James McAvoy’s thoughts on plastic surgery: “I don’t know, there’s a lot of people just starting to look a bit weird. That is the thing, it’s like, you aren’t looking younger, you’re just looking weirder…. Absolutely do what you want to do, but as an actor, I don’t want to mess with it too much.”
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honestly i struggle to watch a movie with a lead that’s had a lot of work done, even if i typically like their choices. it creates an uncanny valley spookiness that i just can’t get over.
I trust his opinion on this because He seen some of those people up close and it’s probably very jarring
I would love to see a study of the effects of all types of plastic surgery as you age.
I was wondering what his thoughts were on this
I’ve been watching a lot of films from the 1970s lately, and it’s so refreshing to see a variety of faces and looks onscreen.
Like I watched ‘The Taking of Pelham One Two Three’ and everyone looked so *real*.
Do what you want with your face and body if it makes you feel good, but I guess also remember that there’s a lot of upkeep to plastic surgery as well.
I appreciate his take and while I agree, he’s also a man. Men in Hollywood don’t have nearly the same pressure to present as youthful/conventionally attractive as women do. He’s talented and will likely still obtain great roles well into old age if he so chooses. Women at this time do not have the same grace. Hopefully he’ll be able to advocate for women his age to star alongside him in future projects.
I don’t disagree with his point. I do feel a broader conversation is needed on how the public, especially men signal constantly with their actions how worthless “women of a certain age” become to them. A huge percentage of men in the industry don’t date, marry, partner with women over 35 and then you have these same guys telling women they look weird when they do things to look younger at the same time as hating women when they look their age.
I mean it’s cool that she’s very open about it but Katherine Ryan is on track for a Joan Rivers situation, I’d be a little skeptical of any procedure she recommends as well
My biggest gripe with plastic surgery, usually following extensive surgery/fillers, is people lose a lot of the character of their faces. So much of acting is in micro expressions that honestly get lost as more procedure’s are completed. But, live and let live, a small preference thing
I get what he’s saying, I saw one of my close friends recently, and I see her very often.
Her entire face had changed since 2 weeks ago, she went and had lip, cheek, jaw, and chin filler.
I didnt say anything, but i cannot remember most of what we talked about in those 4 hours, because I could not get used to her entirely new face. (Shes 31, so not aging by any means)
But same personality etc, somehow very jarring.
I imagine this happens a lot to celebs with the coworkers.
Nailed it.
This is kinda off topic but I’ve noticed that Scottish and Irish actors tend to have more humble and grounded opinions on fame and it makes me wonder if they have more, like, pressure (in a good way) from their communities to be normal? Like they seem to care about what people from home think about them and not just their industry peers.
I’m not from that part of the world at all, just something I noticed and wondered if that was the case or just me reaching.
Missing when period dramas weren’t just Instagram models in met gala looking dresses…
People do look weird.
As men these two get WAY more leeway about their looks than women do. I do agree that overall people need to stop getting so much done though.
the problem is actors copy and pasting other surgeries from others onto their face when it doesnt match this aesthetic or proportions. plastic surgery can enhance and compliment but not ever surgery will look good on everyones face
I get it, but I also think it’s so much easier to say this as a man. The standard women are held to is far higher. I imagine being in the public eye and hearing the constant scrutiny of your weight, face, skin, hair, clothes, etc is an impossible weight to bear. I’m a normal (aka not a celebrity) woman, and I already feel the pressure to be perfect. So it’s easy for me to imagine these famous women, crumbling under the pressure of an endless barrage of criticism, to succumb to plastic surgery. Especially as it relates to job security.
I’m not saying any of this is ok. The standard needs to change. I’m just saying I understand and have a lot of empathy for the women who do this.
If you look like handsome squidward as an actor/actress I will not take your performance seriously. It’s so weird and distracting. These people can barely show any facial expressions when acting in these multimillion dollar movies and now they can’t even enunciate their words because their face is frozen. If you’re influenced into looking like an alien you might need some therapy because the celebrity squidward face is hysterical.
Says the guy…..
I think it was Jamie Lee Curtis who said she’s had a career resurgence because she’s one of only a handful of women in Hollywood who looks her age. Stories will still have 50, 60, 70 years olds written into them and the more people mess with their aging, the less likely they’ll get work as an older person working so damn hard to look young 😕
He’s not wrong, but I dislike when the criticism of plastic surgery is that the person looks weirder or they ruined their appearance because imo this just reinforces conventional beauty standards in a repackaged way. Especially when celebs who have plastic surgery and still look conventionally attractive afterwards are praised for having “tasteful” procedures done.
When he said people were looking weird, the first person I thought of was Brad Pitt.
I’ll just say it. I despise hearing takes like this from men, correctness aside. The industry pressure for them to keep up with looking modern and pretty is far less than the pressure elsewise. One might even say looking far off the norm can be a benefit for men in hollywood. This doesn’t apply to women.
Plenty of men won’t date above 30.
And then, you have people with good surgeons, anne hathaway and others, and you read people talk for ages about how pretty they are. How naturally beautiful. When they’re the result of decades of planning and cutting.
This pressure barely exists for men.
No one messes with the BEAST!
Always have liked him.
Hasn’t hurt Nicole Kidman’s career
I’ve been on a binge of old 70s and 80s films recently and it’s so odd and refreshing to see people with moveable faces. They’ve got lines, wrinkles, spots etc and it gives them more character and authenticity. The films feel more real.
Why i can barely watch anything with Nicole Kidman anymore
Say it from the mountain tops:
“You aren’t looking younger, you’re looking weirder.”
Specifically the face stuff. Like, I’ve seen tummy tucks and things like that that absolutely made a positive difference in people I’ve known personally and they look great! But the tummy is an area that doesn’t have the details and emotional expressiveness your face has. All that detail being ballooned\stretched out makes you look like a weird, bloated clown, not like you’re younger.
Yeah, I don’t care if they do it because whatever, it’s their body (although it does negatively influence non-celebs), but it’s wild to me when it’s very obvious that they have work done and vehemently deny it.
Seeing real teeth and lips is the real stand out. We stare at people’s mouths a lot. There are movies even like Bugonia, where the main character is just a wealthy woman and Emma Stone’s face just looked fucking bizarre the whole movie. Like James said, she doesn’t look younger. It looks like someone has 40 year old Emma Stone’s face stretched over their head.
I just watched The Drama, and I remember thinking it was so so nice to see Zendaya’s natural teeth! I’m so used to seeing glaring white unnatural teeth now a days.
“You’re not looking younger, you’re just looking weirder”
I think this line will live on in my life
I’ve been watching Taskmaster a lot recently and it’s really nice to see just “ugly” people on it. They aren’t ugly though, they are normal. They have wrinkles and lines. Patchy beards. Imperfect but healthy teeth. Like they just seem so human. And then you look at Hollywood and it’s just plastic and bone shaving.
[Bill Burr said it best a while back…](https://youtube.com/shorts/qcoyoRGzhP0?si=SD7tO9lglag-WRQi)
the funny thing is , actors and actresses get plastic surgery so you all (the fans ) will like them more.
i think we all as a society need to accept old age more and nothing wrong with looking older
but we don’t so that’s why they do it. the monster they make is kinda for you
I always see people saying “You can’t tell when it’s good work” but it seems to be the point where people are either getting too much to the point is stops looking good or the people who you pay are no longer as good as they used to be.
Like I know the science behind fillers turned out to not be as well tested as we previously thought, and the baby botox is having a long term negative effect because turns out paralyzing a muscle for too long is what causes it to degenerate….but people did use to get work done and you couldn’t really tell once upon a time.
And now it seems like what used to be considered overboard is the norm
The weirdness combined with a near total lack of facial movement and expression really seems like an odd choice for a profession that requires conveying human emotions. I get the pressure, but I think the regret’s gonna hit them eventually.
I read something awhile back where they said it’s getting harder and harder to cast period dramas because of iPhone face, and it’s absolutely true, it takes you out of the show.
James McAvoy is turning into Liam Cunningham.
“You aren’t looking younger you’re just looking weirder” truest words
The candidness of discussion in the video and some of these comments is not how it normally goes with this topic and I love it
Blephs? Tear Troughs?
I’d imagine too that if you want to be respected as an actor you’d go light on some procedures to have more use of your face, range of expressions, and showing emotions.