Paula Patton Talks Bra & Panties
Paula Patton is the new Halle Berry, or she might just be the first Halle Berry. Last week while heading to my home girls birthday party, I bumped into a great writer named Smokey Fontaine. He’s the chief content officer over at Giant Mag. He just did a great piece w/ Paula Patton. While that interview is not online, it is in the latest issue of Giant Mag. Yet in my quest to learn more about the De Ja Vu & Precious star I stumbled across her talking about being in her bra and panties and well, I thought I should share it.
Will any great art come out of these troubling times we’re in?
PP: It can. I think movies do it better than any other form. A movie is painting, it’s photography, it’s literature — because you have to have the screenplay — it’s music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it’s a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people. And people aren’t as well-read anymore, so we share a common knowledge through movies. I’m rambling now. I’m not going to talk anymore.
But it’s an interview.
PP: This stuff will go really well with the bra-and-underwear photos.
Exactly!
No, I’m not doing bra and underwear.
Then what are you doing?
PP: Not bra and underwear. I have to draw the line.
You’ve done bra and underwear in movies.
PP: I have. But it’s a funny thing about nudity. I was watching this documentary, and Juliette Binoche, who has done a lot of nudity, said it feels totally natural at the time, but it’s the way it’s exploited afterward — put on a poster, or a scene put on the Internet. It gets disembodied from the story.
Then you wouldn’t want to know that someone is selling an eight-by-ten glossy of you in a bra and underwear on eBay?
PP: What was it, ninety-nine cents?
I think it was double digits.
PP: Well, you know what I say to that? Good problem to have. If you’re an actress and even one person knows your name, you’re lucky.
Full Interview @ ESQ
