Trivia: Demi Moore only says one line to Dennis Quaid in all their scenes together throughout the entire film.
Trivia: The film contains many nods to the films of Stanley Kubrick, most obvious being the hallway at the studio, which looks very much like one of the hallways from the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining." Even the carpet is a similar pattern.
Trivia: Dennis Quaid reportedly ate about four pounds of shrimp for the scene where his character disgustingly eats shrimp in front of Elisabeth while ranting at her.
Trivia: Ray Liotta was meant to play the creepy producer Harvey, but tragically passed away shortly before production began.
Trivia: Whenever we see Sue nude (which is quite often), her breasts are actually completely fake. Director Coralie Fargeat wanted Sue's figure to be very exaggerated and almost cartoonish, likening her body to Jessica Rabbit from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Actress Margaret Qualley thus had to wear prosthetics to enhance her figure, including a fake set of hyper-realistic large breasts. Qualley joked that the effects teams gave her "the rack of a lifetime... just not my lifetime."
Answer: The film is depicted in a very fantastical and even "cartoonish" way. It doesn't really take place in "our world" so much as a sort of twisted "fairy-tale" version of it. If you notice, everything is very heightened and extreme. The film explores themes like the impact of aging, beauty standards, and the way women are mistreated and exploited by the industry. So you shouldn't be asking why these things are literally happening, but rather why they're thematically happening. The New Year's Eve special broadcasting nude women builds off the themes; it's more exploitation the film has been analysing. In this "world," it's just accepted. As for the little girl? I took that as a satirical statement on how normalized the mistreatment and exploitation of women in the industry is. It's so normalized that a little girl is idolising it, and her mother is allowing her to see it.
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