# Does the movie Pretty Woman" have a "message" of any kind? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443 "2009-10-20T04:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Haunted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@Haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/41 "2009-10-21T15:53:44Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > Just curious about this. Why would she need a body double? Julia Roberts has a nice body albeit on the thin side. Now if you’re talking about the scene where she is walking through the lobby in the new dress after shopping and the hotel manager is admiring her backside, yeah I don’t think her ass is that well formed. Oh, I don’t think she needed a body double. I was just making a joke because she DID have a body double in the movie and in some of the marketing materials like posters. The double’s name is Donna Scoggins. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/42 "2009-10-21T16:08:49Z")
I didn’t know that **Haunted**. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Haunted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@Haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/43 "2009-10-21T16:35:47Z")
> [@gravitycrash](#): > > I didn’t know that **Haunted**. Thanks I did notice that the info on this is contradictory although it’s clear that at least one double was involved. For example, Donna Scoggins may have only appeared on the poster while another double appeared in nude scenes that Julia Roberts didn’t want to do. I’m not sure of the details! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/44 "2009-10-21T16:46:37Z")
> [@Haunted](#): > > I did notice that the info on this is contradictory although it’s clear that at least one double was involved. For example, Donna Scoggins may have only appeared on the poster while another double appeared in nude scenes that Julia Roberts didn’t want to do. I’m not sure of the details! Speaks volumes when an actress refuses to do nude scenes with Richard Gere. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/45 "2009-10-22T20:57:11Z")
That she doesn’t want her body plastered over the internet for horny guys to perv out to for the rest of eternity? Note: movie scenes are less about the star you are with and more about the dozen or so crew standing around watching, and the film that gets shown in theaters and then released to mass-market video. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/46 "2009-10-22T23:14:02Z")
Practically all of the montage scene with her trying on pretty outfits used the body double. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/47 "2009-10-22T23:57:16Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > And Cinderella ends before she finds out about the royal mistress and the royal bastards. _And_ the royal male “favourites.” ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/48 "2009-10-23T05:48:24Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > That she doesn’t want her body plastered over the internet for horny guys to perv out to for the rest of eternity? Julia Roberts can predict the future? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/49 "2009-10-24T14:11:21Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Ok, how much did you have to pay **don’t ask** to set you up with such a perfect straight line? 🙂 In the biz we just pretend it’s riffing. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/898d66/32.png) [@Haunted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/50 "2009-10-24T16:02:12Z")
I don’t like Richard Gere. I mean… a lot. I don’t like him a lot. He’s very [annoying](http://amiannoying.com/(S(34arto55wxaitc455pwtby55))/view.aspx?ID=887). ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443/51 "2009-10-24T16:49:56Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Not to whiz in your Cheerios or anything, but why do you ask?I mean, did you just pick a popular movie at random or us there something else motivating your question? Good question, although I doubt you’ll get an answer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-movie-pretty-woman-have-a-message-of-any-kind/514443.md?page=2)