# Ugly People in "Beautifl" Roles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2004, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440 "2004-02-10T13:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/21 "2004-02-11T04:17:35Z")
I can’t remember if it matters in the movie, but the book states that she _is_ the most beautiful girl in the world, and that’s the reason Humperdink wants to marry her. re: why beautiful people marry ‘ugly’ people.-- Not everybody is shallow or hung up on looks. ---
**Author:** ![Coulbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Coulbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coulbean)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/22 "2004-02-11T04:39:57Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Janine Garafalo (curvy, super-cute face, awesome smile, hotter than lava, I want her to do a nude scene, NOW) …Uma Thurman (pasty, anorexic-looking, fakish smile, ice queen). All those young girls cruising the “How to be an Anorexic” sites need to see this. It’s too bad that so many women don’t realize that guys have different tastes just like women do. It’s not so much that there’s not enough attractive women in movies as there’s not enough women that weigh more than 90lbs, attractive or not. But that’s a soapbox I usually only get on when around my “fat”, dieting needlessly friends. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/23 "2004-02-11T05:54:14Z")
> [@Coulbean](#): > > All those young girls cruising the “How to be an Anorexic” sites need to see this. It’s too bad that so many women don’t realize that guys have different tastes just like women do. They’d better not read the rest of the thread, though. I don’t think girls who already have poor self-images need to hear that even if they looked like Liv Tyler or young Robin Wright they’d still be too ugly for it to be plausible that others would find them attractive. > [@](#): > > - > > It’s not so much that there’s not enough attractive women in movies as there’s not enough women that weigh more than 90lbs, attractive or not. But that’s a soapbox I usually only get on when around my “fat”, dieting needlessly friends. - I can agree that Hollywood starlets tend to be underweight; I’d personally find many of them much more attractive if they gained a little weight. Of course, treating thin women as hideous freaks would be just as bad as doing the same to larger women, but it would be nice if there were a greater variety of body types represented in films – especially when it comes to casting “beauty” roles. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Sparky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Saint\_Sparky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Sparky)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/24 "2004-02-11T08:09:03Z")
To the original topic, I say Jennifer “Love” Hewitt, in “The Audrey Hepburn Story”. Admittedly most of us a proberly bias, but Audrey was suppose to be one of the most beautiful women ever (and I think she was), but Ms Love doesn’t hold a candle to her. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/25 "2004-02-11T13:52:54Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > I mean, give me a goddamn fucking break. Janine Garafalo (curvy, super-cute face, awesome smile, hotter than lava, I want her to do a nude scene, NOW) pining away for this guy because she knows she can’t hold a candle to Uma Thurman (pasty, anorexic-looking, fakish smile, ice queen). > > What, are we all fucking idiots out here in the audience? Do these Hollywood jerkoffs _really_ expect us to buy this crap? > > Fuck off! It’s too bad Garafolo’s personality sucks. Just goes to show you what happens when an attractive girl dresses in unflatering, baggy clothes and walks around with a chip on her shoulder. Uma doesn’t really do much for me either but I can understand people who don’t think Robin Wright Penn is hot. Jennifer Love Hewitt is like “drunk chick hot” not movie superstar hot. She’s tiny, thin, with a not completely unattractive face. The kind of girl you might hit on at a frat party. Not the kind of girl who should carry a movie with her hotness. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/26 "2004-02-11T14:09:07Z")
After reading the OP I thought of **She-Devil** , which is about a water buffalo of a wife who gets dumped by her husband for a another woman. She-Devil goes around seducing men and women to get back at her husband. I don’t know who played her originally, but there was a [movie based on it](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098309/) that starred Roseanne Barr. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/27 "2004-02-11T14:25:37Z")
> [@cmonidareya](#): > > How about Rosie O’Donnell as Betty Rubble in “The Flintstones?” Excuse me, I think Rosie was kinda fetchin’! Then again, I think the same about Ellen DeGeneris. And I’ve been smitted by three women who either were or became lesbians. Yep, I’m a woman in a man’s body & she’s gay. Sorry for the hijack- I’m gonna go off & cry now. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/28 "2004-02-11T14:32:41Z")
> [@Knowed Out](#): > > After reading the OP I thought of **She-Devil** , which is about a water buffalo of a wife who gets dumped by her husband for a another woman. She-Devil goes around seducing men and women to get back at her husband. I don’t know who played her originally, but there was a [movie based on it](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098309/) that starred Roseanne Barr. > **[The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (TV Mini Series 1986) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098849/)** > > The Life and Loves of a She-Devil: With Dennis Waterman, Patricia Hodge, Julie T. Wallace, Paul Herzberg. Ruth has everything. A large, warty body, a standard house in the suburbs, two whiney children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has... The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, from the Fay Weldon novel, starring Julie T. Wallace as “Ruth”, the ugly wife. Abso-frikkin-brilliant TV 1986 mini-series that I saw on A&E back when it was good. The Rosanne Barr abomination only told half the story. Damn thing’s not even available on video or DVD anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440/29 "2004-02-11T14:36:55Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > One of the most insufferable films I have ever been subjected to was “The Truth About Cats and Dogs”. > > I mean, give me a goddamn fucking break. Janine Garafalo (curvy, super-cute face, awesome smile, hotter than lava, I want her to do a nude scene, NOW) pining away for this guy because she knows she can’t hold a candle to Uma Thurman (pasty, anorexic-looking, fakish smile, ice queen). The thing I hate about the way people criticize this movie is the apparent belief that building up Janeane Garofalo has to mean tearing down Uma Thurman. They’re very different-looking women, I’ll grant. But I think Janeane and Uma are both beautiful and desirable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugly-people-in-beautifl-roles/228440.md?page=1)