I guess that never fully realized that the two may look an awfully lot alike until I came across this thumbnail of Taylor:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XpyWobx3xZw/hq720_2.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEdCJUDENAFSFXyq4qpAw8IARUAAIhCcAHAAQbQAQE=&rs=AOn4CLDFXb3XLwS3drQg8Veu7VgQB-aqVQ
Here's the original link:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XpyWobx3xZw
https://moviechat.org/nm0000107/Kim-Basinger/58a8c4189f40950681632314/Taylor-Swift-look-alike
https://i.redd.it/78lp2uzr8v7y.jpg
sometimes she looks abit similar but Kim was way better looking . Swift is like a more goofy looking version
shareIt really struck me how much Taylor looks like Kim in this image from Taylor's "You Belong With Me" video:
https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/emAir3RQUG6kXu4a4WYWZQGiNCs/fit-in/2048xorig/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2020/08/13/985/n/1922283/a0ba0bc35f35c13082a049.29159696_/i/taylor-swift-you-belong-with-me-music-video-essay.jpg
She reminds me of the way that Kim looked in Vicki Vale's introductory scene with her hair in a ponytail and her wearing glasses.
https://youtu.be/6ACstyrpjBY
Taylor also gives me Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale vibes in her "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" video:
https://thequietvoice18.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/taylor-swift-dancing-in-pajamas-we-are-never-ever-getting-back-together-music-video-screen-shot.png
I can just imagine Taylor Swift saying "I like...bats!"
https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/2019/06/img_8550.jpg
I genuinely see the similarities. They've got slightly different physiques (Kim is arguably curvier, and a little shorter than Taylor), but they have a similar vibe, and facially I see it.
I don't know how good an actor Swift is (she's only done a handful of films, and one of them was Cats! Eek!), but I could see her cast as Vicki Vale, were Batman 89 to be made today.
I was thinking that Taylor Swift is pretty much, a taller, lankier version of Kim Basigner. Taylor Swift is roughly, almost the same age now as Kim Basinger was when she did Batman. Taylor was born about six and half months after Batman was first released into theaters (December 13, 1989). So that would make her 33 years old now. Kim Basinger was about 35-36 years old (her date of birth is December 8, 1953) when Batman was filmed and released.
shareMaybe because we're all living longer (although I believe that increased life expectancy is now starting to plateau), I feel that younger generations, including the one Swift belongs to, seem comparatively less mature than earlier ones. In other words, a 35-year-old Millennial seems younger than a 35-year-old early Boomer. When Kim Basinger made Batman 89 she was arguably at the peak of her beauty, and yet she was almost a surprising choice for the female lead because age-wise, she was no longer around the ingenue mark (i.e. a twenty-something) which is often the age for female love interests in blockbuster movies. However, these days, 35 no longer seems particularly old (or maybe I'm just biased because I'm older).
Anyway, maybe someone should cast Swift as Basinger's daughter in a movie.
When Kim Basinger made Batman 89 she was arguably at the peak of her beauty, and yet she was almost a surprising choice for the female lead because age-wise, she was no longer around the ingenue mark (i.e. a twenty-something) which is often the age for female love interests in blockbuster movies.
By a 'soft variation of the femme fatale' I guess they mean a character who is seductive and could seem to be bad news, but is often revealed to be sympathetic or at least ambiguous, rather than an out-and-out evil character like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.
In Nine and a Half Weeks and No Mercy, I think she was playing those types of 'soft femme fatale' roles (even to some extent My Stepmother Is An Alien and The Marrying Man, which are a comedy variations of such characters), however, she also played a few genuinely despicable characters now-and-again in films like The Natural and particularly Final Analysis.
Among "current" or more contemporary actresses, I'm almost immediately inclined to say that Margot Robbie is probably the closest that I would imagine of fitting the basic image or idea and concept of the "soft variation of the femme fatale".
shareWhat movie did she star with Dan Aykroyd? I can't find it on her page on imdb.
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