Movie Notes: When Hot Actresses Go Ugly
October 15th, 2006
Everybody loves a pretty actress, but sometimes in order to demonstrate acting talent over beauty, a little bit of beast is in order. Here are some roles were normally hot actresses turned on the cold shower.
Cameron Diaz, Being John Malkovich
Cute grinner Diaz of the “swirling behind” went seriously ratty in the Spike Jones / Charlie Kaufman head-trip Being John Malkovich. To top it off, she hung out with a chimp and wanted to become a man. This made me lust after Catherine Keener more, but earned Diaz some serious-actress cred, so she could go onto roles like Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle.
IMDB: Being John Malkovich
Charlize Theron, Monster
Normally smoldering Charlize Theron seriously took out the ugly stick here, gaining thirty pounds and losing makeup and eyebrows to play a serial-killer prostitute. An Academy Award was the hard-earned result.
IMDB: Monster
Hilary Swank, Boy’s Don’t Cry
The film equivalent of getting your head beat with a brick named “PC”, the intense Boy’s Don’t Cry featured the hot girl from The Next Karate Kid as a boy, or a girl pretending to be a boy, and doing such a good job that you get to hump a girl and then be creamed senseless by rednecks. Talk about going all the way. But it earned Swank an Oscar and launched her career into the stratosphere.
IMDB: Boys Don’t Cry
Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain
The rail-thin girl next door from Chicago piled on pounds for Bridget Jones’s Diary, and also played a rustic, earthy cowgirl in Cold Mountain.
IMDB: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Birdget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Cold Mountain
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
This desperate housewife went on the other side of the white picket fence in Transamerica, playing a transsexual woman, low voice and all.
IMDB: Transamerica
Nicole Kidman, The Hours
Hot just standing still Nicole Kidman put on a fake nose and took off the makeup to play writer Virginia Woolf. Bingo, Academy Award.
IMDB: The Hours
Emma Thompson, Nanny McPhee
In the kid’s movie Nanny McPhee, Emma Thompson’s scary, wart-covered visage could obliterate the sugar-plum fairies with nightmares. Thankfully, she slowly transforms from this beastly hag-witch into a pleasant woman, but for 90% of the film, it’s creepy facial hair and buggy eyeballs.
IMDB: Nanny McPhee
Salma Hayek, Frida
All in the name of art, bombshell Salma Hayek played mousy with a blunt unibrow as artist Frida Kahlo.
IMDB: Frida
So remember, beauty is only skin deep, but critics never forget an unusual face!
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I’m pretty disgusted that this page implies that transgendered people are ugly. Queerness is not ugly, it’s just not conforming to narrow gender constraints. Hillary Swank as a boy is hot.
Craig that is a good point. This post is supposed to be tongue in cheek and satirical, partly making fun of hollywood\’s obsession with beauty.
I\’ll keep your comment right where it just to show that I respect your opinion.
Amen to that. Hilary Swank never really did it for me and then I saw Boys Don’t Cry and POW! She makes an unbelievably gorgeous man.
I dont really pay that much attention to peoples outer looks. I myself find beauty. And I love it! My boobs are big. My legs are slender. I have pretty hair. The only promblem is I have an over bite and I wear glasses. Who cares! Im beautiful to God. And I can always get braces and contact lenses. I wear sexy clothes. But not to church. I am a outgoing nice person. And I look alot like my older sister. Who is very pretty on the inside and out. All the guys tell me they think I am pretty. But when I am naked in the mirror I see a model waiting to happen. Ive grown from a little child to a pretty nice girl. Thats wuz up.
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omg the unibrow is so hard to look at, if you look past that Salma still looks very beautiful
I think it only shows they are real actresses. Sacrificing looking ugly to make sure they portrayed the part very well. It’s often called “character embodiment.”
aww shut up you are begging for a man online or attention. who gives a rats azz about you looking in the mirror naked and your booobs
You forgot Maggie Gyllenhal in ANYTHING.
Buddy, queerness is ugly! It is perverse nad unnatural – and no amount of lobbying will ever change that.
You know what the craziness transformation is? Meryl Streep in Angels in America. She's plays this old rabbi with a beard. I had no clue it was a woman let alone Streep until the credits rolled.
ugh. they looked horrible!