No wrinkles, but no emotion, either
BY GINA MONTANER, firmaspress.com
Just a few days ago, I watched Fair Game, a film about the sequel of the Bush era, in the style of All the President's Men. The actors were Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, and in each of their gestures, almost always strained by the political tension, the protagonists' foreheads displayed lines of worry and fear. Also of love and rejection in the lowest moments of the marriage they portrayed.
The lines on the face of the magnificent Australian actress were thinner than Penn's, which were as deep as his natural talent to get under the skin of his characters. If these two famous Hollywood artists had resorted to the Kabuki effect of Botox, none of their emotions would have been the same. Consider, for example, the blank expression of Nicole Kidman, transformed into a figurine of fine porcelain and deprived of the imperfect lines that remind us that we are made of flesh and bone. That we're perishable beings.
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2 comments:
Love her not using botox. There're clear lines on her forehead in Fair Game, even more sexy and graceful.
Thank you for Naomi .
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