The Starlet

[rm]

I have, for obvious reasons, been avoiding this program. I dislike most reality TV for a number of reasons, and something called this, about girls and acting could only push bad buttons as well.

Flipping channel jsut now I stumbled on it, where the following has transpired:

1. Girls go to an acting class to work on love scenes and how to seduce someone on camera
2. Girls are given a challenge wherein they have to seduce a teddybear (a funny and difficult exercise)
3. Girls then have to do a scene with a guy.
4. Girls then find out that their elimination challenge this week involves a screentest of a lovescene with a another woman. This challenge in announced as more difficult than seducing a teddybear (are you kidding me? i prefer my scene partners sentient) and they are reminded over and over that all sorts of famous successful actressed have had to kiss other women on screen. (really, is Angelina Jolie an example that's going to make uptight straight girls feel better?)

This is all tremendously annoying.

Because romantic and sexy scenes are really hard, period. And honestly, this may be my own pricklyness with the human species but gender has nothing to do with it. It's just difficult, difficult stuff, that's invasive, potentially embarassing etc. No actor likes these things, and no actor likes these things especially when they've been set up especially to cause irritation and stress.

Ugh ugh ugh. *flails about*

[Poll #452404]

Comments

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

I'm going through a period of not defining myself beyond, "If I weren't so monogamous, I would be sexually interested in other intelligent, pretty humans." That said, I don't have a gender I'm not attracted to.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You know, I was going to get into that in the question, but it just got too tiring too quickly... but dude... like... argh --- I could have made it on a basis of individuals, but I still think doing a scene with someoen in a category one is not attracted to is different than a scene with someone you are individually not attracted to -- but that lends itself neither to teh debacle of this show nor to the poll format.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, true.

I think that I'm more likely to be grossed out by random guy romance scenes than random girl romance scenes, but you'll notice how that doesn't jive with my relationship history... (admittedly, we haven't got a lot of girls here who'd have been interested while I was available).