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In the dystopian world of 'Uglies,' appearance is everything – which is why star Joey King knew that now was the perfect time for the world to see this movie. King along with stars Brianne Tju, Chase Stokes, Keith Powers and Laverne Cox sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and open up about working on the film, beauty standards in Hollywood and more.

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00:00All my life I wanted to be pretty.

00:05I thought it would change everything.

00:07In the dystopian world of Uglies, appearance is everything,

00:11which is why star Joey King knew that now was the perfect time for the world to see this movie.

00:15Uglies was a big part of my life growing up.

00:17I read it for the first time when I was 11,

00:19and I mean that book series in particular just was like huge for me.

00:25It hit me at the perfect age to take with me into like my teens.

00:28The Netflix film is based on the 2005 sci-fi novel of the same name by Scott Westerfeld.

00:34Set in a futuristic world, citizens undergo cosmetic surgery once they're 16 to turn pretty

00:39and join the rest of society.

00:42They tell you what to do, and that's it.

00:45Paris?

00:46What are you doing here?

00:47I was worried.

00:48Things are just different here.

00:50You'll get it when you're pretty.

00:52King, along with stars Brianne Chu, Chase Stokes, Keith Powers, and Laverne Cox

00:57sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and opened up about working on the film,

01:01beauty standards in Hollywood, and more.

01:03Have you ever felt in your life personally, and this goes for you too, Brianne,

01:07have you ever felt the pressure to act or look a certain way in society?

01:13Yeah.

01:13Absolutely.

01:14I don't know anyone who hasn't felt that pressure.

01:18Absolutely.

01:18Whether it doesn't matter whether you're in the public eye or you're just like going

01:21to your first day of school or whatever.

01:23Like, you know, we all have our insecurities, and I think that just comes with like growing

01:28up.

01:28It's hard.

01:29What do you do with all that information?

01:30We live in like the age of information with like social media, and it's hard.

01:35We don't, no one has really given us a guidebook on how to navigate that.

01:39And so in life, it's trial and error.

01:41Definitely felt the pressures to look a certain way.

01:44In terms of the way I look, I think, yeah, for sure.

01:47There's a thing about being legible.

01:49I grew up not feeling beautiful at all and longing to be beautiful in the same, similar

01:54way that Tally longs to be beautiful.

01:56I've always wanted to be pretty, and I thought it would change everything, and I certainly

01:59had that.

02:00And I do feel pretty today.

02:04I feel beautiful today.

02:06When asked about director McG's comments about contemporary society being obsessed with

02:10image, the cast had this to say.

02:12I think sometimes I even find myself, you know, caught up in it.

02:15You know, I think just naturally, just the pressure we've been put under with social media

02:22and stuff.

02:22And I think in order to get better, I think it's just, it's like first comes like self-awareness.

02:30I think just being, like, knowing who you are and knowing that, also just knowing that

02:37what you see on social media is not real.

02:39Or on TV, on television.

02:40This perception of such a falsified reality that social media in the world is currently

02:45in is so tough.

02:47And I can't imagine being 15, 16.

02:50And even I'm guilty of it.

02:51Like, I'm 31 years old playing a late teenager on a TV show, and the expectation of looking

02:57physically in a certain way at that age.

03:00I remember watching Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill and all of these classic shows.

03:04I'm like, why don't I look like that?

03:06It's just not authentic.

03:08And with the film set in a dystopian world, the cast revealed what they enjoyed most about

03:12filming and dish on the gadgets they'd want to take back with them in real life.

03:16It was fun.

03:17Yeah.

03:17I mean, we don't fight in person at all, like in real life.

03:20I mean, I was cracking up the whole time.

03:22Yeah, yeah.

03:22We would do a take, and then I'd, like, be on my back, or Keith would be on his back.

03:26We'd just be laughing about it.

03:27It was cold.

03:28It was.

03:29And we didn't, we don't have a lot of scenes together.

03:31No.

03:31You know what I'm saying?

03:32So it felt good to finally, like, work that day with each other.

03:35You know what I'm saying?

03:36Other than that, it's more in passing.

03:37Anytime you get to kind of throw down with a friend like that.

03:41And we get weird.

03:41Bond that you build.

03:42Is there one gadget that either of you would want to, like, bring into the real world?

03:47Yes.

03:47Um, besides the hoverboard, duh.

03:50Duh.

03:50But, like, that's obvious.

03:52I think the, I think the interface ring is kind of cool.

03:55Like, but it's a little, I could see myself, I could see that being a problem.

03:58I could become too obsessive with it.

04:00Exactly.

04:00I could be, like, just, like, any text message, just, like, but, like, we're kind of there anyway.

04:05Maybe the interface ring.

04:06I've been saying that, like, the toothbrush pill, except that I can use it to, like, kind of black out and my body will do a workout for me.

04:16And I can wake up and, like, workout done.

04:19Uglies is now streaming on Netflix.

04:21This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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