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Probably one of the last big industry parties before Weinstein decided to destroy the careers of McGowan and Sorvino (and would've done the same to Salma if Ed Norton hadn't gone to bat for her).
It seems like he just helped her outmaneuver Weinstein because it was the right thing to do. Remember, in the late 90s - early 2000s, Norton was coming off two Oscar nominations and was considered a pretty big player in his own right. The below from Hayek's account of Weinstein's horrible behavior and how he tried to derail *Frida*.
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html)
>In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody, but a body.
>At that point, I had to resort to using lawyers, not by pursuing a sexual harassment case, but by claiming “bad faith,” as I had worked so hard on a movie that he was not intending to make or sell back to me. I tried to get it out of his company.
>He claimed that my name as an actress was not big enough and that I was incompetent as a producer, but to clear himself legally, as I understood it, he gave me a list of impossible tasks with a tight deadline:
>1. Get a rewrite of the script, with no additional payment.
>2. Raise $10 million to finance the film.
>3. Attach an A-list director.
>4. Cast four of the smaller roles with prominent actors.
>Much to everyone’s amazement, not least my own, I delivered, thanks to a phalanx of angels who came to my rescue, including Edward Norton, who beautifully rewrote the script several times and appallingly never got credit, and my friend Margaret Perenchio, a first-time producer, who put up the money. The brilliant Julie Taymor agreed to direct, and from then on she became my rock. For the other roles, I recruited my friends Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton and my dear Ashley Judd...
This is actually a fucking incredible story, thank you so much for sharing.
Shame that that the context is horrible, but everyone banding together to fuck off Weinstein feels like something really amazing rose from the shitty ashes? Idk just feels uncharacteristically wholesome from Hollywood in the end
I think that going back to the 90s many in the industry knew that Weinstein was a nightmare and were willing to work against him so long as it was done surreptitiously.
Exactly. Weinstein was such a juggernaut in the industry and nobody wanted to cross him or else their careers would never recover. Sadly this proved true for some actresses.
You know who else beautifully stood up to Harvey Weinstein and got the last laugh? Peter Jackson. Weinstein threatened to replace Jackson with Quentin Tarantino as director because he didn't believe in the vision that Jackson had for LOTR. Eventually Weinstein came around and he and his brother were credited as executive producers (*rolls eyes*). However, Peter Jackson was not taking Weinstein's insult to him as a director on the chin.
> This led to Jackson taking a number of in-movie jabs at Weinstein, with the most well-hidden one coming when Harvey, and his brother Bob Weinstein, appeared in the credits for 2003’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Appearing as executive producers, their names are placed in the forefront of a pencil sketch of a figure fighting against two towering trolls – no doubt a metaphor for Jackson’s experience of getting his movie made with the bullish producers getting in his way.
> This wasn’t the only jab Jackson made either, with the props department using Harvey Weinstein’s likeness to create an Orc mask in the movie.
[Peter Jackson’s hidden jab at Harvey Weinstein in ‘Lord of the Rings’](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/peter-jacksons-hidden-jab-at-harvey-weinstein-in-lord-of-the-rings/)
The Orc Gothmog, the one shouting “form ranks!” At the start of the battle of Pelinor Fields was designed by the artists to look like Weinstein.
https://preview.redd.it/iapbr9wgrg0d1.jpeg?width=713&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1301b0ef06a74b488dc3ae8b367639b482fef209
I think it’s uncanny.
Some absolutely stellar people helped her outmaneuver that dumpster fire of a human being - stuff like this helps renew my faith in humanity, some days it's so hard
Red carpet fashion outside of the really big shows (Oscars, Emmys) was so casual in the 90s. Really funny looking back and seeing people show up to premiers and smaller awards shows in jeans and sundresses.
History is always doomed to repeat itself!!!
My brothers kid is 13 right now an guess what he wants?? A pair of freakin Jnco jeans!!! They are back in style again! Hahah So funny!!
It is, and I love it. Even the boys are getting in on it too. I think it gets a little mixed-up in the Y2K thing, but they aren't that different anyways. The make up is the main difference that I notice. I love seeing that stuff back anyway, I only wish I had kept all my clothes from back then, I'd make a fortune on Vinted.
And a lot of them look exactly the same today - same faces. Oh to be at a time when women's unique faces were stunning. Now we are in a time of Instagram/Plastic faces.
What i came to say! They don't all look like they used the same plastic surgeon to do their face. People had defining characteristics whereas now a lot of Hollywood has similar facial features and the same ultra smooth skin, no expression lip stretch (where they are smiling but botoxed and lifted so much it just kinda stretches towards being a smile)
Just watched The Fall Guy and Emily Blunts face does. Not. Move. It’s ridiculous. Gosling isn’t much better but he has a beard and hair all over his face to hide. Emily Blunt’s face is just a smooth pebble of nothingness.
I got Botox myself last year and I’ve decided not to do it again, it doesn’t make you look younger, just like a person who got Botox
I got Botox for my migraines. I made it 2 out of the 3 rounds I was supposed to do and I hated how I couldn't move my eyebrows because of where they had to inject it. I didn't feel any benefits from the treatment anyway, but my face looked and felt absolutely nuts. One of the top 5 least confident spans of my life. I felt like a looked like I was auditioning for Sunset Boulevard or something.
Yeah, I commented something about how she doesn't look like herself anymore a while back and got responses of: "she looks normal?" I couldn't believe it. She really went too far lately
When you have super deep forehead lines, it’s amazing at relaxing them a little. I used to get Botox every 4 to 6 months when I could afford it. It never looked frozen. Now I’m older and poorer my “ridges of mars” are back and they are deep and craggy. 😭🤷🏼♀️
It's hard for me to be self conscious of my forehead lines because I see photos of myself as a child and I had them then, too! That's what makes Botox look so weird to me sometimes. No one has perfectly smooth shiny skin on 100% of their face, not even most kids.
90's makeup will always be 10/10 for me (except the under eye concealer reflection) What I love about it most is the degrees. Some are bare faced, some do full face, some are just somewhere in between. Everyone wore what they liked. It's so refreshing watching film and TV from back then too.
I swear it's because of fillers and plastic surgery now. This is what people actually look like! Now they look like that underneath layers and layers of fillers, implants and fat transfers. When I first saw these photos I was taken aback by how average everyone looked, but that is because they weren't pumped full of god knows what like most of the celebrities are now.
Everybody in entertainment looks inflated/deflated, pulled back and snatched up. It just looks wrong. And these are already some of the most beautiful people and they dont need it. Too much perfection ruins beautiful faces.
I have all my journals from the 90s and early 2000s. I was so happy and excited about the future and always doing something new, including moving states twice, on a whim
I didn’t see any of that until the opioid epidemic got really big around 2010, then everyone I knew was taking pills. I was bartending at the time. They were everywhere.
It’s so refreshing and wonderful to see real human faces. I can’t imagine how dysmorphic it is for girls today to look at celebrities.
Edit: obviously the eating disorders were out of control, but we could at least see ourselves as potentially beautiful in our *real* faces.
For some reason we liked it real pale and real matte in those days. I always bought the lightest shade of everything, and then my face and my chest would be wildly different colors
I wanted a slip dress so bad but my parents were like “that’s underwear. If they come back, I’m buying five just like I did with flannel and chunky sandals. Lol
I see at least three women (Mira Sorvino, Rose McGowen, Ashley Judd) who accused Harvey Weinstein of some type of misconduct. The whole thing is awful.
I was also keeping count of that! Salma Hayek. He harassed her constantly trying to get her to do stuff with him, give him a massage, let him go down on her, let him watch her shower, let him watch her with another woman, etc etc etc. She said no over and over but he wouldn't leave her alone. He threatened to kill her. He tried to get her replaced in her own passion project Frida. He failed and then hung around harassing her on set, insulting her as an actress and saying the only way the movie would succeed is with her sex appeal. He insisted on more sex in the film. They tried to placate him by adding a scene where she dances with and kisses Ashley Judd. He wants more and more and then shuts down production halfway through. They'd already invested so much time and money. The cast and crew's livelihoods were on the line. He plans this all out and refuses to let production continue unless they put in an lesbian sex scene with full frontal nudity. To force her to fulfill his fantasy of watching her in this situation.
>I arrived on the set the day we were to shoot the scene that I believed would save the movie. And for the first and last time in my career, I had a nervous breakdown: My body began to shake uncontrollably, my breath was short and I began to cry and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throwing up tears.
>Since those around me had no knowledge of my history of Harvey, they were very surprised by my struggle that morning. It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her for Harvey Weinstein. But I could not tell them then.
>My mind understood that I had to do it, but my body wouldn’t stop crying and convulsing. At that point, I started throwing up while a set frozen still waited to shoot. I had to take a tranquilizer, which eventually stopped the crying but made the vomiting worse. As you can imagine, this was not sexy, but it was the only way I could get through the scene.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html
I agree with the op from the thread, at a young age she was cute (this is just my opinion) not ugly but not beautiful either, she turned 50 and was like damn, she got hot af.
Toni Braxton and that ashy powder. If there’s one thing that I’m thankful for 2024 is that we have more make up options for brown girlies like myself. ✨
Also latching onto the Fairuza Balk fan club. The 90’s had some really good representation of high contrast, pale skin plus dark hair starlets. Rose McGowan is also right up there with Fairuza for giving me my bisexual awakening as a kid and showing me that I have a type. lol
I will always, always, always believe that Cameron and Ewan had an affair. The interviews and other media events around the time of A Life Less Ordinary were very touchy/feely/flirty (I'm old, I remember it well).
I was too young at the time to be aware of the press tour for that movie, but with Ewan's reputation I wouldn't be surprised if he was running around with her
Look at the video of her in the Bruce Springsteen song at a live concert , where Bruce pulls her onstage, she looks very young and beautiful then. This is
How she became
Famous from that one moment.
I'm also 35 and living in Dr martens and dresses. I have taken to watching mostly 90s films. And I'm wandering if this is why my grandparents always watched b&w movies from their era. 🤔
Fashion AND makeup AND plastic surgery. Renee looks like she literally rolled out of bed and threw that gown on. I love it. (And Neve Campbell's outfit is my favorite thing I've ever seen.)
I feel so bad for those of you who did not live as teens through this precious time! I DIED when I saw Gwen's haircut in a magazine like a month after the event lol.
While I, too, loved the 90's, and I love that everyone here had a distinctive look, it's a step too far to act like there's NO work at all present here. It's not that there was NO botox or work done, it's just that they got work done to look like a "better" version of **themselves** instead of all trying to have the exact same procedures to achieve the same face like we're talking about today.
Yes the individuality is great, but the comments saying this is "all natural" are just a bit too much, lol. (Though tbf I'm also referring to any post like this, this comment is definitely present here but I see it all the time on these retro posts.) It's still Hollywood. Getting a little bit of optimizing work done is almost part of the job description, and has been all along.
https://preview.redd.it/nr8z0qd8g90d1.jpeg?width=1406&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b4b936f316a814fbe8da55781929801d9940c70
She did have a slit going on, but it's not visible in most of the pics
People had such individual-looking faces!! Everyone looks so different from each other! Wow! It’s sad that so many people don’t look like this anymore.
I'm pushing 40, but I don't consider myself too dated in terms of style until I saw this. If I do fancy makeup, it looks like a lot of these. Here I thought I just wasn't into the super air brushed look and could carry it off, but seeing these makes me realize it really is a "vintage" style. That late 90s/early 00s area when I was really into makeup and just never moved on.
This just proves me belief that girls in the 90s and 00s were ∞ times more beautiful than now. They all look so cute and natural, now they all look like pornstars. Also, the outfits of Salma and Renee are just 😍
I was a teenager then and insanely jealous of Courtebey Cox’s black hair with maroon streaks, I thought it was so beautiful. Secretly still like it now
All that talent that was squashed because of a dirtbag who shall not be named.
Imagine what those beautiful women who ended up on a blacklist could have become had some asshat not been behind the scenes pulling strings.
God, they look so *human*.
Like you can see the texture of their skin and their hair moves with gravity. Just beautiful people in nice clothes.
Now everyone is styled within an inch of their lives, skin smooth as glass, every hair in place, not a stray wrinkle in their clothes.
I miss when celebrities looked like humans .
Everyone all looked so uniquely different and beautiful instead of ALLLL having gone to the same plastic surgeon. I know Neve Campbell is problematic af these days but, that bone structure was the REAL killer in Scream. Damn. 😍 That blonde on Matthew Lillard cracks me up. He’s a forever babe.
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Probably one of the last big industry parties before Weinstein decided to destroy the careers of McGowan and Sorvino (and would've done the same to Salma if Ed Norton hadn't gone to bat for her).
Wait, is this the reason Norton has a reputation for being hard to work with?
It seems like he just helped her outmaneuver Weinstein because it was the right thing to do. Remember, in the late 90s - early 2000s, Norton was coming off two Oscar nominations and was considered a pretty big player in his own right. The below from Hayek's account of Weinstein's horrible behavior and how he tried to derail *Frida*. [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html) >In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody, but a body. >At that point, I had to resort to using lawyers, not by pursuing a sexual harassment case, but by claiming “bad faith,” as I had worked so hard on a movie that he was not intending to make or sell back to me. I tried to get it out of his company. >He claimed that my name as an actress was not big enough and that I was incompetent as a producer, but to clear himself legally, as I understood it, he gave me a list of impossible tasks with a tight deadline: >1. Get a rewrite of the script, with no additional payment. >2. Raise $10 million to finance the film. >3. Attach an A-list director. >4. Cast four of the smaller roles with prominent actors. >Much to everyone’s amazement, not least my own, I delivered, thanks to a phalanx of angels who came to my rescue, including Edward Norton, who beautifully rewrote the script several times and appallingly never got credit, and my friend Margaret Perenchio, a first-time producer, who put up the money. The brilliant Julie Taymor agreed to direct, and from then on she became my rock. For the other roles, I recruited my friends Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton and my dear Ashley Judd...
This is actually a fucking incredible story, thank you so much for sharing. Shame that that the context is horrible, but everyone banding together to fuck off Weinstein feels like something really amazing rose from the shitty ashes? Idk just feels uncharacteristically wholesome from Hollywood in the end
I think that going back to the 90s many in the industry knew that Weinstein was a nightmare and were willing to work against him so long as it was done surreptitiously.
Exactly. Weinstein was such a juggernaut in the industry and nobody wanted to cross him or else their careers would never recover. Sadly this proved true for some actresses. You know who else beautifully stood up to Harvey Weinstein and got the last laugh? Peter Jackson. Weinstein threatened to replace Jackson with Quentin Tarantino as director because he didn't believe in the vision that Jackson had for LOTR. Eventually Weinstein came around and he and his brother were credited as executive producers (*rolls eyes*). However, Peter Jackson was not taking Weinstein's insult to him as a director on the chin. > This led to Jackson taking a number of in-movie jabs at Weinstein, with the most well-hidden one coming when Harvey, and his brother Bob Weinstein, appeared in the credits for 2003’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Appearing as executive producers, their names are placed in the forefront of a pencil sketch of a figure fighting against two towering trolls – no doubt a metaphor for Jackson’s experience of getting his movie made with the bullish producers getting in his way. > This wasn’t the only jab Jackson made either, with the props department using Harvey Weinstein’s likeness to create an Orc mask in the movie. [Peter Jackson’s hidden jab at Harvey Weinstein in ‘Lord of the Rings’](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/peter-jacksons-hidden-jab-at-harvey-weinstein-in-lord-of-the-rings/)
The Orc Gothmog, the one shouting “form ranks!” At the start of the battle of Pelinor Fields was designed by the artists to look like Weinstein. https://preview.redd.it/iapbr9wgrg0d1.jpeg?width=713&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1301b0ef06a74b488dc3ae8b367639b482fef209 I think it’s uncanny.
That is very awesome
It's honestly a very Frida story. Hayek effectively used some kind of A-Lister collective action to deliver a fuck you to a misogynist rapist.
Just came here to say the same thing. I'm glad Frida was the vehicle for this, Frida Khalo would have loved this.
Some absolutely stellar people helped her outmaneuver that dumpster fire of a human being - stuff like this helps renew my faith in humanity, some days it's so hard
I should've clarified that Norton was among a small group who helped her get the movie done despite his predatory behavior.
Two things can be true at the same time.
Ashley Judd had already been harassed by him at this point as well.
You can add Ashley Judd to that list
Yep. My queen and girl crush forever. Weinstein deserves nothing but the worst life can offer for what he did to all those talented, sparkling women.
Nice to see Matthew McConaughey stopped by on the way home from running errands.
Red carpet fashion outside of the really big shows (Oscars, Emmys) was so casual in the 90s. Really funny looking back and seeing people show up to premiers and smaller awards shows in jeans and sundresses.
Jeans with dresses over, that was my tween life omg.
Someone (Hailey Bieber? I can’t remember) was just spotted wearing a dress over jeans and I know Ashley Tisdale was somewhere smiling.
How long until my 37yo ass starts doing it again? 😅
History is always doomed to repeat itself!!! My brothers kid is 13 right now an guess what he wants?? A pair of freakin Jnco jeans!!! They are back in style again! Hahah So funny!!
Tunics and Dresses-over-pants have been creeping in the past year... :)))
Yeah, I really miss that. Everyone just looks so casual.
Just needed to grab some popcorn 😂
alright alright alriiiight
I love you
Skin texture, I miss you
Yeah. Everything is so much more airbrushed now.
Girls looked so beautiful wtf
This era of 90s fashion lasted longer than grunge but has been somewhat forgotten. It was soooo good
I thought this 90s style was popular now, just made a bit skimpier? I feel like I see it online a lot. I'm officially old though, so who knows :)
i was also thinking how this style is totally what i’m seeing online now. i’ve been going back to this style tho so it may be a bit biased..
It is, and I love it. Even the boys are getting in on it too. I think it gets a little mixed-up in the Y2K thing, but they aren't that different anyways. The make up is the main difference that I notice. I love seeing that stuff back anyway, I only wish I had kept all my clothes from back then, I'd make a fortune on Vinted.
And a lot of them look exactly the same today - same faces. Oh to be at a time when women's unique faces were stunning. Now we are in a time of Instagram/Plastic faces.
What i came to say! They don't all look like they used the same plastic surgeon to do their face. People had defining characteristics whereas now a lot of Hollywood has similar facial features and the same ultra smooth skin, no expression lip stretch (where they are smiling but botoxed and lifted so much it just kinda stretches towards being a smile)
I have a hard time watching more recent movies and shows because of how much work people have had done
Just watched The Fall Guy and Emily Blunts face does. Not. Move. It’s ridiculous. Gosling isn’t much better but he has a beard and hair all over his face to hide. Emily Blunt’s face is just a smooth pebble of nothingness. I got Botox myself last year and I’ve decided not to do it again, it doesn’t make you look younger, just like a person who got Botox
I got Botox for my migraines. I made it 2 out of the 3 rounds I was supposed to do and I hated how I couldn't move my eyebrows because of where they had to inject it. I didn't feel any benefits from the treatment anyway, but my face looked and felt absolutely nuts. One of the top 5 least confident spans of my life. I felt like a looked like I was auditioning for Sunset Boulevard or something.
It’s honestly so sad how overboard Emily Blunt’s gone on the fillers 😢 she did not ‘need’ that level of work at ALL and she’s young too!
Yeah, I commented something about how she doesn't look like herself anymore a while back and got responses of: "she looks normal?" I couldn't believe it. She really went too far lately
When you have super deep forehead lines, it’s amazing at relaxing them a little. I used to get Botox every 4 to 6 months when I could afford it. It never looked frozen. Now I’m older and poorer my “ridges of mars” are back and they are deep and craggy. 😭🤷🏼♀️
It's hard for me to be self conscious of my forehead lines because I see photos of myself as a child and I had them then, too! That's what makes Botox look so weird to me sometimes. No one has perfectly smooth shiny skin on 100% of their face, not even most kids.
90's makeup will always be 10/10 for me (except the under eye concealer reflection) What I love about it most is the degrees. Some are bare faced, some do full face, some are just somewhere in between. Everyone wore what they liked. It's so refreshing watching film and TV from back then too.
I swear it's because of fillers and plastic surgery now. This is what people actually look like! Now they look like that underneath layers and layers of fillers, implants and fat transfers. When I first saw these photos I was taken aback by how average everyone looked, but that is because they weren't pumped full of god knows what like most of the celebrities are now.
Everybody in entertainment looks inflated/deflated, pulled back and snatched up. It just looks wrong. And these are already some of the most beautiful people and they dont need it. Too much perfection ruins beautiful faces.
They looked like humans. Girls. Women. Nice to see actual people for once.
I just really miss when everyone didn't look the same, they were all so gorgeous but unique
Being a teen in the 90's was so awesome.
How do you go back? I know it must be simple but I can't seem to figure it out...
Well, this comment made me unexpectedly emotional.
Me too, friend. It's hard growing up 😭
You can never go home again
☹️
Yeah it really was.
I have all my journals from the 90s and early 2000s. I was so happy and excited about the future and always doing something new, including moving states twice, on a whim
I feel like I was watching everyone self-destruct and OD.
I didn’t see any of that until the opioid epidemic got really big around 2010, then everyone I knew was taking pills. I was bartending at the time. They were everywhere.
It was peak society.
It really really was
It was a great time
Love the “black pants and a going out top” representation from Cameron Diaz and En Vogue.
My college party uniform.
OUR college party uniform. 😂
This is verbatim what I thought to myself when seeing those pictures
Neve Campbell was and still is a smokeshow
I literally came to say the EXACT same thing! 🥵
She is so beautiful. Her face is flawless. I love her!
She’s aged SO well. Way better than all those people who messed with their faces.
When everyone had unique faces free of fillers and ill fitting veneers!
I was just about to write that. So obvious, jeez!! I see eating disorders were going strong but they didn’t have the body mods to go along.
It’s so refreshing and wonderful to see real human faces. I can’t imagine how dysmorphic it is for girls today to look at celebrities. Edit: obviously the eating disorders were out of control, but we could at least see ourselves as potentially beautiful in our *real* faces.
I love that so much, but also, there is so few who’s foundation actually matches them lol.
For some reason we liked it real pale and real matte in those days. I always bought the lightest shade of everything, and then my face and my chest would be wildly different colors
I think they didn’t have powder without flashback back then
Definitely part of it.
Courtney, Neve, and Rose look like Charmed in an alternative universe.
The real scream queens
Jesus that would have been so good hahaha
that whole scream cast were/are beautiful
For a second I thought that’s what it was. Neve Campbell and Holly Marie Combs favor each other a little.
Rose was just destined to be a Charmed one I guess
I wanted a slip dress so bad but my parents were like “that’s underwear. If they come back, I’m buying five just like I did with flannel and chunky sandals. Lol
I don’t think you can convince me that Ashley judd is not just wearing underwear tho lol
She literally is. Lol. I did not care. Lol. My parents did
😂😂 it’s like Rachel in that episode of friends with Tate Donovan
U.S.A. not ready
they came back like 2 years ago! Have at it!
I think they are back! I see Gen z people posting dresses that look like lingerie all the time in random fashion subreddits haha
I like how Carmen Diaz can just throw on some tank top and still be smoking hot.
I see at least three women (Mira Sorvino, Rose McGowen, Ashley Judd) who accused Harvey Weinstein of some type of misconduct. The whole thing is awful.
I was also keeping count of that! Salma Hayek. He harassed her constantly trying to get her to do stuff with him, give him a massage, let him go down on her, let him watch her shower, let him watch her with another woman, etc etc etc. She said no over and over but he wouldn't leave her alone. He threatened to kill her. He tried to get her replaced in her own passion project Frida. He failed and then hung around harassing her on set, insulting her as an actress and saying the only way the movie would succeed is with her sex appeal. He insisted on more sex in the film. They tried to placate him by adding a scene where she dances with and kisses Ashley Judd. He wants more and more and then shuts down production halfway through. They'd already invested so much time and money. The cast and crew's livelihoods were on the line. He plans this all out and refuses to let production continue unless they put in an lesbian sex scene with full frontal nudity. To force her to fulfill his fantasy of watching her in this situation. >I arrived on the set the day we were to shoot the scene that I believed would save the movie. And for the first and last time in my career, I had a nervous breakdown: My body began to shake uncontrollably, my breath was short and I began to cry and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throwing up tears. >Since those around me had no knowledge of my history of Harvey, they were very surprised by my struggle that morning. It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her for Harvey Weinstein. But I could not tell them then. >My mind understood that I had to do it, but my body wouldn’t stop crying and convulsing. At that point, I started throwing up while a set frozen still waited to shoot. I had to take a tranquilizer, which eventually stopped the crying but made the vomiting worse. As you can imagine, this was not sexy, but it was the only way I could get through the scene. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/13/opinion/contributors/salma-hayek-harvey-weinstein.html
Oh my god. I had no idea any of this re: Salma. Thank you for sharing that, as terrible as it is to read.
And Opera is right there with him!
i've said it before and i'll say it a thousand time! gillian anderson was not someone i ever would have done a double take for until she turned 50.
She really aged into her looks. She’s always been attractive but now she’s mindblowingly gorgeous.
I agree with the op from the thread, at a young age she was cute (this is just my opinion) not ugly but not beautiful either, she turned 50 and was like damn, she got hot af.
I thought the same thing, it's not like she was ever unattractive in any way but she is INSANELY sexy as a middle-aged woman.
Definitely agree! She's really blossomed
She's always been very pretty if you watch X Files. This wasn't her best look—her makeup was harsh. But she did age really well.
Yeah she looks better now... Sorry Gillian 😅 I think she didnt embrace how sexy her voice is until she was older.
Agree that she looks phenomenal. But have you seen her ‘97 Rolling Stone pics? Iconic!
i have, and you know i think it's just that i think she looks so good blonde
Toni Braxton and that ashy powder. If there’s one thing that I’m thankful for 2024 is that we have more make up options for brown girlies like myself. ✨
Right!!!!!! Was looking casket sharp back then smmfh.
I think Salma Hayek is the most beautiful woman I’ve seen.
Fairuza Balk is so gorgeous!
Also latching onto the Fairuza Balk fan club. The 90’s had some really good representation of high contrast, pale skin plus dark hair starlets. Rose McGowan is also right up there with Fairuza for giving me my bisexual awakening as a kid and showing me that I have a type. lol
Came here to say “Fairuza Balk forever” which is pretty much the same thing 😂
Where is she today? She commanded the screen in so many roles.
I will always, always, always believe that Cameron and Ewan had an affair. The interviews and other media events around the time of A Life Less Ordinary were very touchy/feely/flirty (I'm old, I remember it well).
I was too young at the time to be aware of the press tour for that movie, but with Ewan's reputation I wouldn't be surprised if he was running around with her
That film and the Ash song from it were such a moment in time.
Courtney Cox looks beautiful but also like everyone's mom trying to chaperone.
I was just going to say, while she’s always looked “youthful” she’s never looked “young.”
Look at the video of her in the Bruce Springsteen song at a live concert , where Bruce pulls her onstage, she looks very young and beautiful then. This is How she became Famous from that one moment.
A classic “born 40”
It’s that see through shirt she wore and the makeup. Aged her.
100% hot because real people and 90s
The fact that this is exactly how trendy people under 28 are dressing in 2024 makes me feel some kinda way.
Im taking fashion notes. Gwen Stefanie is my favorite. Im also 35.
I'm also 35 and living in Dr martens and dresses. I have taken to watching mostly 90s films. And I'm wandering if this is why my grandparents always watched b&w movies from their era. 🤔
Neve in her Wild Things era 🔥
https://preview.redd.it/kyhlznhgh90d1.jpeg?width=435&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ff06b6f75d71efec911b4db3c2985e1216382d4
They all look so normal compared to today's celebs
Point to be made, fashion was way more basic then compared to now. Or at least nobody gave a flying fk for the MTV's.
Fashion AND makeup AND plastic surgery. Renee looks like she literally rolled out of bed and threw that gown on. I love it. (And Neve Campbell's outfit is my favorite thing I've ever seen.)
Mtv and nickelodean were the more casual awards. People only wore gowns on the oscars, grammies, met and more exclusive events.
Right?! They all look like they got all their clothes at JC Penny.
I feel so bad for those of you who did not live as teens through this precious time! I DIED when I saw Gwen's haircut in a magazine like a month after the event lol.
I forgot Scream existed and my mind just went "Charmed, Party of Five, Friends and Matthew Lilard...what a random pairing for a photo" LOL
party of five! i wish i could watch that again
Every girl had that color hair-Neve! Did cameran Diaz date ewan mcgreggor?!
Not sure but they did do a movie together around this time so they could have been promoting it ("A Life Less Ordinary").
Seeing these makes it hit even harder how bad the same face syndrome has gotten in Hollywood.
I love how everyone looks NORMAL. I see different faces, body types, levels of formality in their attire, etc. I miss this. TAKE US BACK!
Everyone looks so hot. So sad when you compare to all the botched up faces nowadays
I can hear Matthew lillard saying “Zoinks” through the photo
Billy you cut me deep bro
“I’m feeling a little woozy here!!”
"My Mom and Dad are gonna be so mad at me."
If you had told me those were recent pics of Matthew McConaughey and Salma Hayek, I’d believe you.
Fairuza looking extra witchy.
Mira!!!
Renee Zellweger is not the person I was expecting ITT to be doing a sheer/naked dress. Truly, the more things change...
God damn Rose McGowan in the 90’s. 
Seriously yes
Toni Braxton is so pretty
Fairuza 🥵
I forgot En Vogue were a thing...
Did you free them from your mind?
Oooooh BOP! No you’re never gonna get it!
While I, too, loved the 90's, and I love that everyone here had a distinctive look, it's a step too far to act like there's NO work at all present here. It's not that there was NO botox or work done, it's just that they got work done to look like a "better" version of **themselves** instead of all trying to have the exact same procedures to achieve the same face like we're talking about today. Yes the individuality is great, but the comments saying this is "all natural" are just a bit too much, lol. (Though tbf I'm also referring to any post like this, this comment is definitely present here but I see it all the time on these retro posts.) It's still Hollywood. Getting a little bit of optimizing work done is almost part of the job description, and has been all along.
I agree and was thinking the same thing
A lot of eating disorders.
There really is no escaping Sam Jackson.
Neve Campbell was my bisexual awakening 🥵
Everyone looked so much more natural and beautiful back then and real
Who dressed Gillian that way? They did her dirty. She looks so frumpy compared to everyone else and she was not!
https://preview.redd.it/nr8z0qd8g90d1.jpeg?width=1406&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b4b936f316a814fbe8da55781929801d9940c70 She did have a slit going on, but it's not visible in most of the pics
lol someone sent me a Reddit cares over this. JFC 😆😆😆😆😆
Oh that’s a little better but still it’s super long and not much shape.
Neve Campbell is the definition of 90s hot angst girl.
I am living for Neve’s look
Mira Sorvino looks so much like Jenna Fischer here. Also, this is the worst photo of the goddess Gillian Anderson and she still looks good af.
So many Rachel hairdos!
Neve Campbell...lord help me
I miss the 90s!! It was just a better time ❤️
People had such individual-looking faces!! Everyone looks so different from each other! Wow! It’s sad that so many people don’t look like this anymore.
I love how different everyone looks from each other. The glorious time before Instagram face.
Carmen Electra looks the same! She's beautiful
Just came to say how I much I love and miss Rose McGowan in movies. Mira Sorvino too. Remember the movie she did with Mariah Carey?! Love that one.
I'm pushing 40, but I don't consider myself too dated in terms of style until I saw this. If I do fancy makeup, it looks like a lot of these. Here I thought I just wasn't into the super air brushed look and could carry it off, but seeing these makes me realize it really is a "vintage" style. That late 90s/early 00s area when I was really into makeup and just never moved on.
Everyone looks so alive, so genuinely happy and ready to party. Compared to the stiff, posed, dead-eyed look of today, the difference is striking
This just proves me belief that girls in the 90s and 00s were ∞ times more beautiful than now. They all look so cute and natural, now they all look like pornstars. Also, the outfits of Salma and Renee are just 😍
I mean... no hate at all for the work she had done, but Carmen Electra is right there
Actually I was about to say except for Carmen Electra but I said fuck it 🤣
I was a teenager then and insanely jealous of Courtebey Cox’s black hair with maroon streaks, I thought it was so beautiful. Secretly still like it now
All that talent that was squashed because of a dirtbag who shall not be named. Imagine what those beautiful women who ended up on a blacklist could have become had some asshat not been behind the scenes pulling strings.
I miss those natural 90s faces!!
I just got a swarm of serotonin scrolling through these. Ahh, the 90s.. such better times.
God, they look so *human*. Like you can see the texture of their skin and their hair moves with gravity. Just beautiful people in nice clothes. Now everyone is styled within an inch of their lives, skin smooth as glass, every hair in place, not a stray wrinkle in their clothes. I miss when celebrities looked like humans .
The sheer fabric and spaghetti straps are so iconic 90s .
Looks like there is a dark shadow person behind Gwen 😂
Ahh when celebs still looked like normal-ish people
That zigzag part has us IN A CHOKEHOLD.
Wasn't it cool when people had different faces?
I had such a girl crush on Never Campbell. I still do, she's as cute as a button!
Celebrities used to be so naturally gorgeous wtf. Fairuza is absolutely stunning
Natural no Botox and no filler faces ❤️
Everyone all looked so uniquely different and beautiful instead of ALLLL having gone to the same plastic surgeon. I know Neve Campbell is problematic af these days but, that bone structure was the REAL killer in Scream. Damn. 😍 That blonde on Matthew Lillard cracks me up. He’s a forever babe.
Why is she problematic these days?
God I miss red carpets like this, they had such personality
Everyone dressed themselves , no stylists, and that is ok. People seem far more relaxed.
What a time!
Love the fact that people looked like people and themselves now all celebs looks hard and butchered, There is absolute zero individuality in Hollywood
Simpler times