Inertial Invites on Nostr: Just once I'd like to see a movie which is about ugly people played by ugly people. ...

Just once I'd like to see a movie which is about ugly people played by ugly people. And not just men. Let's get some ugly actors some meaty roles.

I'm not joking. Pretty people are all we ever see, particularly femme-presenting folks, in movies and TV. I want to see some people who aren't conventionally attractive in lead roles where the point isn't that they're horrible because they're ugly.

This is kind of an extension of fatphobia, but there are skinny ugly people too.

I'm ugly. I'm balding, I'm chunky, I'm scruffy. I'm just not pretty. I'm kind of okay with that. I'd just like to see some representation. There are plenty of excellent actors who aren't pretty enough to be movie stars. They should get roles.

I know, we're all beautiful and so forth, but there are plenty of people who are objectively not conventionally attractive, and they deserve to see themselves on screen as something other than the butt of jokes or monsters.