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| | Lara Flynn Boyle: 'ageism is human nature. It's not Hollywood's fault' | | Added 170 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Lara Flynn Boyle was a gossip staple back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She was in relationships with Kyle MacLachlan, David Spade and, most famously, Jack Nicholson, and there was rampant speculation about her weight. After she and Nicholson broke up for good in 2004, Lara took a step back from the Hollywood scene. She married her husband Donald Ray Thomas in 2006. Since then, she and Thomas have been living in Texas part-time with their rescue dog named Shrimp.
Despite having a much lower profile over the last two decades, Lara?s popped up here and there, appearing in a handful of movies and occasionally, in paparazzi shots. Lara?s last movie was four years ago, something she blames the pandemic for. On July 5, her new movie, Mother, Couch will be out for a limited run. People recently sat down with Lara to catch up and talk to her love of Hollywood, being a tabloid fixture, ageism in the biz, and more.
She loves ?everything? about Hollywood: [Boyle, 54, explains] why she changed her mind and nixed her initial suggestion for her PEOPLE interview ? a nondescript L.A. diner that serves tuna melts and apple pie ? and opted for the glamorous Sunset Boulevard hot spot that opened in 1941, the year Citizen Kane premiered. ?I don?t have to be like, ?Look where I go. I?m normal,?? says Boyle. ?I love Hollywood. I love everything about Hollywood.? The fact that Boyle is still so enthusiastic about show business is a testament to her resilience ? she?s a ?scrapper,? she says several times during an hour-long chat.
She had her own #MeToo experiences: ?I?ve been in situations that were not called for. I?ve walked out of meetings and had repercussions for it,? she says, declining to name names. ?We all go through it.?
On tabloids publishing unflattering pictures of her: Even after Boyle got married to Texas real estate developer Donald Ray Thomas, 58, in 2006 and began working less, paparazzi still hounded her. They snapped pictures while she took out the trash and, in one unflattering instance, while she appeared to take a swig from a bottle of Johnnie Walker whiskey in her car. Tabloids were all too happy to publish the photos alongside sensational headlines.
No complaining or leaving: ?I never wanted to bow out [of Hollywood]. Any moment I was feeling down or sorry for myself, I made sure I did not complain,? she says while sipping on a cappuccino. ?My mom used to sometimes bring me articles about other actresses to show me I?m not the only one getting a raw deal.?
She was cast in Mother, Couch because the director saw her tabloids: It?s that tabloid attention that intrigued writer-director Niclas Larsson, who cast Boyle in Mother, Couch. Larsson grew up in Sweden reading tabloids at his mother?s hair salon and was fascinated by Boyle. ?The only type of literature I was exposed to between the age of 5 to maybe 10 was gossip magazines. And Lara was on the cover a lot. I?m like, ?What?s up with Lara?? What?s up with the excellent actor Lara Flynn Boyle??
No one can imagine what women in the late 90s went through: I knew I needed someone who physically and mentally lived through something,? says Larsson. ?I don?t think anyone can imagine what it is like to go through what a lot of women went through in the late ?90s, early 2000s.?
No more Hollywood boyfriends or booze: Before she met Thomas, Boyle dated her Twin Peaks costar Kyle MacLachlan, Saturday Night Live alum David Spade and then Nicholson on and off from 1999 into the early 2000s. ?I left with a bang when it came to actors,? she says of the three-time Oscar winner. ?Then I went, ?Okay, I?m done now.? ?
She said the same about alcohol around five years ago. ?Those disco boots, they?ve had their time,? says Boyle. If there was an impetus to stop, Boyle isn?t telling. ?Some people are allergic to it; some people are un-allergic to it,? she says.
Ageism is ?human nature: From the outside, I say, it seems things have become more inclusive. Before she speaks, she lets out a long, world-weary laugh. ?Not at all,? she says. ?The thing that gets my goat is when actresses talk about ageism in Hollywood. Ageism is human nature. It?s not Hollywood?s fault. It?s all of our fault. Myself included. I like looking at pretty people on the camera.?
She?s ready for her close-up but doesn?t want to see it: One person she does not enjoy watching: herself. ?If you want to call me Norma Desmond, go for it,? she quips. ?Whenever I catch a reflection of myself in a lens, I?m like, ?Oh, cut.? ?
[From People]
Oh man, some of what she says?it feels like there?s so much to unpack there. Larsson is right about famous women in the late ?90s and early ?00s. Thinking back to that period of time, they really went through so much unfair scrutiny and judgment as a part of tabloid culture. I feel so badly for buying into it all so much when I was much younger. Beauty standards in that time period messed so many of us normies up, thinking that?s what we had to look like to be attractive. I can only imagine how bad it was for actresses who were having their pictures taken and talked about all of the time. I remember seeing that picture of her drinking from the Johnnie Walker bottle in her car and feeling sorry for her, hoping she got some help. I?m glad she?s stopped drinking.
As for ageism, while it does seem like there are more roles for more mature-aged actresses nowadays, I recognize that there?s still a lot of room for improvement. However, I don?t know if it?s ?human nature? so much as what Hollywood perceives as marketability. I really don?t think most people prefer looking at ?pretty people? on screens. I just want good story content and acting. I feel like viewers are in an era where we appreciate seeing people who look like us represented in our media and it hasn?t gone completely unnoticed. Also, it?s sorta telling the way Lara says she can?t stand to watch herself on screen. She may be a ?scrapper? but it sure feels like she has a lot of scars from old wounds that never healed properly.
'Twin Peaks' Star Lara Flynn Boyle Was a Tabloid Target for Years. The Attention Helped Land Her a New Movie (Exclusive) https://t.co/ZlSLV8xspr
People (@people) July 2, 2024
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| | Lara Flynn Boyle's 'face looks like it's melting,' says cosmetic surgeon | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The last time we covered Lara Flynn Boyle was in October, 2010, when Deadline reported that E! had picked up a reality show pilot with her. That was the last we heard of it, and Deadline is a reliable source so it’s safe to assume that the deal fell through. At that time they claimed that Lara “splits her time between her life in Texas and her marriage to real estate investor Donald Ray Thomas II and her Hollywood-centric lifestyle in Bel Air.”
In case you don’t remember Lara, she’s now 42 and starred on Twin Peaks and “The Practice.” She also dated Jack Nicholson for a while, and famously wore a tutu to the Golden Globes in 2003. She’s had some television roles recently, but hasn’t been around much. She’s been looking puffy for some time, for lack of a better word. The first time people noticed was around 2008, and a lot of us thought she might be on steroid medication like Prednisone for an unknown medical condition. She’s definitely had her lips plumped, but it looks like she also has a kind of “moon face” that could be caused by steroid use.
Well Lara was photographed this week, and a lot of outlets are being less than kind about how she looks. I mean I get it, we point out obvious surgery too, but I don’t think that’s what’s going on with Lara. Who knows, though. Here’s a report from a plastic surgeon, quoted by Radar, who claims her face is “melting” after years of filler abuse:
After many years of rumors that she’s gotten too much plastic surgery, Lara Flynn Boyle appears to have finally laid off the procedures, but with scary results.
The 42-year-old actress, who found fame in the 1990s in the cult classic Twin Peaks, barely resembles the beautiful brunette who once stole the heart of confirmed bachelor Jack Nicholson.
“Lara Flynn Boyle’s face looks like it’s melting,” celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn, who has not treated the star, told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview.
After many years of plumping, “Now her face looks like it’s deflated, with resultant loose skin,” revealed Dr. Youn.
“I suspect that she’s either undergone corrective surgery to reverse some of the work that was previously performed, or has just plain allowed the plumping fillers to dissipate, leaving her with sagging cheeks.”
[From Radar Online]
This could be the case if Lara looked more plumped and filled a few years ago, but she definitely looked like she was on some kind of medication back then. It’s hard to tell, and maybe she had bad work done like Tara Reid except she had the misfortune of having it affect her face. Either way, she’s definitely had lip injections to get those cupid lips. I’ve never seen good lip injections, but maybe I just don’t notice the subtly plumped lips, if they even exist. Poor Lara.
Lara on 12/9/10
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photo credit: WENN.com and Fame/Flynet
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| | Lara Flynn Boyle gets E! reality show | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Remember Lara Flynn Boyle from Twin Peaks and The Practice? We haven’t seen much of her in years, and when we have seen her she’s looked so different from when she first got famous that it’s hard to recognize her. Lara was known for being very thin and tiny, but when we saw her in 2008 and again this year her face was so puffy it looked like she might have a medical condition. Many speculated that she might have had bad plastic surgery or injectables gone wrong, and that could have been part of it, but it looked to me like she was on steroids that were affecting her appearance.
Anyway Lara is coming back, in a way, with a reality pilot for E! It may got optioned for a series, but it sounds like it’s just a one-off to see if people are interested at this point. Deadline Hollywood has the details:
E! is looking to expand its slate of celebreality with a docu-reality series starring actress Lara Flynn Boyle. The cable network has greenlighted a pilot presentation for the project, which will follow the Practice alumna as she splits her time between her life in Texas and her marriage to real estate investor Donald Ray Thomas II and her Hollywood-centric lifestyle in Bel Air. Boyle, who is repped by Fortitude and Rugolo Entertainment, is currently meeting with potential showrunners. E!’s celebrity-driven reality series include mega-hit Keeping Up with the Kardashians and its spinoff Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami as well as Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane on sister channel Style.
[From Deadline via WeSmirch]
I don’t know much about Lara and can’t judge whether she’s interesting or not. I am curious about what happened with her, though, and if she is suffering from some kind of medical condition. I’m sure I’ll find out even without watching this show, so I’m not motivated to bother at this point. Unless she has 15 kids, confronts her husband’s mistress for a hair-pulling fight, gets bikini waxes on camera or shows herself before and after a facelift, I can’t see this show getting much interest. The reality show market is pretty crowded right now and no-names with half a brain cell are proving more popular than has beens.
Lara Flynn Boyle is shown on 8/1/10 (candids, credit: Fame) and on 10/25/08 (event photos, credit: WENN.com). Why isn’t she wearing shoes?
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| | Whatever happened to Lara Flynn Boyle and her jacked face? | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It was either last year or the year before, Lara Flynn Boyle did a guest spot on Law & Order. She and her married lover had conspired to kill one of his friends and steal a bunch of money, and they got her in the end. I mention this because it took me most of the episode to realize that the actress was actually Lara Flynn Boyle. She was so utterly unrecognizable, it was crazy. Remember the old Lara? The one that f-cked Jack Nicholson for years and wore a ballerina tutu to the Golden Globes? The one that used to get criticized for being too thin? Yeah. Look at her now.
Now, before you say, ?Oh she just gained some weight? or ?She just filled out.? JUST NO. No, this is not just weight gain, although that is part of it, and on that point, I?m glad that she did gain some weight. Her body looks healthy, actually. But she has completely jacked her face to the point of puffy immobility throughout the years. Just watching her trying to move her mouth in these photos is causing me pain. Oh, Lara. Why?!? And as Lainey asks, ?How Does This Happen??
Here are some older photos, just for comparison:
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