Can women over 40 be awesome action heros like all those guys over 60 still are?
Amidst Sigourney Weaver's recent disappointing statements about thinking she's too old to be playing Ripley in any further Aliens franchise movies and the awesome news that Linda Hamilton may star in a Terminator 5 film, we've got our panties all fucked up because we've been debating how much we love action heroines, and how many of them are over 40 now. We don't think that's a bad thing - in fact, we think women over 40 are awesome action heroes and we think you do too. We think you'd be out in theaters in masses to see Ripley or Sarah Connor tear shit up once again, and so would we.
In a recent interview with Moviehole, filmmaker Justin Lin discussed the new Terminator movie he's producing, and seems to want Hamilton to reprise her role as the tough-as-nails freedom-fighter/mom Sarah Connor,...
Amidst Sigourney Weaver's recent disappointing statements about thinking she's too old to be playing Ripley in any further Aliens franchise movies and the awesome news that Linda Hamilton may star in a Terminator 5 film, we've got our panties all fucked up because we've been debating how much we love action heroines, and how many of them are over 40 now. We don't think that's a bad thing - in fact, we think women over 40 are awesome action heroes and we think you do too. We think you'd be out in theaters in masses to see Ripley or Sarah Connor tear shit up once again, and so would we.
In a recent interview with Moviehole, filmmaker Justin Lin discussed the new Terminator movie he's producing, and seems to want Hamilton to reprise her role as the tough-as-nails freedom-fighter/mom Sarah Connor,...
- 7/23/2011
- by Megan and Heidi
- Planet Fury
Actor Tom Sizemore is set to clean up his act by playing a metrosexual caterer in his first romantic comedy action film.
The tough guy star of films like Blackhawk Down and Saving Private Ryan signed up as the male lead in former fighting champion Mimi Lesseos' new film Double Duty in an effort to revitalise his acting career after a stint behind bars.
Sizemore was released early from a 16-month prison sentence in December. He was incarcerated for eight months after violating his probation in relation to a 2004 methamphetamine conviction.
The prison spell came at an end of a lengthy legal battle for the actor, which began when former girlfriend Heidi Fleiss accused him of striking her during a domestic dispute.
Lesseos insists she had no hesitation in signing Sizemore up for his first post-jail feature and admits the actor is a joy to work with.
She says, "His agent approached us and said if he played another bad-ass character people just wouldn't give him a second chance. He wanted something soft and light-hearted.
"People will love watching him as this lovely, good-looking, clean-smelling guy with clean fingernails. His character, Craig, really takes good care of himself. He's almost too clean-cut, which adds to the comedy."
In the movie, which also stars Karen Black and Morgan Freeman's son Alphonso Freeman, Sizemore plays the love interest of a hardcore Marine who becomes the ultimate female after she's accidentally hypnotised.
Lesseos, who was Hilary Swank's boxing body double in Million Dollar Baby, stars as the object of Sizemore's affection.
The former wrestling and full-contact fighting champion, a.k.a. Magnificent Mimi, also wrote the screenplay and produces the film.
The tough guy star of films like Blackhawk Down and Saving Private Ryan signed up as the male lead in former fighting champion Mimi Lesseos' new film Double Duty in an effort to revitalise his acting career after a stint behind bars.
Sizemore was released early from a 16-month prison sentence in December. He was incarcerated for eight months after violating his probation in relation to a 2004 methamphetamine conviction.
The prison spell came at an end of a lengthy legal battle for the actor, which began when former girlfriend Heidi Fleiss accused him of striking her during a domestic dispute.
Lesseos insists she had no hesitation in signing Sizemore up for his first post-jail feature and admits the actor is a joy to work with.
She says, "His agent approached us and said if he played another bad-ass character people just wouldn't give him a second chance. He wanted something soft and light-hearted.
"People will love watching him as this lovely, good-looking, clean-smelling guy with clean fingernails. His character, Craig, really takes good care of himself. He's almost too clean-cut, which adds to the comedy."
In the movie, which also stars Karen Black and Morgan Freeman's son Alphonso Freeman, Sizemore plays the love interest of a hardcore Marine who becomes the ultimate female after she's accidentally hypnotised.
Lesseos, who was Hilary Swank's boxing body double in Million Dollar Baby, stars as the object of Sizemore's affection.
The former wrestling and full-contact fighting champion, a.k.a. Magnificent Mimi, also wrote the screenplay and produces the film.
- 4/1/2008
- WENN
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