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Hot-washing is when source material that’s complicated has its edges smoothed out by the casting of conventionally hot people who are made to look conventionally hot in a way that clashes with the source material, and it’s ruining a bunch of recent literary adaptations whose characters are meant to seem a little more real.
Hollywood Needs to Stop Hot-Washing Literary Adaptations Maris Kreizman 2026
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