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Milano's prosthetic body looked more like Rose McGowan


Does anyone else agree?

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A little bit- alot more than it looked like Milano!

Do guys like "the thing"?
They like it better than no thing.

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Well, not so much Milano at least. There were none of her tattoos; dead giveaway that "her body" was CGI.

When the 'sisters' became producers in CHARMED, (season five), the tattoo covering, body makeup, (usually somewhat see-through under the strong studio lighting, including McGowan's shoulder), and 'shooting around' the tattoos generaly ended. Milano's visible tattoos were on her wrist, ankle, stomach, shoulder, and neck (later).
I'm not quite sure about CHARMED season 5 how her tattoos did not appear in her mermaid form, but it absolutely had some CGI covering the transition from her skin to the fake mermaid tail, and she did have her wrist covered.

Without knowing about the tatoos, the "prosthetic body" was very well done though, and actually didn't need to look like anyone in particular. It seriously surprised me when the autopsy began with the "Y" chest incision, and the flesh moved away from the cut. Wow! The silicon prosthetics do not move like that...

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"There were none of her tatoos (sic); dead givaway (sic) that "her body" was CGI."


Wow that sounds expensive. If only there were a cheap way to just apply stuff to her skin and cover tattoos.





'Then' and 'than' are completely different words and have completely different meanings.

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If only there were a cheap way to just apply stuff to her skin and cover tattoos.
They may have used a "green screen" bodysuit, and had the CGI fill in the shape, coloring, and shadows. That would explain how "her body" looked more like Rose McGowan, since a bodysuit would modify her shape. *smile*



If you have seen the CHARMED series, the first two episodes of season five had Milano as a mermaid. Her mermaid outfit consisted of a tail, and two adhesive "pasties" (textured to appear like fish scales) to cover most of her breasts. That said, Milano's "pasties" were quite a few 'scales' less that the ones worn by the other mermaid, (and her breasts were quite a bit smaller, go figure). In that particular situation, Milano was wet much of the time, and actually did swim underwater. (My quick eyes tell me there was a stunt/body double for a lot of the actual swimming, but Milano was clearly shown underwater several times.) That would have been challenging for any sort of makeup.

At the time of those episodes, I do not believe the blu-skinned woman in X-MEN had been created yet, and even that special latex 'costume' consisted of dozens of individual pieces that had to be glued into place, and that application session reportedly required about four hours every day it was used.

On the other hand, latex body paint had been used by the time PATHOLOGY was made, and it might have been used instead of a body suit! That would have covered Milano's ink, but still required a lesser amount of CGI work to supply 'features' that had been covered. (presuming a "green screen" latex)

The bad news would have been how long she could have stayed in non-breathing latex over her skin...

The MythBusters show tried an experiment to investigate if the James Bond movie GOLDFINGER could have killed the woman who was painted in gold. It was a little surprising that it only required a short time for the woman covered in latex to start showing fluctuating vital signs (under 30 minutes?) before the team stopped the experiment with the test subject (woman) less than half covered with latex.

I have to admit those mermaid episodes were pretty well done with the effects, and when Milano moved, lots of her moved... **smile** (Like when "Leo" dropped her in the bathtub at the mansion.)
Now how did that get put on TV... Oh, that's right, it was on a basic cable channel, not a network broadcast!

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