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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Neil Newbon, the voice actor for Astarion in BG3, spoke in the past about how his face wasn’t a Hollywood face.

This is Hollywood demanding standards so strict and unusual that it borders on bigotry. His face looks fine, and a helluva lot more chiseled than mine.

It's like when nobody considered casting an actor with dwarfism in a normal role, and then Peter Dinklage started appearing everywhere. But, Hollywood kinda forgot what that meant and didn't bother to repeat that with other actors with dwarfism.

This is why people still accuse Hollywood of racism and sexism. (Because it's still true...)

[–] Why9 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly!

Neil is straight up attractive. I don't understand the disregard for his talents but I'm guessing something else happened that put him on the blacklist?

He has insane talents and I totally agree. Hollywood is vile to the core and it's no secret, with names big and small, old and young, veteran and rookie all content to say it as it is. It's sad that Neil was one of the unlucky ones. What's sadder is all the Neils who couldn't find a break like BG3 to revive them.

Such a good point about Peter Dinklage too! It was his star power that producers banked on. I'm sure they would never have cast him if he didn't stand out in GoT.