What do you do if you're a struggling actress known for getting your kit off in magazines and trying to shed your image as the mild mannered fuck puppet of one of the world's most lusted after men? You'd pick a highbrow acting role wouldn't you, maybe playing a dowdy social services officer defending the rights of disadvantaged youngsters or something. Not if you're Justin Timberlake's girlfriend Jessica Biel though - nope, she decided to play a stripper instead.

But it's not to say that 'Powder Blue' doesn't have some pretentions of being a serious film.

You can just see the sleazy producers trying to talk Jessica into it - "Look, we know it might just look like we're trying to make some money out of having Justin Timberlake's girlfriend play a stripper, but Forest Whitaker is in it - he's got an Oscar godammit! And your character is only doing the stripping to support her terminally ill son, so it's like OK!"

 

Apparently Jessica is ashamed of a topless shoot she did for a magazine when she was 17 (pics here, breast fans!) and so put specific conditions in the contract about what producers were allowed to show.

 

Apparently the contract is said to ban shots of her nipples from the front and side (so presumably from below is OK?) and only show her arse from the side.

Which is a bit like a virgin telling her boyfriend - look, you can have sex with me but you're only allowed to put it in a bit.

 

by Rory K

 

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