I get why this is a secret! The dehydrated shirtless look is nasty, but I get the idea of "female actors have to be on-trend perfection every second, male actors get away with a lot more". Like, I watched Rings of Power recently, and I was fine with everyone they cast, but god forbid a woman as basic-looking as the white guy playing Elrond would get a role. And of course the one major non-white elf had to be incredibly inhumanly handsome.

What? I am white! It's not racist to point out that there's a huge double standard in how white male actors are cast compared to non-white male actors or all kinds of female actors in a particular production.

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