Jennifer’s Physique fared poorly on the field workplace upon launch, which co-star Amanda Seyfried says is the fault of dangerous advertising.
Jennifer’s Physique ought to have finished much better than it did on the field workplace, even when it was within the poster alone: a red-hot Megan Fox (already a intercourse image of the Maxim selection) in a brief costume sitting on prime of a desk that’s hiding a severed physique half. But it surely didn’t work – and it’s the advertising itself that co-star Amanda Seyfried thinks is guilty for the viewers not discovering Jennifer’s Physique.
Talking with GQ (by way of EW), Amanda Seyfried mentioned that the rationale Jennifer’s Physique solely made $16 million domestically needed to do with how Fox bungled the way in which to pitch it to audiences. “If the critics criticize anything, it would be the marketing. The marketing sucked. It just did, and we all agree…The marketing team cheapened it, like it was just, you know, a romp. A gory romp. I think they ruined it.”
Seyfried additionally thinks that the studio’s mishandling of Jennifer’s Physique was finally a disservice to each director Karyn Kusama and screenwriter Diablo Cody. “Karyn is a fierce advocate of women in storytelling. She is able to enhance the relationships between women on film and TV. She’s able to mine everything she can, and she’s very, very human, and she’s very sensitive…We were expressing a certain angst in a very, very specific comedic way, in a very specific genre.”
Whereas Jennifer’s Physique fizzled greater than sizzled on the field workplace, it has a minimum of gone on to be a cult horror-comedy favourite. Fifteen-plus years on, there may be even speak of a possible sequel, which appeared prefer it may have been doable a lot nearer to the discharge of the unique had it really been successful with moviegoers.
For her “Needy” flip, Amanda Seyfried would win the MTV Film Award for Greatest Scared-as-Sh*t Efficiency, beating out some critical competitors within the likes of District 9’s Sharlto Copley, Zombieland’s Jesse Eisenberg, Paranormal Exercise’s Katie Featerston, Drag Me to Hell’s Alison Lohman. The film would even be nominated within the Greatest WTF Second class.
Jennifer’s Physique might not have labored out properly for Amanda Seyfried on the time, however Joni’s voice is. The actress lately appeared on The Tonight Present and took time to indicate off her abilities each vocally and on the dulcimer, doing a fully stellar rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “California”…With Cameron Crowe reportedly shifting ahead on his biopic and Meryl Streep set to play the older Mitchell, if he casts Seyfried because the youthful model, we’d get the one Mamma Mia! reunion we actually want.
Are you a fan of Jennifer’s Physique? What do you assume made it will definitely discover its viewers?
