Also, iirc the main characters at some point get turned into Pretties (one was entirely against her will and the other was to try to be a mole?) so you need to pick actors who can both be “Uglies” and “Pretties”. It’s like casting Margot Robbie as Barbie as she gets “ugly” over the course of the movie - it’s kinda hard to do both with the same actor. I don’t think any major character can really have a truly ugly actor because it’d be hard to sell them as a Pretty.

It’s one of those things that I feel like the idea is going to be hard to translate to screen. I feel like they would need a huge CGI budget to make Pretties genuinely uncanny if they wanted to sell the way they’re portrayed in the books. Or borrow from the Twilight Zone and make everyone who’s beautiful have a pig face.

I’m pretty sure the protagonist actually had some major self esteem issues but her friend was adamant about keeping her appearance and that’s how she gets dragged into the storyline. The main character is absolutely brainwashed in the beginning.

Supermodels in our day were also ugly to them, their beauty standards would be truly uncanny.

I’m more worried that the Pretties won’t be pretty enough and will look like regular attractive people. I’m not sure that the tech exists to have actors with perfectly symmetrical faces in a tv show.

Is this the same one as “Eye of the Beholder” or is this a different episode?