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Perhaps there’s a “judgy bitch” gene that runs in the Roberts family. Because Julia’s little 19-year-old niece Emma inherited her aunt’s big mouth. Emma gave an interview to the Times Online (lead via I’m Not Obsessed) in which she pontificated about all of those “actresses” who show off their body on film. Emma says: “I would show my back and my butt on camera, but I would never go topless. Going topless is so tasteless, and I prefer to leave all that stuff to people’s imagination.” Snotty little brat. Look, before y’all climb up my ass for calling her a brat, let me just say this – I don’t care if she doesn’t want to do nudity, or if she thinks that it will reflect poorly on her. That’s not the point of what she’s saying – she’s saying actresses who go topless (or full frontal) are “tasteless”. Just pulling from my memory, here are some actresses who have done topless – at the very least – in their films: Helen Mirren, Halle Berry, Julianne Moore, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Sandra Bullock, Kate Hudson, Kristen Scott Thomas, Jennifer Aniston, Charlize Theron, and many, many more. All of them are “tasteless”.
Emma Roberts is not a fan of nudity. Not her own, anyway. “I would show my back and my butt on camera, but I would never go topless,” says the 19-year-old actress, tween icon and Hollywood heiress (her aunt is Julia Roberts, her father Eric Roberts). “Going topless is so tasteless, and I prefer to leave all that stuff to people’s imagination,” she pronounces wisely, from a secluded restaurant booth in an even more secluded West End hotel.
“But you never know what might happen,” she continues, offering a sudden rethink on screen nakedness. “This is what I’m saying now, but in five years’ time it could be totally different.”
Being able to drink in England, plus, she smokes: “You feel very adult, sitting in London with a glass of wine, but because you’re not allowed to do it in LA, it is seen as bad.” Similarly, she was photographed recently with a cigarette hanging from her lips, which caused much hysteria among US moral guardians and fansites alike — “Celebrities smoking is always bad,” read one online commentary, “but it’s especially disappointing when the celebrity is a teenager. And even worse when that teenager is Emma Roberts: there are a lot of girls out there who look up to her.” Roberts sighs. “It’s just kind of tough that I’m not allotted any room to make mistakes. I smoke occasionally. But because it’s me, it’s like, ‘Oh my God! You’re a terrible influence’.”
On her first “mature” roles and her first sex scene: Roberts, here, is at pains to add that, as in life, she is not “trying” to be provocative. “It’s not like I’m going from Hotel for Dogs straight into playing a stripper or a drug addict,” she says. Instead, she adds, she’s simply trying to have a career. She points to actresses such as Anne Hathaway and Gwyneth Paltrow as role models. And, naturally, while she’s on the subject, the conversation inevitably leads back to the woman she politely describes as, “my Aunt Julia”. It’s difficult terrain for Roberts. She has tried to avoid it in the past, partially because she could be accused of riding the coat-tails of her aunt’s success, but also because this subject winds itself backwards into real-life family history. The stuff that rarely makes it into teen magazines.
On her father (Eric Roberts) and his drama: “I don’t really read any of the stuff that’s written about that,” she says, wincing and toying with an empty water glass. “At all. It was a long time ago.” Was she aware of it happening around her though? “I still don’t even know half the stuff that went on, so I’m guessing that I was well protected from it. And by the time I was old enough to be aware of it, it was over. Which I think was good for everyone.” Does she ever talk to her father about those times? “I follow my dad on Twitter,” she says. “That’s all I have to say about that.”
On family: “You choose the people in life who you want to become your main focus. You surround yourself with people you love and who love you, and that, to me, is family.”
On how being a child star hindered her dating life: “It sounds so weird to say this, but it’s so hard to date people the way you’d normally date,” she says. “You don’t meet people in conventional ways, like in clubs. Then you meet them on movie sets and that doesn’t work out. So the question becomes not, ‘How long is this relationship going to last?’ but, ‘How am I going to meet people in the first place?’ That’s the weird bit.”
She was accepted to Sarah Lawrence College: She’s not sure if long-term study is a viable option at the moment (“I might take short- story writing and psychology for a semester”). In the meantime, she says, she’s getting to grips with life around her, and the reality of being an actress, and a person, in transition.
[From Times Online]
Yeah, they’re trying way too hard to make it sound like she’s the next bright young thing when I don’t think anyone (important) really has a clue who she is. Her career thus far has been like a budget Miley Cyrus, although she probably has some independent-film cred. Meaning, tweens know who she is, but everybody else doesn’t give a sh-t. But she’s got a bunch of new films coming out, so I’m sure we’ll hear more gems from her and those bitchy Roberts genes.
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Why is it ok to show her but, but not her boobs? I don’t get the difference. They are both body parts that you don’t normally see and both can be associated with sex!
Oh can can’t she call them breasts? Boobs is totally tasteless
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I agree with her. There’s no such thing as tasteful and untasteful nudity: you’re still going naked in both cases.
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Question…is that a safety pin through her ear in the second picture? Yikes.
Also, she really is a beautiful young girl, and is looking more and more like her “Aunt Julia” as she gets older. Hopefully she can avoid the desire to say stupid things like Aunt Julia, because she just doesn’t have the history or star power to pull it off.
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and what’s so wrong with human body that it should be covered??
apparently, she has some personal issues, maybe a bad childhood?
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THAT is your list of actresses that’s supposed to refute her point? lol!
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meh she’s a teenager. teenagers say dumb shit. i’d let it slide really.
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What does Julia Roberts’ nephew think?
or her gardener?
or maybe an actual celeb?
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She’s having a bad hair day, nice smile though. I saw Emily Blunt topless in Summer of Love the other day, thought it was quite tasteful as she was laying in the sun on a British estate.
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I wonder if she carries the HOME-WRECKER gene her Auntie has?
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Whatever. She’s way more classy than Miley. I can respect this girl a lot more than other young “stars.”
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“and what’s so wrong with human body that it should be covered??”
Sometimes – Monster’s Ball, Little Children, Walkabout – nudity can be a very powerful tool in telling a story, but I think she’s merely vocalising the widely-held belief that topless scenes are generally included in movies (*coughSwordfishcough*) to sell DVDs to horny boys rather than because they have any relevance to the plot.
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so, the two women she points to as role models have BOTH gone topless in films…yet she sees going topless as “tasteless”?
I’m going with the “dumb teenager” angle, too.
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I wonder if she told her role models, Anne Hathaway and Gwynnie (now there’s a great actress…NOT) that she thinks they are classless for showing their boobs, more than once I might add.
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This girl is going to be a blind item superstar. She’s already started. Seriously, watch out for this one, she’s going to get into serious trouble soon.
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I agree with you Cedar Falls, nothing conveys vulnerability and honestly more than nudity. And a distant shot on a naked person can say a great deal about the little, insignificant space we hold in the world.
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Actresses with saggy pancakes rarely like to show them off. I believe this is the sole reason in this circumstance. If they had pretty breasts they would show them off in a second.
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I, for one, LOVED her in Nancy Drew. But I still love every thing Nancy Drew…
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Big call, little girl. Spoken with the arrogance of youth, or maybe family genes, whatever.
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Um…
The women she looks to as “role models” both went topless in a movie…
Gwyneth Paltrow in “Shakespeare in Love”
Anne Hathaway in “Brokeback Mountain”
…Juuuuuuust putting it out there…
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Wow,,,and here I always thought actresses that let the puppies breath were tasty! Come to find out I just couldn’t spell. Hope she inherited the acting talent of her father Eric.
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Gwenyth Paltrow in “Sylvia”
Anne Hathaway in “Havoc”
2 films each. So they’re REALLY tasteless…
FOR NOW, I’m gonna write her off as a case of a typical teen who thinks they know everything when they do not, and thinks they’ve seen everything, but clearly has not.
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I think smoking is way more tasteless than going topless in a film (for the RIGHT reasons–Halle Berry in Swordfish was pretty tacky). But then again I’m 30, so I don’t know nearly as much about the world as a teenage actress…
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I can’t be too harsh on her because I personally would not want the world to see me naked, but I would not call other women who do choose to go topless “tasteless”. To each their own. I DO like that she seems to have some modesty though, that is so, so rare nowadays. I wouldn’t condemn those who are exhibitionists even though I do not understand it, and I would appreciate it if they don’t condemn us prudes either. There’s plenty of women who will take off their clothes, not everyone has to…ya know? There’s room for all kinds of people in this world, right?
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I’m 38 and I sure do miss being 19 and knowing everything!
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And the countdown til when she appears topless in a film and excuses it as ‘art’ and ‘needed for the role’ begins in 5, 4, 3, 2…..
Adding to the list of women that have gone topless I’ll add Vanessa Redgrave, Judi Dench, and Glenda Jackson
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I find Little Miss Entitlement extremely annoying and self absorbed. The drinking, smoking and following her dad on Twitter (?!?) along with her self righteous BS is a complete turn off. I tend to go with my wallet when it comes to entertainment and wouldn’t waste a dime or my time on this hack.
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Hey, Bodhi, me, too. I thought she was charming in Nancy Drew.
I think she may have gotten the topless thing from her aunt. Julia Roberts has never done nude scenes and for years said she would be ashamed if her grandmother ever saw her naked on screen.
As far as her father, I heard he was quite strict with her and made phone calls to clubs where she was going to make sure she would not be sold alcohol.
As far as tasteless, I believe she was calling the act of breast nudity tasteless, not the people who did it.
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She is just a kid that thinks she knows everything. It’s annoying, but don’t all kids get strong opinions they know little about? And of course those aren’t opinions to them, they are facts. She will grow up eventually.
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Helen Mirren, Kathy Bates, and Judi Dench have been nude in films. And if you don’t think those are classy dames, you are out of your damn mind!
What’s tasteless is making a sweeping generalization about nudity in flims.
And one could argue that smoking is also rather tasteless, Emma.
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Why even profess a strong opinion just to completely counter it a second later? What is this fixation with nudity being tasteless? The media is a reflection of society. We are all born naked. This country has this major hypocritical problem with trying to sensor nudity and being fine with violent subject matter. Nudity is so completely not a big deal, describing it as tasteless just goes to show how paranoid and uncomfortable some young people are about their own bodies. Take pride in yourself and how you look. You don’t have to undress to impress anyone, but if the role calls for it then you are expected to do it. Especially if you have no clout in the industry, you can’t be all that picky.
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Im going to let this one slide. I remember when I was 18-19 I was really insecure about my body and wouldn’t show my body off either. Luckily by the time I was about 25 I got over it.
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If she doesn’t want to show all, that’s fine, up to her – I wouldn’t want to either. But I don’t think she should say that anyone else doing so is tasteless. Not all scenes like that are tacky or gratuitous.
It amazes me that anyone who has grown up in the age of anti-smoking and tons of awareness of the health hazards would choose to do so.
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At least she dresses appropriately.
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So, does she know both her role models have gone topless? Or did she just pick random names out of things she’s seen in gossip mags?
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“She points to actresses such as Anne Hathaway and Gwyneth Paltrow as role models”…
well, there lies the problem!
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Its the people that judge & chastise others, that usually have the most skeletons in their closet.
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I don’t think topless always = tasteless. If your some obligatory naked girl running around in some slasher flick…then yeah I can see that coming across as tasteless, but I don’t think it’s tasteless, if it’s for a love scene, or if it’s required for a biopic…or things like that. I kind of feel the same way about Art and photography. Something like Keira Kinightely and Scarlett Johansson’s Vanity Fair March 2006 cover was done in a classy way to me. Playboy…not so much.
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….Does she not know that her dear Aunty Julia was topless for a second or so in Pretty Woman??
Seriously…. Look it up!!
In the uncut edition there is definite nipple action in the sex scene.
Am I the only only who is aware of this?
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@BeeCee, I’m just going to take your word on that. No way am I looking up topless JR, bleurgh.
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I LIKE Emma Roberts.
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Emma’s right – they are tasteless. I don’t know if she realizes that the two actresses she does admire have both gone topless in their careers.
Anyway, at this point most Hollywood actors and actresses are glorified porn stars. Most Hollywood films are arty, glorified porn. That is why I have absolutely zero respect for any actor and actress in Hollywood (and the world). They all disgust me.
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re: Why even profess a strong opinion just to completely counter it a second later?
Answer: Most of us [human beans, but especially youths] like to project an image as if we have convictions/scruples/principles/standards/etc., because few people want to come out and plainly admit, “I’ll SAY anything to make myself look good to others while DOING whatever’s good for ME.”
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