The “I Care a Lot” star said she did a photoshop on the “Johnny English” poster.
Rosamund Pike is currently enjoying a global audience with the Netflix hit “I Care a Lot”, in which she stars as an obscure legal guardian who drains her elderly pupils’ bank accounts. The recent press gave her the opportunity to look back on her career as an Oscar nominee for “Gone Girl” and more, including a role in the 2011 action comedy “Johnny English Reborn”. Speaking virtually on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Pike took the chance to address a problem that she suggested earlier, which is her body being altered and photoshopped for that movie’s poster.
“For the Johnny English poster [Reborn], my breasts have been enlarged, ”she said. “In the poster for the character’s take, I have a very impressive chest, which I don’t have.”
Pike also said that for a more recent film, “Radioactive” last year, in which she starred as Marie Curie, the color of her eyes changed to her bewilderment.
“For ‘Radioactive’, strangely, they made my eyes brown. I’m still not sure why. A kind of hazelnut color. “
She added, in the clip you can watch below, that she also wondered how many times her body was photoshopped without her noticing.
“These are the obvious times, right? When you realize, ‘Oh, I have brown eyes’ or ‘I have huge breasts’. But there are probably countless times when our image is altered and we don’t realize it, ”she said. “Because I think we are all losing control over who we really are.”
Pike is not the only actress to say that she is using Photoshop in advertising materials. Zendaya, another actress with a current Netflix movie thanks to “Malcolm & Marie”, spoke about the body modification made for her in Modeliste magazine in 2015, writing on Instagram: “I had a new photo shoot today and I was shocked when I discovered my Hips and torso of 19 years very manipulated. These are the things that make women self-conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have. “
“I Care a Lot”, starring Pike and directed by J Blakeson, is now on Netflix. Read the IndieWire review here.
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