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How was Darryl Hannah EVER a thing?

I don't even want to be mean but she was just not attractive at all. Not even in Splash. And other than maybe Kill Bill, I haven't seen her give any good performances.

Was being blonde and tall enough to fool people? Did she have some other quality that I'm missing? What explains her rise in the '80s?

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by Anonymousreply 42March 20, 2023 3:09 PM

I always asked myself the same question, OP.

by Anonymousreply 1March 20, 2023 5:31 AM

Wow, I remembered her as being rather beautiful but she looks like a MAN in that screencap.

Follow up: JFK Jr, a closeted bisexual at the very least? He liked man-faced women with boyish bodies.

by Anonymousreply 2March 20, 2023 5:32 AM

I didn't think she was particularly ugly in Kill Bill, but that picture of her you posted is FUGLY!

by Anonymousreply 3March 20, 2023 5:32 AM

She is quite androgynous looking and always has been. I don’t know that I’d call her ugly, but she’s certainly not conventionally attractive. She was in a backwoods slasher movie called “The Final Terror” with Rachel Ward in the early ‘80s before she hit it big. It’s a pretty good (and weird) movie.

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by Anonymousreply 4March 20, 2023 5:33 AM

She also appeared to be riding the short bus in every role.

by Anonymousreply 5March 20, 2023 5:35 AM

Heck of a nicer ass than Carolyn Bessette

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by Anonymousreply 6March 20, 2023 5:37 AM

Blondes got away with everything in the 80s.

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by Anonymousreply 7March 20, 2023 5:38 AM

A bitchy critic wrote that she and Sean Young were perfectly cast as robots in Blade Runner.

by Anonymousreply 9March 20, 2023 5:45 AM

Her Playboy cover is terrifying but in a cool way.

She’s scary looking but I love the photo. She looks like an evil siren from the sea.

by Anonymousreply 10March 20, 2023 5:55 AM

I thought she was gorgeous when she was younger. I love her.

by Anonymousreply 11March 20, 2023 6:00 AM

Since DL wets themselves over such things.

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by Anonymousreply 12March 20, 2023 6:03 AM

OP you bring out an excellent point that some actresses most definetly couch, how else could one explain their success.

by Anonymousreply 13March 20, 2023 6:15 AM

She was blonde and slim and frequently appeared at least semi-nude; of course straight men loved her. They weren't looking at the face.

by Anonymousreply 14March 20, 2023 6:19 AM

Because just about every straight guy with a pulse would have cut off a pinky to dump a load in her back in the 1980s. Never a great actress, she was hot without looking generic, and that’s what made her a thing back then, OP.

by Anonymousreply 15March 20, 2023 6:21 AM

I saw her in Santa Monica in late 90’s. Much much Prettier in person

by Anonymousreply 16March 20, 2023 6:34 AM

I think beauty standards change through the decades.

At her peak, was Daryl Hannah as beautiful as Margot Robbie? No, but… she was still more beautiful than Ali Mac Graw in Love Story.

I guess beauty standards continue to change and refine. Maybe forty years from now, people will ask how Margot Robbie was once considered beautiful?

by Anonymousreply 17March 20, 2023 6:36 AM

Her best role was probably as Jack Lemmon’s daughter in the Grumpy Old Men movies, frumpy small town Frau really suited her.

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by Anonymousreply 18March 20, 2023 6:36 AM

Her as the cunning, brilliant interior designer in Wall Street was ridiculous. Surprised she didn’t become a Bond girl, think Denise Richards as a Nuclear Physicist.

by Anonymousreply 19March 20, 2023 6:38 AM

People thought she was dumb in the 80s & 90s, now she seems like a genius compared to the Gen Z idiots.

by Anonymousreply 20March 20, 2023 6:39 AM

r17 Margot Robbie is beautiful. Some things just are and will never change.

by Anonymousreply 21March 20, 2023 6:42 AM

She was insufferable in Steel Magnolias.

by Anonymousreply 22March 20, 2023 6:45 AM

In every movie she looked like she pissed off the hair, makeup and wardrobe teams

by Anonymousreply 23March 20, 2023 6:52 AM

I've never thought she was all that great.

by Anonymousreply 24March 20, 2023 7:10 AM

R17- What about Margot Kidder?

by Anonymousreply 25March 20, 2023 7:12 AM

She doesn’t strike me as straight guy hot at all - again, she had mannish, hard look. Kim Basinger and Phoebe Cates are women who straight guys went nuts for.

by Anonymousreply 27March 20, 2023 7:39 AM

“Blonde, striking and slim” is what’s preferred by the gay minds of the fashion industry, not heterosexual men.

by Anonymousreply 28March 20, 2023 7:40 AM

R28 too bad the gays are losing ground in that industry as gatekeepers, now “Aqua, revolting and obese” is in.

by Anonymousreply 29March 20, 2023 8:03 AM

It was her long legs that guys talked about.

by Anonymousreply 30March 20, 2023 9:05 AM

I don't think I've ever seen a more masculine face on a woman than in the OP's pic.

by Anonymousreply 31March 20, 2023 12:00 PM

I remember when she first broke out in the early 80s. My roommate had gone to high school with her in Chicago. I believe her stepfather was a very wealthy businessman and she went to a progressive private school. She dated Jackson Browne when she was in high school, and the gossip was that he originally saw her in his audience. So she clearly had something.

by Anonymousreply 32March 20, 2023 12:26 PM

I’d say her rise benefited from Brooke Shields’ popularity. Not that she was a beautiful as Brooke, but tall, leggy, androgyny was a look. Lori Singer was another of the same type.

by Anonymousreply 33March 20, 2023 12:36 PM

R7 Thank you for posting that! I was just going to post the same thing to explain starlets of the 1980s. :-)

by Anonymousreply 34March 20, 2023 12:36 PM

Jackson Browne beat the shit out of her.

by Anonymousreply 35March 20, 2023 12:43 PM

There's a tv show in the UK called Pointless where contestants have to get the lowest score.

If the category was "Daryl Hannah films" then you wouldn't want to answer Splash, Kill Bill. Wall Street, Steel Magnolias because they'd score highly.

Looking at her acting roles the only other films that might feature on a list are Bladerunner and Roxanne.

All other roles would be pointless.

by Anonymousreply 36March 20, 2023 1:09 PM

Patricia Heaton said she was very nice to her on the set of a movie with Chevy Chase.

by Anonymousreply 37March 20, 2023 1:18 PM

She was gorgeous and girlish. She could have been a model but didn’t stick her bits out or try to smolder in a typical starlet way, so came across as a fresh face. She was harassed by Weinstein who may have hindered her career.

by Anonymousreply 38March 20, 2023 1:21 PM

If Darryl had autism, and John John had ADD, their children would have been retards.

by Anonymousreply 39March 20, 2023 1:35 PM

Yes, in regards to her fuggie face, she is the poster girl for the Horny straight man's mantra: " You don't look at the mantle piece when you are poking the fire."

by Anonymousreply 40March 20, 2023 1:38 PM

R13 She was part of the suit against Weinstein, so no.

by Anonymousreply 41March 20, 2023 1:41 PM

I saw her kill Angie Dickinson in an elevator.

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