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Carrie Fisher detested Lea’s well-known bikini from Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi. She stated the costume “wasn’t [her] alternative” and that when George Lucas confirmed it to her, she thought he was joking. “It made me very nervous. I needed to sit very straight as a result of I could not have traces on my sides, like little creases. No creases had been allowed, so I needed to sit very, very inflexible straight.” She was instructed to train as a way to put on the costume, and later referred to as it “what supermodels will finally put on within the seventh ring of hell.”
She additionally later gave recommendation to the newer trilogy’s star, Daisy Ridley, saying Ridley mustn’t “accept merely being a intercourse image. You need to struggle in your outfit. Don’t be a slave like I used to be.”
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Jennifer Garner wore a equally skimpy outfit for her position as Elektra in Daredevil. “I used to be simply this near a wardrobe malfunction always,” she later revealed. “There’s not sufficient tape on the earth to make these things protected. I needed to be lower out of and sewn into the pleather pants each time I needed to pee, and that was like a 45-minute endeavor, so I positively held it. I had so many rooster cutlet faux boobs in to make Elektra’s boobs. I believe there have been like three on both sides of various sizes, and every little thing was pushed up and out.” She additionally stated her nipples had been “barely tucked in.”
Nonetheless, Garner stated, “I used to be so concerned with the fittings that I used to be in a position to advocate for myself what I used to be going to want to have the ability to transfer…I used to be in stunt rehearsal by then, and [I knew] what sort of assist I wanted in my footwear and assist I wanted in flexibility, [the support] I wanted within the pants or no matter they had been to have the ability to struggle as a result of I fought. I fought so much.” Nonetheless, she later stated of her corsets, “I used to be not comfy ever as soon as in any of these, however they do look good.”
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Michelle Pfeiffer famously hated her Catwoman costume from Batman Returns. “It was probably the most uncomfortable costume I’ve ever been in. They needed to powder me down, assist me inside, after which vacuum-pack the go well with. They’d paint it with a silicon-based end to offer it its trademark shine. I had these claws, and I used to be all the time catching them in issues. The face masks was smashing my face and choking me…we had a whole lot of bugs to work out,” she stated. “Initially, they did not depart me a method to make use of the restroom within the go well with, in order that additionally needed to be remedied as properly.”
She may solely put on the go well with for slightly bit earlier than she’d danger passing out. “My first week was like this — my boots weren’t proper. I could not stroll in them as a result of I saved tilting ahead, and my masks was smashing my face, and I could not hear, and it was reducing off my vocal cords, and I could not actually breathe within the corset. After which they might have all of those lights in my method, and I must then change, on the spot, what I had deliberate and what sort of routine I had deliberate with my whip. After which I needed to act,” she described.
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As Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, Margot Robbie was famously sexualized and put in tiny sequin shorts (that had been extra like underwear) and a ripped white shirt (that later will get moist).
The outfit was a fairly large departure from the comics and cartoons, which often function Harley in a bodysuit. Robbie later spoke of the costume and the backlash surrounding it: “As Margot, no, I do not like carrying that. I am consuming burgers at lunchtime, and you then go do a scene the place you are hosed down and soaking moist in a white T-shirt, it is so clingy and also you’re self-conscious about it.”
However Director David Ayers stated, “I did not suppose denim overalls can be applicable for that character,” and that Margot understood, “that is a part of the iconography.” Margot stated that if there have been a sequel, she wouldn’t put on the sparkly mini-shorts once more.
Robbie’s costumes in Birds of Prey had been notably much less sexualized (together with, sure, overalls), and The Suicide Squad featured costumes and hair a lot nearer to that of her comedian counterpart.
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For Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Angelina Jolie was reportedly sad together with her character’s revealing and tight wardrobe and thought it despatched a foul message to younger women. She additionally needed to pad her bra for the position. Jolie disliked how the movie marketed the film primarily based on her look, particularly when potential product tie-ins made her breasts bigger.
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When Scarlett Johansson first started enjoying Black Widow in Iron Man 2, her costume was rather more revealing and sexualized than it will grow to be in later movies. Johansson herself referred to as her character’s portrayal “hypersexualized,” saying, “You have a look at Iron Man 2, and whereas it was actually enjoyable and had a whole lot of nice moments in it, the character is so sexualized, you already know? Actually talked about like she’s a bit of one thing, like a possession or a factor or no matter — like a bit of ass, actually.”
“And [Tony Stark] even refers to her as one thing like that at one level … ‘I would like some’ [says Tony] … and at one level calls her a bit of meat and perhaps at the moment that truly felt like a praise.” Johansson additionally stated her preliminary Black Widow costumes — just like the one which she wore in The Avengers — felt like carrying a wetsuit. “It was so sizzling, I might wring out my socks on the finish of the day,” she stated, revealing that she as soon as hallucinated whereas filming due to the warmth.
Johansson stated her character developed through the years as she did, and that “Now folks, younger women, are getting a way more optimistic message, nevertheless it’s been unimaginable to be part of that shift and be capable to come out the opposite facet and be part of that previous story, but in addition progress.”
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Nonetheless, whereas Johansson’s costume turned much less sexualized, Elizabeth Olsen was not as fortunate together with her character, Scarlet Witch. This was significantly evident in Avengers: Infinity Battle, when Olsen identified she was the one feminine Avenger to bear cleavage.
Olsen stated she did not thoughts carrying a corset however most popular that it hadn’t been so low-cut. “I might prefer it to be increased. Everybody has these items that cowl them — Tessa Thompson does, Scarlett does. I want to cowl up a bit. It is humorous as a result of generally I go searching, and I am similar to—wow, I am the one one who has cleavage, and that is a relentless joke as a result of they have not actually developed my superhero costume that a lot.”
“However you then have a look at the place it began within the comedian books, and it was a leotard and a headscarf so…oh, it is horrible, it is so horrible. So a minimum of they know that is not cool,” Olsen did acknowledge. Notably, her costume was rather more lined up in WandaVision and Dr. Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity.
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One other superhero who was not thrilled together with her costume was Malin Åkerman in Watchmen. Evaluating the tight latex go well with to placing a condom over her entire physique, she referred to as the Silk Spectre costume “so uncomfortable.” She additionally revealed it was cinched in with a corset and that “They wished to cinch my waist in three inches smaller than what it truly is day by day in order that my shoulders seemed broader.”
The go well with additionally pinched her when she bent her arms and knees and smelled like “a human condom” when she took it off. She additionally stated, “It takes on no matter temperature it’s after which magnifies it. So if we had been taking pictures outdoors and it was freezing, it made me further chilly, and if it was indoors and sizzling, it made it further sizzling.” Plus, the go well with “confirmed all [her] contours,” so she needed to bear intense train coaching. In spite of everything this, Åkerman would later say she’d solely reprise the position if she may ditch the costume.
However it wasn’t simply that the costume was bodily uncomfortable. “It did not really feel as highly effective,” she stated. “I believe that the cool factor for me enjoying Silk Spectre was her being this highly effective vigilante girl, apart from the costume. I truly suppose the costume type of took away slightly bit from it. I wished to have fight boots and get tough and tumble.”
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At age 12, Miley Cyrus was forged as Miley Stewart, a personality who incessantly took on her popstar persona of Hannah Montana. Whereas Miley dressed very like an everyday preteen, Hannah was outfitted with sequins and a protracted blonde wig. Cyrus later spoke of the psychological results of enjoying a personality who was so made-up at a younger age. “From the time I used to be 11, it was, ‘You are a pop star! Meaning it’s a must to be blonde, and it’s a must to have lengthy hair, and it’s a must to placed on some glittery tight factor.'”
“In the meantime, I am this fragile little lady enjoying a 16-year-old in a wig and a ton of make-up. It was like Toddlers & Tiaras. I had fucking flippers.” She continued, “I used to be advised for therefore lengthy what a woman is meant to be from being on that present. I used to be made to appear like somebody that I wasn’t, which in all probability prompted some physique dysmorphia as a result of I had been made fairly day by day for therefore lengthy, after which after I wasn’t on that present, it was like, Who the fuck am I?”
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Within the wake of former Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy’s bombshell memoir, I am Glad My Mother Died, Victorious actor Daniella Monet stated that she was compelled to put on outfits she was uncomfortable with.
“I would not even put on a few of that at the moment as an grownup,” Monet stated, and a costumer on the present identified that teenage forged members usually did not carry up their outfit issues because of a concern of retaliation.
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McCurdy herself was compelled to placed on a bikini and take photographs in it for Nickelodeon regardless of begging to only put on a one-piece for an iCarly scene — she did find yourself in a one-piece within the episode, however photographs had been taken of her in a bikini to indicate an government (seemingly Dan Schneider).
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Jessica Alba hated carrying her well-known blue bikini in Into the Blue. After she referred to as it “not enjoyable” in a Folks interview (which began with particularly praising Alba’s bikini-clad physique, fairly than talking in regards to the film), the interviewer requested, “Was there one physique half that you simply thought, “Please, can I not present it?”
“All of it,” Alba answered. “Each time the digicam shut off, I used to be protecting up in a towel and hating my life and calling my mother, and being like, ‘I can not do that! I hate this film!'”
In reality, Alba’s character was initially meant to be a marine biology scholar who would put on a wetsuit. “However then the folks in cost determined to dumb it down,” she stated, and by the point Alba bought on location to movie, that they had already filmed underwater scenes together with her physique double in a bikini. “I needed to match what they’d already shot,” she says. “If I might bitched in regards to the change, I might’ve been referred to as a diva.”
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Charmed star Alyssa Milano did not identify a specific outfit however stated that she felt that her character’s costumes had been overly revealing on the present. Within the ’90s, she stated, it was prefer it was essential to sexualize the characters as a way to promote the present.
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Kaley Cuoco additionally disliked a lot of her Charmed costumes, together with her wig and black vinyl outfit in early Season 8 and her superhero costume within the episode “Battle of the Hexes.”
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Sophia Bush hated how usually her character’s costume was merely her in underwear on One Tree Hill and needed to request that it occur much less. Her boss replied, “He actually stated to me, he goes, ‘Effectively, you are the one with the large f—king rack all people needs to see. And I used to be like, [gasp], ‘What? Effectively, I am not doing it!'” For the following episode, she confirmed up in a turtleneck “to be spiteful,” saying, “That is simply how I am gonna costume on the present to any extent further if you happen to do not cease writing these scenes.”
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Marina Sirtis hated her cleavage-bearing Star Trek outfit, saying she had no say over it and was, actually, advised to drop extra pounds to suit into it. “I used to be simply the garments horse, and so they put stuff on me,” she stated. She additionally urged her character was simply there “for the boys to have a look at.”
Sirtis was initially “presupposed to be the brains of the Enterprise,” however when the choice was made to place her in a skimpy outfit, she stated she “turned ornamental, like a potted palm on the bridge.” When her uniform modified and hid her cleavage, Sirtis stated her character turned extra succesful: “Consequently, I bought all my brains again as a result of when you’ve a cleavage, you possibly can’t have brains in Hollywood.”
Lastly, we’ll finish on just a few examples the place the actors truly preferred their costumes — although they did not essentially benefit from the strategy of carrying them.
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Sporting bandages as Leeloo in The Fifth Factor had truly been star Milla Jovovich’s concept, and she or he did not thoughts the costume itself — however she referred to as the expertise of carrying the “skimpy” outfit “a bit embarrassing.” Whereas she had grown up as a mannequin and was used to being dressed by others, she stated, “Within the vogue world, many of the guys are homosexual, and so they have the etiquette to not discover. However these English guys engaged on the set had been whistling and stuff.”
Nonetheless, she in the end stated, “My character’s all about what’s inside…It is not likely about her garments.”
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It took Jeri Ryan twenty minutes to get into her costume for Star Trek: Voyager. “Somebody has to decorate me and undress me. It is a manufacturing break if I’ve to get out of the costume to make use of the restroom or one thing. It grinds to a halt until they will shoot one thing with out me,” Ryan revealed. “So, within the curiosity of being a staff participant, the primary season, I might not take restroom breaks; I simply did not drink something on set, which isn’t the healthiest factor to do.” Whereas she stated she was given enter and requested if she minded that it was tight, she referred to as the costume “very uncomfortable. It seems to be quite simple — it seems to be similar to a leotard, nevertheless it actually was a feat of engineering on Bob Blackman’s half to design this costume. There is a corset, one-piece undergarment. It is constricting, and it isn’t comfy.”
“You’ll be able to’t actually bend, you possibly can’t actually sit comfortably in it,” Ryan continued. She later revealed she’d have preferred to burn the corset. Nonetheless, Ryan had no concern with how “attractive” the costume was. “The overt sexiness of the costume, I had no downside with. I’ve no downside with it due to the best way the character was written. … She’s a superb character, she was sturdy, and she or he was an exquisite position mannequin for younger ladies, and I’ve no downside with it. We now have clever ladies in each bodily type in actual life, so why should not we see that depicted on tv?”
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Kate Beckinsale additionally stated she preferred her tremendous tight leather-based outfit from the Underworld collection. Nonetheless, it was tough to get into. “It’s a must to have one other individual there as a result of you possibly can’t do up your individual corset,” she revealed. “Somebody has to place their foot in my again and wrench it tighter and all that embarrassing stuff. It is latex with a leather-based corset, and it’s totally squeaky throughout. You come striding right into a room and it is squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak…everybody is aware of you are there.”
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This is not essentially a sexualized costume, nevertheless it did set an unrealistic expectation for ladies’s our bodies. For her position in Cinderella, Lily James wore a blue ballgown with a tiny waist. “The costume that [costume designer] Sandy Powell created — I imply I believe she’s a genius and I am grateful for that costume — nevertheless it was like torture. It was so tight and delicate,” she stated. In reality, she had to go on an all-liquid weight loss program simply to suit into the corset, and could not digest meals whereas the corset was on. Nonetheless, she did say, “It did really feel fairly magical each time I put it on. So it type of does all of the give you the results you want.”
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Nicole Kidman additionally needed to put on a corset for Moulin Rouge — which was a much more sexualized position. Kidman felt stress to make her waist as small as attainable — “I had this factor that I wished to get my waist all the way down to 18 inches, which Vivien Leigh had on Gone with the Wind, and I used to be similar to, ‘tighter, tighter!'” It was so tight that she truly broke a rib whereas entering into it.
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Olivia Newton-John had to be sewn into the well-known pants she wore on the finish of Grease, which had been made out of shark pores and skin. She additionally couldn’t eat or drink whereas filming that day. “I restricted myself to a couple sips of water and no meals, and joked that I used to be getting dehydrated and #2, may go out,” she wrote in her memoir. “At lunch, they really needed to unstitch me to eat after which re-stitch me after a rest room journey.” Nonetheless, she felt it was value it. “It felt empowering as pure adrenaline and the thought of claiming my very own sexiness rushed by my physique. All the lads on the crew started to do double and triple takes as they circled to stare at me with jaws that headed south. I believe a sandwich or two hit the ground.”
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One other famously sexualized costume? Mystique within the X-Males movies. Rebecca Romijn liked her costume, however she did specific some frustration with the extent of nudity. “I have been in denial in regards to the nudity,” she stated in an interview for the second movie. “‘No, no, I am VERY lined up.’ I saved checking with the remainder of the forged, ‘You guys, I am completely lined up, proper?’ They usually’d inform me, ‘No, Rebecca, you are bare.’ I am hoping by X3 they will do it digitally. Possibly I will not even have to indicate up [laughs]. One time, [director] Bryan [Singer] opened the tent the place I used to be actually bent over a chair getting my crack touched up. And I used to be like, ‘Do not are available right here, Bryan! You need not see this.’ And he stated, ‘You actually need some white wine.’ And he introduced me some.”
The make-up course of additionally took 9 hours (which was later lowered), and Romijn would work for twenty-four hours straight as a result of it was so arduous to get into the make-up. Nonetheless, she says it was value it and that the make-up course of helped her get into character.
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And eventually, Jennifer Lawrence, who additionally performed Mystique, equally struggled with the costume and make-up, which took eight hours to get on. Lawrence had to face throughout this course of or sit on a bicycle seat. She needed to pee out of a funnel and anxious about all of the fumes and chemical compounds she was respiratory from the paint. Lawrence even virtually give up the franchise over the costume, which was later simplified to a go well with she may placed on, so solely her face and neck needed to be painted.
