuse that her teeth looking the way they do is more “natural,” I’m sorry, it’s UNnatural if they look like nothing else in nature, anywhere.
My entire point is that the teeth are distracting me from an otherwise very attractive woman who also happens to be a great actress. My question was along the lines of, “Did anyone ever mention this to Patricia Arquette (or Kristin Kreuk, or any other actor who has distracting teeth),” and “what would be the main motivation for not getting it done?”
People’s response seems to indicate they are guessing that the actor believes it’s more natural or realistic and isn’t changing it because of that. If it were more natural and normal, then I would probably know at least one person in real life who’s teeth are equally distracting. Or, I would know enough people who’s teeth are similar in real life that teeth like that would not be distracting to me.
As has been stated upthread, this is not the situation we’re talking about. I’m talking about actresses who play present-day roles (Smallville, True Romance, Medium).
And can’t they do something to dumb the teeth down for a period piece? Some temporary stains to change the color and apparently straightness of the teeth?
People need to understand that I agree 100% that in a period piece (fantasy, or civil war, or crusades, or whatever) that actors should not walk around flashing bonded-white tooth grins. THAT would be distracting. But that isn’t the situation I’m bringing up here.
It seems that Patricia Arquette may not be happy with her teeth; a Google Images search of her shows not one single picture where she smiles with her lips even slightly parted. Premieres, red carpets, posed pictures, all the same, lips tightly pressed together.
I found one somewhat older picture of her, posed even, with her mouth slightly open and you can see that her top teeth don’t align. To fix what she’s got going on looks very much like it would require orthodontia, not simple cosmetic dentistry, especially not for a 40 year old woman whose teeth have probably been in that shape for 30 years.
And I think it’s pretty clear why a consistently working actress of her age isn’t going to go through the pain and the alteration of her looks and the way she speaks to try to adjust her teeth when they’re not causing her any personal or, apparently, professional problems.
As for Kristin Kreuk, all I can say is bwuh? One chip.
Honestly, if you’re noticing on these things in the midst of shows like Medium and Smallville, you’re probably a little hyperfocused and should maybe attempt to jar your perspectives.
Wait, are you seriously alleging that you never see actual people in day to day life that have slightly crooked or slightly discolored teeth? That Patricia Arquette and Kristin Kreuk have such horrible teeth that you’d recoil in horror if you met someone with such teeth in real life?
I see people with imperfect teeth every day. What planet are you living on?
I agree with this. What world are you in that you don’t see thousands of people daily with teeth worse then this? I can’t even imagine I would have noticed this if you hadn’t pointed it out and even then it isn’t distracting at all.
I also imagine that having regular normal teeth like 99% of the world would actually help you as an actor or actress when you had to play regular parts that didn’t require perfection.
But I agree with Lemur866, I see much worse teeth on a daily basis then this.
Perhaps you are obessessing a bit much on them and thus you notice them? Or you a dental student or someone who has lots of dental issues and thus you notice this more then the average joe?
I had braces as a kid but after a while a couple of my teeth got slightly misaligned. My orthodontist told me that happens in some cases. I could have gotten more braces but I decided not to. Perhaps that is what happened to Arquette, she had braces and later her teeth moved out of alignment.
But you seem to be saying that you don’t know anyone in real life who has teeth like this–I find that extremely difficult to believe. And are you seriously saying that her teeth look ‘like nthing else in nature, anwhere’? From the photos posted here there isn’t anything I have seen that would lead me to believe that her teeth look anything other then normal. They are not perfect, but nothing is and things that tend to look perfect look unnatural. I am a VERY visual person (part of my occupation) and I notice lots of details that others don’t. Frankly as a member of the artistic community it is the little imperfections that make things feel natural. Go look at your face in the mirror–is it perfectly symmetrical? No–but it is the little blemishes and imperfections that make one attractive. Overall I think this woman is attractive, so thus the teeth aren’t noticeable. If her teeth looked like Steve Buscemi then I might notice. But her teeth aren’t that extreme to me.
Any one else picturing each incisor with a tiny portrait of Steve Buscemi like a weird version of those picture manicures?
I have to agree with this. I assume that the actors in question simply don’t consider it necessary to have some dental intervention, and as I find them both fairly attractive women I can’t blame them.
Where I live, those teeth would be perfectly nice teeth. I live in the country where there is a great deal of poverty and it’s not uncommon to meet people who have blackened, rotting or just plain missing teeth. Those who do have money may have nicer teeth, but not the impossibly white, perfectly straight ones advertised by dentists. Before that, I lived in the Las Vegas area, which can be nearly as vain as Hollywood, and still saw bad teeth on a regular basis, regardless of someone’s financial situation.
So perhaps, to answer the OP, the problem is that a large percentage of people aren’t interested in having perfect teeth, and some of those people become actors.
“Who’s” = “who is”.
“Whose” = possessive form of “who”.
Do you find teeth similarly distracting in people you speak to face-to-face?
