This is old hat.
Common practise for any actor about to do a nude scene in a professional film. Now it appears to have spilled over into everyday life.
Beauty treatment from the West Coast, indeed!
Let me give you an example of what happens when it’s not done.
In1970, when he was 24,
Sylvester Stallone got $200 for his first acting role in a porn flick entitled
Party at Kitty and Stud's. I have no idea what kind of business it did.
Stallone then broke into legitimate film with a minor part in
Woody Allen’s
Bananas in 1971.
After
Rocky was released in 1976, whoever owned
Party at Kitty and Stud's re-released it under a new title:
The Italian Stallion.
One of the lowlights of my life was a stag I attended where this particular video was shown.
It was a very low budget, inferior effort. No body makeup (in spite of massive amounts of nudity) incompetent lighting and no anal bleaching (plus Stallone’s hairy a**) combined to make Sly less than photogenic.
As I remember it, the most memorable comment of the evening was: “
Wipe your arse, Rocky. Consider it foreplay!”
You can probably find a copy kicking around one of the larger Video Stores, if you want to see it for yourself. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.
MAN! IT WAS UGLY!