Kristen Stewart, Paris Hilton, Beyonce, and two others I’ve never heard of.
So, they’ve figured out which pose and facial expression works best for each of them, and they stick to it. That’s just good publicity management.
The man has only one look, for Christ’s sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They’re the same face! Doesn’t anybody notice this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
Summer Glau, as they mentioned was on Firefly, but if you watch The Big Bang Theory, she was the girl on the train that they all wanted to talk to.
Wait a minute… Summer Glau? Is that pronounced Summer Glow?
No, it’s Glau, rhymes with, um, now.
They say it a few times in this clip (well, at least twice in the first 45 seconds, I didn’t watch the whole thing).
ETA, Sheldon says it at :35, it’s easiest to hear it there.
I’ve usually heard it pronounced like the first syllable of “glower”.
I imagine you could play the same game with politicians, the other large group of people that get photographed all the time and have a job-related interest in trying to look good in their photos.
The last two are just silly, since they are obviously from the same pose-with-fans sessions. Of course they look very similar since the photos were taken minutes apart (and the celebs probably had to wear the same frozen smile all day).
The most interesting one is Paris Hilton, with that clearly self conscious and very artificial head tilt and smirk. Kirsten Stewart and Beyonce are both in a more natural pose for having a publicity picture taken, looking straight ahead.
ISTR some poor woman a while ago who had someone go through her stash of photos and do the same sort of montage to show that she had exactly the same expression in every photo. It was kind of disturbing.
And my cousin’s daughter, currently a college student and sorority girl, is constantly posting pictures of herself on Facebook and is always in the same pose at the same angle to the camera. I guess some people just do it automatically.
ETA: I went looking for the above montage and while I didn’t find the one I was after I found several others in the same vein. And they’re all college-age young women. Is this a girl thing?
I think that young college-age women, for whatever reason, have adopted a standard pose: A side view, leaning back, with about a one-quarter turn of the head and body, one elbow akimbo. Sure beats the heck out of the duckface.
That’s the one! Uncanny. Maybe it’s a virus?
A) Is it really that surprising that a person looks like themselves from picture to picture? Not everybody is Gary Oldman.
B) Kristen Stewart and Beyonce definitely do not look exactly the same in their gifs. They do have the same facial expression (See A above).
C) It’s easy to cherry pick pictures for this kind of thing. Here’s some shots of Stewart at a press function in Spain where she looks nearly unrecognizable when she smiles. (As beautiful as I consider her, she doesn’t have a 1000-Wat smile, like Beyonce.)
D) The last two are a little unfair.
Posh Spice?
It’s like ‘the wind will change and you’ll stay like that’ came true*
- assuming parents also say that to their kids over yonder ways
It seems to me that Jenifer Lopez hasn’t seemed to age a day ib the last 15 years.
MtM
Honestly, anyone who makes their living being in front of a camera has gone through the exercise of working out what all of the angles look like and which one looks best. It’s what they do for a living. DUH!
I remember reading an article like this once where they mentioned that Renee Zellweger always poses on the red carpet by turning her back to the cameras and peeking over her shoulder. Ever since then I cannot not notice her doing this.