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Directed by Jay Roach (HBO’s “Game Change”), there’s a cheeky playfulness to the film that’s unneeded, borderline offensive and counterintuitive. Even the movie’s title seems to winkingly marvel that a group of beautiful blondes – which was basically a requirement for a woman working at Fox News – brought down Ailes, undermining both what they suffered in his allegedly toxic workplace and what they risked in speaking out.
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One of the hardest parts of watching “Bombshell” is telling the women apart. Fox News hired svelte blonde women, and the film’s make-up department, headed by Vivian Baker, made the actresses uncannily resemble the newscasters. Harder, however, is watching the sexual harassment unfold in the network culture of Fox news (“news” used advisedly).
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Charlize Theron’s Bombshellstunning facial transformation for her role as Megyn Kelly is so flawless that it looks like she had plastic surgery — but she did not. It was the exceptional work of award-winning Local 706 special effects makeup artist Kazu Hiro, a devoted student of the late makeup master, Dick Smith.
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Gal Gadot, currently filming with director Patty Jenkins next year’s sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman, is set to portray actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr in a Showtime limited series, which will chronicle the Austrian-born performer’s career starring in Ecstasy, Samson and Delilah and other films, as a brilliant inventor.
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Read moreWarner Bros. will mount an Oscar campaign for Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins, striving to get first-ever
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