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Probably the latter. It's not like this isn't common; you see the manufactured pop stars get told to keep their relationships quiet because it'll drop their sales money/upset the fans.
Hopefully the latter. Thinking someone is attractive, I get, and being sad about it isn't the kind of thing people can control.
Unfortunate that I even have to question the meaning, because there absolutely are people on other platforms who are quite loud about their belief that only a real actor who is X in real life should play a role about X. Which is...not entirely how acting works.
I didn't want to think an idea so far left it became discriminatory would make its way to the fediverse so quickly, but I wish that chance was zero.
I personally don't mind these kinds of aspects being or missing in an actor's personality/characteristics.
If I don't know what something looks like authentically, acting whatever while acting to be "it" seems good enough for me ๐ And if someone not being something acts authentically anyway, that's good too!
Exterior resemblance has a bigger impact on me.
An example: It feels a bit weird how Disney's new mermaid movie has a different-colored main actress compared to the animation. I know it's important to bring all kinds of people to the mix but...I kinda got used to what Ariel originally looks like.
I just have to assume that these people never watch any fantasy or sci-fi, since it's gotta be a real birch finding elves and aliens and centaurs and death robots and orcs and lizard people.
Like... it's literally called acting. In a sense, their entire job is to lie (convincingly) about who they are.
Interesting!