Most actresses stop disrobing onscreen when they hit 40 or get too successful to have it demanded of them. But Oscar winner Frances McDormand , 45,. In "Canyon," McDormand's free-spirited rock producer flashes her breasts at the boys in the band and frolics nude in a swimming pool with her younger musician boyfriend Alessandro Nivola and her son's girlfriend Kate Beckinsale. Then McDormand showed up for the audition "looking pretty much like she does in the film," in vintage concert T-shirt and tousled rock-chick hair, Cholodenko says. McDormand's "Laurel Canyon" character makes perpetual adolescence and errant parenting seem cool, probably because she's played by Frances McDormand.

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It isn't often that you hear the term "sexually adventurous" and the name Frances McDormand in the same sentence. McDormand is out to change all that with Laurel Canyon. She plays Jane, a California record producer who works out of a studio in her Laurel Canyon home. The film shows what happens when Jane's straight-arrow son Christian Bale and his fiancee Kate Beckinsale drop in for a visit with his hipster mom. The role, says McDormand, "was a gift, a complete gift, for a year-old female actor to play. McDormand has often played homebodies, such as the protective, "don't take drugs! Although McDormand is once again cast as a mother in Laurel Canyon, this is not your father's dear old mom.
Hand in hand with the repressed chick generally comes the idea that by movie's end she'll have loosened up, let her hair down and switched to contacts, often as a result of receiving sex from a free-spirited soul. Alex's excuse is her snobbish Cambridge upbringing, but Sam's is the opposite. We never hear about Dad, but Mom -- or Jane, as her son insists on addressing her -- is a wild-and-crazy free spirit with an executive job at a record label she's played by Frances McDormand, in what amounts to a total ironic role-reversal from Almost Famous. So when Alex and Sam head for LA to stay at Jane's "empty" pad while Sam continues his studies at a mental hospital, craziness ensues; it turns out that Jane's still in the house.