Top 5: Rubbish fake facial hair
Mar. 26th, 2020 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespiritswordznsorcery is a terrible (amazing) person and asked for this. Obviously it needed pictures:I missed that it was specifically fake facial hair bit and included some bad wigs as well. But in my defence, they are very bad wigs. But it's all not good fake hair somewhere on the head anyway.
1. I've never seen anything to equal Derek Jacobi in The Pallisers:
2. Tessa Peake in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. This should never have been allowed anywhere near her head. If they wanted a fair actor they should have cast one. If they wanted Tessa Peake they should just have ignored the bit where it was suggested that Julia was blonde.
3. Michael Johnson in the first episode of The Shadow of the Tower. I mean, to be fair, he's Sir Francis Lovell and this is post Bosworth, it's been a bad hair day. BUT EVEN SO:
It's very distracting.
4. James Maxwell's facial hair in The Portrait of a Lady
It's not even the terrible little pointy moustache - after all, he's not supposed to be nice or anything - but the way that it looks as if he grew his own beard and then they stuck a random furry blob on the top because it was insufficient. In all his range of fake moustaches and even occasional fake eyebrows, almost all of which are terrible, this is just... like, what. why.
5. Oliver Cotton in The Borgias (BBC 1980s version)
Like, this isn't even that bad for the BBC but Oliver Cotton isn't that good and he's the main character and I just wound up hating his fake hair all the time.
Honorary mention for Ronald Fraser's fake eyebrows and moustache in Private Potter:
James Maxwell also has them, but perhaps I'm just inured to seeing his face with aberrant bits of unreal hair on it, but he seems to carry them off marginally better on that occasion than poor Mr. Fraser here.
I would mention the eyebrows of Adam Adamant, but obviously they are awesome and not rubbish. *g*
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Date: 2020-03-26 05:27 pm (UTC)And bravo Derek Jacobi. That's... quite something. Equally, bravo to whoever had to deliver their lines opposite him.
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Date: 2020-03-26 05:34 pm (UTC)He seems to have been viciously set upon by those sideburns.
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Date: 2020-03-26 06:42 pm (UTC)Yeah, I do not know what Sir Derek did to deserve that. Maybe someone had discovered his anti-Stratfordian tendencies?
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Date: 2020-03-26 06:44 pm (UTC)It is a wig, because it gets calmed down in eps 2-4 and looks comparatively good. But only comparatively.
Derek Jacobi's sideburns are the most OTT fake hair that I have yet seen the 70s BBC come up with, although I do not rule out the possibility of worse.
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Date: 2020-03-27 03:16 pm (UTC)Micheal Johnson seems to have received his wig from the cavemen costume dept.
Jacobi wins! Looks like the budget was so small they utilised the stuffing from an old sofa.
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Date: 2020-03-27 06:08 pm (UTC)Micheal Johnson seems to have received his wig from the cavemen costume dept.
It's a bit on the long side for taht. I don't know what his excuse is! Yes, you've just lost a battle and your bff the King is dead and people want your head, but you can still straighten down yr hair!!
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