Known pimarily for her role in Clueless, Alicia Silverstone made her name as the poor man's Drew Barrymore, even if she was nowhere near as cute. She had the same kind of innocent, or semi-innocent charm, and was not unpleasant to look at. Her appeal was mainly with teenaged girls, unlike Ms Barrymore, who managed to be a sex-symbol as well as an airhead role-model. She is the exact female equivalent of Brendan Fraser in that both are short on talent, but both have a kind of appealing childlikeness to them (they appear together in this film), albeit one that grows thin as they show their respective ages.
Alicia Silverstone wiki entry.
Interesting:
"Silverstone reportedly refuses to appear nude in any of her movies. Because of this, she requires a body double in her place for nude scenes. When she starred in the stage version of The Graduate, she insisted on wearing underwear for the famous nude-scene. The producers were forced to let her do this because, otherwise, she would have resigned from the show."
"Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, to Monty Silverstone, a British-born Jewish real-estate investor, and Didi Radford, a Scottish-born former flight attendant who converted to Judaism upon marrying Silverstone's father. "
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