[ SECRET POST #3233 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3233 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Or they could just assume the audience is smart enough to figure out that actress =/= character and ignore it. The Nanny did this with Lauren Lane and it was perfect. Lauren Lane was preggers. CC wasn't. She just wandered around being massively pregnant and no one said a word.

I wish more shows would follow suit. Over on OUAT, writing in Ginny Godwin's pregnancy completely ruined Snow White as a character, and the less said about Cordelia on Angel, the better.

[(Anonymous)]

She just wandered around being massively pregnant and no one said a word.

That's stupid. If that were the case, casting would be a breeze. The character's a teenage girl? This 40 year old guy can play her, no problem - the audience is smart enough to figure out the actor =/= character!

Why even bother with makeup? The audience is smart enough to know the hero is bleeding profusely from a head wound. We don't need to make a mess with fake blood!

[(Anonymous)]

LOL. Clearly you didn't watch 90210.

[(Anonymous)]

Why even have actors? The audience is smart enough to read the script and imagine everything on their own.

[(Anonymous)]

Scandal is a better example.

They just worked around by filming in the right angles/choose the right clothes and so there wasn't a pregnancy plot at all while keeping the character image.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I thought the Nanny made a pile of jokes or visual jokes surrounding the tricks to hide her belly.

[kamino_neko]

They did.

[(Anonymous)]

She just wandered around being massively pregnant and no one said a word.

This is awesome. I kind of wish I'd watched more than a few random episodes of The Nanny now. And I totally agree; we're smart enough to realize that sometimes reality intrudes in ways the creators have no control over, and to just ignore it.

I don't mind when shows make an effort to hide the bump. It's a hell of a lot better than going off-book and adding an impromptu pregnancy to their story/character arc. But I think I'd prefer it if the show creators would just ignore it, thereby letting us ignore it. Because that's one thing about all those "hide the bump" tricks: they always end up drawing ever more attention to the bump.

[schtroumph_c]

I remember two scenes, in one, she came in with a huge bag hiding her belly, complaining about shows using big prop to hide pregnant actresses, like if the viewers couldn't tell. Then she notice a big plant who need water, she leaves the room with it, hiding the other side of her belly.

The other had her coming with the new poster for their next show, covering her from shoulder to feet, a big white page with 'baby' written in the middle.