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I Googled a couple of minutes ago -- Naomi Ackie teeth -- while watching Blink Twice. Some teeth-gaps are very attractive, but as you say, her teeth are like little misshapen baby teeth, set back in her mouth, and seem almost dirty (like, I suppose, the British teeth they are), and the gap isn't nice at all. There is no way on the planet a billionaire would look at her twice after seeing those teeth. I can't stand when a film tries to pretend someone is homely when they're beautiful or stop-you-in-your-tracks-stunning when they're at best average. She looks like an attendant at an airport rental car agency. And Google seems to have scrubbed most traces of people discussing this, except for your comment! I can't concentrate on the movie because the part she is playing is totally unbelievable....due to her teeth and overall clunky manner (not acting--just the way she moves as an actual person).
Wow, here were are 17 years later. I signed up for MovieChat because I am seeing Meet Me in St. Louis for the first time. It's charming and I love it, except...Margaret O'Brien. There were (and are and always have been) children who can sing and dance; Margaret O'Brien doesn't appear to have been one of them. My ears were bleeding from her off-key tone-deaf warbling, and she had no sense of rhythm in her "dance" number. Why was she cast? And the character of Tootie is grating, obnoxious, and just repellent. As to the Halloween sequence--while watching I kept wondering why it made the final cut. It took me completely out of the movie. It feels bolted on the side and doesn't flow in any way. It should have been excised. Would love to know the backstory on why Margaret O'Brien was cast--given her--not even average--but truly awful unmusical voice (I get it--she is cute-looking but cute kids who can act are/were a dime a dozen--that's irrelevant to my point) AND why that Halloween scene was included. I also wonder what contemporaneous audiences thought of Tootie's weird disturbed character.