Yesterday’s Reuter’s article on Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Moreno check its brain at the door: or at least where the headline is concerned.
Writing a profile on the actress for the upcoming Ethan Hawke movie (“The Hottest State“; which opens this Friday), Reuters wrote as a headline: “Colombian Actress Swaps Heroin for Nudity,” simply because her last notable role was of a drug mule (“Maria Full of Grace“) and her recent ‘State’ role is of a singer trying to make it New York (who happens to take her clothes off to have sex with her boyfriend, as couples are wont to do).
Apparently the Reuters writer forgot about Moreno’s role in “Fast Food Nation,” but maybe “Colombian Actress Swaps Heroin for Exploited Meat Industry Workers” wasn’t quite the sexy headline she was looking for.
Granted, Soreno talks about her nude scenes (which are extremely brief) in the film a lot, or at least the writer decided to focus on all the quotes about her issues with nudity and or asked her lots of questions about being briefly naked in the film, but it still feels pretty sensationalist. “It was kind of like a big thing for me to just go for it, to take my clothes off and be me,” Moreno told Reuters. “It was something that I really thought about, to do or not to do. Then I just said … I’ll do it. I’m normal, it’s not a big deal.”
We’re certainly not prudes, but the article sort of rubbed us the wrong way. Anyhow, now it’s time for our own righteously classy content segue which is more crass than it is salacious. Awesome, yes?
We’ve written extensively about the film’s indie-friendly soundtrack (wussy but enjoyable Jesse Harris covers by Cat Power, Feist, Bright Eyes), the film and even reviewed the thing (it’s not a bad little film and you should see it before you pay to see “Rush Hour 3” for the 4th time).
Moren’s next film comes in November (the 16th to be exact) and is an adaptation of the Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez novel, “Love in the Time of Cholera,” by director Mike Newell, the guy who helmed, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” At press time it is unknown whether Moreno drops trou in this one.