![]() So similarly to this role, Angelyne, it’s a stretch in both directions.A tattered Angelyne billboard at the intersection of Las Palmas Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard in 1997. I can understand how with the lack of information that surrounds it they could think…but again, I'm aging in both directions. So I know that it makes sense, and I hope that when people see it, they like it. For me I can say: It’s an incredible role, it’s an incredible team, and I’m actually aging in both directions. Sure-I understand the interest in the questions and the lack of information that surrounds the character at this point. There was a pretty big outcry about this-can you talk about that? You’re set to play Tom Holland’s mom in The Crowded, even though you’re just nine years older than him. I applaud anyone who wants to go with your authentic self because I think there is beauty in authenticity. I also will say for any young woman reading this that, if you’re embracing who you are, whether the inside of you feels different than the outside, I would go for it. You’re more likely to find me in jeans and a Madewell T-shirt in my house, cooking a lamb-chop for my kid, and covered in yogurt than me worrying how I look walking my dog down the street. So my focus is not on beauty and fashion, although those are some of the more escapist parts, the Cinderella moments. Also, at the end of the day, I’m an actor. But I think my journey to embrace my natural hair texture, to embrace myself for myself, is not only spurred on by wanting to be the authentic me for my very, very young daughter who’s about to be a year old. Some wigs and an Angelyne Halloween costume that we made for my then six-month-old daughter.Īngelyne describes herself as “a piece of artwork.” As an actor, do you feel that pressure to make yourself a piece of artwork? As an actor, when you spend so many months and years perfecting a walk and a voice and imagining the emotional modalities of a character and then you have a team at this level of artists who get to work on you and then they spin you around in the chair and you don’t recognize yourself, there’s a complete liberation and ability to give yourself completely to fantasy, imagination, and character. What was the physical transformation like for this role? They were dedicated to furthering her cause and loved her in a completely platonic way, and she did nothing to dispel any of the rumors that might have contradicted that because she knew it just furthered her mystique. And Angelyne, unlike men like Hugh Hefner who had all these backup women, was supported by a cast of characters who were all male. ![]() She knows that people will underestimate her based on her appearance, especially in a patriarchal society, and I think she uses that to her advantage in every room she walks into. Although she projects a provocative image, she is incredibly in control of her body and her image. ![]() For me, she is incredibly empowered in her body. ![]() If we see somebody that is a feminist, that’s what she is. Whatever we see in her, that’s what she is. But you and the show seem to make the case that her commodification of her body is a type of empowerment.Īngelyne is, in her own words, a mirror. Plenty of people have seen Angelyne’s billboards and thought she was setting women back, hurting the cause of feminism. She turned her life into living, breathing performance art. ![]() But there is a lot of authenticity-some people might see her makeup and hair and a put-on voice, but I actually think Angelyne has found her more authentic self and is committed to that. Angelyne is a trailblazer in a lot of ways. For me, she is kind of the original influencer, a person who is very, very committed to the preservation of that image, who wanted to stoke mystery and encourage the enigma and never dispelled rumors about herself because she knew it further fueled the tumbleweed of that fame.įor me, fame is something that happened because of my work fame was something that Angelyne says in her own words she sought because she wanted “the love of the world.” I think we’re seeing that in social media more and more now when we literally “like” something by double-tapping and sending love, putting hearts on it. Angelyne believed-and believes-that she put her inside on the outside and that is the most authentic presentation of herself. What Angelyne did was the opposite of that. The way that I consider acting is your ability to completely transform into other people and to channel things. Isn’t that sort of what actors want? Did you relate to her in any way? Angelyne’s dream is to be seen, to be famous, to be beautiful. ![]()
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