The Bimbo Reigns Supreme This Awards Season.
The Substance, Wicked, The Last Showgirl, Sabrina Carpenter and more are subverting the bimbo image.
2021 (or 2007, or 1987 if you wanna feel old) might have been the year of the bimbo, but this awards season is giving it a run for its money.
The seeming frontrunner for the Best Actress Academy Award is Demi Moore who, in her acceptance speech for the same award in the comedy or musical category at the Golden Globes earlier this year, said she has long been dismissed as a “popcorn actress” in underwritten roles in blockbusters such as Striptease and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. “Popcorn actress” could be another descriptor for “bimbo,” which her nominated role in The Substance toes the line of.
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