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Los Angeles, June 13 (IANS) Hollywood actress Emily Ratajkowski has opened up on her decision to turn herself into a sexual but scary “villain” after her divorce.

She made up her mind to turn into someone “sexual but scary” that no-one could feel sorry for, reports ‘Female First UK’.

The ‘Gone Girl’ actress split from film producer Sebastian Bear-McClard, the father of her now five-year-old son Sylvester, in 2022, after four years of marriage.

However, in an essay she penned for The Cut, the actress said she decided to use sex to transform herself following the break-up.

She wrote, “I decided to f*** my way into a new kind of woman. I wanted to destroy the Madonna, the special girl I’d worked so hard to be before an eight-pound baby had torn my vagina in two, and replace her with the w****. I wish I could say I’d started to date slowly … but the truth is just a week after my split, I found myself in Brooklyn, a shell-shocked and sleepless version of myself. ‘I just need a distraction’, I’d said, tasking my friends, who had giddily gotten to work by texting every unattached and (relatively) un-embarrassing man they knew”.

One friend set her up with a DJ, who was in the “lowest stakes” because he lived locally, had been sober for over 10 years and was a “friend of a friend of a friend”.

As per ‘Female First UK’, despite clarifying that she hadn’t gone any further than a friendship with the DJ, Emily said the experience helped kickstart the next, freeing, stage of her life.

She shared, “The character I’d learned to embody after my divorce, in my period of compulsively dating, was a villain, Poison Ivy. Catwoman. Sexual but scary, and she drank gin martinis. Many, many gin martinis. She was not tragic. Nothing close to a victim. No-one needed to feel sorry for her. In fact, they should all be jealous”.

Emily said it was her “villain origin story”, as she explained that she had “learned the hard way that being alone was better than most partnerships”.

“I’d seen too much, discovered what many women do only when they get divorced in their mid-40s. I’d lived through the failure of a unit, yet I was barely into my 30s. Being a New Yorker made being a single mom feel sexier and bohemian, or at least that’s what I told myself”, she added.

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Los Angeles, Sep 10 (IANS) Hollywood star Channing Tatum revealed that he was offered the role of the Beast in Guillermo del Toro’s retelling of “The Beauty and the Beast” and that rejecting it was “one of the biggest mistakes” of his “career.”

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Tatum said because the “Roofman” star “just had a baby” at the time and the film’s script wasn’t “totally there yet,” he turned the role down.

“One of the biggest mistakes of my career: Guillermo del Toro wanted to do ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ his version of the Beast,” Tatum recalled.

“And I’d just had a baby, I was on a movie that was absolutely killing me, and the script wasn’t totally there yet. I was just in a place in my head that I was like, ‘I don’t think I can do this right now.’ It was the biggest mistake, because I’m the biggest Guillermo fan ever. And I think Guillermo doing ‘Beauty and the Beast’ would’ve been the sickest movie ever.”

Tatum didn’t actually miss out on anything since the film was never made. He hopes eventually he’ll be able to right his wrong and work with the three-time Oscar winner, reports variety.com.

“He’s got a billion other things that he wants to do,” Tatum added.

“He’s such a creator. I’ll probably never forgive myself on that one, but I hope we get to work together one day.”

Del Toro is currently making the rounds with his latest fantasy epic “Frankenstein,” which invoked an ecstatic 13-minute standing ovation at its Venice Film Festival debut.

The film, which is based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel of the same name, stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Lauren Collins, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz.

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