May 11, 2010

TOO MUCH COSMETIC SURGERY?

A NY TIMES ARTICLE INTERVIEWS CASTING AGENTS WHO SHY AWAY FROM CASTING BUTCHERED FEMBOTS.

A Little Too Ready for Her Close-Up? by Stephanie Diani for The New York Times

AN EXCERPT:

Television executives at Fox Broadcasting, for example, say they have begun recruiting more natural looking actors from Australia and Britain because the amply endowed, freakishly young-looking crowd that shows up for auditions in Los Angeles suffers from too much sameness.

“I think everyone either looks like a drag queen or a stripper,” said Marcia Shulman, who oversees casting for Fox’s scripted shows.

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