Olivia Wilde recently dished that she got the fun task of picking her nipples for her romantic comedy, The Change-Up.Actresses certainly get to make some important skin-related decisions when making movies. Mila Kunis admitted that she got to choose her butt double for Friends with Benefits, but her nude scene tweaking wasn't nearly as weird as Olivia's.
Movie magic has certainly come a long way. Wilde was wearing flesh-colored pasties on her nipples to preserve her modesty while filming a nude scene with Ryan Reynolds for their movie The Change-Up, but when the film was being reviewed later, the pasties were visible. Once upon a time such an issue might have led to an expensive reshoot, but not today - instead a little CGI magic was used to create fake nipples for Olivia Wilde's nude scene.
The actress said of the quick fix: "I wasn't actually naked but now I appear to be naked because... in that scene Ryan Reynolds is supposed to be covering them (with his body) and he moved and so the pasties were in the movie and so they had to paint in nipples using CGI. And I got to approve the nipples! They sent me an email saying, 'Please review nipple cover shot one through seven and decide which one is most like the original.' I don't know what he (producer) was using as source material... but I think it's pretty close."
This is really a great time actresses live in - they can now do nude scenes without actually doing nude scenes, and they can use CGI to make their naughty bits look extremely close to the real deal. However, this could turn out to be a terrible thing for normal women -- if actresses like Olivia Wilde start using CGI to enhance their bodies in movies, they'll help to create a level of perfection that's impossible to achieve, and women will continue to compare themselves to the digitally improved stars.
So what do you think - is CGI nudity a good or bad thing?
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