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One of the worst example of a modern look infecting a period drama was the 2007 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park". For some reason, Billie Piper was cast as Fanny Price. She looked so out of place with her highlighted hair.
1 posted on 06/03/2023 9:55:56 AM PDT by C19fan
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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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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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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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I really enjoyed “Vikings” but it was somewhat distracting seeing the clear outlines of brassieres under some of the female’s costumes.

I’m sure those puppies were swinging freely in the Land of Ice and Snow.

63 posted on 06/03/2023 1:05:29 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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No, they are being ruined by lousy acting, writing, and farcical accounts of history.


64 posted on 06/03/2023 1:12:11 PM PDT by GingisK
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One of the worst example of a modern look infecting a period drama

Actually, I would take the perfect and brilliant white teeth as an example. Peoples teeth in the past were terrible, and they lost a lot of teeth at (what I think we would consider) young ages.

69 posted on 06/03/2023 1:31:24 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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I recall marvelling at the perfect teeth of most of the cast of 1883.


74 posted on 06/03/2023 2:19:12 PM PDT by JZelle
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sort of silly, should they only hire actors with wooden teeth to be real also?

LMAO


76 posted on 06/03/2023 2:51:40 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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During the Victorian era, rich ladies wore a heavy amount of powders and face creams…most of which were full of toxic metals.
Before that I imagined many persons faces had pox marks and boils.


79 posted on 06/03/2023 5:21:34 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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Anybody who’s watching Bridgerton in the expectation of finding historic authenticity is really barking up the wrong tree. Come on. You’re watching it for soft porn in fancy clothes and pretty locations, not because you expect realistic depictions of life in previous centuries. It’s for people who think Jane Austen’s novels weren’t sexy enough. They don’t want to see smallpox scars and horse manure in an age before anesthesia and dentistry.


86 posted on 06/04/2023 10:59:11 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare)
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