Australian star Radha Mitchell has revealed the shocking request she received while starring alongside Bruce Willis in a major Hollywood film.
Appearing on The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show podcast, Mitchell, 50, revealed she was asked to remove a mole from her face.
The pair starred opposite each other in the 2009 film, Surrogateswhich centered around humanity and robots.
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‘‘Yeah how could they suggest such a thing… vandalism. I mean that’s how I saw it,” she said when Rowe asked about the incident.
”There was much debate because I was going to play a robot and a robot would not have a mole. So there was like a lot of conversation.”
Mitchell explained that her mother thought she should “cut it off,” but she compromised and got it shaved down.
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”The compromise was you can shave it down, and leave the base of it there. It’s a mole, you can’t control what it was doing to do. That’s what was done.”
She said she had “no regrets” shaving the mole but said it was a big ask. She added that the mole was “airbrushed”.
”Do I regret shaving the mole? No, who cares, but I think the idea you’re meant to change physically permanently seemed too much,” she said.
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Mitchell, who has starred in the likes of Olympus Has Fallen and Man on Fire, is a household name.
She can now be seen in the new Disney+ Australian original series, Last Days of the Space Age, opposite Jesse Spencer.
About the show, which was set in 1979, she told 9honey Celebrity: “I think that was the charm of the show and that was kind of what was exciting about the invitation to play, like we were going to do some time travelling and step into our parents shoes.”
“Things were cooler in the ’70s, everything was more relaxed, there were no seatbelts, the pace we’re living at now, we’re all on a schedule… back then we didn’t have a schedule.”
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