Who's that girl?
Pike, Winslet, Knightley rebel against rampant image retouching in Hollywood
Rosamund Pike has complained that her breasts were “augmented” for the Johnny English Reborn film poster, and says images are so doctored that actors “are losing our grip on what we really look like.”
Pike, 42, appeared alongside Rowan Atkinson in the James Bond spoof in 2011, and one promotional image showed her in a figure-hugging dress.
“Definitely, for the poster for Johnny English, my breasts were augmented,” she said. In the poster ... I have a really impressive chest, which I don't have.”
Speaking recently on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Pike said that retouching was a fact of life in the film industry, even when she took on the less glamorous role of Marie Curie for the 2019 biopic Radioactive.
“For Radioactive, strangely, they made my eyes brown,” she said. “I still don't quite know why. A browny, crazy colour.”
She added: “Then I was thinking about it. 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 are all losing our grip on what we really look like.”
Pike said she also did not realize that people altered images for selfies until she was approached by a stranger.
“I was on a flight with this guy, someone I didn't know, and I took a selfie,” she recalled. “He looked over my shoulder and he said, `No, no, you have got to Facetune that.' And I said, `Sorry, what?'
“That was my introduction to the world of Facetuning.”
The actress, Oscar-nominated for 2014's Gone Girl, spoke out about the doctoring of photos as she promoted her new Netflix drama, I Care a Lot.
She first spoke about the enhanced poster last year, without naming the film, and said she had demanded it be removed. “I was like, that's not me. It got taken down,” she said.
In the film, she played Atkinson's love interest, a behavioural psychologist working for the secret service. Pike is not the first actress to complain that her image was altered to sell a film.
Actress Keira Knightley has also criticized the practice, singling out a poster for one of her Hollywood films, King Arthur, in which her breasts were digitally enlarged.
Oscar winner Kate Winslet previously complained after an edition of GQ magazine altered a cover image to make her legs look longer and thinner.
Speaking this month to Samira Ahmed's How I Found My Voice podcast, Winslet said: “That was the time when I started to realize that retouching was really a thing. It really happened.
“But I wasn't a model, so how dare they do that to me? I didn't ask for that.
“Models to a certain extent expected that to happen because it did happen as a matter of course, but I was, `Don't you be doing that to me.'
“I'm a realist and I don't agree with lying to the public or even manipulating fact. It kind of makes my blood boil.”