DO YOU HAVE TO BE ATTRACTIVE TO BE AN ACTOR/ACTRESS??

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS:

DO YOU HAVE TO BE ATTRACTIVE TO BE AN ACTOR/ACTRESS??

In general, people who buy movie and theater tickets and flock to TV shows want to see people they want to look at--i.e. attractive people. That's what the word means, isn't it? Casting directors cast movies with attractive people because movies with attractive people sell more tickets than movies with unattrative people, all else being equal. Especially the central characters. For every Driving Miss Daisy there's a hundred Fasts & Furiouses.  Even the parts for people who are supposed to be homely are generally given to people who aren't actually all that homely, because audiences don't want that. So they take the non-homely person and deck them out in an ugly/servere hairdo, thick glasses, special makeup etc.
At the same time, most of the big stars couldn't win a beauty contest. Scarlett Johansson, considered to be one of the most beautiful women on Earth, couldn't win a beauty contest because she's too short. Nor, for the same reason, could she get a runway modeling job. 

YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT IMDB FOR THESE....NOT SO ATTRACTIVE FOLKS AND SEE JUST HOW THEY'VE DONE;

STEVE BUSCEMI, BILL MURRAY, WHOPPI GOLDBERG, JOE PESCI, GLENN CLOSE, SAMUEL L. JACKSON,

ALL MILLIONAIRES, ALL AWARD WINNING...