15 Actors Who Were Pressured To Change Their Appearances For Roles But Refused

He also said, "Getting veneers is a lateral move, almost. It’s not that you’ve fixed your teeth, you’ve just gotten veneers. It’s a lose-lose scenario: You come on television, you have bad teeth, you get a little bit of success, then you get the veneers, and now people are dogging on you for having crazy-looking teeth. We want there to be an intrinsic punishment in the act of making yourself better by cheating: veneers, steroids, plastic surgery. With all of those things, there’s an undercurrent of people being like, Yeah, but you got there because you cheated or because you had money or because you had access, etc.

Maybe I will get veneers someday. I mean, my teeth are eroding because of the amount of soda that I drink. But the reason to keep your teeth, for me, is that it keeps one foot in and out of the system that we have created. A tiny bit of me is saying, No, I’m rejecting these beauty standards, and I’m going to live out loud with my bad teeth — which aren’t even that bad, by the way. It’s this trick of the mind: I am above the beauty standards and this game that we’ve all set the rules for ourselves for. Either way, it’s all a little bit of theater."