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Actress tika sumpter is quickly establishing herself as the new "it" girl around town. The Game and One Life to Live actress nabbed a role alongside Ana Faris in What's Your Number and recently join the cast for the remake of Sparkle. Tika talks to vibe vixen about the illusions of Hollywood and admits that people watch movies for that very illusion Do you feel that you have a lot to live up to in the acting world? Do you feel like you have to maintain a standard? I think there’s pressure on everybody; let’s not deceive ourselves. It’s definitely a beauty business. It [matters] how your face looks, how your body looks, how everything looks. All the blogs talk about it, and they pick on people. The blogs and magazines will be quick to show what’s wrong with a person, so I think there’ s a lot of pressure to try to maintain themselves as much as possible. So you do bend to the pressures and standards? Of course, of course. People don’t go to see George Clooney because he’s ugly. They don’t go see Michael Ealy because he’s not the cutest guy on the block. They go to see a beautiful, strong-looking man. Of course you go see them because they’re acting and everything, but it’s a fantasy. You want to take people out of their world for a little bit if you can. I feel like everybody has some kind of beauty in them, regardless if they look like Halle Berry or they don’t. I don’t believe that everybody has to live up to this Hollywood beauty standard, because everybody’s not that. What do you think of Tika Sumpter - will she survive in Hollywood? |