I have been observing the same trend as the OP, for a perfect example consider the difference in level of beauty of Carrie Fisher in the original Star Wars vs. Daisy Ridley in the current incarnation. Carrie is/was certainly cute in a 1970’s sort of way, but no one would have cast her as the generic pretty girl. Whereas Daisy Ridley is definitely more conventionally pretty.
how about extras - you see a normal mall or street in the US and the majority are fat or obese. Turn on the tv and even the crowd has lost 30lb each.
Another problem with the Hollywood hotness inflation is that conventionally beautiful people often don’t look particularly interesting.
Old Sarah Connor vs new Sarah Connor.
The new one is basically just “generic Hollywood pretty girl”. There seems to be a lot of those running around. It’s like there’s a factory churning them out, or something.
Standard terms and price…?*
*void where prohibited by law. Dammit, where’s a Cusack when you need him?
In the US even our politicians have consultants and specialists to help them look better. John Kerry was known for his Botox. When is the last time you saw a truly unattractive presidential candidate?
Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of “Hollywood ugly” going on. I keep thinking of “The Big Bang Theory”, where the guys are I suppose, middlingly good looking, but the women are seriously good looking. Even Mayim Bialik, who’s not really movie-star hot, is still far hotter looking than a real-life Amy Farrah Fowler would be. And Melissa Rauch is entirely too hot for a character whose attractiveness isn’t a plot point or major character trait.
I can see casting Kaley Cuoco as Penny, in that the character is SUPPOSED to be hot. But the other two? There’s no reason they shouldn’t be overweight and/or ugly.
Or just about any other show on TV- EVERYONE is attractive, unless they’re specifically supposed to be ugly or old.
You mean other than right now? Donald Trump? Bernie Sanders?
You can go back to the 1940s and 1950s when women like Gene Tierney and Jane Russell played 19th century outlaw Belle Starr who was U G L Y
Darren McGavin and Jack Klugman disagree.
But seriously, the males in the Twilight series don’t even look human (I guess they arn’t eh!?)
Sure, handsome leads have been around forever. Shatner, Garner,…etc…and i do appreciate when stunningly good looking cast members try harder to be taken seriously, Jamie Bamber, Jeri Ryan, Andrew Lincoln…
At least for Man in the High Castle, I don’t see how this is the case. Juliana’s perfectly average, Frank looks like a nerdy hipster Millennial (considering how much of a cuck that is probably appropriate but rather odd nonetheless for an Axis victory world in 1962), the Nazi bigwigs (Wegener and Smith) and Mr. Tagomi are stolid middle-aged fellows. I suppose Inspector Kido might qualify as well as “Joe Blake” but for the latter, his acting should kill off any attraction for most people.
Dude, still?
This is another thing which is galling, is they have all these attractive people in some of these shows, and they make the character that less interesting or engaging, and alot more generic and as you say ‘factory’ produced.
That’s not hotness inflation. That’s one movie on a small tight budget vs a movie that can afford a star from Game of Thrones as it’s lead. Terminator had a total budget of 6 million.
Khalisi is not “generic”!
2 stars from Game of Thrones. Lena Henley played Sara Conner in the TV series (she wasn’t a GoT star yet though).
Also, Linda Hamilton is plenty attractive, 80s style.
Agreed. Ammon Bundy shouldn’t be anyone’s erotic fiction role model.
Yep. I mean, when they had to choose who to play the titular “Beauty” in “Beauty and The Beast”, they used her.
So ordinary…
Brain bleach…
This happens even in TV news, especially local news. Anchors and reporters are often very attractive, and when they interview people on location they seem to look for the best-looking people to put in front of the camera.
Patty Lupone is by no means conventionally attractive, but gets many starring roles.