You want to challenge beauty standards? Cast Steve Buscemi as Geralt and Lizzo as Yennifer.
They just mean not white
It seems like a lot of people are just not reading the article or the context of the quote:
Now, this is not Holland saying that Chalotra is ugly, or that they cast someone ugly to play the role of the most beautiful woman in the world. … Rather, Holland is saying that she is challenging the “standard of beauty” by casting a woman with slightly darker skin.
I do understand that traditional Western fantasy is predominantly white, but I disagree fundamentally with the notion that the “standard of beauty” for most people is being white. I don’t think anyone in the entire world outside of a tiny, tiny sliver of absolute racist scumbags would look at Anya Chalotra and think anything other than “This woman is jaw-droppingly gorgeous.” Casting Chalotra may challenge our perceptions of fantasy as white (a complicated discussion on its own) but it does nothing to challenge any standard of beauty.
Emphasis is mine.
Imagine being the person being told: yeah, so we only hired you to challenge beauty standards. Not because you’re the best at what you do, oh no no, but because you’re ugly af
If you pay me her salary, you can motivate it however you want.
Except she’s absolutely gorgeous herself, as was made clear when they removed the prosthetics. None of the claim makes any sense 😂
You could tell she was beautiful even with the prosthetics.
“I have non white friends”
All my friends are non white…
I kinda get what they mean. It’s not that she’s ugly, it’s that she’s hot as fuck but doesn’t look like a generic “hot actress”
I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I don’t think she’s that hot.
Your eyes broken bro
Either that or their beholder is broken.
