Jennifer Love Hewitt empowers females by playing prostitute

I always like it when celebrities who’ve fallen real far now have to rationalize taking less than enviable roles. It makes me giggle. Such is the case with Jennifer Love Hewitt who plays a married mother of three turned prostitute in Lifetime’s The Client List. Hewitt claims the show is all about female empowerment.

“It really struck me, particularly where we are in the world economically. This is real stuff that people are dealing with,” Hewitt says. “And I loved that, in this, it was about female empowerment. It was really her taking care of her family and I loved her struggle.”

But she pretty much admits she’s phoning it in having done no research or preparation for the role.

“I wanted to learn as Sam was learning it and I think it helped me in doing that,” Hewitt says. “This project in particular, I really went on the journey with her because I didn’t do any real research or any preparation. … I really felt for Sam and her story and her struggle.”

“Emotionally, this was one of the hardest things I ever had to do because it was work that I didn’t understand. It was, quite honestly, a world that I was judgmental of before I did the part,” she says. “It was difficult, but it would probably be a tie now between Sam and Audrey [Hepburn in The Audrey Hepburn Story].”

She also lazily promotes the movie by noting she took pole dancing lessons.

For the role, Hewitt trained by taking pole-dancing classes (she now has a pole in her house for her work-out regimen), but did little other research before filming began.

Hewitt then tries to spin her new career path in a positive light saying she never did these roles before because she was always afraid she couldn’t nail the acting.

“I’ve had these types of things come around a lot and I never did them because I was like, ‘I couldn’t even act that if I tried. I don’t know that woman yet, I don’t know that part.’ And I do right now, where I am in my life,” she says. “I was ready to be open to a new side of life and see why certain woman do things and find themselves in this situation.”

Well, she forgot to mention that another thing that was holding her back was the fact she starred in the semi-popular Ghost Whisperer on the nationally broadcast CBS network and that she didn’t need to star in Lifetime shows. In a way, playing a mother turned prostitute is almost a metaphor for Hewitt’s career. Now that her CBS show is canceled (economy tanking), she has to whore herself out to the highest bidder (Lifetime).

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