Suggestion to the developers: I've noticed in the acting career half of the kissing scenes go against the preference of the sim performing it. Can you please make it so it matches the preference of the sim actor? Even in the your sim world if 99% of your sims are of one preference, it makes no sense to have your acting scene kisses be 50/50. Thanks for considering it.

In real life, there are plenty of actors and actresses that play roles in which the character they are playing is not of the same orientation as them.For example, Jack Falahee who plays a Connor Walsh, a gay character, on How to Get Away with Murder is actually straight in real life.Luke Evans, who is gay in real life, played Gaston in the live action Beauty and the Beast. The list goes on. So, yes, the way it is makes perfect sense because it matches the real world.Plus, it's literally just ACTING.

We're talking about a game, not real life. And I never mentioned homosexuality. But if I want preference abc in my game, I don't want the game forcing a difference preference upon my game, let alone in a career.And since you mentioned real life, 99+% of "kissing" scenes in real life acting are heterosexual, which if this game is supposed to model real life as you suggest, then neither of our opinion's matter: the game should model 99+% heterosexual kissing scenes in the acting career. So back to my actual point: if I want preference abc in my game, I don't want the game forcing a difference preference upon my game, let alone over half the time, let alone in a career.

Acting is acting. The job is to act like someone unlike yourself. To me it would be totally wrong if the actor's preferences should have any impact at all on this. PS - I work a little bit with acting in RL, and getting to play a character miles away from myself is both more fun and developing. The opposite would quickly become a bore ;)

It's a game, not RL. What next, force the opposite "marriage" upon your game character than you want in your game because it would become boring for you playing the game if they didn't?

"ReflectedLight;c-17759578" wrote:It's a game, not RL. What next, force the opposite "marriage" upon your game character than you want in your game because it would become boring for you playing the game if they didn't?I was only referring to the acting career, not to the sim's "RL". And also, only what goes on on stage, not during the rehearsal/waiting which normally takes longer than the recording. When I play a sim on the film set, I some times add a private story going on there, like my sim actually hating the co-actor, or another actor who is there is a rival fighting over the Director, or my sim deeply admiring another person on the set. You don't need to do the listed tasks in order to get gold, so instead you can make up misc events. There are always a handful random sims present, and we are free to do whatever we want when not on stage. The staging is preset, but I assume you could add some drama up there as well, would be fun :) Btw, once my sim was acting in some sort of a classy mansion, Father Winter actually showed up by the "fake" fireplace on stage - I almost fell of my chair. Thinking of it, I must have set the Winter Fest to not be a holiday, or there would be no gig on that day... Would also be fun starting to interact with someone on stage, your choice, to see how much fuss it would cause on the film production - you'd probably earn some pay even with a poor result. Hm, would be fun playing a sim who was the worst cast ever, LOL.

Acting career kissing scenes: match the preference of your sim

Kathykins
Seasoned Newcomer
4 years ago
Director: We have to get someone else for this part, they can't even get a simple kissing scene right.
Producer: Right, didn't we try to get Judith Ward for ....
Director interrupts: I'll call her agent.

They don't ask for reasons, they just want their movie done. Afraid you weren't quite what they were looking for. Back to auditions you go!

On a more serious note, no idea how many times my female, straight actress had to kiss Venessa Jeong, because she was always picked for those scenes, while the male co-actor were picked for any other scene. We do the job or we don't. Acting isn't for everyone.
Simmingal
Hero
4 years ago
acting should never depend on actors dating preference cause its acting.

but i think it would be nice if game made higher ranked actors take bigger roles cause i swear judith just lives in some weird mascot costumes these days in some small roles and it makes no sense to me that she would settle for that type of jobs. especially cause the second lead actor is always some random townie no one knew even existed
Gioselle
4 years ago
so true it's always the same sex when acting, at least switch it up
Bmm209
4 years ago
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17760198" wrote:
There are mods that help with that. At least that is how I get around it.

What mod?
randy2355
4 years ago
IRL show business is brutal! I have many friends that perform in local theater, and they rarely get what they want. If they don't make it believable that their character is truly in love with that nasty blobfish that they have to kiss...the director finds someone else, someone who can make it believable. its that simple. As an actor, You kiss who the writer and director want you to kiss, not who you want to kiss.
ThriorTheSecond
Seasoned Newcomer
4 years ago
Oh, I'm just glad to hear it doesn't match their preference because I totally thought it did. I'm playing an actor who's gay and basically all his co-stars have been males and I thought that's awfully convenient. Only like two women appeared after I accidentally flirted with one so I thought it was matching them to his gender preference score (which by now is back to 100/0). I personally really like it if that's not the case because acting has nothing to do with your RL preferences. This particular character demonstrates it by practicing romantic scenes with random women as well, often with fans lol. (They must love him for that.)
Though it is a bit silly if it's so skewed for one gender, to a point that I actually thought it matches preference. Would like the system to mix it up more.
Bmm209
4 years ago
"Scobre;c-17932747" wrote:
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17932688" wrote:
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17932648" wrote:
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17932541" wrote:
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17760198" wrote:
There are mods that help with that. At least that is how I get around it.

What mod?

I made that post in December of last year. Not sure if that mod has been updated. I stopped using the acting career as it was too much of a structured check list and I hate those.

Do you remember what mod it is? Perhaps it may be updated. Ive only recently got Get Famous so this is a big peeve rn. Or if not some other mod that allows us to change the npc? I used cheats but couldnt enter CAS to modify because it was a nonplayed sim. So i took control and used "change sim" instead and changed their clothing, body type and etc. But it caused them to leave the acting garage and my sim couldnt finish her scenes.

I use MCCC mod to help with that, it is a must use mod and Deaderpool updates it frequently. https://deaderpool-mccc.com/#/releases Just warning you on the MC woohoo one is the NSFW addition to the mod, so you just need the command center which pretty much is a multitool mod like NRAAs mod for the Sims 3 and insiminator mod for the Sims 2. It saved my households when the game tried to ruin my save files culling Sims with the addition of NPCs.

Ok thanks I will test this out! And will avoid the NSFW
ChampandGirlie
New Spectator
4 years ago
So, I tend to make over all of the actors in CAS mostly to make them look like glamorous movie stars/"beautiful people" and to have whatever back story they have. This means that I end up with a pool of actors that I know. Lately I've ended up making a number of these actors and other characters playable because they fall in love on the sets a lot. My game also generated several good-looking producers. The actors, producers and directors all tend to end up marrying each other.

Every so often I'll leave one as-is especially as a character actor but I've edited most of the set in a way that works for me. When new actors come in I tend to jump into CAS to edit them.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"ReflectedLight;c-17759578" wrote:
It's a game, not RL. What next, force the opposite "marriage" upon your game character than you want in your game because it would become boring for you playing the game if they didn't?

It should be pointed out here, that it goes both ways even in RL. Gene Roddenberry, who created the Original Star Trek that aired 1966-1969, spoke to George Takei about the character, Sulu, asking if he was okay to play a straight, married character. George said yes, and I could never imagine anybody else filling that role. As some have said acting is acting. But, I also have to say, that while that is true, if your Sim is of another orientation and the 'risky' scene always involves kissing the undesired gender, it gets old very fast. He won his Starlight Accolade, but the parts never got any better for him. Same old, same old. I had him quit to concentrate on his music.
Bmm209
4 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-17933100" wrote:
"ReflectedLight;c-17759578" wrote:
It's a game, not RL. What next, force the opposite "marriage" upon your game character than you want in your game because it would become boring for you playing the game if they didn't?

It should be pointed out here, that it goes both ways even in RL. Gene Roddenberry, who created the Original Star Trek that aired 1966-1969, spoke to George Takei about the character, Sulu, asking if he was okay to play a straight, married character. George said yes, and I could never imagine anybody else filling that role. As some have said acting is acting. But, I also have to say, that while that is true, if your Sim is of another orientation and the 'risky' scene always involves kissing the undesired gender, it gets old very fast. He won his Starlight Accolade, but the parts never got any better for him. Same old, same old. I had him quit to concentrate on his music.

Even a celeb perk to have "influence with the director" could work. There could be a drop down menu that lets you choose your costars, like the way you can choose who you want for the roles in parties like caterer, musician. I have an actor couple and id like for them to star in movies together, like John Krasinski and his wife does.