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?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 42 | March 20, 2023 3:09 PM |
I always asked myself the same question, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 2 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 3 | March 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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 4 | March 20, 2023 5:33 AM |
She also appeared to be riding the short bus in every role.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 20, 2023 5:35 AM |
Heck of a nicer ass than Carolyn Bessette
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 6 | March 20, 2023 5:37 AM |
Blondes got away with everything in the 80s.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | March 20, 2023 5:38 AM |
A bitchy critic wrote that she and Sean Young were perfectly cast as robots in Blade Runner.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 10 | March 20, 2023 5:55 AM |
I thought she was gorgeous when she was younger. I love her.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 20, 2023 6:00 AM |
Since DL wets themselves over such things.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 12 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 13 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 14 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 15 | March 20, 2023 6:21 AM |
I saw her in Santa Monica in late 90’s. Much much Prettier in person
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 17 | March 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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 19 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 20 | March 20, 2023 6:39 AM |
r17 Margot Robbie is beautiful. Some things just are and will never change.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 20, 2023 6:42 AM |
She was insufferable in Steel Magnolias.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 20, 2023 6:45 AM |
In every movie she looked like she pissed off the hair, makeup and wardrobe teams
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 20, 2023 6:52 AM |
I've never thought she was all that great.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 20, 2023 7:10 AM |
R17- What about Margot Kidder?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 27 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 28 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 29 | March 20, 2023 8:03 AM |
It was her long legs that guys talked about.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 31 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 32 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 33 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 34 | March 20, 2023 12:36 PM |
Jackson Browne beat the shit out of her.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 36 | March 20, 2023 1:09 PM |
Patricia Heaton said she was very nice to her on the set of a movie with Chevy Chase.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 38 | March 20, 2023 1:21 PM |
If Darryl had autism, and John John had ADD, their children would have been retards.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 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 Anonymous | reply 40 | March 20, 2023 1:38 PM |
R13 She was part of the suit against Weinstein, so no.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 20, 2023 1:41 PM |
I saw her kill Angie Dickinson in an elevator.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 20, 2023 3:09 PM |
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