Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
“First casting calls are so difficult,” Peggy Lane said, looking ruefully at the fifty or more actresses and actors who milled about nervously, chatting with one another, or sat on the few folding chairs trying to read. “it doesn’t matter how good these people are most of them just haven’t got a chance. I can’t help feeling sorry for them—for all of us, I mean. After all, I’m trying for a part, too.” the unpleasant job of choosing and refusing, and a lot of these folks are their friends. I wouldn’t want Peggy could only think of as their ordeal. Afterward, as Peggy, Amy, Paula, and Greta sat at a table in a nearby coffeehouse waiting for Mal and Randy to join them, each was sure that she had been terrible. “Oh, no!” Peggy said. “You two were just marvelous! But I couldn’t have been worse. I know I read his friends. If she was to get a role in this new production, she would really have to work for it. And if it was difficult for Mal, she thought, it was for her friendship with him was of a different sort than with Mal. Mal was just a friend—a good one, things were different. There was nothing “serious,” she assured herself, but they had gone on dates together with a regularity that was a little more than casual and, whatever his feelings were for her, she Only when Amy started to laugh did the three others realize how much alike they had sounded. Then they joined in the laughter and couldn’t seem to stop. When they seemed at the point of dissolving helplessly into a permanent attack of the giggles, Randy and Mal joined them. “If you’re laughing at the play,” Randy said gloomily, “I can hardly blame you. You never know just how badly you’ve written until someone gets up and starts to read your lines.” All at the same time, the girls started to reassure him and tell him how good the play was, and how badly the actors, including themselves, had handled the lines, but this was so much like their last exchange them in just one afternoon?” in helpless laughter. When they got their breath back, and when coffee and pastry had been ordered, they tried to explain the cause of their hilarity to the boys. “... so, you see,” Peggy concluded, “we were each explaining how good the others were and how of what the characters in the play should look like. bad we were, and when Randy started telling us how bad he had been as a writer, we just couldn’t stand it!” are wonderful actors?” And if the people they pick aren’t good enough actors, With his tough face, like a movie gangster’s or private detective’s, and his gentle, cultured English voice and assured manner, he calmly gave his opinion of the just feeling sorry for myself, because Mal told me there was no sense in my trying out at all, because I you’re just too pretty for any of the parts that fit your age, and that’s nothing to feel bad about. If anybody ought to feel insulted, it’s me, because they asked me to try out!” She broadened her slight, soft accent until it sounded like something you could spread on hot cornbread, and both girls broke into laughter that sounded odd in the strained atmosphere of the bare rehearsal studio. with pleasant, if somewhat brisk, nods to the assembled actors and actresses, and a special smile for Amy and Peggy. In a businesslike manner, they settled themselves at a table near the windows, spread out scripts and pads and pencils, and prepared for the chore that faced them. Amy, who was there to table. Her job was to take names and addresses, and as Mal and Randy looked them over, murmured to Amy to take notes, and asked questions. couldn’t stand watching the casting interviews any longer. It reminded her too much of the livestock shows she had attended as a youngster in her home was, she felt it was hardly a way to have to deal with human beings. Slipping back through the crowd of waiting actors, she joined the actresses in the rear of the room, and “Hi,” she said. “What’s the matter, can’t you watch it either?” The girl smiled in understanding. “It always upsets me,” she replied, “but it’s something we simply have to learn to live with. At least until we get well-known, things there, but nobody seems to pay much attention to them. I heard that off-Broadway theater in New York attracts a lot of critics, and I thought that I’d do better here. Have you had any luck?” appealing combination of strength and feminine softness. should look. In fact, it’s almost uncanny. You look as “How can they hope to hear so many actors read for though they chatted amiably with one another, Peggy was sure that each was casting rather hostile looks toward others who were trying for the same parts. Keeping friendships in the theater was not an easy thing, she thought, particularly for people of similar physical types! Mal’s first concern in reviewing the actresses was, of course, for the leading role. And, of course, it was was made, and Peggy thought that she had never seen so many striking and beautiful faces and then stood to one side to watch. Mal went down the line, regretfully dismissing one after the other of the girls, and occasionally asking one to step aside to try for another role. His tough-looking expression hardly varied as he spoke to each “or you may be too bitterly disappointed if you don’t get it. But,” she added, enthusiastically violating her would be one of their most difficult roles to cast. Only four actresses came forward, and Mal, with come to the theater. Then he called for “character ingénues” and Peggy joined seven other girls in the smile, “but not for a girl so pretty that she’ll dominate the stage! It was a pleasure to look at you, but I’m and the smell of make-up and scenery paint as she The audience consisted of a handful of actors and actresses, and Randy Brewster and Mallory Seton. scenery was the brick back wall of the stage, two playing the part for laughs, and although there were some comic values to be extracted from the role, it polite, invariable formula, “Thank you. We’ll let you know our decision in a day or two,” and called for the next reading. Peggy watched the remaining actors try for the men, and the same wide range of talent and understanding of the part was displayed. Some seemed to have no idea at all about the play or its meaning, of the kind of character they were playing, and tried to create him in the brief time they had on stage. Others still were actors who had one rather inflexible way of playing, and used it for all kinds of parts. Their performances were uniform imitations of each other, and all were imitations of the early acting style of Marlon Brando. They seemed to forget, Peggy thought, that Brando’s style developed from the roles he had to play, and that as he got other roles, he showed other facets of a rounded talent. It made her angry that some actors thought they could get ahead in a creative field by being imitative. Each actor, no matter how good or how bad, was treated with impersonal courtesy by Mal, and each they learned that they had not been selected. “The pity of it,” she whispered to Randy, “isn’t that there are so many bad ones, but that there are for each role. I wish there were some way of telling the good ones you can’t take that they were really good, but that you just couldn’t take everyone!” replied. “The good ones know they’re good, and they’re not going to be discouraged by the loss of a role. And the bad ones think they’re good, too, and most of them have tremendous egos to protect them from ever finding out—or even thinking—otherwise!” the actresses entering. They quietly found seats in Peggy glanced at the actresses who had just come in. She recognized a few of their faces from

<question>:
How were physical features of the actors and actresses treated in this story?

<options>:
A People were being kind, especially because there was a bit of flexibility in what the characters in the play could look like.
B People were only being supportive with each other (though not to a sugar-coating extent).
C People were being kind, but the looks of the characters had to be a certain way, so people were generally honest about looks.
D People were complimenting their friends and criticizing others.

<answer>:

C