IDK it says BBC America, so I guess the explanation is quite simple.
It's because Americans are crazy. An having perfectly natural hair under her armpits would be unacceptably disgusting for an American audience.
While torture, killing and poor hygiene is not.

Or this actress didn’t want to grow out pit hair for a comedy show. Not everything is that deep

Forcing actors to grow body hair in their more intimate areas should not be a virtue. That's weird and over the line and you should be ashamed.

It's a movie. It's not a realistic story and shown through a camera, not someone's real eyes. Suspend your disbelief or leave.

They nipped out the non-head hair genes during the cloning, duhhhhhhhhhhh

Maybe they forced her to get laser hair removal when they were messing with her. Super underrated show! I love Dirk Gently, whatever character has screen time at a given moment is my favorite character.

Right ... no need to grow it. You can just attach some fake hair.

This, and I hope that it wasn't a body hair fetish that triggered this post.

Which goes back to the above: "Americans are crazy. having perfectly natural hair under her armpits would be unacceptably disgusting for an American"

Wouldn't want to accurately portray women's natural bodies lest they think it might be acceptable to be unshaven.

Sexualization of women x sexualization of prepuberty.

It's pedophilia. You're welcome.

Edit: Wow the downvotes came quick, please instruct yourselves.

https://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/sjfgss/article/download/3103/1654/10396

https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/2612/

I loved this series. Was amazing.

I know American women with armpit hair, I don’t retch when I see them

As an American woman with armpit hair, I get a lot of unsolicited comments.

It would be nice if there were more representation of adult women's bodies in media.

100% guarantee that if she did have armpit hair some other sad bastard would be making a post commenting on it

I’m sorry, you shouldn’t have to put up with that

God forbid women want to be more accurately represented in media. Noooo, it has to be a fetish.

Make-up departments exist. It being a deliberate choice by the production makes much more sense.

Exactly, but even so, it's an actors job, many lose weight, gain muscle, grow hair, lose hair, all the time for the role. Such a strange thing to be angry about, let the actors decide themselves lmao. What's with the new trend of people getting offended on behalf of others?

You're not wrong.

There’s literally a comment in this thread that pointing out the hairless pits must be because OP has a hair fetish. EDIT: There’s now 2 comments sexualizing this topic.

Everything is sexualized with women’s bodies. Removing hair is not exempt from that.

Yup, totally with you.

It's ok if they do it. It's not ok to be mad if they don't go far enough. Are you going to cripple the house actor for realisms sake?

Creating these demands and expectations is not ok.

Natural body is a polite way of framing ungroomed. Men nor women like seeing poor hygiene. Some types of poor hygiene are seen as worse than others. Dirty hair? Sorta gross. Body hair? Disgusting.

Meanwhile they had to spend a huge emount of time airbrushing Ripley in Alien because she told them to fuck off with that shit.

Are men with trimmed beards gross and unhygienic?

Reading comprehension here is worse than tumblr, istg.

Natural body is a polite way of framing ungroomed.

Natural landscape is such a hippie way of framing unpaved!

What is it?

Dirk Gently

Thanks. Thought they said the actor should just do all the afformentioned things.

For real? Did i understand you correct that for you it's worse having clean hair in armpits or on legs than unwashed hair on the head?

Do you also remove ALL of your own body hair?

It is possible to not ever cut any of your hair and still be hygienic and clean!

First season was over the top great.

Second season dropped off a bit but still a good watch.

If Christian Bale wants to make himself look like Skeletor for a role, that's his choice.

Reading that far into anything sanitation posts is illadvised at best. They post like its their job.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

In this case? Misogyny.

People take issue when women don’t contort themselves into a socially accepted image.

Somebody has a kink 👆

Body hair? Disgusting.

Oh, men are supposed to shave their body hair or they’re disgusting?

Not everything about women has to be sexualized.

Saddest ending with them setting up s3

pleeeease

I wish I could permanently delete all my body hair. Laser doesn't work for me unfortunately

Isn't that for you to decide? I know gay men who think facial hair is disgusting. Some like it. Regardless, I don't get to tell my audience what they like, which is what you're trying to do.

There's this story that Mark Hammil tells about being on the set of Star Wars and he mentions to Harrison Ford that their hair should be wet, since it was just wet in the previous scene.

And Ford says something like, "This ain't that kind of movie, kid. If the audience is talking about our hair, something has already gone wrong."

I didn’t make the assertion that body hair is unhygienic.

It’s so annoying when people edit their comments after they get replies.

You made the implied assertion that people need to like it because it's natural.

Where did I say that people need to like it?

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

I mean, I'm morally consistent on this one in that I think everyone looks better smooth. Yall can be hairy if you want though.