Acting Surgery & Website Enhancements
Monday, 15 March 2010

Several plastic surgeons told me that actors do privately fret about rendering themselves unemployable by taking cosmetic work too far and limiting their expressive range. “I ask them, what expressions, what emotions, are you concerned about losing?” says Stephen Pincus, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. “They’ll say, ‘I have to be mad, or surprised, or I’m worried about my eyebrows, I don’t want to be a blank stare.’ I say, ‘I can paralyze your forehead from this point up, but you’re not going to be able to wrinkle a good part of the forehead. Is that an issue for you? If it is, we shouldn’t do it.’ ” Some of his patients go ahead with the treatment. “They’re more concerned about wrinkles than about the five seconds of emotion people might not notice anyway.”

Not a great article - How Plastic Surgery Has Caused Acting to Be More Stilted, Stylized, and Masklike in New York Magazine here - but definitely suggesting direction for something interesting and more radical on the same topic.

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Forced Entertainment's website also went under the knife recently. The much improved, enhanced and nipped/tucked result is on show here with much more in the way of video and images. 

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