Being a ginger is half having to have a lot of confidence and half having to make fun of yourself.
That’s probably because there’s two extreme stereotypes about us, and that’s either being extremely hot or being a weird ginge.
It sounds a bit extreme, but it feels like that though. Anytime some director in Hollywood wants their character to be super hot, they make her a redhead. And 99.9% of the time, they don’t even use real gingers. The only real gingers I can recall in movies are some of the Weasley kids in Harry Potter.
Bonnie Wright and Rupert Grint are two of the four real gingers in the Weasley family, which has seven total members.
(https://www.eonline.com/au/news/835278/weasleys-forever-harry-potter-sta…)
Well that’s for women redheads. Directors are more prone to hire real gingers if they’re guys, but only if they’re playing a dorky character. Yes, I’m talking about KJ Apa in Riverdale.
Ugh, it’s so fake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJ_Apa
If they need to be the main character, then they fall under the same rule as most female redheads. They must be hot. Save the real gingers to be sidekick Ron Weasley or crazy-eyes General Hux from Star Wars.
Big Oof.
https://freebeacon.com/blog/defense-general-hux/
Stranger Things is the first show/movie I’ve seen in a long time where they have a real redhead, Sadie Sink, and she’s not required to be hot or have a “fiery” personality. Yeah, she does end up stabbing her brother, but in comparison to what El does, that’s an under-reaction if you ask me.
What a true ginger queen
http://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/article/39842/1/sadie-sink-actor-bi…
I dunno, nothing irks me more than fake red hair. Mostly because people see if more than the real thing and they think that’s what it looks like. I’m still a ginger, but I get strawberry blonde in the summer from the sun. I’ve had people tell me I’m not a real redhead.
Like, okayyyy…
Well what am I then? And what are those actresses? You think Amber Heard’s hair in Aquaman was real?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amber-heard-aquaman-cut-scene_us_5c…
Even Black Widow’s hair doesn’t look real.
https://marvel-filme.fandom.com/de/wiki/Black_Widow
There are real gingers in Hollywood (Isla Fisher, Jessica Chastain, Bryce Dallas Howard, Eddie Redmayne and Alan Tudyk to name a few), but if they’re playing a ginger in a movie it’s just a coincidence. None of them are ever called to play famous redhead characters. Hollywood always gets some non-ginge kid to play Mary Jane from Spider-Man or Clary Fray from The Mortal Instruments. Even the new Kim Possible ain’t even a real ginger. I’m sad.
True, the hair isn’t the only thinng making me cry about this re-make, but it’s a big part.
https://deadline.com/2018/12/kim-possible-live-action-movie-sets-premier…
So I’m either not a ginger because it’s not that bright fake ass red or it’s the only thing about me. I don’t know. It’s the extremes again. Super hot or super dorky. Super red or not red at all.
To me, even strawberry blondes are gingers. There’s not a solid line.
Famous redhead, Isla Fisher
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279545/mediaviewer/rm2164750336
I also can’t get away from being called Irish either. It probably doesn’t help that my parents decided to name me Maggie, but Ireland (or Scotland) is not the only place that gingers come from.
I remember someone I know was talking about being Norwegian and I was like “Oh me too.” And she was like “Oh you’re one of those Norwegians.”
What is that supposed to mean? I’m just as Norwegian as you, even if I’m not blonde-haired and blue-eyed. Have you seen Frozen?
https://www.slashfilm.com/frozen-2-update/
In fact, being a redhead is a genetic mutation, so any population in the world could foster a redhead. The only reason Ireland and Scotland have the most was because they were celebrated as rare miracles. In Egypt, redheads were considered bad luck and were burned at the stake.
Annnnnd that’s the tea.
So here’s a shoutout to Ed Sheeran for being the realest of all of us. How can Hollywood acknowledge him yet also think they should retain their ridiculous stanndards for gingers?
An absolute beauty