User blog comment:Morganaforever/Why all this hate?/@comment-187.135.61.63-20140102214724/@comment-5102537-20140108122355

Yes, I can imagine obert Benigni playing Dorian Gray. See, that's what I'm talking about. Whether or not you find somebody/ a fictional character attractive depends on various things and is always only in the eyes of the beholder. Robert Benigni and many others could play anyone when doing it right, when being in the role and convinced of it. That's the charisma we were talking about. Anyone with charisma can convince others and come across as being attractive. And the charisma also depends on a subjective point of view.

When you say that person XY is not your type, that's totally alright. Several actors on Merlin weren't/aren't my type, yet they look great and can be considered as either attractive/handsome or attractive/beautiful/pretty. To be attracted to somebody or to fall in love with them doesn't depend on the subjective  standards of beauty. It's about the way they move, act, talk - and in real life it's most of all about the scent that people notice subconsciously. If you are familiar with the reasons for choosing a partner on a biological and actually quite primal level, you're aware that the pheromones play the biggest part in it. It's also about the skeleton and proportions, as weird as it sounds. A very athletic person whose muscles are developed perfectly well can be considered as handsome/pretty but also as uninteresting to some others, whereas someone else who isn't athletic but normal or even overweighted can be very attractive to others when the proportions are "right" (all in the eyes of the beholders, all only on a subjective level due to personal preference based on the individual biological program).

So, if any actress isn't your type, it doesn't mean that she isn't pretty/beautiful/good looking. A while ago I saw a woman on the street who was a bit overweighted and her face wouldn't have qualified for the modern standarts of beauty that is put in our minds all the time. Yet the way she walked and moved was so fascinating that people on the street gazed after her. She was fascinating on first sight.

To me, both Angel Coulby and Katie McGrath are very beautiful. They both have a unique way of presenting themselves and both could have played each other's part.

There are things on TV or in the movies that exclude each other, of course. Someone like George Clooney or Angelina Jolie (for example) could never play an ugly monster unless they're turned into ugly monsters via make-up/costumes. A very slim woman of 50 kilogramms could never play a big woman or a weightlifter champion unless the special effects do some tricks. But these examples are extremes.

Whether someone finds an actor or an actress attractive/good looking is only a matter of a subjective opinion and personal taste, and some things are better left unsaid in order to not offend the person in question.