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Jamie Lee Curtis reveals body for film role: ‘I want there to be no concealing of anything’
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Jamie Lee Curtis is no longer hiding herself.
Right up until the pandemic sent the world into hibernation, the 63-year-old actress was hard at work filming her upcoming movie, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” a project that is due out April 8 and sees her portray an IRS auditor named Deirdre Beaubeirdra.
Curtis introduced her character to the world in a social media post explaining that she didn’t feel right “concealing” her figure for the role.
“In the world, there is an industry — a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar industry — about hiding things. Concealers. Body-shapers. Fillers. Procedures. Clothing. Hair accessories. Hair products. Everything to conceal the reality of who we are,” Curtis wrote in an Instagram post in which she appears in full character.
“And my instruction to everybody was: I want there to be no concealing of anything. I’ve been sucking my stomach in since I was 11, when you start being conscious of boys and bodies, and the jeans are super tight. I very specifically decided to relinquish and release every muscle I had that I used to clench to hide the reality. That was my goal.”
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The “Halloween” star added that she has “never felt more free creatively and physically” in her latest role. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” premieres Friday at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Her post elicited a number of body-positive responses, with fans noting how Curtis’ photo “is literally everyone returning to work post-pandemic.”
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“As long as I can remember I’ve always admired you for not looking at them as flaws. They are earned and are BEAUTIFUL,” one admiring fan wrote.
“This is the best ‘look’ I’ve ever seen on you!!! It’s amazing what can be done to completely change a person! Wow!” another wrote.
One fan joked, “Love this … especially the wrist wrapped but you still have your nails done … This is Gold.”
Another fan wrote, “OMG at first glance I thought you were Chevy Chase with long hair. kuddos to the makeup/ transformation team – great job.”
Jamie Lee Curtis attends the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures: Opening Gala Sept. 25, 2021, in Los Angeles.
(Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Pictures )
The film’s co-director, Daniel Kwan, previously told Entertainment Weekly that Curtis wanted her appearance to be as authentic to the realities of many moviegoers who will see Curtis as a cubicle-sitting employee.
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“Everyone assumes that her belly in the movie is a prosthetic, but it’s actually her real belly,” he said. “She was grateful that she was allowed to just let it out.”
“I wanted to just be truthful to this woman,” Curtis told EW.
Australia: Hillsong Church leader steps down to defend charge of concealing child sex abuse
In August, the 67-year-old Houston was charged with concealing child sex abuse by his late father, Frank Houston, an allegation he strenuously denied.
“These allegations came as a shock to me, and it is my intention to vigorously defend them,” Houston said in a statement on Hillsong’s website.
Houston said that as the result of the situation with his father and the impact it had on him emotionally, Hillsong’s board felt it was in the church’s best interest for him step down.
“So, I have agreed to step aside from all ministry responsibilities until the end of the year,” Houston said, adding that the court processes are likely to take up most of 2022. “I intend to fight the charge and welcome the opportunity to set the record straight.”
The police said last year that Houston knew information relating to the sexual abuse of a young male in the 1970s and failed to bring it to the attention of police.
Hillsong’s website says Houston founded the church with his wife, Bobbie, in Australia in 1983, in the western suburbs of Sydney. Now it has churches in 30 countries with a global weekly attendance of 150,000.
France probes fashion retailers for concealing ‘crimes against humanity’ in Xinjiang
Customers enter a Zara shop in Nantes as non-essential business re-open after closing down for months, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in France, May 19, 2021. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File Photo
PARIS, July 1 (Reuters) – French prosecutors have opened an investigation into four fashion retailers suspected of concealing “crimes against humanity” in China’s Xinjiang region, a judicial source said on Thursday.
The procedure is linked to accusations against China over its treatment of minority Muslim Uyghurs in the region, including the use of forced labour, the source said.
China denies all accusations of abuse in the region.
The source told Reuters Uniqlo France, a unit of Japan’s Fast Retailing (9983.T), Zara owner Inditex (ITX.MC), France’s SMCP (SMCP.PA) and Skechers (SKX.N) were the subject of the investigation, confirming a report by French media website Mediapart.
“An investigation has been opened by the crimes against humanity unit within the antiterrorism prosecutor’s office following the filing of a complaint,” the source said.
France has a Central Office to Fight Crimes against Humanity, Genocide and War Crimes, founded in 2013.
Inditex said it rejected the claims in the legal complaint, adding that it conducted rigorous traceability controls and would fully cooperate with the French investigation.
“At Inditex, we have zero tolerance for all forms of forced labour and have established policies and procedures to ensure this practice does not take place in our supply chain,” the company said in a statement.
SMCP said it would cooperate with the French authorities to prove the allegations false.
“SMCP works with suppliers located all over the world and maintains that it does not have direct suppliers in the region mentioned in the press,” SMCP said, adding that it regularly audited its suppliers.
Fast Retailing said in a statement from Tokyo that it had not been contacted by French authorities and that none of its production partners are located in Xinjiang.
“If and when notified, we will cooperate fully with the investigation to reaffirm there is no forced labour in our supply chains,” it said.
The company lost an appeal with United States Customs in May after a shipment of Uniqlo men’s shirts were impounded because of suspected violations of a ban on Xinjiang cotton. read more
Skechers said it does not comment on pending litigation. It referred Reuters to a March 2021 statement in which it said it maintained a strict supplier code of conduct.
Two nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) filed a complaint in France in early April against multinationals for concealment of forced labour and crimes against humanity.
United Nations experts and rights groups estimate over a million people, mainly Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, have been detained in recent years in a vast system of camps in China’s western Xinjiang region.
Many former inmates have said they were subject to ideological training and abuse. Rights groups say the camps have been used as a source of low-paid and coercive labour.
China initially denied the camps existed, but has since said they are vocational centres designed to combat extremism. In late 2019, China said all people in the camps had “graduated.”
Several Western brands including H&M (HMb.ST), Burberry (BRBY.L) and Nike (NKE.N) have been hit by consumer boycotts in China after raising concerns about reports of forced labour in Xinjiang. read more
In March, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials, citing human rights abuses in Xinjiang. Beijing retaliated immediately with its own punitive measures. read more
Human Rights Watch this year documented what it said could constitute crimes against humanity being committed in Xinjiang.
Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten in Paris
Additional reporting by Richard Lough in Paris, Jesus Aguado in Madrid and Rocky Swift in Tokyo.
Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Matthew Lewis
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