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A photo of Julia Roberts' body double from the poster

posted 7 years ago by TMC-4 (20491)
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https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-15dd31e1bab656a85aa02b2447ebc088.webp

[–] JohnnyCastle (394) 7 years ago

wth are you talking about. They didn't use a body double.

[–] TMC-4 (20491) 7 years ago

Uh, yes they did:
https://www.google.com/search?ei=9ZV6Wt2SCMGGjwT_46m4DA&q=body+double+pretty+woman&oq=body+double+pretty+woman&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i8i30k1l2j0i8i10i30k1.5917.6628.0.7197.5.5.0.0.0.0.144.618.0j5.5.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.5.614...0i7i30k1j0i8i7i30k1j0i8i7i10i30k1.0.h_8eSCJji0U

[–] JohnnyCastle (394) 7 years ago

Damn, that's disappointing.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

So is it Donna's body with Julia's head pasted on? Or just Donna's legs? And I agree, really disappointing. It's such an iconic poster. I wonder if they thought Julia's ass was too big, at the time, since that was before huge asses were in. Not that hers was Kardashian-esq but I remember it being quite nice in Mystic Pizza. She lost a lot of weight in the 90s.

[–] archer303 (55) 6 years ago

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[–] PaladinNJ (21781) 3 years ago

I always wonder why they did that. There's nothing wrong with the picture in the poster and Julia Roberts actually wore that outfit in the movie.

PS: The link from the OP is dead.

[–] Darren (1461) 2 years ago

I read somewhere years ago that the use of body doubles for movie posters is actually quite common, sometimes it's from necessity -- such as an actress being visibly pregnant by the time they need to shoot the pictures that will be used for the poster, for example -- but usually because stars want big money for their time, even just the hour or so they'd take to snap a few photos. So it's cheaper to use a body double, and then paste the star's head on the picture.

[–] Cognoscente (2778) 3 years ago

She also had a double in the film whose body is so good that Julia wanted her for Flatliners but got turned down. Her name is Shelley Michelle.

More about her: https://popcultmaster.com/2022/04/14/american-beauty/

[–] moviechatterer (16326) 3 years ago

omg .
the 'charms' pic , half way down.
wtf

[–] Cognoscente (2778) 3 years ago

I'm surprised that she's not dead. Similar women have met a gruesome fate.

[–] maximmm (3408) 2 years ago

https://media.emirates247.com/images/2012/04/nude12.jpg

JR still looks great though - I must admit. Truth is.... she did not need a body double in the sense that her body was just as great on its own - I suspect this was a money issue above all else.

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/551027912bf4321c29316f74/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/pretty-woman-25th-anniversary-bts-ss04.jpg

[–] Mustang (5571) a year ago

Given the thigh high boots it makes me wonder what the point was, Julia's legs are long anyway. So all you have is some thigh on display.