A Little Too Ready for Her Close-Up?

[TheQueen]

April 23, 2010
A Little Too Ready for Her Close-Up?
By LAURA M. HOLSON

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IT took years for Hollywood to create the perfect woman. Now it wants the old one back.

In small but significant numbers, filmmakers and casting executives are beginning to re-examine Hollywood’s attitude toward breast implants, Botox, collagen-injected lips and all manner of plastic surgery.

Television executives at Fox Broadcasting, for example, say they have begun recruiting more natural looking actors from Australia and Britain because the amply endowed, freakishly young-looking crowd that shows up for auditions in Los Angeles suffers from too much sameness.

“I think everyone either looks like a drag queen or a stripper,” said Marcia Shulman, who oversees casting for Fox’s scripted shows.

Independent casting directors like Mindy Marin, who worked on the Jason Reitman film “Up in the Air,” are urging talent agents to discourage clients from having surgery, particularly older celebrities who, she contends, are losing jobs because their skin is either too taut or swollen with filler. Said Ms. Marin: “What I want to see is real.”

Even extras get the once-over. Sande Alessi, who helped cast the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, said she offers to photograph actresses in their bathing suits, telling them they can keep the photo for their audition books.

Professional courtesy? Not exactly. Moviemakers prefer actresses with natural breasts for costume dramas and period films. So much so that when the Walt Disney Company recently advertised for extras for the new “Pirates” film, the casting call specified that only women with real breasts need apply. By taking a photograph, Ms. Alessi said, “we don’t have to ask, we will know.”

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[Computer Magic]

I agree, I find the 1st photo more attractive...

[pinkrose]

Thank goodness. i'm getting tired of seeing "plastic" peop;le on tv and in movies. "Real" people look much better.

[TheQueen]

I call them lollipop girls. These thin stick bodies with big heads on top with faces stretched to hilarious proportions. It's so unnatural looking it's just distracting.

“I think everyone either looks like a drag queen or a stripper,”

That's my favorite quote from the article.

[Christy]

It's so silly, the fake boobs can stay in the porn, that is what they're there for :lookaroun

When was the last time you saw an actor or actress in a film and were really interested because of their looks. The quirky looking people are the best... I guess by quirky I mean real :rotfl :blush

[erika]

:punk :thumbs

[TheQueen]

Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides bosses have announced that women with breasts implants will not be allowed to star in the fourth part of the Johnny Depp starring franchise.

The studio is going to cast women for the movie and demands that they have all natural curves otherwise there’s no way they can get a part and star in scenes shot this summer in Hawaii.

The studio is seeking “beautiful female fit models. Must be 5ft 7in-5ft 8in, size 4 or 6, no bigger or smaller. Age 18-25. Must have a lean dancer body. Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants.”


In the last movie there were enhanced breasts to give that 18th-century whoreish look and men were pretty well padded to and no one worried. But times are changing and the audience can spot false breasts,” the source revealed.

In case actresses try to hide the fact their assets are not as natural as they seem, they all will have to undergo a “show and tell” test to detect false breasts, the film’s director Rob Marshall said.

While some ladies will have to go through humiliating testing procedures to prove they are good enough for the movie, there’s one actress who won’t have to do that. It’s Penelope Cruz, the lead lady in the new movie. We know she’s naturally busty!

ICYDK, in Stranger Tides Cruz will play the daughter of Blackbeard.


She’s the daughter of the bad guy. She brings a lot of humor to it. And the fact that she’s so feisty,” executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer said adding that the movie makers plan “little romance” between the two characters portrayed by Depp and Cruz.

Sounds exciting!

[Christy]

Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides bosses have announced that women with breasts implants will not be allowed to star in the fourth part of the Johnny Depp starring franchise.

The studio is going to cast women for the movie and demands that they have all natural curves otherwise there’s no way they can get a part and star in scenes shot this summer in Hawaii.

The studio is seeking “beautiful female fit models. Must be 5ft 7in-5ft 8in, size 4 or 6, no bigger or smaller. Age 18-25. Must have a lean dancer body. Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants.”


In case actresses try to hide the fact their assets are not as natural as they seem, they all will have to undergo a “show and tell” test to detect false breasts, the film’s director Rob Marshall said.

While some ladies will have to go through humiliating testing procedures to prove they are good enough for the movie, there’s one actress who won’t have to do that. It’s Penelope Cruz, the lead lady in the new movie. We know she’s naturally busty!

ICYDK, in Stranger Tides Cruz will play the daughter of Blackbeard.


Sounds exciting!

Well, so much for being more realistic :rotfl

[Hooker]

I agree, I find the 1st photo more attractive...ditto

[Garyhoov]

Well, so much for being more realistic :rotfl

Yeah, while I HATE breast implants (particularly in porn flicks:lookaroun where you can see exactly how weird the damn things look), I don't think I'm going to applaud the casting director for POTC . . . when the three lead characters look like they'd double their weight if they ate a cheeseburger.:huh

[Doug11]

I don't know much about breast implants. :shrug My philosophy sort of follows the quote I once heard about Pamela Anderson . . . many surgeries ago. It went something like, "You know it is all fake, but you have to appreciate the effort." :p

But as for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, that poor girl who played Elizabeth Swann is so thin that I worried for her. I saw her give an interview where she made a statement to the effect of "there is no such thing as too thin," and I had to disagree with that. She crossed the "too thin" line a long time ago. She is too young to be so "to the bone-thin!"

[Garyhoov]

After reading this thread, I went to check my e-mail and saw a Comcast headline that said: "Applegate Flashes Huge Rock."

Apparently Christina Applegate is getting engaged . . . but coming from this thread, you can imagine where my mind was at and how my brain mis-read that headline.:lol

[Christy]

After reading this thread, I went to check my e-mail and saw a Comcast headline that said: "Applegate Flashes Huge Rock."

Apparently Christina Applegate is getting engaged . . . but coming from this thread, you can imagine where my mind was at and how my brain mis-read that headline.:lol

:rotfl

[Christy]

And she looks like an older pam anderson in the 2nd :lookaroun

[Doug11]

pam anderson?

http://x4c.xanga.com/bb6c666270734175658790/z133775968.jpg

http://topnews.in/light/files/Pamela_Anderson_001.jpg

[figmentmom]

The studio is seeking “beautiful female fit models. Must be 5ft 7in-5ft 8in, size 4 or 6, no bigger or smaller. Age 18-25. Must have a lean dancer body. Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants.”



Well, so much for being more realistic :rotfl

:rotfl Because REAL WOMEN all fit that mold. Right, girls? :rotfl

[pinkrose]

pam anderson?

http://x4c.xanga.com/bb6c666270734175658790/z133775968.jpg

http://topnews.in/light/files/Pamela_Anderson_001.jpg


She looks MUCH better in the first one. Imagine how she's going to look when she gets old. Wrinkled little old women with big lips and perfectly round (so un-natural looking), huge boobs.

[Computer Magic]

pam anderson?

http://x4c.xanga.com/bb6c666270734175658790/z133775968.jpg

http://topnews.in/light/files/Pamela_Anderson_001.jpgPam was cute when she was on Home Improvements. I don't know if was David or Tommy that screwed her up...