Rosamund Pike calls out movie poster for ‘augmenting’ her breasts: 'We are losing a grip on what we really look like’
Celebrities have been denouncing the use of photo editing and altered images on magazines, social media, and promotional materials, as it could encourage or perpetuate unrealistic beauty standards. Actress Rosamund Pike, who stars in the recently-released Netflix movie I Care A Lot, is joining the list of celebrities calling out the use of an edited image of her.
In an interview with The Kelly Clarkson Show, the clip of which was uploaded on the show’s YouTube channel on Thursday, Feb. 24, Pike revealed that her photos were digitally altered for movie posters.
In particular, she said her likeness in the poster of her 2011 movie Johnny English with comedian Rowan Atkinson was edited to give her a “very impressive chest.”
“For the poster for Johnny English, my breasts were augmented. In the poster for the character shot, I’ve got a really impressive chest. Which I don’t have,” Pike said.
For the poster of the 2019 movie Radioactive—where Pike plays Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize—her green eyes were changed to brown.
“For Radioactive, strangely, they made my eyes brown, and I still don’t quite know why. A sort of browny, hazel color.”
Pike said those examples were the ones that she noticed; there were probably instances wherein an image of celebrities has been used and “doctored” without anyone noticing.
There’s probably countless times where our image is doctored and we don’t notice it. Because I think we’re all losing our grip on what we really look like.
She said: “So it was odd. Then I was thinking about it, and I was thinking about it… Do we actually know? Those are the obvious times, right? When you do notice, ‘Oh, I’ve got brown eyes” or ‘I’ve got massive breasts’. But there’s probably countless times where our image is doctored and we don’t notice it. Because I think we’re all losing our grip on what we really look like.”
Pike, who received a Golden Globe Award nomination in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy category this year for her work in I Care A Lot, had previously called out an instance where a movie poster used an edited photo of hers.
“I remember being on a poster for something I objected to, where they sort of enhanced my boobs. I was, like, ‘That’s not me. It got taken down’,” she said in an interview with The Sunday Times.
Celebrities are now openly criticizing the use of photo and video editing software to alter their likeness and body image—from the likes of Zendaya, Chrissy Teigen, and Priyanka Chopra, among others. The Good Place actress Jameela Jamil, for instance, has called airbrushing “the devil.” “It made me so mentally unwell trying to live up to this image in person,” she said, pertaining to an edited photo of hers.
In 2018, Riverdale actress Lili Reinhart accused local magazine Cosmopolitan Philippines that her and co-star Camilla Mendes’ waists were made to look slimmer. "Camila and I worked incredibly hard to feel confident in the bodies we have," Reinhart wrote in an Instagram post. "It's an everyday battle, sometimes. And to see our bodies become so distorted in an editing process is a perfect example of the obstacles we have yet to overcome."
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