Smartphone Tag

We investigate what exactly makes an actor seem like they've ‘seen a smartphone’, and why some faces just don’t seem believable in period movies Dakota Johnson within the film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Timothée Chalamet as King Henry V, all the forged of Daisy Jones & the Six – what have they got in common? All have been deemed by the web as looking too modern to believably act in period pieces. More specifically, all have been accused of getting faces that seem like they know what some form of contemporary technology is, from smartphones to the web to air fryers. Or, as one person said about Camila Morrone, “she looks like...