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Was Anne Heche’s casting a troll?


There is no way you can point at her in this movie and say she looks anything close to attractive

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What about her orange nail polish and general attitude?
She was there as an obvious lesbian troll by a director who likes to push the boundary of homoeroticism.
I appreciate that artistic choice, but yeah, as a straight woman she looks quite repulsive to a straight man.

Still, who said she needed to be attractive in this?

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Still, who said she needed to be attractive in this?


The story says she has to be attractive. It’s the motivation for her death.

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Hence, Heche casting is a troll.

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She’s objectively attractive. Her face had more neoteny than most women

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I had to look up "neoteny". But I agree, and I think Anne Heche is very attractive in this. I don't normally like short haired women or women that slim, but Anne Heche has always had something very sexy about her. She was a beautiful woman.

And I think she's very good in her part in this.

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Anne looked really beautiful with longer hair but for some reason kept it short in most of her films. I don't know why, maybe she wanted audiences to connect more with her acting so she uglied herself up?

It's the same with Halle Berry, who looks gross with her man haircut in all her early films but she's stunning with long hair.

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