Olivia Wilde is stunningly beautiful with her dark hair and blue eyes, and she’s probably never looked better than she did in “The Change-Up.” This recent romantic comedy also starring Jason Bateman, Ryan Reynolds and Leslie Mann is definitely worth a rental or purchase. It follows the very common body-switching story idea we’ve seen many times, but Bateman and Reynolds do a great job with the characters. Wilde plays a beautiful lawyer and has some very sexy scenes in the movie.
Unfortunately, this movie commits the serious and growing crime of CGI nudity!
But if you ask me, the single greatest crime of the Digital Effects Era is more subtle, and yet also more profound. I’m talking about fake movie nudity, which first made headlines last year with Jessica Alba’s shower scene in Machete. Last night, omnipresent film beauty Olivia Wilde swung by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to chat about Cowboys & Aliens, but the conversation took a tangent when she started discussing her other upcoming release, The Change-Up. The movie features a shot of the actress nude, but Wilde explained that the offending bits were all added in post-production. “I wasn’t actually naked, but now I appear naked. They CGI’d me naked.” Apparently, the scene as filmed featured a shot of Wilde’s “pasties” — adhesives that actors use to cover up their private bits during nude scenes. The studio cheerily opted to paint in nipples, which is coincidentally exactly how my fifth-grade friends made X-Men comics more emotionally compelling. Wilde even got to pick her own nipples!
Perhaps this wasn’t planned so it can be excused to some extent. Olivia has been nude in other movies. But it’s still just so wrong! But, she also looks amazing in a thong in this film, so don’t let the CGI spoil it for you. Here’s the trailer:
