Got Huge Ears? Try Out for Star Trek
Thursday November 8, 2007
Want to be in Star Trek? If your eyes are too close together, you might be in.
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In a move that seems odd in a day and age when both CGI and make-up have advanced to the point of being able to turn Lindsay Lohan into Dick Chaney, BBC News is reporting that producers are seeking odd-looking people to play alien extras, including people with "extremely large heads and foreheads, wide or close-set eyes, over or undersized ears and/or nose, facial deformities, pronounced cheekbones," and "ultra perfect or ultra plain-looking people." Ultra-perfect people? In L.A.?
Welcome oddities are apparently restricted to facial structure: "Everyone must be thin, athletic, fit," warns the casting invitation, as "wardrobe will be form-fitting." Even the Bolians are doing Pilates in Star Trek's future, it seems.
Comments
Go figure…only skinny people need apply. Why only form fitting costumes? Don’t you think there may be heavy set aliens out there?
I have found that loose-fitting clothes are far more comfortable than tight, form-fitting ones. One would hope that in the future, people would be smart enough to realize that comfort matters more and is better for your health! Being a slave to fashion can be deadly. Look at those poor young women whose mothers laced them into corsets so tight that they couldn’t breathe properly, fainted often, and often couldn’t carry a child to term because their internal organs were stunted and/or pushed out of place. Deaths were reported from this. Ancient Chinese noblewomen bound their feet because small feet were all the rage; after a few years of this, they couldn’t walk ever again!! Today’s women wear high heels even though most of them know that it distorts and fatigues leg muscles and puts all the weight on the ball of the foot which causes malformations and mashes toes into abnormal shapes. And you thought you had come a long way, baby!! I wish them good luck with their search for perfect bodies. However, I don’t think all people are ever going to be the same and it would be boring if it was.