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Ashton Kutchner`s character(Walden) was dating this woman named Zoe who wanted him to cut his hair and shave his beard off for her stupid office party and when I thought he was going to stand his ground when he told her "this is who I am and you either accept me as I am or not at all" and I was thinking "right on dude!" he appears at the end of the show with short hair and clean-shaven!!
I was ticked off and got up and walked out of the room at that point!
I don't watch this show on a regular basis, but the female character was pushy about the haircut issue and I am just wondering what purpose is it to put something like this in a TV show scr ipt. what message does this convey to "society"?
it's not like every show has long haired male actors in leading roles and to do this I feel is just sending the wrong message imho.
I personally have decided to boycott this show at this point and maybe I am overreacting but that is just the way I feel about it.
You saw a rerun, man. This happened about two months ago.
I quit watching the show because the new character seemed like a different person, and watching it after that had all the excitement of watching a Monopoly game when your piece is no longer on the board.
Bill
The show went to hell since Charlie left, but yeah I used to tune in because I loved Ashton's look. I got really mad at that episode too and stopped watching it all together. I stick to the old charlie reruns.
I've never seen the show but wasn't the concept of Kutcher's character that he was a long haired and bearded character that
was supposed to be very rich like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?
I never liked the show all that much even before they got rid of whassisname. Oh yeah, Charlie Sheen. See, I forgot him already.
Actors often have to cut their hair for parts. Ashton Kutcher is probably in something else at the same time and had to cut his hair for that, so they wrote a scr ipt around it.
Actors aren't like you and me, or at least not like me to my certain knowledge. One of the reasons I would never cut my hair off is that I don't want to be someone else, which is what they spend their whole lives doing.
There is the school of thought, which I personally subscribe to, that a long haired man could play any part with long hair. Not real popular with producers or directors, unfortunately, which is why I never see anyone in any production that looks like me.
For example, the only time I've seen a man play a guy in a desk job of any kind with long hair was Tom Hanks in Joe Versus the Volcano, and half way through the movie he cut it short for no apparent reason.
Other than that, most long hair roles are confined to sword and sorcery and period roles. Because, after all, absolutely no men ever had long hair after the 18th century. Yeah, right. What are we Hollywood, chopped liver?
I agree with what you said about actors always being someone else for a living.Something I could never accept doing.I like being me and that means having my hair very long.Obviously these actors treat hair like a costume for whatever role they are playing.Grow it,cut it,dye it,etc.I've never seen this show but I don't watch much television anyway.Another type of show that's annoying are those lovely makeover shows.Longhaired guys enter with caution;)Cheers
Mârk
Unfortunately, it was for that particular episode, but I also think that Kutchner might have been a bogus longhair due to some of the asinine and ignorant statements he made.
"How it evolved is that these guys wrote a screenplay that dictated that I cut my hair and shave my beard at some point."
It's the attitude of Hollywood and the media which really irks me as if longer hair is not acceptable on a Man anymore!
read the reference to 'cleaning up his act':
"Nothing like a multimillion-dollar TV contract to get a guy to clean up his act! But although Kutcher ditched the excess hair, there's one accessory he's still flaunting: his wedding ring! According to US Weekly, the actor wore his band to the TCA event, and even played around with it throughout the panel."
http://www.ivillage.com/ashton-kutcher-cuts-his-hair-and-demi-moore-dates-new-man/1-a-417871
here's another source:
"Kutcher's clean-shaven new look is "related to the show, completely," he said at the panel."
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/ashton-kutcher-cuts-hair-shaves-beard-still-wearing-wedding-ring-2012111
also, the reference to "unruly locks" as if his hair even though his hair was well groomed imho and implying he looks more like a assistant professor with short hair as if professors never have long hair !
"Likewise, history were the unruly locks; his new haircut makes him look as mild as an assistant professor, albeit much better-looking than most specimens of same."
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/01/ashton-kutcher-gets-hair-makeover-says-he-wants-more-men.html
here is a reference he made to looking 'homeless' and looking too 'biblical' and the article implying because his hair was long it was 'unkempt'.
"ASHTON Kutcher has cut his long hair because, he says, it made him look too Biblical. "
"I actually was enjoying looking homeless," he joked."
"Kutcher's hair had looked long and unkempt throughout the fall, as he began his stint on the Chuck Lorre sitcom."
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/movies/ashton-kutcher-cut-his-hair-because-jesus-wanted-his-hair-back/story-e6frexli-1226301290167
in response to Bill, I had no idea this was a repeat from a couple of months ago since I do not watch this show on a regular basis, but did view a few episodes and was considering supporting it on a regular basis because one of the main stars had long hair, but no more since I found out he cut it off!
Even in Hollywood they apply social reinforcment to particular perceived social norms...even while "normal" doesn't apply much to Hollywood...but I guess it can be a big seller and money is the name of the game in sitcoms.