My daughter is young enough (13) to have missed the Harry Potter craze the first time. But about two years ago, it started. And so she got the whole thing condensed. And one day I pulled her aside…before she’d finished all the movies, and showed her a photo of the kids all grown up. Radcliffe looking scraggily. Tom Felton looking like he fell out of bed. Rupert Grint looking like…well, a guy whose mother named him Rupert Grint. And Matthew Lewis. And my twelve year old said “THAT’S NEVILLE!”
“Yes, dear. Don’t write off that geeky kid with bad teeth. Braces, puberty and weightlifting can do a boy good.”
I don’t see the boys being any more awkward than the girls. When Jerry Maguire came out, didn’t everyone rave about how cute and precious Jonathan Lipnicki was?
The picture of Kristen Stewart on that site isn’t bad, but have you seen Panic Room? She definitely was an awkward-looking teenager. Not anymore though.
I know the shape of people’s skulls changes as they get older, but, man, Soleil Moon-Frye’s changed from a round, if not wide, face as a child to one which was very long as an adult. [On 2nd look] Some of it might be an optical illusion from the bangs she had a kid; still, put her adult pics in a big pile with a bunch of other brunette women and ask me to find a match to her kid photos and I’ll probably be choosing hers last.
Alicia Witt was a pretty little girl in that photo in a weird costume. And yes she grew up into a gorgeous woman. My love of redheads might make me prejudiced.
Mindy Feldman on the New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977 was nothing to look at, especially since I was looking at Kelly Parsons, Julie Peikarski, Lisa Whelchel, and Alison Fonte. Take a look at Mindy Feldman as an adult…WOW!
Some time within the last couple of years Panic Room was on TV and I was kind of half watching it while doing something else. It took me well into the movie to realize Stewart’s character was a girl. I think today if you gave her a short haircut she could easily pass for a guy. In other words, I don’t think she’s chan ged all that much. Not awkward, per se; it’s a man, baby!
Well, I don’t know what “dogpile.com” is, and my work web filter may be tight.
Bingo. She was very young, and in a goofy costume. And she spoke with a lisp. But I’d hardly call her an awkward looking kid from that one role.
I’ll give you that one.
Kristin Stewart in Panic Room was specifically made up to be as androgenous as possible. The script calls for her to be a girl who looks like a boy, because the mom is paranoid and is trying to protect her daughter by making people think she’s a boy. You’re supposed to not realize that for a while. It’s deliberate, and using how she looks in Panic Room as proof she was an awkward-looking kid or androgenous is stacking the deck.
I’ll back you up (and I won’t even ask for a Smithwicks in return). I’m not a member of her fan club either, but I liked her in a few things here and there and I think she’s easy enough on the eyes. I think she’s good looking.
I did not know that; thanks for the interesting tidbit. As for the weird vibe some people get - uh, I don’t know. Maybe because she’s not conventionally, uber feminine as compared to the usual starlet?I don’t have a problem with her but I will say that after months (years?) of hearing Twilight hype and not putting a face to the names Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, when I did finally see a picture I was amazed at how plain /sorta kinda masculine she is and downright homely (IMO) he is.
