Curse you, now my co-workers want to know what I’m laughing at.
the OP is clearly serious - it says so in the OP in ALL CAPS…
Maybe.
I knew a woman who had delivered three children vaginally.
She was neat and tight, could easily have portrayed some fictional virgin.
A black virgin, shaved and pierced. But neat and tight and perky between the legs.
And then there’s hymen reconstruction.
I’m not going to link it, and I don’t recommend googling it.
However, a heavily pregnant actress can probably not portray a virgin effectively.
Back in the '80’s I was working on the road production of Pirates of Penzance. It turned out that one of the women in the chorus had been 3 months pregnant when she was hired.
Now, the women portrayed by the chorus ( Mabel’s sister’s ) are definitely virgns ( at least at the beginning of Act 1 )and the producers felt that having a visibly pregnant women in that role would distract the audience and be unintentionally funny.
They fired her.
She threatened to sue. I don’t think they ever followed up though.
Or virgins who have had kids? Y’know, Mary, IVF, turkey-baster lesbians, that girl in the wrong hot tub that time…?
What the hell is going on in this thread. OP, are you of sane mind?
So…you are telling us that if you watched Meryl Streep play Sister Aloysius in Doubt, knowing that Meryl Streep is the proud mother of three daughters, you would be distracted by obsessive thoughts about the state of Meryl Streep’s vagina and could not accept her in the role of a virgin Catholic nun?
Is this what you’re saying?
Or virgins who own and utilize an 18"DHIBJD?
I can honestly state that I have never had my enjoyment or lack thereof of a actor’s performance affected by the imagined elasticity of their vagina.
The producers of 1943’s *Song of Bernadette *did catch some flack for casting Linda Darnell as the Virgin Mary. Though Ms. Darnell never had children, she was a frequent pinup model and her personal life was not renowned for its chastity. For the most part, though, viewers cut her some slack in the role - so to speak.
Up to this moment, I had never once thought of Meryl Streep’s vagina. I could have gone the rest of my life in such blissful apathy…until now.
Gee, thanks GF.
Unless the woman is actually visibly pregnant, I’m going to say yes, yes a woman who’s had children can realistically play a virgin.
Shoot, with make up, camera angles and such, I would guess that even a pregnant woman could play one maybe…
(I have a hazy memory of Scully in mind when I say this)
I mean, Shirley Jones was very much pregnant by the time they were shooting the lovey-dovey stuff like the bridge scene in The Music Man, so they just corseted her to hell and back. I don’t know what they would have done today.
I… what?
Aside from a basic inability to grok the definition of “fiction” or “acting,” I’m a bit perturbed that apparently you spend a great deal of time thinking about what the naughty bits of actresses look like. Or, um, feel like.
Other than age (someone who’s 40 will probably not be able to pass as 18), I can’t imagine what you’d think you’d see on a person that definitively reveals their sexual status to you, even in real life. And age isn’t even definitively correlated with sexual status.
I’ve played a mother on a few occasions, and I’ve never had kids. No one found my portrayal unconvincing, however, because, you know, acting. No one is going to, I don’t know, measure my vaginal canal on TV. Aside from the FCC and just generally being tasteless, I can’t imagine a circumstance where such a thing serves the story – outside of porn, which is not a story as much as it’s ABOUT getting the close-up view of bits on screen.
This post is full of win.
Audrey Hepburn got an Oscar nomination for The Nun’s Story in 1959. She had married Jose Ferrer in 1954, and was almost certainly not a virgin when she married (she had an affair with the married William Holden, had been engaged even earlier than that).
No its not.
Yes. They are called Actors. They pretend to be characters that are different from them because that is their profession. It is what they DO.
Only 50% less?! :eek:
If anyone could pull it off, it’s Meryl Streep. She has a method vagina.
Well, Clark Gable played Rhett Butler, despite the fact that he was known for being “a lousy lay.”
Wasn’t the character Streep played a widow? And very likely not a virgin?
Va - a gina nice and loose
Va - a floppy gaping hole…