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Are period dramas being RUINED by cosmetic surgery? Viewers of 10 Pound Poms and Bridgerton say they're 'struggling to enjoy the series' and are 'distracted' by obvious modern day beauty - like fillers and microblading
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 3, 2023 | Lydia Hawken

Posted on 06/03/2023 9:55:56 AM PDT by C19fan

By their very nature, period dramas are supposed to transport viewers to a different time realm.

But while the genre has sky-rocketed in popularity of late, there's one aspect of the dramas that appear to be keeping them firmly grounded in the 21st Century: the casts' cosmetically enhanced faces.

Earlier this month, the new series 10 Pound Poms - starring Michelle Keegan and Faye Marsay - started airing on BBC One.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dramas; looks; period
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To: dfwgator

I remember folks saying computers would replace actors back when the Diet Coke commercial with Bogart and Cagney came out and now we’re getting there and getting there quick (just watched my first deepfake movie last weekend). To which I say, hallelujah!


41 posted on 06/03/2023 11:43:14 AM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Retrofitted

Next will be AI politicians. And I’m as serious as a heart attack about this.


42 posted on 06/03/2023 11:43:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

Wait’ll those BBC fans check out Hollywood.


43 posted on 06/03/2023 11:49:11 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: Tea Drinker

She’s still weird looking.


44 posted on 06/03/2023 11:55:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Toda la creacion pregona la grandeza del Senor.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Miss Kitty wore a LOT of makeup in Gunsmoke.


45 posted on 06/03/2023 12:01:15 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Albion Wilde

Check out Godey’s Lady’s Book, a magazine from the period, sometime.

Her hairstyle looks like it was lifted from Godey’s. :-)


46 posted on 06/03/2023 12:03:20 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: doorgunner69

I’ve been a member of BladeForums.com since 1998 and I have no idea what that means, either... :-)


47 posted on 06/03/2023 12:03:32 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Angelino97

We can go and black wash all these historically white people or characters, with no repercussions
But we take the blak panther and make him white, they’ll be hell to pay.

What really pissed me off was that black female Jarl some series did a while back.


48 posted on 06/03/2023 12:03:42 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Ron DeSantis. The latest GOPe champion in a long list of winners. Jeb! Mitt Romney, and John McStain)
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To: Gay State Conservative

#4 You can clearly see the painted backdrops in shows like ‘Gunsmoke’ and other shows when they are suppose to be outdoors.


49 posted on 06/03/2023 12:05:52 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: C19fan
Everybody have perfect teeth. Even the poorest of the poor.

50 posted on 06/03/2023 12:06:08 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Zuriel

#45 The first years of ‘Gunsmoke’, Miss Kitty was good looking but after several years of heavy smoking she aged quite a bit and when color episodes came she was wearing lots of makeup.


51 posted on 06/03/2023 12:11:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Persevero

“They should mostly have bad teeth, no makeup, and hairy legs and underarms.”

Upper class would have makeup to cover over smallpox scars. Lots of powder on the face, quite common in King Louis’s France. Geishas in Japan wore rice powder for the same reason.


52 posted on 06/03/2023 12:11:54 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: C19fan
Only for people who really notice those things.

It is weird though, that every cast has to be multiracial now.

Hamlet can take being Black or female, but if a film or show is trying to recreate some past period, you don't want too many people who look out of place.

I've seen films with people pretending to have bad teeth. It's usually only one repulsive character. In James Franco's version of As I Lay Dying, Tim Blake Nelson does a good job of playing a character who has no teeth, but once or twice you can see he's faking.

53 posted on 06/03/2023 12:19:44 PM PDT by x
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To: Albion Wilde

I found this website that has period movie reviews based on costuming and hairstyles and found it fascinating.

https://www.frockflicks.com/how-contemporary-hairstyles-affect-historical-costume-movies-the-1930s-part-2/

https://www.frockflicks.com/how-contemporary-hairstyles-affect-historical-costume-movies-the-1960s-part-2/


54 posted on 06/03/2023 12:42:53 PM PDT by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: dfwgator

...won’t even need viewers.


55 posted on 06/03/2023 12:43:06 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: CodeToad

That might have more to do with quality of the actors these days.


56 posted on 06/03/2023 12:44:35 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Angelino97
Period dramas are ruined by unrealistic casting (e.g., casting an African woman to play Anne Bolyen, Henry VIII’s wife, as one recent BBC drama did).

I think Bridgerton did that as well, with some black guy who was supposed to be British royalty. Duke of Ellington? Or the Count of Basie?

57 posted on 06/03/2023 12:50:58 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Bernard

I can’t stand any of those horrible Victorian movies or movies. Literally nothing of any consequence happens in them. They just whine and complain about irrelevant crap.


58 posted on 06/03/2023 12:52:18 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
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To: Bernard
...with some black guy who was supposed to be British royalty. Duke of Ellington? Or the Count of Basie?

Well, he couldn't have been Count de Money ... could he?

No ... I guess not.

59 posted on 06/03/2023 12:58:39 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Bernard

I thought he was the Duke of Earl?


60 posted on 06/03/2023 1:02:29 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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