There's been mixed reactions to Portia deRossi and Joely Richardson's lesbian couple characters on Nip/Tuck and this story makes me ill. Apart from the vapid display of photo after photo and the strange captions under them, the reasoning behind the choice for the women to play the roles was less than cool:
Richardson: "I think playing a lesbian turns men on. When my character Julia was the boring, married housewife, always chopping vegetables, people were sweet and lovely.
"But now I'm playing her as a sexy ***** with a big padded bra and a short skirt, I get a very different reaction.
"I think men respond to the sexiness of two women being together."
Hmm.
