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Industrial Light & Merkin To Render Sienna Miller's Ladyparts More Hippie Authentic
Posted by Seth at 8:41 AM on July 25, 2008
To Sienna Miller's credit, the It Girl Who Never Really Was continues to work steadily, despite never having fully congealed in the public's consciousness as a recognisable movie star. (Overheard at an Arclight Stardust screening: "Who's she again?" "She's the Australian one who slept with Ryan Phillippe's nanny, I think.") Miller is due later this year in Hippie Hippie Shake, a biopic set in the '60s in which her flower-child character was required to dispense with cumbersome material possessions (like clothing) and jump wholeheartedly into the era's acid-fuelled orgy culture. One continuity problem: Her overly manicured private areas—a configuration popularly referred to today as a "landing strip"—were simply unheard of in the predominantly laissez-hair climate of the time.
According to The Mirror, the problem was addressed with CGI: "A merkin or pubic wig simply wouldn't have done the trick, but luckily computer wizardry came to the rescue. Sienna's private parts were digitally enhanced, giving her a rather unruly, loud and proud bush." To our knowledge, this would make it the first major motion picture to require computer-generated pubes. We imagine before long, digital animators will tout proudly in DVD bonus materials how more powerful processors and advanced programming techniques now finally allow them to achieve the look and movement of real body hair.
Pictured: A shot of one of the naked Miller scenes in question. Her nether regions are tastefully censored by Andy Serkis, who can literally play anything with a motion-capture suit on, including a merkin. For the unobstructed photo and many more, head to Egotastic.
- Sienna Miller's private parts digitally enhanced for film Hippie Hippie Shake [www.mirror.co.uk/]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
sheryl
Posted July 28, 2008 3:20 AM
No thanks, I think I’ve seen and heard enough about this woman of little importance. No mystery there. I’m afraid I’d see some critters crawling around in it, actually. I can't believe the media has such an interest in her...I don't know of anybody else that does.
CatherineTrammell
Posted 10:05 AM 25/7/08
At least it's not another picture of a close-up of some chick's bloody lips.
Then again, it is Sienna Miller.
CatherineTrammell
Leviticus_71
Posted 9:20 AM 25/7/08
@Plankton420: I would have loved to be the flacky in charge of asking her to keep her lower regions more of a "where the wild things are" kinda joint.
"So listen, it's about your vagina"
Leviticus_71
Plankton420
Posted 9:13 AM 25/7/08
Um... someone couldn't have asked her just to grow her hair out for a while?
I mean, if "Deadwood" could film three seasons without a breast-enhanced or similarly anachronistic actress, surely Ms. Miller could have gone without cleaning house down there for a month...
Plankton420
kookla
Posted 9:09 AM 25/7/08
They'll never get the smell off those fish!
kookla
NoWireHangers
Posted 9:06 AM 25/7/08
Why just think, in 10-15 years pube technology will be so advanced that Sienna's CGI bush of today will look no more convincing than the Harryhausen claymation of yesteryear.
NoWireHangers
Cam/ron
Posted 8:58 AM 25/7/08
Is it going to be a blackberry patch or a Weeping Willow?
Cam/ron
Old No.7
Posted 8:56 AM 25/7/08
Are they going to CGI in the little tiny crabs, as well?
Old No.7
Huge Tracts of Land
Posted 8:51 AM 25/7/08
I guess all her pubes are between Balthazar Getty's teefs. Gross. Just grossed myself out.
Huge Tracts of Land
Leviticus_71
Posted 8:49 AM 25/7/08
Pan down I want bush! Booger never knewhow right he really was...I can't wait to see what those clever artists have hidden deep in the foliage of sienna's fake forest. Ban the Bra!
Leviticus_71
ArchieOogley
Posted 10:23 AM 25/7/08
Wrong, wrong, wrong. There's nothing new here, people.
The first time CGI was used to 'enhance' a landing strip into a more modest (or even hippy-ish) bush was Charlize Theron, in 'The Devil's Advocate.'
When she stands in the church and throws down her blankie, look at what she's got going on 'down there.' It's full-frontal, but if the bush seems a little .... blurry? Fake? Cartoonish? That's because she had a model's ladyparts when the character was a small-town housewife. So they CGI'd it.
Do I hear disbelief? Then go look for yourselves.
ArchieOogley
Superawesomerad
Posted 10:13 AM 25/7/08
Yeah, I don't buy this. Even ignoring the obvious question of why she couldn't forgo waxing for a couple weeks, or why exactly a regular old pube wig wouldn't work, I'm not sure I buy that Sienna Miller is such a big fucking name that a director would be willing to go through all this crap to keep her boring ass.
And that's all I have to say about Sienna Miller's alleged digital pubes.
Superawesomerad
jackvinyl
Posted 1:02 PM 25/7/08
@ArchieOogley: ahem... link?
jackvinyl
WGARefugee
Posted 1:37 PM 25/7/08
I wonder if they outsourced the CGI to China. That would have caused some consternation.
WGARefugee
torpor
Posted 8:22 PM 25/7/08
Where's her sailor hat?
torpor
Lapinot
Posted 10:09 PM 25/7/08
@Plankton420: De Niro gains 27 kilograms for Raging Bull, Christian Bale loses 28.5 kilograms for The Machinist... Sienna Miller... uh....
Lapinot
Scout 3.0
Posted 11:08 PM 25/7/08
*steps in and looks around*
*avoids commenting on the topic altogether*
*leaves room*
Scout 3.0
Cultmember
Posted 2:07 AM 26/7/08
Why don't they just reuse Tom Cruise's chest piece from Tropic Thunder?
Cultmember
Shumina
Posted 3:00 AM 26/7/08
Sienna Miller's had Andy Sirkis applied to her nethers for this part? Man, Andy's hard up for work, huh?
Shumina
goldfarb
Posted 3:11 AM 26/7/08
damn ....
this was almost done on an ep of The Tudors...but the shot was cut...
goldfarb
harshmellow
Posted 3:10 AM 26/7/08
@Shumina: Just for the part with the acid trip where her vagina starts talking.
harshmellow
raincoaster
Posted 8:23 AM 26/7/08
@CatherineTrammell: Well, in this case obscured by Andy Serkis.
Everybody and their dog reported this story, but Seth wrote the headline that takes the Oscar.
raincoaster
Cacafuego
Posted 5:46 AM 27/7/08
Am I the only person who finds adults with hairless (or nearly hairless) pubes kind of--unnatural? I mean, what are y'all--a bunch of 8 year olds?
Cacafuego