# Actors whose appearance you find distracting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2026, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115 "2026-10-24T05:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/41 "2026-10-25T15:16:02Z")
🧑‍⚖️ I’ll allow it. And now that you mention Timothy Dalton, I’m reminded of his younger self’s resemblance to [Dylan McDermott](https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dylan-McDermott-bio-update.jpg?w=800&h=1421&crop=1&quality=30&strip=all). ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/42 "2026-10-25T15:40:43Z")
Clint Howard ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/43 "2026-10-25T15:41:12Z")
This is how I feel about the lead woman in Fallout. It’s uncanny valley territory for me. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/44 "2026-10-25T19:35:53Z")
She’s gorgeous! ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/45 "2026-10-25T21:15:21Z")
I think both of them are weird looking, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/46 "2026-10-25T21:21:51Z")
She is pretty in an interesting way but she kinda creeps me out. It’s like she’s always so _affected_…like she’s just too aware of herself and is always posing and mugging for the camera. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/47 "2026-10-25T21:24:10Z")
I can’t see Tom in Colin very much, so I forget about the relation. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/48 "2026-10-25T21:24:59Z")
When Rogue One came out, there was a lot of talk about how the computer-generated Grand Mof Tarkin didn’t look like the real Peter Cushing. It’s true. The real Peter Cushing was deep in the Uncanny Valley, while the CG one looked like an actual person. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/49 "2026-10-25T21:27:12Z")
It worked when he was young with a soft, more rounded face and they did his hair long and wild for the movie, but now that he’s well into adulthood and buzzes his hair they’re more pronounced and odd. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/50 "2026-10-25T21:32:35Z")
Oh, that’s perfect! 🫪 ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/51 "2026-10-25T21:34:26Z")
Wait…that’s not his tongue? ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/52 "2026-10-25T21:38:20Z")
Actually, he’s kind of weird-looking in that photo…squinchy eyes, small mouth, wide lower face. And I don’t see Timothy Dalton in him so much. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/53 "2026-10-25T21:43:09Z")
Kirsten Dunst always seemed to have one expression, and is another whose eyes seem abnormally far apart. But she was brilliant in the Fargo series as Peggy Blumquist. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/54 "2026-10-25T21:45:14Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Benedict Cumberbatch’s eyes are too far apart. His spacing isn’t as bad as Karen Robinson’s ( Inspector Vivienne Holness on L&O Toronto); I can’t watch when she’s on the screen. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/55 "2026-10-25T21:56:00Z")
French Stewart’s half-closed eyes used to distract me when he was on “Third Rock from the Sun” but in later roles, he’s opened his eyes more, or I’ve gotten over it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/56 "2026-10-25T22:38:22Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > French Stewart’s half-closed eyes used to distract me when he was on “Third Rock from the Sun” but in later roles, he’s opened his eyes more, or I’ve gotten over it I’ve read where he said he did it deliberately for that character. Thank goodness! ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/57 "2026-10-25T22:43:46Z")
Daniel Craig. He was cast as James Bond, but to me he looks like the Russians he should be chasing. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/58 "2026-10-25T22:44:25Z")
I find anyone with obvious cosmetic surgery completely distracting and off-putting. It makes me sad to think of what they willingly did to their faces. Especially when it’s on someone who I had the notion had more self-esteem than that. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/59 "2026-10-25T22:55:33Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I’ve read where he said he did it deliberately for that character. Thank goodness! Ah. That makes sense ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115/60 "2026-10-25T23:13:27Z")
> [@Apodder](#): > > …she’s [Kiera Knightley] just too aware of herself and is always posing and mugging for the camera. Yes, “mugging for the camera” – that’s what she does. And you know who else does that? Helen Hunt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-whose-appearance-you-find-distracting/1034115.md?page=4)