Changing the way people look at beauty pageants. Successful movie 2000 Miss the fit Follows FBI Agent Gracie (Sandra Bullock) She goes undercover in a beauty pageant to prove herself at work to her male counterparts (played by… Benjamin Pratt and Ernie Hudson).
Since she has been a tomboy all her life, pageant president, Cathy Morningside (Candice Bergen), enlisting the help of expert Victor Milling (Michael Caine) to prepare Gracie for competition through an extensive renovation process. Throughout the film, the policewoman forms unexpected friendships and romances, and is shocked when she is able to uncover life-threatening events occurring at the competition.
In 2000, Ellen DeGeneres She revealed in an interview that the rom-com was actually based on her.
“When I was getting ready to participate in the Emmys, the writer saw me (on TV) learning how to walk in a dress and high heels,” she said. procession magazine at the time. “My stylist at the time – a man – was teaching me, and it was funny. the Miss the fit The writer saw it and thought it was great.
Although based on the TV host, Bullock was also closely associated with Grace, and later admitted that doing the fight scenes – and she did many of her own stunts – was easier than the pageant scenes. Plus, she said Entertainment tonight That she tried to cut the swimsuit scene.
“That was a big bone of contention for me. I was trying to write it many times speed The actress shared. “It's in the script.” We actually shot it, outside in San Antonio.
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