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[janice shell]

But... Guys can already buy plastic girlfriends. That's been possible for several decades now.

I suppose this one is more expensive or something?

[blackhawks]

Stats are on his side? Well no stats claim that 100% of actors get nose jobs. Nothing about her nose cries out 'nose job'. Anyway, she made a great Moe Dean.

Interview

Betty Gilpin: ‘I am more than the sum of my cheekbones and areolas’
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After years of playing bimbo roles, Betty Gilpin found her voice in Glow. Now with an essay collection and a feminist take on Watergate, she’s free to make ‘weird choices’

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/may/20/betty-gilpin-gaslit-glow-interview

Fri 20 May 2022 06.00 EDT


Betty Gilpin … ‘I work within the shell that I’ve been given’. Photograph: Erik Lee Snyder

Rachael Sigee

Fri 20 May 2022 06.00 EDT

Betty Gilpin has a succinct way of describing what she sees as an “overcorrection” to female characters on screen. “I used to be a bimbo with tits. Suddenly I’m a Magic 8 ball with tits,” she says, referring to the child’s toy that tells fortunes. She clarifies: “I’m 35. The roles that I played 10 years ago used to be the bimbo with no answers. Now, even though I’m playing the therapist wife, I have all the answers about my husband’s problems at his Nasa job. Which is not really realistic, either! It’s just making me one-dimensional in a different way.”

Perhaps more than most actors, Gilpin has spent a lot of time analysing her industry’s treatment of women. Before her thrice Emmy-nominated role in Netflix’s prematurely cancelled female wrestling dramedy Glow, she spent her early career mostly smiling, nodding, taking her top off and being zipped into body bags (including on one occasion being accidentally left zipped inside one after the director called cut on the set of Law & Order).


‘I was trying to think about what it was like to be a woman in 1972’: Gilpin with Dan Stevens in a scene from Gaslit. Photograph: Hilary Bronwyn Gayle/AP

Although Dean is still alive, Gilpin didn’t contact her. “I composed the email in my mind,” she says. “And then I was like: ‘I don’t wanna bother this poor woman.’ I prepared more in trying to think about what it was like to be a woman in 1972 and less what Mo Dean’s left shoulder does when she’s tired.”