{"id":767,"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\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:37","slug":"this-is-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/06\/25\/this-is-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"This is absurd&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I didn&#8217;t 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><\/span><\/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 &quot;G.I. Joe,&quot; because her own cleavage was not big enough for director Stephen Sommers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p>Yes.. you read that correctly.  &quot;fake breasts&quot; &quot;own cleavage was not big enough&quot;.<\/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><\/span><\/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, &quot;(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, &#8216;I&#8217;m gonna be honest, I like girls with big boobs,&#8217; and I don&#8217;t have them so we made them bigger.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At least he&#8217;s honest. But I was mildly offended.&quot;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/14770576144862620275e86.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<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&#8217;t 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&#8217;t 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I didn&#8217;t 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 &quot;G.I. 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