15 Inappropriate Movie/TV Costumes Actors Hated

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As Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, Margot Robbie was famously sexualized and put in tiny sequin shorts (that have been extra like underwear) and a ripped white shirt (that later will get moist).

The outfit was a pretty big departure from the comics, which normally function Harley in a bodysuit — an outfit she donned (although it later modified) within the HBO animated Harley Quinn sequence.

Robbie later spoke of the costume and the backlash surrounding it: “As Margot, no, I don’t like sporting that. I’m consuming burgers at lunchtime, and then you definitely go do a scene the place you’re hosed down and soaking moist in a white T-shirt, it’s so clingy and also you’re self-conscious about it.”

Robbie’s costumes in Birds of Prey have been notably much less sexualized (together with, sure, overalls), and The Suicide Squad featured costumes and hair a lot nearer to that of her comedian counterpart.

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One of probably the most well-known sexualized film costumes of all time was worn by Carrie Fisher in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. In the scene, her character, Princess Leia, was enslaved by Jabba the Hutt and made to put on a metallic bikini and skirt.

Fisher stated the costume “wasn’t [her] choice” and that when George Lucas confirmed it to her, she thought he was joking. “It made me very nervous. I needed to sit very straight as a result of I couldn’t have traces on my sides, like little creases. No creases have been allowed, so I needed to sit very, very inflexible straight.” She was instructed to train with a view to put on the costume, and later known as it, “what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell.”

She additionally later gave recommendation to the newer trilogy’s star, Daisy Ridley, saying Ridley shouldn’t “accept merely being a intercourse image. You ought to struggle to your outfit. Don’t be a slave like I used to be.”

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For Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Angelina Jolie was reportedly sad along with her character’s revealing and tight wardrobe, and thought it despatched a foul message to younger women. She additionally needed to pad her bra for the position.

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When Scarlett Johansson first started taking part in Black Widow in Iron Man 2, her costume was rather more revealing and sexualized than it might turn out to be in later movies. Johansson herself known as her character’s portrayal “hypersexualized,” saying, “You have a look at Iron Man 2 and whereas it was actually enjoyable and had lots of nice moments in it, the character is so sexualized, you understand? Really talked about like she’s a chunk of one thing, like a possession or a factor or no matter — like a chunk of ass, actually.

“And [Tony Stark] even refers to her as something like that at one point … ‘I want some’ [says Tony] … and at one point calls her a piece of meat and maybe at that time that actually felt like a compliment.”

Johansson stated her character advanced through the years as she did, and that “Now individuals, younger women, are getting a way more optimistic message, nevertheless it’s been unimaginable to be part of that shift and be capable to come out the opposite aspect and be part of that outdated story, but in addition progress.”

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But whereas Johansson’s costume turned much less sexualized, Elizabeth Olsen was not as fortunate along with her character, Scarlet Witch. This was significantly evident in Avengers: Infinity War, when Olsen identified she was the one feminine Avenger to reveal cleavage.

Olsen stated she did not thoughts sporting a corset, however most popular that it hadn’t been so low-cut. “I’d like it to be higher. Everyone has these things that cover them—Tessa Thompson does, Scarlett does. I would like to cover up a bit. It’s funny because sometimes I look around and I’m just like—wow, I’m the only one who has cleavage, and that’s a constant joke because they haven’t really evolved my superhero costume that much.”

Notably, her costume was rather more coated up in WandaVision and Dr. Strange within the Multiverse of Madness.

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Another superhero who was not thrilled along with her costume was Malin Åkerman in Watchmen. Comparing the tight latex go well with to placing a condom over her entire physique, she known as the Silk Spectre costume “so uncomfortable.” She additionally revealed it was cinched in with a corset, and that “They wanted to cinch my waist in three inches smaller than what it actually is every day so that my shoulders looked broader.”

But it wasn’t simply that the costume was bodily uncomfortable. “It didn’t feel as powerful,” she stated. “I think that the cool thing for me playing Silk Spectre was her being this powerful vigilante woman, aside from the costume. I actually think the costume kind of took away a little bit from it. I wanted to have combat boots and get rough and tumble.”

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At age 12, Miley Cyrus was solid as Miley Stewart, a personality who incessantly took on her popstar persona of Hannah Montana. While Miley dressed very like a daily preteen, Hannah was outfitted with sequins and an extended blonde wig.

Cyrus later spoke of the psychological results of taking part in a personality that was so made-up at a younger age. “From the time I was 11, it was, ‘You’re a pop star! That means you have to be blonde, and you have to have long hair, and you have to put on some glittery tight thing.’ Meanwhile, I’m this fragile little girl playing a 16-year-old in a wig and a ton of makeup. It was like Toddlers & Tiaras. I had fucking flippers.”

“I was told for so long what a girl is supposed to be from being on that show,” Cyrus continued. “I was made to look like someone that I wasn’t, which probably caused some body dysmorphia because I had been made pretty every day for so long, and then when I wasn’t on that show, it was like, Who the fuck am I?”

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In the wake of Jennette McCurdy’s bombshell memoir, I’m Glad My Mom Died, Victorious actor Daniella Monet stated that she was pressured to put on outfits she was uncomfortable with.

“I wouldn’t even wear some of that today as an adult,” Monet stated, and a costumer on the present identified that teenage solid members usually did not carry up their outfit issues because of a concern of retaliation.

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McCurdy herself was pressured to placed on a bikini and take images in it for Nickelodeon regardless of begging to only put on a one-piece for an iCarly scene — she did find yourself in a one-piece within the episode, however images have been taken of her in a bikini to point out an government (possible Dan Schneider).

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Jessica Alba hated sporting her well-known blue bikini in Into the Blue. After she known as it “not fun” in a People interview (which began with particularly praising Alba’s bikini-clad physique, reasonably than talking concerning the film), the interviewer requested, “Was there one body part that you thought, “Please, can I not present it?”

“All of it,” Alba answered. “Every time the digicam shut off, I used to be overlaying up in a towel and hating my life and calling my mother, and being like, ‘I can’t do that! I hate this film!’”

In truth, Alba’s character was initially meant to be a marine-biology pupil who would put on a wetsuit. “But then the individuals in cost determined to dumb it down,” she said, and by the time Alba got on location to film, they had already filmed underwater scenes with her body double in a bikini. “I had to match what they’d already shot,“ she says. “If I’d bitched about the change, I would’ve been called a diva.”

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Milla Jovovich known as her “skimpy” costume firstly of The Fifth Element “a bit embarrassing.” While she had grown up as a mannequin and was used to being dressed by others, she stated that “In the fashion world, most of the guys are gay and they have the etiquette not to notice. But these English guys working on the set were whistling and stuff.”

However, she in the end stated, “My character’s all about what’s inside… It’s not really about her clothes.”

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Charmed star, Alyssa Milano, did not identify a specific outfit however stated that she felt that her character’s costumes have been overly revealing on the present.

In the ’90s, she stated, it was prefer it was essential to sexualize the characters with a view to promote the present.

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Kaley Cuoco disliked a lot of her Charmed costumes, together with her wig and black vinyl outfit in early Season 8 and her superhero costume within the episode “Battle of the Hexes.”

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Sophia Bush hated how usually her character’s costume was merely her in underwear on One Tree Hill, and needed to request that it occur much less.

Her boss replied, “He actually stated to me, he goes, ‘Well, you’re the one with the large f—king rack everyone desires to see. And I used to be like, [gasp], ‘What? Well, I’m not doing it!’” For the next episode, she showed up in a turtleneck “to be spiteful,” saying, “This is just how I’m gonna dress on the show from now on if you don’t stop writing these scenes.”

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And lastly, Marina Sirtis hated her cleavage-bearing Star Trek outfit, saying she had no say over it and was in actual fact instructed to reduce weight to suit into it. “I was just the clothes horse, and they put stuff on me,” she stated. She additionally instructed her character was simply there “for the boys to look at.”

Sirtis was initially “supposed to be the brains of the Enterprise,” however when the choice was made to place her in a skimpy outfit, she stated she “became decorative, like a potted palm on the bridge.” When her uniform changed and hid her cleavage, Sirtis said her character became more capable: “Consequently, I received all my brains again, as a result of when you may have a cleavage you possibly can’t have brains in Hollywood.”