Leslie Mann has some serious catching up to do with her co-star, Cameron Diaz. The Other Woman did okay at the box-office this weekend. It landed in first place (and finally ousted Captain America: The Winter Soldier), but $24 million isn’t too impressive. Do you think some people were turned off by Cami’s endless stream of TMI interviews? I was planning to watch this movie in theaters, but after the 11th interview about cheating, I thought, “Let’s do Netflix instead.” The antiperspirant discussion clinched the deal.
Let’s talk Leslie for a moment. She sat down for a new BBC1 radio interview and discussed how she wants to have sex as a man. Maybe she really feels that way, or maybe she was trying to sound bawdy for publicity. Then she talked about her dislike for receiving flowers, and I can totally get behind this logic:
If she had 24 hours as a man: “I would have sex. I would love to know how it operates! Like what the real mechanics feel like! It would be fun to feel the other side, wouldn’t it?”
Don’t give her flowers, Judd Apatow: ”I feel like flowers are a little bit of a waste because they cost like $100. Why not give me something I can use over and over again? Just give me the cash, I would be so excited!”
[From Contact Music]
Some women really enjoy receiving flowers — god only knows they’re jamming up my entire Facebook feed with flower selfies. I can’t stand flowers as a gift. They’re overpriced, they sneeze pollen throughout the house, and they end up in the trashcan after a week. What a waste. Plus they’re unoriginal as a gift. Tons of other romantic gifts exist — I believe men should use their imaginations instead of listening to the Valentine’s marketing machine.
Here are some photos from the last (!) premiere of The Other Woman. SO MANY premieres. Leslie is wearing a New York Vintage corset and Stella McCartney pants. Cameron is wearing a Vionnet dress, and Kate Upton is wearing a Saint Laurent top and pants. Leslie wins this one.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
I’m probably the only person in the world to think she is such an overrated actress.
Her duck face pisses me off to no end and her whiny baby voice grates on my nerves like nails on chalkboard.
Rant over.
She is quite a good comedic actress, she doesn’t have much of a range i guess. It feels like she is always the same character,but i like her paired up with Paul Rudd.
Bingo
No, I’m there with you. And I’m sick of the soundbites of desperation from any actress of this sh*tshow movie, to drive sales.
And PS: She looks like an absolute doofus in the jump photo.
What happened to her lips?! She really has a duck mouth now
her voice makes my ears bleed.
I can’t stand her voice either! I really think she plays her voice too, and that’s not how she naturally speaks. She’s also a very one-note actor. That said, as a person she seems decent. Lol.
I’m so with you on that one. I will avoid anything she’s in, coz I can’t stand her overacted clinically insane, shrill, whiny recurring character. Would avoid this movie like the plague if Leslie wasn’t in it, but her presence will keep me even from streaming it at some point.
She’s just not funny, and can’t act. The whole Judd Apatow style of non-humor is really hit or miss for me anyway. It’s like “I just said this really banal thing, isn’t that HILARIOUS??” No.
I understand her, I’m curious too.
Yup. How could you not be?
Me too! and I love flowers!
Very curious.
Also, I think if I could have a d*ck for 24 hours it would help me get better at blow jobs.
LMAO! Me too.
However, I can say I have never been fired from a blowjob.
I had a dude tell me that BJs are like pizza, even when it’s bad it’s still good.
“I had a dude tell me that BJs are like pizza, even when it’s bad it’s still good.”
That’s a line straight out of Reality Bites, ha. (Well, I think the orig was “sex” but still. Famous.)
I saw the movie this weekend, wait for Netflix. The best part was the clothes. I too have always been curious about the other side of sex, but I do like flowers.
The clothes were great! I dragged hubby to the movie as I wanted to support a women-centred film rather than wait for netflix. I’ve wasted more $$ on other crappy movies – this was a “medium” movie. I like Leslie Mann but do agree that her voice can be tiresome. It probably is played up, like Bernadette on Big Bang Theory.
If I had 24 hours as a man, I’d have sex too but I’d also pee outside standing up, mark a little territory.
I’m not a fan of flowers as a gift either, they’re pretty the first day and then I’m done with them. But no, some folks get offended if they’re not displayed, so I get to watch flowers wilt which is about as exciting as watching paint dry.
We could write our names in the snow! Then, I’d give it back.
Ha, it’s funny you mention that but snow was exactly what I was thinking about when typing it. But yeah, I wouldn’t want it for more than a couple of hours, I like being a woman.
I had a dream once where i had a penis and in the dream I woke up with the famous ‘Morning glory’. It felt so real that when i woke up for real i was so freaked out i had to check myself down there!
Gross.
I’ve had a dream where I lost an appendage and it was freaky but I’ve never gained one paola, I bet that was weird.
Remember the Seinfeld episode about “shrinking”…and Elaine says “I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things”…lol those are my feelings, exactly!
blue marie, when I was little (like 5 or 6), I used to try peeing standing up. I think I wanted to be like my brother/cousins, who knows……but I remember doing it once. I think I just stood over the toilet and tried to aim….
ha, it’s the trying to aim that worries me.
I like flowers on rare occasions, not as a “go to” gift.
I love flowers, especially if there is thought put into it. Don’t do red roses, it’s cliche. Buy longer lasting and unusual varieties like huge French Tulips, colorful Gerbera daisies, or Birds of Paradise.
I’m with you, Kiddo. I don’t like flowers for Valentine’s Day because they are so marked up, but another time, give me the flowers you mentioned or some peonies or sweet peas and I get a lot of pleasure for a week. They don’t last forever. What does?
I love flowers if they are the grocery store under $20 variety. I don’t like the overpriced cheesy delivery flowers.
As for Leslie Mann I agree with the commenter that said she is good in a certain range like paired with Paul Rudd. And I loved her girls in “this is 40″…it made me like her more seeing her lovely girls!
@GoodNamesAllTaken, I wasn’t aware that this only referred to Valentine’s Day. Anyway, I think cash can sometimes work, but if given on Valentines Day, it would seem like you are being paid for your ‘services’. Other than in the case of actual need (which obviously doesn’t apply to this actress), giving cash is the laziest most thoughtless route for a BF, second only to gift cards. How about genuinely listening to someone’s desires and being mindful of their interests?
@Momoftwo, I agree, lots of cheap fillers, ugly arrangements in FUG vases. GO PICK THEM OUT and then hand deliver them yourself.
@Kiddo, no it didn’t just refer to VD, I was just saying I don’t like them then because they mark them up so. I think cash from a bf or gf or husband would suck.
Totally agree with you and MofT about stiff, baby’s breath filled telefloristy arrangements with balloons and teddy bears attached. No.
I HATE red roses! Give me wild flowers all day, every day or multi-colored Gerbera daisies. Anything but ugly-ass red roses with Baby’s Breath (GROSSEST. NAME. EVER).
I love flowers so so much-one of my few indulgences* is to buy fresh flowers for my apartment every weekend. Who cares if they end up in the trash? They make me smile.
*and several closets worth of clothes.
Most romantic gift I ever got? My boyfriend watched Youtube videos to learn how to make origami roses and made me a dozen in an origami vase. They are so beautiful and I love that they last, and that he put so much thought into them. He was embarrassed that he couldn’t afford to buy real roses, but I keep telling him these are so much better!
I love them as a surprise ‘just because’ gift.
Don’t throw away flowers after just a week! Hang them upside down and let them dry out, then put the dried bouquet back in the vase!
I always found dried flowers to be quite depressing. The only exception is the dried/pressed flower you sometimes find in a second-hand book, esp. the older ones. That’s such a nice surprise, but I generally love the things people forget in their books before they give them away. I once sent a several years old and never posted postcard (because it was used as a book mark) to the rightful recipient. Just imagining his surprised face gave me joy – it was a bit of an Amélie-Poulin-moment.
After my Dad was retired, sometimes Mom would send him to the grocery store, and sometimes he would come home with flowers for her “just because he loved her”…his words…Those are the kind of flowers I love…the “just because I love you” kind…
@Mrs.BPitt
My mom worked with this woman whose father had just died. And the woman said she knew that her daughters (they were little) were going to be taking it the hardest, because their grandfather used to dress up in a three piece suit every Wednesday, drive to their house with a bouquet of flowers for each female in the house, and deliver it to them personally.
I buy myself flowers at the grocery store every week too. Either a bouquet or the potted ones. I divide them up and put them into cute little vases all over the house. It takes some time, but well worth it for me.
Babies Breath with red roses are the worst! I do love a big bunch of them on their own though, so pretty.
does LM have implants and fillers in her face? or is it from strenuous exercising? she was pretty cheeky w/a sculpted nose in the 90s so did she do pre-emptive? or is that natural? is it a combination of both procedures and too much exercise? can’t figure out her face but she definitely should always smile.
also, would she have a career if it weren’t for her husband?
My boyfriend brings me flowers every Monday and has done for the past four years. I can understand how something like that wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste but it’s our thing 🙂
that’s sweet though
That’s sweet Tila, you’re a lucky girl.
You need something to brighten up the drudgery of Mondays! 🙂
She’s looking great! I totally get her on wanting to see what it’s like to have sex as a man. Somehow they give off this impression that it’s far more fun for them 😉
$24 million is great for what’s called a chic flick, I think.
I don’t know where “disappointed” came from either – the movie greatly exceeded expectations of what it would open at. $24 million isn’t Captain America opening money, but this isn’t Captain America.
It has opened well internationally as well. So far if has made back its production budget. The money will not stop because I don’t think there is a rom com out right now. There is a niche for it and the promotion must have gone well because the movie opened at number 1 here in the US.
I feel her on the flowers thing. Such a waste of money. I’d rather get something useful. I think the best presents my husband ever got me were my iPod and a clip on book light. So unromantic but I use them all the time.
A waste of money, for me, would be spending it on her current film. Flowers support growers and small florists. Going to see this film supports spending too much energy on revenge of a lover, instead of living a good life. Also, it reinforces Hollywood’s idea that if you throw three questionable actresses together, you can call it feminism, and then desperate for exposure women will pay to see tripe disguised as a social advance, or even a slightly humorous adventure.
It’s a comedy. I don’t think the movie was meant as a vehicle for social commentary.
I addressed the comedy aspect. My point was that there aren’t too many films with women and for women, so that passing garbage off as a place where they are represented so awfully in plot, and in bad writing, shouldn’t be rewarded.
And yes, it was being sold, to some degree, as ‘girl power’.
Roses are much happier when they’re alive.
They die on the bush. And they thrive when they are cut back. Cutting them in bloom does not hurt the plant. Although, in general, I agree that I enjoy flowers in their habitat where pollinators can enjoy and make use of them. But the flowers in florist shops aren’t picked from someone’s back yard garden, leaving the plant bare.
Leslie’s funny in small doses and paired with the right people. Has anyone seen the movie to say if it’s good or not?
I like fresh flowers in the house esp in the spring but they’re not a “gift”. Flowers do not equal gift, they may accompany a gift, they can mark an occasion where you may not ordinary get a gift but no I think as a culture we should get past the flowers as a gift thing.
But Leslie should be careful about just asking for the cash… nothing says I love you more than leaving you a $100 on the dresser before he goes to work.
Kate girl, go slow on the face powder yo!
After reading the comments, apparently I’m the only one who disagrees with Leslie about wanting to know what it’s like to have sex as a man…. I don’t give a sh-t. I’m not even the least bit curious to know what it’s like to have sex as a man.
Yeah, I don’t really care either. I suspect when it’s done right, it’s a better experience for women, overall, with the capacity for multiple orgasms.
I agree, Kiddo.
I don’t think it’s about what’s “best” but about utter curiosity about difference.
I like her…and yes, I’ve wondered about the mechanics of the other side as well.
I also agree about the flowers. I hate getting flowers. Nothing says ‘ROMANCE’ like cutting a living thing in the prime of its life and giving it to someone, who can watch it slowly die, and then throw in the garbage.
I admit I’ve wondered what it’s like for a man too….
I do agree about the flowers thing. I don’t like cut flowers and have told my boyfriend that if he get’s me flowers i want a living plant. I saw some of the flower basket things you can hang up in a window and would love one to put up in the kitchen.
Was Kate Upton going for the geisha or clown look? Or maybe a mime?
I have to agree. It’s not penis envy, per se, just curiosity. Though, I ‘spose I can just get a strap on to figure out mechanics 😛
Yes, I’m also curious. And as some people said: I would totally pee while standing.
As to flowers: I think they look nice, but I don’t want them as a gift – I absolutely hate red roses as a gift. On the other hand I hardly have flowers at home anymore as one of my cats tends to eat them and not only are some poisonous, even the harmless ones are practically toxic waste with the amount of fertilizer and pesticides that is used to raise flowers (as nobody is eating them there are no limits). So it’s environmentally questionable too.
This is kind of mean, but I almost didn’t recognize Kate Upton with her breasts covered.
Where in the hell do you people get your flowers from?!?!? I get mine at the grocery store. I don’t think I’ve ever spent over $15 on a bouquet.
I used to work for a florist in high school, and large fancy bouquets with hard to get flowers were always extremely pricey :(. On the rare occasion I buy flowers for myself, I get them from the grocery store too lol.
My mom buys me flowers occasionally and I like it. I think flowers are lovely, even though they don’t last that long. That’s what makes them special to me.
My husband once bought me a sex toy for the both of us to enjoy as a birthday gift about 4 years ago, and some of my friends were so upset! They said I should have given it back to him and demanded flowers or jewelry and insisted it was a terrible thoughtless gift. I actually think it was one of the best gifts I’ve received LOL. For one thing, he was actually paying attention when I told him about this crazy new toy I had heard about, and not only that, it was fun and helped bring us physically closer!
Kate looks like she’s having a Chico’s kind of day.