Robin Wright looks like Evan Rachel Wood on this Town & Country cover, right? Which reminds me of the very underrated Robert Redford film, The Conspirator, where Evan really did play Robin’s daughter. That was great casting, because this is pretty much what Evan is going to look like in 20 years. Anyway, in the T&C interview, Robin talks about the pressure to get plastic surgery and how she’ll never succumb because she’s at peace with getting older, which is a little bit weird considering she’s already confessed to getting “sprinkles” of Botox:
On her first time directing (the 10th episode of season two of House of Cards):
“I’ve been in this business almost 30 years, and I’m such a control freak. You’re sitting around knowing how a scene should be blocked or the direction an actor should be given, and biting your tongue. So the answer is, yes, I loved being in the driver’s seat. I honestly don’t want to act anymore.”On considering plastic surgery:
“In Hollywood the pressure’s there. You better lift that face and pump those lips and hike those boobs! And I was like, ‘I don’t want to do that. I’m going to get older. I’m going to have wrinkles!’”On the “wife and arm candy” roles she has been rejecting for 25 years:
“Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn’t enough to do in a role, which doesn’t have to do with the role’s size. If there’s nothing for me to do as an actress, that’s frustrating… I’d rather go work at a menial labor job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.”On auditioning for John Hughes films early in her career:
“It was always down to the wire between me and Molly Ringwald, and Molly always got the part.”On her first film, cult favorite The Princess Bride, in which she played Princess Buttercup:
“It was my first film experience, and so you might say that I fully immersed myself in the role. I did not act. It was mostly telling myself, ‘Don’t be an idiot in front of Mandy Patinkin and Christopher Guest.’ And Cary [Elwes] was so good looking. I was convinced we were going to be married.”
I guess we’re supposed to parse and say that sprinkles of Botox are not the same as major plastic surgery, and that’s true. It’s not the same, and I think more women try the non-invasive Botox and fillers as a way to look younger, rather than go under the knife. But I’m sort of irritated that Robin is now playing the “I’m going to have wrinkles” with an implication of “and I’m fine with that,” which seems contradictory (at worst) to her previous statements about owning her sprinkles of Botox.
Photos courtesy of Town & Country.
No, no, don’t do it!*
* see prior cautionary tale thread.
Agree @Kiddo. I’m not totally against a touch of cosmetic enhancement, but it has to be just the right amount. She is so gorgeous. That bone structure is a natural gift that will help her maintain her looks for the rest of her life.
So true.
It’s sad that that’s what Nicole has become. She was so pretty, still might be if she lays off but she’s skating toward Pennywise territory.
Yep, agreed on Nicole.
Robin has harder liners and sharp bone structure. She will age better without enhancements to begin with.
See: Lara Flynn Boyle
Need some brain bleach now
and that is a really sad one! She was so freaking beautiful!
Lara broke my heart when she decided to become Jocelyn Wildenstein, she was so naturally pretty. Eh, I can’t hate on Robin for her “sprinkles”. Aging is hard, she is gorgeous and she’s not going overboard w/ fillers in an RHO kind of way. I <3 Robin.
I love what she is wearing in the last shot.
I like it too, but is it a shirt or a dress?
The Princess Bride is still one of my favorite movies.
Love it too! Girlfriend has some serious leg game.
I think it is a Shress… or a Drirt – I am not sure. I love how she is wearing it but I could also see it with leggings. And if they sold her legs to go with it, yes – that would be wonderful, Chiara.
I have a cute Princess Bride story about her – she was in a yogurt shop a few years ago with her kids and a high school kid turned around and saw her and said “Wow, you look just like Princess Buttercup” She smiled and thanked him.
“And you were clever enough to discover those.” Cary Elwes is dreamy – I agree with her on that point.
So there’s no way this cover has been photo-shopped? I never understand why some celebs get a pass on here and others get reamed for doing the same thing.
Show me one cover ONE where the actress is not photoshopped. Have you seen People’s cover with Angelina? and practically any other major magazine. It’s not the actress call at all. They do it anyway. Even with males, but they’re still allowed to have wrinkles. Misogynists.
I don’t know if it’s contradictory to what she said before about botox. Maybe she gave in to the ‘tox for a while but has since decided to just let it go and get wrinkly. I guess we’ll see in a couple of years which ways she goes with it.
I prefer to call it “aging gracefully.” I don’t do botox or other procedures, and I embrace my expressive eyes and face. I think I look younger because I haven’t messed with my face. I know I don’t pass for a twenty or thirty, and I’m OK with that, because I’m not.
I don’t judge people who have things done, to each their own. But sometimes in the quest to look younger, the opposite effect happens.
Now, that isn’t to say I wouldn’t like to have my butt lifted a few inches…or feet 😉 In my dreams……….
I would have loved if she married Cary Elwes! They would have made beautiful children. 🙂
This! Elwes is one of my favorites! From Glory to Psyche to Robin hood. I wanted them married too 🙂
He still looks great too!! I loved him in psyche!! Sad that shows over.
Cary went through a period of time when he was more interested in men. I thought I would marry him, too, until I stalked him around a Halloween party all night and realized that was not going to happen. It was literally what I wrote on my boarding school time capsule “where will you be in 10 years?” He’s married now but…
Agree with the comments above. I don’t see anything wrong with making yourself look as good as you can. To me that’s. The botox sprinkle or a good wig or hair coloring or great makeup. Looking like a different person…yeah you Nicole kidman…well that’s a problem.
This! Consider that even with the extremely fugly Penn genes to fight against, Buttercup genes make it to procreate good looking kids with Penn. With Cary Elwes I think they would have been Hollywood best looking offspring ever.
Actually the racist son hopper looks like his father…and the daughter dylan, looked just like him too – but had her first plastic surgery in her teens to get rid of the big Penn nose she had.
racist son? what did I missed? Actually I also think that the kids have naturally a Penn resemblance, but thanks to their mother’s genes they’re pretty good looking kids, considering the ugly father.
These are the dumbest most shallow comments ever. Two people should have children because the children will be attractive. *Sigh* It never ceases to amaze me the things people write on this blog. I also think Robin,like most mothers, loves her children despite what they look like or who their father is. BTW both Hopper and Dylan are attractive. SMDH
@hushhush seems that their son had a close encounter with a photographer and call him the n word. He was with his father when it happened. Robin has never had any violent behavior so I bet that the son learned from the father. His Haiti charity work s just a publicity facade. I’d love someone could make an insight on his work in Haiti, I don’t trust a guy like Penn and I fear for all those young beautiful girls that lived in his camp. A pig like him never changes.
I don’t find it contradictory at all. She does have wrinkles. Compare the animation and character in her face to say, Nicole Kidman’s. She gets a little botox here and there, but resists going overboard and having major work done.
I love love love Robin Wright since her early days. About the botox vs. surgery Kaiser’s irritation I think is a huge difference between the two procedures: sprinkles of botox are not invasive and not permanent, I think what Robin says is: as long as I can do non invasive procedures to look good without change my features It’s ok. And I agree: she never looked plastic like Nicole, the work done on Robin is by a masterful dermatologist. And she knows when to stop, unlike Nicole. Because If you look at close up pictures of Robin she actually has wrinkles and is not hiding them. I guess she uses the botox to take the edge, as they call it, not to freeze the face as Nicole.
She said she has sprinkles of botox to take the edge of. So I’m guessing she doesn’t mind the wrinkles but tries to make them less harsh?
All of the women in Hollywood should all ban together and tell everyone who pressures them to live their lives at the plastic surgeon’s office to eff off.
If only.
Getting an injection of botox to take care of, for example, a single pesky wrinkle between the eyebrows is a far cry from what someone like Nicole Kidman systematically does to her face. Robin Wright isn’t fighting time with her “sprinkles of botox.” She looks good and natural. (I’m still mourning the loss of Kidman’s original face…)
I really like her.
I have a little Botox, but it’s for keeping things where they are, not making wrinkles disappear. I’m fine with my lines, but my brows suddenly started to really droop about 10 years too early and I figured a small bit of Botox now was better than a brow lift in a decade. I don’t look any younger, just less tired, and I’m still clearly aging, I just no longer have this one area that’s aging much, much quicker than the rest of me.
It doesn’t really look like Robin’s gone crazy getting rid of wrinkles. Her face has pretty much stayed the same, I think like me she’s using it more as a preventative measure. Which is how it should be used. Either that or to softly smooth out really cavernous lines. Using it to make every little wrinkle disappear just makes you look strange.
I don’t know, I like her and all but is it really so different to paralyze your facial muscles with one of the most lethal toxins existent in the world from plastic surgery? IMO, is difficult to say which is the worse. Sounds a bit sanctimonious.
she’s not allowed to change her mind or try it all?
She should use whoever her daughter Dylan is using for those lips
I happen to hate pictures of myself. A lot!
So, even though I HATE fillers and plastic surgery melty looking skin (these people look so much worse than wrinkly)…..I don’t have much of a problem with botox I guess.
The thing is, I don’t necessarily think it is all pressure from others…..It’s not fun to look at yourself and feel ugly and old….I would bet it’s mostly pressure from yourself.
I like to think to myself that I wouldn’t do it, but I think I would do botox!
I hate the wrinkle in my forehead between my eyebrows! And it’s only gonna get worse!
Small wrinkles don’t bother me too much. The sagging of my entire face does though!
I think and have always thought she is very BEAUTIFUL.
She has such a great bone structure, her skin will stay pretty much in it’s place for a long time and she’s blessed with a great body too. I read that she quitted smoking and that’s one of the best decisions ever, she did reversed the aging process I started to see on her some years ago.
She does have great bone structure. I remember watching Santa Barbara with my mom though and she had really really really deep forehead lines at 21 or 22. I think that’s the part she’s botoxing or the bangs seem to cover them fine.
she is so hot
I have always thought Robin was such a great actress and its nice to see her personality. She always seemed like a cold fish but I think she’s just kept to herself mostly.
RW would have been amazing in a John Hughes film. She would have blown up!
I love Robin, but I don’t think she has any concept of what menial labor is.
I hope she leaves her lips alone- they are perfect. Not everyone’s mouth has to look like a baboon-butt.
Even in Hollywood it is better to age gracefully and look like a natural older woman. The only roles they get offered are the mothers of the new starlets who get the lead roles and no average mom has all that plastic surgery, so they can’t even play a regular mom role because they’re so unnatural looking. Robin looks fine just like she is. She’s still better looking than most women in their 50’s. She has awesome bone structure.
She turned down roles that any other actress would have literally killed (fucked) for. This is a woman, one of the few in Hollywood, with integrity and real love for the craft. This is not a star, but an actress. A really talented one. I hope that she get that Oscar soon, it takes just the right role and the right dicertor.
My family and I watched The Princess Bride (for the billionth time) on Mothers Day, and my god her and Cary were so beautiful in that film (I had the biggest crush on him way back when). They were perfectly cast.
I love her, she’s a great actress and I hope after House of cards, that I’m addicted to, she comes back to movies with leading roles that finally gives her that Oscar that belonged to her with Forrest Gump, Pippa Lee, The conspirator (I love that you remember that movie) and many other roles Oscar worthy. I hope she gets the kind of roles that Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman are offered. Maybe now that Kidman’s career is in the shit, Robin get’s that free slot.