Ardhanarishwari and Playboy Magazine

[Guest guest]

Ok, this may be over the top for some of SS, but I read this today

and wanted to share it b/c I'm a devotee of the Ardhanari. This came

from the following link:

http://www.planetout.com/entertainment/interview.html?sernum=1055

 

Note: I haven't seen the Playboy feature and it's probably typical,

though I like that it came from the actress' dream, and I think her

comments about male and female within are worthy of note. BTW She

has appeared in The Firm with Tom Cruise and Legends of the Fall

with Brad Pitt.

 

"Actress Karina Lombard knows how to make a splash. Her standout

role as Marina on the first season of Showtime's breakthrough

series "The L Word" was a hit with viewers, but despite the success,

the character was written off at the beginning of the second season.

After leaving the Vancouver set of "The L Word," Lombard quit acting

for a while and spent some time working with Cirque du Soleil,

composing melodies and writing lyrics for the acclaimed traveling

troupe.

 

But now she's back -- and in a big way. This July, Lombard will make

her first appearance on the USA Network series "The 4400." But it's

her six-page nude pictorial in the July issue of Playboy (on stands

now) that's really going to satisfy the Karina-withdrawal symptoms

suffered by her "L Word" lesbian fan base.

 

In a special two-part interview, Lombard speaks to PlanetOut about

the Playboy shoot ...

 

We haven't seen much of you for a while, and then boom! -- we're

seeing all of you in a new Playboy pictorial. What made you decide

to pose?

 

I had done a movie a long time ago called "Wide Sargasso Sea," and

that's when Playboy started asking me to do a layout. And I kept

saying no! I was like, "Let me think about it ... OK, no!" [Laughs.]

I just didn't feel it. But then I did "The L Word," and while I was

shooting, they asked again, and I said no. Then one night I had this

dream about these images, and it was all about the dichotomy of male

and female within an individual, and the empowerment within a human

being in embracing the female and the male inside of you -- the

dichotomy of the wild self vs. the tamed self. I woke up and I was

like, "Whoa -- what was that about?" And when I get those dreams,

it's always very specific, and for a specific reason, it's not

random. And then it hit me -- what if I took these images from my

dream and put it in Playboy! See, for Playboy it's not what you'd

expect -- this whole notion of the empowerment, you know? So I had

my lawyers call them and ask if I could do this concept, and Playboy

said, "Whatever she wants -- she can even choose the photographer."

 

When I finally saw the pictorial last week, I was a little spooked

out at how exactly the same they were to my dream. It went from

ether into reality."