I watched the 1981 movie Nighthawks
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I don't get it.
I, for one, think Khambatta looked gorgeous bald. I just read Return to Tomorrow, a detailed account of the making of TMP, and it's related how, when her head was finally shaved, the filmmakers were delighted at how perfectly shaped her skull was, and some even thought she looked better bald. (Although her hair was so dark, even shaved to the roots, that they had to cover her scalp in three layers of makeup to hide the stubble.)
She did look pretty great with hair too, though.
She did look pretty great with hair too, though.
Yes, she was. Probably one of the best looking women ever cast in a ST production--she was that gorgeous.
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But apparently couldn't act for shit; at least that was what I read somewhere. How was she in Nightawks?
OK I think. But I really can't tell: At times it did look like an Ilia reprise, but she played a cold-blooded foreigner assassin so I don't know if she did the coldness and accent on purpose.
The accent was native, as her first language was either Hindi or Urdu. But the coldness was well done acting on her part. In interviews she was often described as warm and friendly, and was often affectionate with people she trusted. The worst movie I ever saw her in, Megaforce, had in it several great scenes, defined as such because they were the ones she was in, and her acting made up for the terrible script and direction.
I loved Nighthawks. I just met Billy Dee Williams, and he told me that the Superman t-shirt was something that he added to the character and that it was very hard shoot because he was several years older than Stallone, who was in tip-top shape, and they had to be running around, kicking ass all over the place.
Anyway, I think Persis Khambatta looked BEAUTIFUL bald. Her photographs make that apparent.There are some gorgeous photos of her bald.
The problem is that the sexiness didn't come across in the actual movie because A) Her character was sworn to celibacy, so she probably pulled back on the sexiness in her performance, B) She was emotionally distraught by her relationship with Will and C) She became a cold, emotionless drone.
So basically, Ilia was a friendly, plutonic co-worker, who had an awkward intro. Was emotionally haunted by sadness with the way her relationship with Will turned out, and was then captured and turned into a "mechanism" by V'Ger.
So the character was never given the sex appeal that her alter-ego had in spades.
Anyway, I think Persis Khambatta looked BEAUTIFUL bald. Her photographs make that apparent.There are some gorgeous photos of her bald.
The problem is that the sexiness didn't come across in the actual movie because A) Her character was sworn to celibacy, so she probably pulled back on the sexiness in her performance, B) She was emotionally distraught by her relationship with Will and C) She became a cold, emotionless drone.
So basically, Ilia was a friendly, plutonic co-worker, who had an awkward intro. Was emotionally haunted by sadness with the way her relationship with Will turned out, and was then captured and turned into a "mechanism" by V'Ger.
So the character was never given the sex appeal that her alter-ego had in spades.
You mean platonic. A plutonic co-worker would be one made of magma that had solidified underground. (So, maybe an Excalbian?)
Anyway, I think Ilia was gorgeous even without her sexuality being played up.
Here, here. Or is that hear, hear?
Gorgeous indeed
Yeah. She was beautiful.
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