The Starlet

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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*

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Comments

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

I didn't check myself as an actor or not an actor- I think of myself as someone who used to be an actor who might like to do so again.

I've never had to perform a love scene, but I've had to workshop them. And I think that ANY scene with a person who can give you feedback, physically or verbally, is better than a scene with an inanimate object that can't.