#laverne cox was there

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#Thank you and congrats on dental insurance Ayo

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its become clear to me that TV and movie studios need an implications officer.

like if you're making a YA dystopia movie about an evil society that turns people "pretty" (and also mindless drones) through surgery when they're 16, MAYBE, just MAYBE! do NOT! hire Laverne Cox to play the main villain of the evil beauty surgery dystopia... you know...

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Uglies dir. McG | 2024

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Tom Hiddleston and Laverne Cox on the 2024 People’s Choice Awards red carpet

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LAVERNE COX 📹 76th Primetime Emmy Awards (September 15, 2024)

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Black women at The Golden Globes Awards, Los Angeles | January 10, 2023.

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The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.

the uglies movie will finally be coming to netflix on friday september 13, 2024

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UGLIES (2024) directed by McG. « Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same. » — Scott Westerfeld, Uglies (2005).

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Laverne Cox at the 2024 Academy Awards

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dan and phil and the queer joy that is radiating from this new era on the gaming channel is my roman empire. the older i get the more i realize how important it is to see older queer people that are happy

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Promising Young Woman (2020)

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hit.

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Laverne Cox, You & I (Nobody in the World), 2013

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Not sure if you are on twitter too so I am not sure if you heard, but the Uglies movie will come to Netflix this year 13th September. God, I hope so much it is just as good as the books...

Interesting! I wonder how they're going to do some parts of it, like the fact that the characters all have to be within a specific, very narrow range of skin tones- at least, the Pretty ones who aren't allowed to be very light- or dark-skinned, but I'm willing to bet the Ugly characters shouldn't look totally one race or another either after so many years of genetic intermingling.

There's also going to be a lot of CGI involved in the Pretties, if they do it right. We're not just talking supermodel- one whole point is that it's a very specific template of beauty. I guess a few Natural Pretties who lived after photography but during the before-times are mentioned, so those could give us an idea, including Lillian Russell:

and Rudolph Valentino:

there's also a "Denzel" mentioned, but I have no idea who that's about. Denzel Washington hardly looks the part, IMO. maybe when he was younger, I guess?

(others, like Cleopatra and Nefertiti, seem to just be people who were famous for their beauty since nobody can really conclusively say what they looked like. it's also kind of ironic- nobody alive at that point saw Russell or Valentino in person, and they maybe don't realize- or care -that photo editing existed back then. so it's possible they weren't as Pretty as everyone thinks, IRL)

And to have the appropriate contrast after the operation, they're going to have to make the actors look very different. So I'm curious to see how that will go down.

I guess we'll see! Gods, it's so weird to be getting an adaptation of that after all this time- I remember first reading those books when I was like 11. Specials hadn't even come out yet.