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Casting choices.

Postby thatindianguy » Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:08 pm

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1448_15-bizarre-casting-choices-hollywood-keeps-making/


.....So I've actually seen #1 around and thought he was Indian.


Is that racist?
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Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby Deathclaw_Puncher » Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:01 am

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_1448_15-bizarre-casting-choices-hollywood-keeps-making/
Actors? Not Sticking to their race? Superheroes not acting as themselves in movies? What sorcery is this?
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby NathanLoiselle » Thu Apr 30, 2015 12:22 am

I read that one, or looked at it, I'm really not sure what the proper word for being tortured by a photoplasty is. Anyways, at least 50% of the casting choices could have been considered non-bizarre. A full 40% were just lame and the final belong to this song.

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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby jbobsully11 » Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:40 am

The things that confused me most about this one were (in # 11), the actor who plays Cam on Modern Family is actually straight (but plays a more effeminate gay man), while the actor that plays his (more masculine) husband is actually gay. Also, were there really only nine submissions that they thought were good enough to list? (AuntieMeme did six entries. Yes, I counted.)
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby OrangeEyebrows » Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:00 am

The age one confused me. Someone five years younger than Johnny Depp played his mum. Well yes, because the man's clearly made some kind of demonic pact in return for eternal youth (or has had a lot of extremely good plastic surgery). It doesn't matter how old an actor is, it matters how old they look.
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby Edgar Cabrera » Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:17 am

Thatindianguy made a thread about this one already. Just pointing that out. I dunno if it can get merged or something.
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby ShuaiGuy » Thu Apr 30, 2015 4:54 am

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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby OrangeEyebrows » Thu Apr 30, 2015 5:17 am

That's a fair point.
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby JamishT » Thu Apr 30, 2015 5:41 am

OrangeEyebrows wrote:That's a fair point.


Your face is a good point!
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby BinaryStep » Thu Apr 30, 2015 11:02 am

So, why the fuck is AuntieMeme still in these? As people love pointing out in the comments, AuntieMeme is Cracked staff now, and if I remember correctly, Cracked staff aren't allowed to enter these.
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby archaeologydalek » Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:15 pm

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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby gorillathehun » Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:07 pm

AuntieMeme doesn't really enter the contests since you don't see her submissions in the forum. When there is a weak contest (either one that people don't enter or a contest with an unclear prompt that causes people to go off-prompt) Cracked editorial will lean on AuntieMeme to fill out the entries.

There is also an entry from Kalli who is the plasty forum moderator.
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

Postby OrangeEyebrows » Thu Apr 30, 2015 9:19 pm

archaeologydalek wrote:As I understand it, she's a contractor (like me), not a proper staff member. As a result, she's still allowed to enter the contests.


The world of freelance writing is a weird and wonderful one, is it not? One of my clients is currently embroiled in a labyrinthine defamation lawsuit than in part hinges on the difference between employees and contractors.
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Re: Cracked Doesn't Know How Acting Works

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