Bring Out the Big Boned

[ehingston]

I was pondering recently... Is there any polite way to advertise for fat actors? Or extremely ugly, or old for that matter?

Any thoughts?

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 05, 2003 07:36 PM: Message edited by: gecko11 ]</font>

[untamed_aggression]

"Aesthetically interesting" is a kind of vague and polite way of saying "ugly f?ck."

I should speak. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[belovedmonster]

just do it in a light hearted way..

"big boned actor wanted"

[Patriarch]

"overweight actors" rather than fat

"plain looking" rather than ugly... or maybe something like

"looking for female actors who are able to look plain and unpretty". keep in the "who CAN or are ABLE to" that way people feel better showing up, rather than getting a stigma of being ugly by the wording "who are". Then varrious people will show up, and you just choose the ugliest.

Another way of doing it is by describing what the part needs, then people themselves can decide if they fit. "We are looking for a female actor between 25-30, who is to play a plain looking woman jelous of her ex boyfriends pretty girlfriend." etc, etc.

Similar can be done with the fat person "play a character who gets bullied with his overweight"

I guess part of the trick is to transfere thieese characteristics to the character, rather than the actor...

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 06, 2003 02:13 AM: Message edited by: Christian Marcussen ]</font>

[miker]

Uglies agency in London, it's their speciality.

[MattEBoy]

I once used 'Jovial' as a way of saying fat. Worked really well. However, it was quite interesting telling slim actors that they weren't quite jovial enough...