Oh, the male gaze ...


An unchivalrous reviewer on these pages describes Theresa Russell as “looking a bit chunky these days, I'm afraid to report”, while another refers to “her willingness to appear overweight in a bikini”.

At the time of the film's release, she was 35 years old and her role in it is an unemployed and childless married woman. To my eye, she fitted the part and if one needs a physical description I would merely say she looked nicely ripe.

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My male gaze says she looks perfect. She's got a great body in this (as in everything in which I've seen her). She's not a skeleton, which I like. But I've never thought of her as "chunky" and it would only be ridiculous runway model standards that could rightfully describe her as so.

Theresa Russell is, in my opinion, a very underrated actress and beauty. She's very sexy and alluring, and I admire her willingness to show herself and not punk out using lame body doubles.

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