Tricia Helfer Nude Playboy Pictorial
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James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Monday, January 15, 2007 |
Everyone’s favorite Cylon, Tricia Helfer, is baring it all for Playboy.
Number Six, clothes zero.
Tricia Helfer, darling of Donalda and sex-oozing Cylon of TV’s hit Battlestar Galactica, is baring all in the latest Playboy.
What’s that sound you hear? Geeks shattering the sound barrier on their way to the 7-Eleven across from their parents’ basement?
Or gasps of disapproval from her hometown, a central Alberta village of fewer than 300 residents?
Helfer knows to expect both.
“I haven’t heard from anybody back home (yet), so I’m sure I’ll get a little bit more inundated next week,” Helfer says from L.A.
As for what the reaction to the 10-page nude pictorial — shot in Acapulco — will be, she admits, “I’m not sure. Obviously, there are all spectrums (of opinion), but I went into it knowing that. There will be people who disagree with it and people who think it’s fantastic. But I didn’t do it for other people, I did it for myself.
“I talked to every member of my family and essentially asked their permission. I wouldn’t do something to highly embarrass my family. They were all supportive. I went over the details with all of them.” She concludes, “Everyone’s going to get to see a lot more of me.”
The appearance — a no-brainer, really, considering as Number Six, a smouldering cyborg siren, Helfer has become science fiction’s newly minted sex symbol — comes after a two-year courtship in which the magazine’s editors pursued the statuesque former model.
So why did Helf say yes to Hef — or at least Hugh Hefner’s empire — now?
“I guess the timing is key quite often. In my mind, the timing was right. I got to choose the photographer and I always wanted to work with Sante D’Orazio and I had photo approval and my husband is 100 per cent behind it.”
She was further swayed when the magazine’s editors pointed out the other women who had doffed their duds in Playboy. “Charlize Theron, Gabrielle Reese, models like Stephanie Seymour and Cindy Crawford, Jamie Pressly — I respect these women. I looked at the photos they had done. They were beautiful, tasteful pictures. And coming from the modelling world, I certainly was not squeamish about nudity. We all have the same parts … (Modelling), you have to get used it. Not that that means you’re walking down the street flashing everyone.”
And while two years ago, she was still trying to establish herself as an actress — turning her back on a lucrative modelling career to do so — she now finds herself on Battlestar, a series which has garnered critical acclaim far surpassing anyone’s expectations.
Remember, in the goofy 1970s original series people wore capes, jumpsuits and played with robotic teddy bears. The disarmingly gritty redo, conversely, concerns itself with war, terrorism and paranoia.
“I wanted to get a base out there of people who know me as as an actor. I didn’t want to be thought of as someone who got one lucky job. I now have a career and my resume is growing. (The Playboy pictorial) is a compliment to a building career.”
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This week, Helfer heads to New York to tape an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman tomorrow (the episode airs Friday). Then on Tuesday, she’s a guest on Howard Stern’s radio show. It’s her first time being interviewed by either media titan.
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Stern, one expects, will reference the Playboy photos once. Or twice. Or more. “Who knows where (that conversation) will go? But Howard Stern is a big Battlestar fan, so that may make it a little easier. Or it may make it worse.”
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Meanwhile, she awaits reaction to the Playboy spread from Donalda, which she just visited for four days at Christmastime. What might guys she dated in high school think when perusing the magazine, for example? She laughs, ” ‘I never saw those before!’ ”
Steven Taylor wonders why Helfer would pose node now, given her success as a serious actress, “One would think that Helfer would prefer to be taken seriously more for her acting talent at this stage of the game, rather than for other aspects of her career.” I suspect the payment was substantial.
And, as a quick glimpse at Google Images will demonstrate, it’s not like Hilfer hasn’t been photographed naked before.
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won�t be on the net with a few hours of the mag hitting the stands.
If not before. I dunno, to be honest. They seem to be doing okay but it’s a head scratcher. Especially in Hilfer’s case, when there are plenty of nude pix out there already.
Then again, Playboy does a Pam Anderson spread every couple years or so and they (presumably) continue to sell out.
Beautiful, naked woman on glossy pages. That explains it all.
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There’s nothing great about the pictoral. The cover is pretty awesome in that she has a really nice ass and half of it is exposed. I mean, it’s a really nice ass
Other than that, she shows her butt some more and her breast in quite a few shots. No pictures of her pussy, which appears to be shaved. Too bad about not showing it, but what do you expect from playboy
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I am sure the money was quite good for a day’s work (or however long these things take).
I do wonder about Playboy’s business model here, though. I mean it isn’t as if scans of the issue won’t be on the net with a few hours of the mag hitting the stands.
10 or more years ago the allure of seeing a specific starlet nude might be sufficient to boost sales–but I have to wonder if that is still the case.