{"id":3427,"date":"2008-06-25T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/06\/25\/this-is-absurd-2\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T15:26:57","slug":"this-is-absurd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/06\/25\/this-is-absurd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This is absurd&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I didn\u2019t already think that Stephen Sommers lacked any taste or talent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=7&amp;amp;entry_id=27564\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">this bit<\/a> from SFGate re-affirmed it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">Actress Sienna Miller had to wear fake breasts for her role in forthcoming action movie &ldquo;G.I. Joe,&rdquo; because her own cleavage was not big enough for director Stephen Sommers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes.. you read that correctly.  &ldquo;fake breasts&rdquo; &ldquo;own cleavage was not big enough&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babble.com\/CS\/blogs\/famecrawler\/2008\/05\/01-07\/051210_SiennaMiller_vl_widec.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">Miller admits she was left slightly stunned when Sommers told her that her small chest had to be given an extra boost so she would look more curvaceous on screen.<\/p>\n<p>She says, &ldquo;(I wear a) tight black leather outfit. And much bigger boobs.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They gave me these things that looked like chicken fillets. The director said, \u2018I\u2019m gonna be honest, I like girls with big boobs,\u2019 and I don\u2019t have them so we made them bigger.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At least he\u2019s honest. But I was mildly offended.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/14770576144862620275e86.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 10px;line-height: normal\">Miller as The Baroness in <span style=\"font-style: italic\">G.I. Joe<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chicken fillets?  If Sommers likes women with big boobs, why didn\u2019t he hire someone else for the part? Course this is the man who successfully destroyed some 200 years of monster stories in his wretched film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0412022\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Van Helsing<\/span><\/a>.  Come to think of it he had a small chested star (Kate Beckinsale) in that one as well. Surprised he didn\u2019t try to pad her out as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lovefromme.co.uk\/layout_images\/people\/kate-beckinsale-corset-van-helsing.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/06\/25\/this-is-absurd\/\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">This is absurd\u2026<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I didn\u2019t already think that Stephen Sommers lacked any taste or talent, this bit from SFGate re-affirmed it. Quote: Actress Sienna Miller had to wear fake breasts for her role in forthcoming action movie &ldquo;G.I. 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