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Something about her looks....


When she was first on the scene (Princess Diaries), I thought she was stunning. As she got older, I still found her attractive, but much less so.
Took me a long time to figure it out, but I think I have...
She has very large features (eyes and mouth mostly). When she was younger, she had a rounder 'baby fat' face. The large features on that face made her look like a living animated Disney Princess. Maybe that's how she got the Princess Diaries job...
As she's gotten older, her face has gotten much thinner so her eyes and mouth take up more of it, making them seem even larger and giving an unusual look that's no longer like a Disney Princess.

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She's still beautiful to me, but I hate that she chopped her hair off and has gotten really political. It's like, is her career dying or something?

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still so hot

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HORSEY REAL WORLD "6" AT BEST.HER TALENT HAS GLOSSED OVER THAT FACT.

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I was the only male in any state east of the Mississippi that thought she was profoundly fugly when she first hit the big screen.

Many years later, lots of people are finally seeing how homely she is.

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Indeed.

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Never found her hot tbh. Shes just another skinny chick with a weird face. I'm more into Kat Dennings

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SO...FAT CHICK WITH A WEIRD FACE THEN.

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Kat is a goddess with curves

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She has always had somewhat of an awkward looking face. Even her body has always been rather weird. She was never fat, just very pear shaped and she is so pale.

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But still....I am extremely attracted to her. I find when I watch her movies (later ones, not young), I can't look away. That's it, she's a witch.

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Oddly enough the only movie where she was kind of hot to me was ''Rachel getting married'' - and was an unkempt drug addict in that.

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I'll have to add that to my watch list.

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She's photogenic, without being beautiful. That's very useful for an actress.

Her large features register really well on film, they draw the eye and put over whatever it is she's trying to tell the audience. And the fact that she has regular features but isn't a great beauty makes her able to play a wide variety of roles; beauties can only play beauties, but Hathaway can play awkward regular girls or ordinary everywoman, or professionals who rely more on their brains than their looks, or somebody's girlfriend, or even, very rarely, a hottie. If you saw "Ocean's 8" (don't bother if you haven't), you'd see that she can play someone very glam and sexy if she wants to.

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Maybe that is also similar to the appeal of Julia Roberts.. they both large features wraparound face smile very photogenic can be extremely beautiful or abit plain looking (well sort of).. as a result they are more appealing than actresses who can't be anything but stunningly beautiful? Idk

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Yeah, Roberts also has those large features that register well on camera, perhaps the movie camera has an easy time reading their expression and nature gives them an edge in putting their feelings across through the camera. But other actors manage to do just fine with dainty or pale little facial features, so a Roberts/Hathaway sort of face is far from obligatory.

Roberts also has a good amount of that mysterious charisma called "star quality" or "screen presence", not as much as Marilyn Monroe or anything, but as much as anyone in the modern era. Now while I don't understand much about what makes a person photogenic, I don't understand ANYTHING about "star quality"! It's just there, or it isn't.

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