L wordの第一シーズンに出演していたマリーナことカリーナ・ロンバードのインタビュー
Actress Karina Lombard knows how to make a splash. Her standout role as Marina on the first season of Showtime's breakthrough series "The L Word" was a hit with viewers, but despite the success, the character was written off at the beginning of the second season.
After leaving the Vancouver set of "The L Word," Lombard quit acting for a while and spent some time working with Cirque du Soleil, composing melodies and writing lyrics for the acclaimed traveling troupe.
But now she's back -- and in a big way. This July, Lombard will make her first appearance on the USA Network series "The 4400." But it's her six-page nude pictorial in the July issue of Playboy (on stands now) that's really going to satisfy the Karina-withdrawal symptoms suffered by her "L Word" lesbian fan base.
In a special two-part interview, Lombard speaks to PlanetOut about the Playboy shoot, and her experience of letting Marina go.
We haven't seen much of you for a while, and then boom! -- we're seeing all of you in a new Playboy pictorial. What made you decide to pose?
I had done a movie a long time ago called "Wide Sargasso Sea," and that's when Playboy started asking me to do a layout. And I kept saying no! I was like, "Let me think about it ... OK, no!" [Laughs.] I just didn't feel it. But then I did "The L Word," and while I was shooting, they asked again, and I said no. Then one night I had this dream about these images, and it was all about the dichotomy of male and female within an individual, and the empowerment within a human being in embracing the female and the male inside of you -- the dichotomy of the wild self vs. the tamed self. I woke up and I was like, "Whoa -- what was that about?" And when I get those dreams, it's always very specific, and for a specific reason, it's not random. And then it hit me -- what if I took these images from my dream and put it in Playboy! See, for Playboy it's not what you'd expect -- this whole notion of the empowerment, you know? So I had my lawyers call them and ask if I could do this concept, and Playboy said, "Whatever she wants -- she can even choose the photographer."
When I finally saw the pictorial last week, I was a little spooked out at how exactly the same they were to my dream. It went from ether into reality.
It's an interesting spread because of the butch/femme thing. So you were so psyched you had no hesitations about posing nude?
Well, it was difficult to do it at first, simply because I was raised in a very, very heavily religious household, and obviously to them doing Playboy is like the ticket to hell, you know? So I had a journey -- I had to deal with all this stuff from my childhood, but the power of the images helped me push through all that, all those issues that were holding me back from being raised like that. It was an emotional step.
There seems to be a generational divide taking place suddenly in the gay community. Paris Hilton was just the grand marshal of the Los Angeles Pride parade, and the response from the younger generation was really positive, whereas a lot of older gay people thought it was a disgrace. Same with Playboy. When I took it around the office and showed it to some of the lesbians here, they were like "All right!" and happy you posed -- they didn't have a problem at all. In fact, most were hoping it was the whole cast of "The L Word" posing nude. But there probably will be older lesbians who consider the magazine demeaning to women. What would you say to them?
I'm happy you brought that up, because that is why I chose Playboy. To have these strong, empowering images in a magazine like Playboy -- that's where the achievement is, you see? They allowed me to do this concept that may be considered "out there" by their readers, but it also is so of ... today. People have to understand that women do not need to be one half of a whole.
What about your religious family. How are they reacting?
I was so nervous to tell my Irish Catholic godmother! I called her and told her about it, and I was terrified of what she was going to say, and she whispered, "Are you on the cover?" and I said no, and she said "OK, good!" [Laughing.] And you know what? She really loved it, and said she was really impressed and surprised I had the courage to do it. And I think it's because the images are so strong that maybe she reacted that way -- it's like, "we're coming out," no matter how you feel about it -- it's going to happen."
Next week: Karina Lombard goes in-depth about whether her heart has ever been broken by a woman and about her experience playing Marina on "The L Word." The July issue of Playboy is on stands now.
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実社会の裏本サンプル
衝撃的です・・・。
をしてたのでペンパルが世界中にいたのですが！その話はまたあらためて…
だとかいろいろイベントを開催していたのですが、そういうイベントで１人っきりで行動するっていうのは結構寂しいので、友達が欲しかったんですね。
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