Bai Ling returns to Sith, Playboy be damned
Filed under: Fandom, Tech Stuff, New on DVD, Hayden Christensen, George Lucas, Home Entertainment, NSFW
How did I miss this story the first time around? Apparently, back in May, some to do was made over the fact that actress Bai Ling's few scenes had been cut from George Lucas' Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Ling, who is so ridiculously attractive she essentially looks like a caricature of a Pretty Girl, claimed that George Lucas was "upset" over the actress' spread in Playboy, and had made the cuts accordingly; LucasFilm declined to give a reason for the Ling-dumping, but stated that the decision was made long before Ling posed for Hefner Corp. It seems odd that Lucas would care, considering Ling told reporters that her character in Sith, Senator Bana Breemu, "appears to be all naked with tattoos on my body". So is George Lucas is a big ol' Playboy hater, or was he just trying to keep naked Bai Ling to himself? Regardless, Lucas has now reinstated Ling's single, four-word scene on the Sith DVD. 
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10-26-2005 @ 4:40PM
Mike said...
I gave up believing in George Lucas's purported family-friendly stance (which has done nearly as much to hurt the movies as his obsession with computers) when I saw the Star Wars slot machine in every casino in Vegas this summer.
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10-26-2005 @ 4:51PM
brian said...
This is America. Violence is fine, gambling is fine, but NEKKID BOOBIES OMG!!!!!11
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10-26-2005 @ 6:11PM
Steve said...
Ok so someone please explain to me why she is "famous." She is not pretty(I stood next to her at a premiere party) and frankly will screw anyone to advance her career, be that a photogrpaher or joe blow from the street. She can't act, can't sing, and is a social parasite. She is featured way too many times in magazines and articles having done nothing of substance. She is a neo-paris hilton, and even than paris hilton comes from a very wealthy family... what has bai ling done lately? People are giving this girl wayyyyy to much uneeded attention...honestly.
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10-26-2005 @ 8:19PM
Finished.Law.School said...
She needs to learn how to dress, never take off clothes and get rid of that wig and grow some real hair...
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10-27-2005 @ 4:23AM
Sith Sucks said...
Her character name was Senator Bana Breemu. Removing that is the first sign I've seen that any decent decision was made on Sith.
My opinion: she's pretty gross looking, she just plays up a kind of opium-den mysterious asian stereotype and some people go for it. She disappears into every movie I've ever seen her in, it's always a kind of surprise to see her listed on imdb.
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10-27-2005 @ 8:34AM
neogeo said...
she was in my baby's daddy. and she was damm cute in that.
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