As I was scanning around all the news this morning, I came across a story about a new Cameron Diaz movie where she plays a mother who shaves her head in support of her daughter who is being treated for cancer. In the story there is a picture of Diaz who is apparently bald (she copped out and wore a bald cap instead of being committed to the role and shaving her head… but I’ll get to that in a minute). Personally… I think Diaz looks HORRIBLE bald… I mean… REALLY bad.
But then again, I generally don’t even like short hair on woman (with a few exceptions obviously), let alone bald. But seeing that picture, it got me thinking about other women how have shaved the old noggin for a role and they looked pretty hot still.
Ok, so first up is the aforementioned Cameron Diaz. Let me rant for a second… call me crazy, but if you’re playing the role of a woman who shaves her own head in a sign of support for your daughter who is battling cancer, and other actresses have committed themselves to their roles where their baldness was much less a key point to the story by shaving their heads… I’m a little bit let down that Diaz would just cop out and put on a skin cap to make it LOOK as if she was bald. Anyway, enough of that.
I used to think Cameron Diaz was the hottest mortal on the planet way back in the “The Mask” days when she first got started. But holy crap I think she just looks hideous bald. Seriously… it makes her face look like she’s a school bully giggling after taking some kids lunch money. I’m going to have bad dreams over this.
Now on the totally opposite end of the spectrum, let’s take a look at Natalie Portman (looking at Natalie Portman is always a good thing to do. It makes the world a better place). When we all heard she was taking the female lead in “V For Vendetta” we were all a bit shocked and didn’t like the idea of her shaving her gorgeous head.
But holy freaking hell… when the first couple of picture of her sans hair started to appear most of our jaws dropped. She looked so HOT. It’s like the absence of her hair made you appreciate just how beautiful of a woman Queen Amidala really is. She could have copped out too and just worn a skull cap… but no no no.. she shaved that puppy and dove into that role for the movie and it paid off in spades! To this day she probably remains as the hottest bald actress I’ve ever seen in a movie and made V for Vendetta all that more enjoyable to watch.
When talking about actresses who went ahead to shave their heads for a role, the very first one that I can remember jumping out at me was when Sigourney Weaver accepted taking the clipper to the head for her role in the Aliens sequel it felt like I was looking at two suns in the sky… it just didn’t feel right at all. But after I got past my shock, I realized how hot AND STRONG Weaver looked in the role with the hair gone.
Back on the whole “committed to the role” thing, I remember once hearing Weaver talking about why she shaved her head for the movie. She first mentioned the money she was being paid… and then she talked about how a true actress goes through a transformation for her character that goes beyond makeup or wigs. Her commitment to the character really showed in all those films (even the ones that weren’t all that great). Weaver is such a beautiful women, and for some reason, in that role, the shaved head thing just accentuated that fact even more.
Anyway, there are other actresses out there who did the whole shaved head thing… some worked (Demi Moore in GI Jane) and some didn’t. So I’ve got these questions for you guys:
1) What other actresses do you remember going bald for a role? Did it work? Not work?
2) Do you remember any actresses that you think actually looked BETTER bald?
