To clarify for those of you that have not followed Liv Tyler's career:<P>"Movies like that" are movies in which Liv Tylers has played characters that are radically different from Arwen's character: some of them do feature nudity and/or sex. These aren't porn flicks, or Girls Gone Wild-type cinematic excursions (though even if they were, I don't think it should matter). <P>I think my main purpose in starting this thread was to see if there is more prejudice toward Liv Tyler's acting background, because she is a woman. <P>Among Tolkien fans, I have noticed a general trend of actresses not being taken seriously because they've appeared topless in a European art-flick or something along those lines, and somebody was right to point out that no one seems to remember that Hugo Weaving played a drag-queen, or that Viggo Mortensen consistently lights up the silver screen as a sexy womanizer. <P>But I have since discovered that the reason most Tolkien fans do not take Liv Tyler seriously has little to do with her previous roles and more to do with her skills, and her maturity or lack thereof.<P>Basically, people seem to treat her as an actress first and foremost. Personally, I welcome this approach and am glad that my initial ideas have been proven wrong. <P>And for the record: I think that those few people that brought Liv Tyler's personal character into discussion, even if it was an afterthought, should have refrained from doing so. We are only aware of Tyler through her acting, to make assumptions about what she's like as a person and whether or not anyone of us would like or dislike her personally is a bit presumptuous, in my opinion.<p>[ October 05, 2003: Message edited by: Lush ]
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