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April 13 2009

Eliza in Allure Magazine: The Naked Truth issue. NSFW. 'nuff said.

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edcsLover9 | Cast&Crew | 16:44 CET | 52 comments total | tags: eliza, allure, look they didn't airbrush her tattoos out!

Uhh, wow.

Nalliac | April 13, 16:53 CET

Yes, wow is the right word.

Rikardo | April 13, 17:27 CET

Why do I always click on NSFW links at work to see if they're not safe for work?

C. A. Bridges | April 13, 17:29 CET

Yeah, also gonna have to go with wow.

Giles_314 | April 13, 17:30 CET

I'm gonna go with the slightly more original "whoa".

Whoa.

Racoon Boy | April 13, 17:35 CET

I may put a 'Yowsa' on the stoop, see if the cat laps it up. Apart from that, that's a very soulful expression, she looks kinda sad. Wonder what she was going for there ?

And in other news, Padma Lakshmi is also rather good-looking. Film at 11 (hopefully ;).

Saje | April 13, 17:49 CET

MmmmmHmmmm.
Lovely and smart women.
ahh.

espalier | April 13, 17:49 CET

*faint*

Haunt | April 13, 17:55 CET

Holy moly....

*dies*

kasadilla | April 13, 18:01 CET

My tea started boiling again

*fans self*

Krusher | April 13, 18:02 CET

anyone else notice the tattoo on her back? It looks like words; I'm curious what it says. I'm also intrigued about when she got it; I'm pretty sure when she played Faith on Buffy, she didn't have any tats.

boykit | April 13, 18:03 CET

And yet strangely, I still haven't seen god.

sleeper | April 13, 18:04 CET

boykit, it says "Lead, kindly light..." it's the beginning of a LDS prayer.

edcsLover9 | April 13, 18:08 CET

Eliza's LDS?

Also... damn. In a related note, looked at the other ones, and Chelsea Handler, also damn.

KingofCretins | April 13, 18:20 CET

@KingofCretins: She used to be, or at least, she was raised as such but I don't think she is any more. Not certain on that, though.

I rather like these quite a bit. They're all very tasteful and well done. Quite a few of them I wouldn't mind having large, framed prints of, including Eliza, of course.

kungfubear | April 13, 18:27 CET

@sleeper: Then you're just not looking hard enough. :)

kungfubear | April 13, 18:29 CET

In response to sleeper's comment which gave me a chuckle: I think Eliza made that statement more in regards to "full frontal" although I don't remember where I heard it, so I can't really check for context on that. If you count this sort of non-explicit thing, then you have to count the commercial breaks on Dollhouse too, don't you?

Of the others, I was most interested to see Sharon Leal from Boston Public there.

Revolver | April 13, 18:33 CET

I think that comment about *you'd have a better chance at seeing God...* was in response to a reporter asking if she'd ever do Playboy. I used to have the video snippet somewhere...

edcsLover9 | April 13, 18:35 CET

As far as what counts, I think the statement as it tends to be taken was contradicted by her actions awhile ago, yes. I think it's quite possible that in the context she said it she still hasn't changed her mind.

I also think that a lifetime is a long time to make no false statements, and I was just making a wisecrack.

@kungfubear: I'll definitely be searching in this photo much harder.

[ edited by sleeper on 2009-04-13 18:39 ]

[ edited by sleeper on 2009-04-13 18:40 ]

sleeper | April 13, 18:37 CET

Apart from that, that's a very soulful expression, she looks kinda sad. Wonder what she was going for there?

Maybe she was just relaxing at home and the photographer burst in and snapped the picture?

/Waiting for the first "I'll be in my bunk" comment.

zz9 | April 13, 19:12 CET

I'll be in my bunk.

No, really.

Well, more of a bed. But I'll be there. At some point.

As for what I'll be doing there, that's really none of your business. (Besides, you really don't want to know. Definite TMI, trust me).

Also: YOWZA!

Winther | April 13, 19:23 CET

"Lead, kindly light..." it's the beginning of a LDS prayer.

Pretty sure it was originally the beginning of a hymn by John Henry Newman (a Catholic writer and priest). (Of course the LDS connection would be more relevant for ED--just wanted to clarify the actual origin of the phrase.)

erendis | April 13, 19:26 CET

Okay, Chelsea Handler should just always be naked. That picture makes her look 10 years younger. I think I liked her pose the best, though Eliza's felt very artistic. Like the photographer caught her while she was meditating on very thinky thoughts.

Emmie | April 13, 19:41 CET

Wow. Not much more to say other than that.

Um, not that I care overly much, but what is an LDS?

SteppeMerc | April 13, 20:15 CET

So how much do you think that frilly chair Eliza is sitting on will fetch at the local flea market post-photoshoot?

I love Eliza as much as the next crazed Dollhouse/Buffy fan but that is massive ick for the next person to sit on that chair--dingleberry central.

alexreager | April 13, 20:22 CET

Latter Day Saint (Mormon)

edcsLover9 | April 13, 20:22 CET

Okay, Chelsea Handler should just always be naked.

Wasn't this true before the photoshoot?

I didn't know Eliza had an LDS background -- I could have guessed based on the picture alone that she probably wasn't active, though :)

KingofCretins | April 13, 20:28 CET

Aw, she looks so pretty. You can tell she feels comfortable in her skin. Had I her body, I'd probably be just as comfortable showing it off, hehe.

Dizzy | April 13, 20:54 CET

whoa. i had no idea what NSFW meant, but I think I know now.

Eliza looks great in this picture!

RheaM | April 13, 21:33 CET

Me likey.

IMMORTAL | April 13, 21:44 CET

not safe for the library either, especially for the carrels right next to the refrence department.

I don't know why this is bothering me; I've never had objections to this kind of picture on principle but I just wish more people had a policy . . . I dunno.

DaddyCatALSO | April 13, 22:18 CET

If you don't know what an acronym means, there's a couple that can save you the trouble: GIYF and WIYF.

(Google is your friend and Wikipedia is your friend, of course)

jclemens | April 13, 22:29 CET

Well, good for her. I'm sure her body attitude doesn't hurt in getting her certain parts (as some actresses clearly would be less comfortable with it). Didn't realize the LDS were so 'free' with the nudity, though it appears her Mom wasn't too fussed with the kids in the buff.

baxter | April 13, 22:30 CET

KingofCretins's use of the word "active" made my brain switch into Dollhouse mode. Am I a sleeper doll?

CrazyKidBen | April 13, 23:44 CET

Popwatch at EW.com has an interesting take on this series of shots, noting they look airbrushed: "Good or bad for womankind?"

Whedonage | April 14, 00:03 CET

Interesting points in the EW.com article.

I have absolutely no problem with Eliza getting sexy. But I do admit that the airbrushing annoys me. Her maxim pics were so airbrushed that she looked completely plastic. She would have looked so much better if they'd left the pictures alone.

I mean, come on! This is a gorgeous woman.

Seriously, go easy on the photoshop.

ShanshuBugaboo | April 14, 01:02 CET

It has a very Playboy vibe to the posing and the quotes used. I'm surprised this is a women's magazine.

Sunfire | April 14, 01:13 CET

Wow... I have no other words. It's cool to see that she isn't shy to do that... Go Eliza!!!

Allen Doyle | April 14, 01:52 CET

Curiosity got the better of me, however I'll agree with the EW article in that they do look air-brushed/photoshopped or something. Not that I'd know what their skin actually looks like, but I was reminded of the smooth plastic "skin" of dolls - the kind you buy new from the store, not the kind that I scratched and punctured with nails. ;)

Braeden Fireheart | April 14, 02:20 CET

I am also against the whole photo shopping/airbrushing thing, because Eliza really does not need it. But she is no were near as fake airbrushed here as she was in Maxim. Those pictures looked really weird, computer generated, and I could have sworn they airbrushed out her tattoos. These are not nearly as bad as those. Can't comment on the other pictures, didn't bother looking at them nearly as closely.

Ahem.

SteppeMerc | April 14, 03:06 CET

As hawt as this is, it hits a little too close to some of the themes in 'Dollhouse', doesn't it?
In using technology to turn someone into the 'perfect' person, you really are doing a great disservice to the soul. It's our experiences, and the marks and scars they leave on us, that lets us know that we're really alive.

missb | April 14, 03:26 CET

Well said missb.

Xane | April 14, 03:43 CET

People speak as if airbrushing is a bad thing. Its the very nexus where art meets nature. How wonderful is that?

Peanut Noir | April 14, 03:45 CET

So when does the "Win a Chance to have Lunch with Eliza Dushku on the Set of Dollhouse" contest begin???

lottalettuce | April 14, 03:49 CET

Peanut Noir, when its someone like Eliza, I'd argue nature doesn't need to be improved.

SteppeMerc | April 14, 04:43 CET

Ooh, she's shiny.
Brings back my boyhood crush I had on her when she first appeared in Buffy.

Archduke Sebassis | April 14, 05:28 CET

What SteppeMerc said :)

ShanshuBugaboo | April 14, 06:04 CET

Ya'll sound like an episode of Ugly Betty.

Eliza is gorgeous... and her skin is made of milk. No one with an IQ of 5 would need to know that from just looking at her face to face.

BrownCoat_Tabz | April 14, 16:36 CET

Is airbrushing even used any more? Isn't it all Photoshop now? Or is it still called air brushing even if it's done with Photoshop?
Oh, and nice pictures.

kmb99 | April 14, 17:39 CET

Damn, I guess I can't afford those subscriptions to Fangoria and Script and Creative Screenwriting anymore... have to drop one of them, because now I have to subscribe to Allure.

Rick Gershman VII | April 14, 20:40 CET

I have to say, after looking at all the pictures, Eliza's doesn't seem be quite as airbrushed/photoshopped as the others. Padma's in particular they seem to have gone way overboard on, it doesn't even look like a real person. Eliza's though isn't too bad, she was more photoshopped in the Maxim spread.

That being said, I think Eliza looks great here. She's obviously comfortable with her body, so good for her.

SteveJ2008 | April 14, 20:52 CET

Never mind real person. In general, Maxim and FHM both go so far overboard on the "fixing" that their images don't even look like real photos.

Rowan Hawthorn | April 14, 22:57 CET

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