"Every single actress since 1970 who has won a Best Actress Oscar (except four)"
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blackknight273 — 17 years ago(February 08, 2009 08:43 PM)
"If Katharine wants to be timid, fine. She can get used to the small roles she is currently filling and being a noname who will soon fade away. It's up to her.
I go to sci fi conventions and see has-beens all the time charging for autographs to earn a living because they can't get decent work anymore.
Guess I can count on seeing her there soon with her attitude."
jk90
Timidity has nothing to do with this, being it is obviously a moral issue for her.I personally find her stance and attitude refreshing.
And there is a good reason most actors at fanboy SF/horror conventions are charging for autographs to make a living. In most cases they are horrible actors who lucked into being cast in a fairly good movie. Take a look at the actors of some of the most classic horror movies ever made (Phantasm, Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th) and you'll find most rarely did anything outside of those movies ever again.
The issue that those who trash Katherine for her no nudes stance seem to forget is what about all of those B actresses who are consistently nude? Their careers go nowhere and they too tend to be the ones you find on the fanboy convention circuit hawking autographs and bad direct to dvd movies. Nudity is no guarantee for a successful career. -
LadyTitania — 16 years ago(November 20, 2009 02:17 PM)
"Let's face it, she probably just has crap tits."
Or, maybe her body is perfectly fine and she just doesn't think it is anybody's business but her own. Personally I'm going with my option, but then again I am rational. The concept is called privacy people. Look it up. -
winchester666 — 16 years ago(November 24, 2009 01:04 AM)
It's her right to choose to do a nude scene or not to. It's disturbing to me that so many of you have such deluded responses. She's insecure, she's a tease, she has a bad body.
Did you ever stop to think that she's not comfortable with the idea of people like you seeing her naked, and people around the world seeing it.
Would you go to work if there was a mandatory nude day? I highly doubt it, what's different about her going to work and not getting naked? There is none. This is her job, not her bedroom.
God it sickens me how crazy people are online, seriously.
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not_so_typical_guy — 16 years ago(February 28, 2010 02:10 PM)
After having, for some reason, taken the time to read through the thread, I find that there are a few of you that I disagree with, & others that I do. My point of view is that it is simply her choice to not do nudity. I have a friend that is a model & actress that does not do nudity, & while she is not well known, she gets many compliments and loves what she does.
when it comes to the fact of male vs. female nudity, I refer you to the flock of fangirls who are currently fawning over Taylor Lautner with his shirt off. Is that supposed to be different from the fanboys ogling whichever actress they happen to fancy who has done a topless shot?
When it comes to the actors & actresses, I allow them to decide what kind of scenes they are willing to do. I applaud the 4 best actresses in the last 40 years who never did any nudity. Proving that it is not 100% necessary to undress to gain such renown.
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freeist — 16 years ago(December 08, 2009 04:38 PM)
Maybe there's a different reason? Moral objection? Objection to sexism? Not every beautiful woman finds public nudity morally right, either that or sexually stimulating in a way that doesn't make their skin crawl forever.
I don't think her partner in "Ginger Snaps," Emily Perkins, has ever been asked to go nude, and her career is doing better than Katharine's. This could be for one of two things: either Perkins is just a much better actress, or Hollywood only demands that the more attractive actresses provide light porn to boost the box office. I'd deny the first possibility. Actresses with less sex appeal escape that fate and get to play the commoners, which gives Hollywood m5b4ovies some small resemblance to reality. It also occasionally gets them very good roles.
Another problem is, if showing some flesh is the principle requirement for those actresses and their parts, it then makes for lazy writing for the characters those actresses play. So, even for the parts she does play, there is really no way to get ahead.
In other words, Hollywood is beep I have no objection to nudity, or even sex on the screen, but requiring it because you can't sell your lousy movie without it? And I wish audiences would go to porn for porn and see movies for other than porn. It creates just a hard environment for obvious talents like Katharine Isabelle. -
epiphone20 — 16 years ago(February 14, 2010 07:33 PM)
I can understand her stance on nudity, whatever her reason. She's made her choices in her career when it comes to location and other things and luck has swung in the direction it has. Can it close doors for her because she won't strip? Yes. But not so many, I think, that she'd be unable to still break through with the right role.
Even if she was willing, her decision not to go nude in Freddy V. Jason is, in my opinion, the right one. Not because nudity in movies is always about flesh but because of how cheesy it is to be the naked girl in a slasher flick.
Had it been a serious movie with a solid script, the kind of thing that could catapult her career if she nailed it, it'd be understandable, but being the naked chick in a horror movie or a frathouse comedy is more likely to hurt her career as she'd risk being typecast in the worst way.
A perfect example of this is Diora Baird. Beautiful girl with an amazing body, she came into fame when her lovely breasts were seen jiggling in the movie "Wedding Crashers" and the majority of the roles she's had either have her naked, in her underwear or showing off the cleavage. Saddest thing is that she realizes it but, even a couple years younger than Katherine, she's unlikely to break out of the mold she's been set in. She chose to be nude for nudity's sake and it's fed her badly and she knows it.
From wikiquote:
"Most of the time you're playing the crazy girl or the stripper - always the stripper! I mean, how many strippers can I play? I can do a lap dance phenomenally, and that's not a good sign, because I'm not a stripper"
"I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol, and its getting me attention. But I know I can act."
Seeing this you can understand, without even going into personal beliefs, Katherine's refusal to go nude. From a professional standpoint it could ruin her. It's better to do mostly straight to DVD and/or B-Films with your clothes on and hope to land a serious role than to strip once and have no argument against it when they wave a bunch of cash to see your ts, especially when it's mostly in straight to DVD and B-Films anyway.
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burgershmurger — 16 years ago(March 16, 2010 11:42 AM)
I have so much respect for Katie's firm stance! Shows how much character she has and how resolute she is. Besides, if I ever saw her naked I wouldn't find her attractive at all anymore. It's just so much fascinating and sexy in a non-vulgar way not to know what exactly her bits and pieces look like.
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sweiland75 — 16 years ago(March 22, 2010 11:50 PM)
This is great!
She refused to do nudity and, by far, the longest discussion on this messageboard is ABOUT HER REFUSAL TO DO NUDITY!
She is not all that well known and doing nudity certainly would not help nor harm her acting career.
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epiphone20 — 16 years ago(March 26, 2010 06:05 AM)
"She is not all that well known and doing nudity certainly would not help nor harm her acting career."
It could help but the problem is, as I pointed above with the example of Diora, that it'd more than likely be something that would typecast her.
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sweiland75 — 16 years ago(March 26, 2010 09:46 AM)
It would typecast her, until she does a number of other roles not requiring nudity.
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epiphone20 — 15 years ago(June 20, 2010 05:27 PM)
"It would typecast her, until she does a number of other roles not requiring nudity."
It's not that simple though, as I've pointed out before it's a slippery slope. If the right role were to pop up for her it'd happen but it'd likely be that she'd continue to be offered roles involving nudity and unlike the established actresses who had taken it off she doesn't have the clout to get past that as easily. Acting involves an incredible amount of luck to make it big, when you dig a hole by stripping for some slasher or frat flick you're going to need even more luck.
"Slip your mind? Forget he was in there with a gdamn hand cannon?" -Vincent Vega -
sweiland75 — 15 years ago(June 20, 2010 06:05 PM)
Acting involves an incredible amount of luck to make it big
talent
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epiphone20 — 15 years ago(June 26, 2010 10:30 AM)
No, Luck. There are incredibly talented people who have never gotten their big break across the world in every known field. Talent alone can't compensate for not being seen at the right place at the right time. If you want to call it something else, fate or whatever that's fine but talent alone, talent and desire can only get you so far.
"Slip your mind? Forget he was in there with a gdamn hand cannon?" -Vincent Vega -
Vermathrax — 15 years ago(October 19, 2010 11:45 AM)
I've said it before and I'll say it again..if she did nudity her career would have existed in a professional world filled with flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles.
..or..you know, maybe that's just me.
[insert very clever movie quote here]