Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville mystifies The One Show viewers with ‘weird’ airbrushed face
‘Is Hugh Bonneville living in filterland?!’: Downton Abbey star mystifies The One Show viewers with ‘weird’ airbrushed face
- The Downton Abbey actor, 57, appeared on The One Show via a video link with a ‘weird’ filtered and seemingly airbrushed face on Wednesday evening
- Viewers joked he had been in a ‘space time vortex from the 1980s’, while others said it looked like he had smeared his screen with Vaseline
- Hugh had appeared to have picked the skin smoothing filter on Zoom, which gave the illusion of an airbrushed face
- The touch-up filter helps to ‘smooth out the skin tone on your face, to present a more polished looking appearance’
- The actor has lost a considerable amount of weight in lockdown and sent fans into a frenzy when he debuted his transformation on The One Show last year
Hugh Bonneville left The One Show viewers scratching their heads on Wednesday night as he appeared via a video link with a ‘weird’ filtered and seemingly airbrushed face.
The Downton Abbey actor, 57, surprised fans with his flawless appearance as he appeared on the BBC evening show to discuss his film To Olivia, in which he plays Roald Dahl.
Viewers took to Twitter to comment on Hugh’s youthful appearance, with some joking he had been in a ‘space time vortex from the 1980s’, while others said it looked like he had smeared his screen with Vaseline and was ‘living in filterland’.
Airbrushed: Hugh Bonneville looked unrecognisable during an appearance on The One Show on Wednesday night as he appeared via a video link with a ‘weird’ filtered face
Hugh had appeared to have picked the skin smoothing filter on Zoom, which gave the illusion of an airbrushed face.
The touch-up filter helps to ‘smooth out the skin tone on your face, to present a more polished looking appearance’.
One viewer wrote: ‘Hugh Bonneville was on the one show other night and I never knew he wears too much makeup on screen as didn’t recognise him’.
Another added: ‘Is that a CGI image of Hugh Bonneville on the one show?’
Drastically different: The actor’s flawless appearance drew attention from viewers as they watched him talk about the film To Olivia, in which he plays Roald Dahl (pictured right 2019)
‘Who is that man on your show?’: Fans soon took to Twitter to comment on Hugh’s appearance, with some joking he had been in a ‘space time vortex from the 1980s’
‘Hugh Bonneville seems to be being interviewed on The One Show in a space time vortex from him situated back in the 1980’s?’, a third viewer chimed.
‘What the flying f**k is going on with Hugh Bonneville on The One Show? Has he got a weird filter on?,’ typed a fourth.
Another viewer Tweeted: ‘Hugh Bonneville’s portrait mode touch-up on The One Show is quite the thing. He looks like an 80s Brian Wilson being interviewed on a breakfast show over a 525VT video link.’
While another said: ‘Is Hugh Bonneville living in a filterland or has he just smeared his screen with Vaseline? What’s going on with the screen on The One Show?’.
‘who is that man on your show … that is NOT Hugh Bonneville !!! How did he lose all that weight!!!,’ tweeted a different viewer.
Hugh is best known for his role in Downton Abbey as Robert Crawley – a role he reprised in the Downton Abbey film which came out last year.
This role has won him two Emmy nominations and, along with fellow cast members, won three SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama.
One viewer wrote: ‘Is Hugh Bonneville living in a filterland or has he just smeared his screen with Vaseline? What’s going on with the screen on The One Show?’
Funny: The actor appeared to have picked an airbrushed filter for the Zoom call with The One Show host Alex Jones (left)
The actor has lost a considerable amount of weight throughout lockdown and sent fans into a frenzy when he debuted his transformation when he appeared on The One Show last year.
Hugh later showed off his epic transformation once again in a snap shared on Twitter as he met up with his best friend from university for a drink.
The actor stars in the Sky Original film To Olivia with Keeley Hawes and it will be released on Friday.
The Paddington star and the Keeley, 44, will play legendary children’s author Roald Dahl and his American actress wife Patricia Neal in the Sky Cinema original movie.
Transformation: The actor has lost a considerable amount of weight throughout lockdown and sent fans into a frenzy when he debuted his transformation last year
Half the man he used to be: Last year, he left fans aghast when he debuted his phenomenal image overhaul on The One Show over Zoom (pictured, left, on the show, right, in 2014)
Based on a true story, the film is set in 1962 and follows Dahl and Neal as they have retreated to the English countryside to bring up their expanding young family.
Their lives are tragically turned upside down by the death of their daughter Olivia. As the couple struggle through the unimaginable loss, their shared grief becomes a source of redemption and strength which changes their lives forever.
John Hay has directed the film, which features an all British cast including Sam Heughan, the late Geoffrey Palmer and Conleth Hill.
USING ZOOM TO ‘TOUCH UP YOUR APPEARANCE’ BEFORE A MEETING
Actor Hugh Bonneville recently appeared on the One Show looking like he had been in a ‘space time vortex from the 1980s’, with a ‘weird’ filtered face.
The airbrushed look was likely the result of a filter or series of filters within the Zoom app he used to appear remotely on the BBC One early evening show.
While the actual filter hasn’t been confirmed by Bonneville or his team, it is likely to be the ‘Touch up my appearance’ option found under the video settings menu within the app.
Touch up my appearance in the Zoom app ‘smoothes’ out your face, making you appear less detailed than would normally be the case
Ticking the box gives you a slider that can ‘smooth out’ your face, to a greater or lesser extent depending on how far you move the slider.
Bonneville may have combined this ‘smoothing out’ with other effects within the app including a ‘studio effects’ beta feature that lets you tweak your eyebrows, moustache, beard and lips digitally.
Within the general ‘video filters’ section you can also change the lighting and give your look a boost, make it noir and even put flowers in your hair.
Aside from the ‘native filters’ that come built in to Zoom, it could also be possible that Bonneville made use of a third party filter, such as those produced by Snap Camera including Snapchat filters.
By installing the Snap Camera app you can select a Snapchat filter and then use that within the Zoom app during a meeting.
This includes a new Naomi Campbell ‘beauty’ filter that produces a similar effect to the one seen on Hugh Bonneville during the One Show interview.
More details about Zoom video enhancements and filters can be found on the Zoom support website, including how to enable them for a meeting.
