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Christina Ricci has an opinion on Lindsay Lohan – don’t we all? – but for once it has to do with her acting roles and not her private life. Ricci says that Lohan somehow glamorized stripper roles in films, and that’s stupid.
Ricci claims stars like Lohan, who peeled off in 2007 movie I Know Who Killed Me, have created a culture of women who find flattery in misogyny.
She says, “It used to be something that we (women) were sort of ashamed of. You didn’t want to admit to people that you were a stripper.
“But now, the hottest thing to say is, ‘I can work a pole!’ Who gives a f**k? But it’s a huge weird thing.
“I mean, you see actresses, and their passion project is to play a stripper. It’s just stupid.”
A few years ago women were changing their attractive appearances to win Oscars. Remember Nicole Kidman’s nose in ‘The Hours’, Charlize Theron in ‘Monster’? Christina Ricci is currently doing it in ‘Penelope’ by wearing a pig’s nose on her otherwise flawless face.
There’s a little article this week in the Sydney Morning Herald about the volume of men now going full frontal in film, and how women don’t seem to react in quite the same way as men.
The 28-year-old comedian (Jason Segal, in Forgetting Sarah Marshall)is presented in full-frontal glory during a break-up scene that involves Segel naked, dripping wet and sobbing like a baby. No clever Austin Powers-style genital obfuscation with props. No artful lighting to preserve any mystery. And the camera cuts away from close-ups of his teary face (he’s being dumped by his girlfriend, the titular Sarah, played by Kristen Bell) to wider, phallus-inclusive shots three times.
At the South by Southwest festival, Segel almost brought the house down with laughter every time he was shown au naturel.
Segel wrote the film’s script, basing the scene on a real-life naked break-up of his own. The actor-writer contemplated inequalities between male and female film nudity before putting himself on display.
“When a woman does nudity in a movie, men immediately switch into a sexual mode,” he says. “For women, from what I understand, it’s not like that. They see a naked, out-of-shape man crying and it’s funny - something weird, disturbing and disgusting we can all laugh at.”
Maybe it is the increase in male nudity that is encouraging women to do more confronting nude scenes as strippers. Or maybe it’s just a result of the pole dancing work out craze, why bother to develop a skill if you can’t use it at work?
I tried the whole pole dance work out phenomenon. You really have to be very coordinated not to injure yourself. I think I gained 5 pounds waiting for my arms to stop hurting.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Christina Ricci and the cast of “Speedracer” are shown at the Grand Prix on 4/19/08, thanks to PRPhotos. Susan Sarandon looks great! Also shown are Matthew Fox, Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, and racers Gerardo Bonila and Ben Devlin.
Written by Helen
Posted in Christina Ricci, Lindsay Lohan, Nude, Susan Sarandon
12 Responses to “Christina Ricci says it’s stupid to play a stripper in films”
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She’s not setting herself up as a spokesperson for anything, she’s just expressing an opinion. And as I read it, it’s the wanting to play a stripper’s role - any stripper’s role - rather than wanting a good meaty part in an interesting film where the character happens to be a stripper, that she’s puzzled by. I loved her in The Opposite of Sex - very clever actress.
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Not a fan of LiLo but for Christina Ricci to criticize anyone being naked in a movie is the pot calling the kettle black. In Black Snake Moan, she was naked 90% of the movie, was fucked more then once during the movie and she is going to talk about anyone else.. sorry.. can’t take anything she says even with a grain of salt for she is a hypocrite.
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I haven’t been interested in anything she has been in since “The Adams Family” and “Casper”…
…and that is because technically I was paid to see “Casper”…
By this time I thought she would be working in a McDonalds or something.
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- Shakira Mebarak owes me money, I want my money back and maybe a public apology.
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and in her case, redundant.
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Re: Male nudity
The reason it got laughs was because it was played for laughs. Female nudity, even when the woman is crying is always sexualized.
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Brave man, Jason Segal.
I don’t think wearing a pig’s nose is quite the same thing. Kidman and Theron and a couple of others were taking great glee in not being pretty. The pig nose is not to make her character look ugly, it’s for a different reason altogether.
Ricci’s actual quote isn’t all that bad. The intro paragraph provided by the writer added in a reference to Lohan and “creating a culture of women who find flattery in misogyny.” Ricci may have had something like that, but it’s not in the quoted text.
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Ricci’s character in Black Snake Moan was that of a troubled girl who used sex & drugs to cope with life & was sort-of saved by SLJ.
LL’s character in I Knew This Would Flop was that of a stripper. That pretty much sums up her whole caracter.
There actually is a difference.
Geronimo- Opposite of Sex is brilliant!
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don’t think she’s snarking about women in hollywood doing nudity, but rather the quality of the movie work. it’s one thing to do a complex movie with depth and character development, that has nudity in it– and another to aspire to movie roles that have no character development, no depth, no talent, no script, only the “star” prancing around in stages of undress. hollywood is producing a crop of young actresses that seem to think that all they need do is flash their privates and the world will ooh and aah–whether it’s in a movie or getting out of their car in the real world. movie making requires a bit more than that, at least if you want to make good movies.
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Emile Hirsch-YUM!!!
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My sister-in-law told me she wanted to plan a girls’ night out that would involve a pole dancing class and then drinks afterward. I just stared at her for several minutes and told her I’d meet them later for drinks. I don’t want to know how to work a pole, why would I degrade myself that way? Her and her suburban friends can go do that and believe they are being wild and sexy in their soccer mom hair and sensible heeled sandals. As for me, I’m not a stripper and have never found myself in a position where I needed the cash so badly I was willing to dance naked for money.
Sorry for the mini-rant, I just get annoyed with glamorizing something that I find quite dehumanizing. (And I’m just killing time until The Office, Earl and 30 Rock come on.)
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…. says the woman who spent an entire movie prancing around as a half-naked nymphomaniac. I get the point… just might not be the most effective spokesperson.
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