oh man, this business

[rm]

Between the Craigslist ad looking for the attractive 21-28-y-o with a great body, some acting experience, the desire to finish writing a partially developed script and willing to put up the money to produce it and this article in the SMH, I wonder, what is it I am doing exactly in this business? I mean, other than poking it with sticks.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/tinseltown-thinks-im-weird/2005/06/24/1119321888431.html

Hollywood has told Australian actor Diana Glenn she is quirky and offbeat.

She's also been informed she may be unattractive to some.

But she is determined to give Tinseltown a go.

"They think I'm weird," Glenn said in Sydney recently to promote her first feature film Oyster Farmer which opens nationally on June 30.

"They say I look offbeat, a bit quirky, unconventionally attractive, but some people could find me just unattractive.

"That is what I have been told and I have only just started auditioning."

If you go to the photo, I look nothing like her, but you'll see why I'm like, "well, I knew that, but shiiiiiiiiiit."

Comments

[kalyx.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking a bit about US Movie Industry beauty standards after attending the Seattle International Film Festival, because it made all of the US films very obvious. Many of the screenings I attended were for foreign films, seeing films from China, Japan, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa... but what really struck me was one romantic comedy from Canada, Sabah about a Muslim Canadian woman who falls for a non-Muslim man and the resulting culture clash. This was a worm and wonderful film and the romantic lead was the stunning, Arsinée Khanjian (AKA Mrs. Atom Egoyan). After Sabah, was Mysterious Skin, the new film by fringe queer director Gregg Araki and I was amazed at the prevalence of the American Beauty Standard in a dark, disturbing, fringe film, which was in such contrast to Sabah, which sometimes felt more genuine because I believed that those characters were representative of a reality that doesn't just exist on the big screen.

But then Canada does seem to be a very brave place when it comes to filmmaking. Many of the most interesting and original films I've seen have been made in Canada, like I could never imagine being made in the US, even by independent filmmakers. And I think that you may be correct in thinking that your look might be better suited to a different place because unfortunately Hollywood has such a rigid definition of attractiveness for women, one that doesn't at all mesh with what I find attractive as it seems to be all about super thin, early 20s, blonds that look totally interchangeable. And thus, I never see women that I find attractive in US made movies any more. Bah.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I've also noticed that Canadian films in particular have more interracial relationships in their casting choices that often have absolutely nothing to do with the plot. It's jsut some random not a big deal thing. That would never happen here.