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*

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Comments

[wurmwyd.livejournal.com]

Hi There!

Okay, yes. That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I guess I thought that actors pretty much filmed the whole sex scene, under direction, and then just had multiple takes until they got it right. I didn't realize that it was so broken down into ... "fragments".

I mean I realize that anything would be less intimate with an entire film crew looking on, but I've kissed girls that would have no less passionate if the entire NYSE trading floor had been watching us and taking notes.

But then, I'm no actor. :D

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, what feels good and what looks good are waaaay two different things most of the time.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

Heheheh . . . though the funniest applications of that sentence almost always involve petroluem and/or fake blood (did I tell you about the time I was on 12-hour per day shoots covered in a mixture of coffee, food coloring, and Karo Syrup? It looks fantastic, but ew. Way ew.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Was this the chainsaw yuppies with real, actual crack?