The Purr-Fect Rene Russo Photoshoot (season 2, episode 1) - Sexy Photoshoot in Mansion, part 1

Pierce, Rene and Jake: the stars of the first part of the photoshoot. 

We’re back people! The second season of The Purr-Fect Rene Russo Photoshoot is full of new stuff. Same team, new international destinations and new guests models for Rene to work with. Who’s excited?


Back to work. Rene and our team did our check-out from San Ysidro Ranch, and we went to our next destination: a beautiful mansion in Venice Beach. Tony Duran prepared a surprise in the way: Ms Russo would appear on both Maxim and Esquire magazines, with 4 male models. Two of them, Pierce Brosnan and Jake Gyllenhaal, will appear on this first part. The other two, Jesse Lee Soffer and Taylor Kinney, both from Chicago franchise, will appear on the second part of the post. 

The team came out to the mansion, and as always, I chose the clothing according to the male model’s profile and personality; Kéla and Shane worked in the makeup, and Tony explained the photoshoot concept. 

While she was dressing, Pierce was the first to come in. He came in with a bunch of flowers, and gave it to her. After that, Rene hugged him, and some minutes later, Pierce took off his shirt, getting ready for the Photoshoot. He lied on the floor, and Rene hides behind the corridor. 

Look 01 

As I said to Rene to come in, she came out in her wildest way, with a bodysuit, a pair of jeans and some jewelry. With her acting, she lied beneath Pierce and turned around. She stretched her legs while unbuttoning her jeans and him hugging Rene. And again, she turned back to Pierce, who took off her jeans, and touched her body. 

Look 02 

While Jake was on his way on the photoshoot, Rene was ready for her second look with Pierce: A leopard print bikini, some beautiful black pants and a peach blazer. And Pierce put on again his shirt, but open.

Ms Russo reincarnated Catherine Banning with this look. Some of her poses express her seductiveness, and in some of the pics, Rene was taking off Pierce’s shirt, and Pierce took off Rene’s blazer, in a sexy moment. They end up their photo time with a kiss. 

We paused a bit and I cooked some meat and pasta for the team, and after that we all took time to revise the pics. They were great. Just then, Jake came in, he rang the doorbell, and I attended him, ready for makeup and styling. 

At the same time, Rene took a glass of water, she changed the next outfit, and retouched the makeup. And we changed the setting into the staircase. 

Look 03. 

Rene came out to Jake and hugged each other. She was with a Gianfranco Ferré white shirt, some stockings and heels, and a leopard print lingerie. I chose this lingerie for Ms Russo because she looooves leopard print, and she looks gorgeous. And Jake was with a open shirt and some jeans (with his Calvin Klein underpants appearing). 

Both sat themselves under the stairs. They looked at each other. In some pics, they were serious, other they were happy, and other were seductive. 

In the last shoots, Rene unbuttoned her shirt and looked to Jake in a powerful way. 

Look 04 

And last but not least, we came into the bedroom. At the moment Rene changed her clothes, Jake took of his shirt. Tony captured the seductive moment of both. In one moment Rene took off her halter top and messed up her hair, showing her sensuality.

To be continued... 

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ME 

Rene Russo's Fashion Lookbook: À La Parisienne !!!

Chanel 19, starring Rene Russo !! Long dresses and pearl necklaces are very inspired in Paris.
(photo - Archive)

Who loves Coco Chanel? Or going to Paris, land of the Eiffel Tower? That's what this post is all about, Paris-inspired looks. And also, last week, there was Paris Fashion Week, with lots of stunning looks. 

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel had a difficult beginning (just like Rene had). But this beginning and her sewing techniques helped Chanel to inspire the transformation of menswear to amazing womenswear. 

In Thomas Crown Affair, one of Rene Russo's looks was a Paris-inspired look. Similar
to the ad of Channel 19. (photo - MGM Pictures)

Rene Russo loves being chic and she is like a jet-setter lady (since her modeling career!). The two first pics on this post, one for the ad of Chanel n.19 in the 70s and later, on Thomas Crown Affair. In both images, Ms. Russo wears a beautiful long dress and some pearls, and also a beautiful red short hair (made by talented hairstylist Enzo Angileri). Very Coco Chanel-inspired. 

And Rene looks wonderful in lingerie... She wears a babydoll along with a cardigan..
the photo was taken in 1995. (photo - Archive)

Even on Paris, girls love lingerie. It makes then very sexy, and it shows the discret hint of sensuality.  Push-up bras or padded pieces won't be found. Instead, Parisians focus on finding bras and underwear in flattering silhouettes that look good underneath their clothes or even as part of the outfit. A blazer or button-down shirt might be intentionally unbuttoned to show a small glimpse of a lace bra underneath.  

A body or a babydoll, just like Rene is wearing, is just perfect for her. It makes her feel very hot and impressive (specially for men!). 

And even swimsuits are very inspired in Paris... Even though it's vintage,
Rene looks very sexy. (photo - Francesco Scavullo/Vogue)

A swimsuit/bikini is perfect for summer days. The swimsuit Rene Russo is wearing in a Scavullo photoshoot in Peru shows her sensuality, even though it's basic. Parisian girls always avoid swimsuit styles.

And in her recent movie, Velvet Buzzsaw... for Rene Russo, a leopard print
is perfect for her! (photo - Netflix) 

And even on her recent movie, Velvet Buzzsaw (2019), the talented actress loves a beautiful leopard printed blouse. For Rene Russo, this print is just perfect for her, it makes her look very sexy and doesn't look that she's 65, but yes 20 or 25 years younger.

Hope u like it. 

Loveuguys. 

xoxoxo

ME

CHARACTER IN FOCUS: Catherine Banning, "Thomas Crown Affair" (1999)

Rene Russo in a Michael Kors dress, 1999. The dress is part of her character's
wardrobe in Thomas Crown Affair. (photo credits: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

As I said on last post, Rene Russo's character on Thomas Crown Affair, Catherine Banning, is her best character done in her entire acting career... In comparison to Faye Dunaway's character in the 1968 original (in the 1968 original, Faye was Vicki, and in the 1999, she was the psychiatrist), I prefer Rene's character better, and there're a lot of reasons... Ms. Banning has lots of sex appeal and makes the audience (specially men) very "all eyes on her", and also the wardrobe (created by Michael Kors specially for Ms. Russo for the movie), in general, is sexy, stylish and it fits her like a glove, in my opinion!

Rene Russo: sexiness and class in scene! (photo credits:
MGM Pictures)

Catherine, in TCA, besides being a dedicated and a sexy insurance investigator, is also smart, driven and alone. She is brought by the NYPD in finding a Monet painting (the cost is US$ 100 million), stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, and the masterpiece is stolen by Thomas Crown (portrayed by the talented actor Pierce Brosnan). She suspects of Thomas, but unexpectedly Ms. Banning falls in love with him. 

Rene Russo: eye to eye on Pierce Brosnan. Show us some seduction, Rene!
(photo credits: MGM Pictures)

Although Catherine is very seductive and smart... she also has some weak links. Ms. Banning's emotional fragility shows when Thomas has also a "lover" besides Banning. I'm talking about Anna (played by Esther Cañadas). But between Anna and Catherine... Thomas has better chemistry with Catherine. According to Rene (Russo), in 2014: "Many women ask of him (Pierce Brosnan)... what was he like? Is he cute? Is he dreamy? Yes he is. He's a good kisser. (...) For the love scenes, are always really hard! (laughs)"

Rene's character Catherine Banning, holding a coffee in her hands.
And concentrated! (photo credits: MGM Pictures)

And talking about love scenes... the love scenes in Thomas Crown makes the audience entranced. In one of my conversations on Twitter (it happened this week), one of my fans praised TCA and specially Catherine Banning:

"@sscalise88: I love #ThomasCrownAffair! Better than #FiftyShadesofGrey"

"@sscalise88: I Love #ReneRusso in The Thomas Crown Affair & I Agree with You @mariaemma16 ! Rene Russo was Truly #Chic ! #Fashion was Great In the #Film & Her #Style was Impeccable! Such an Artistic Film! Hey All YOU Twitter Friends... Who Else Loved #TheThomasCrownAffair #ThomasCrownAffair " (source: Twitter, 26/6/18).  

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loveuguys.

xoxoxo 

ME

Thomas Crown Affair (MOVIE REVIEW)

Thomas Crown Affair poster, featuring Pierce Brosnan & Rene Russo.
(photo credits: MGM Pictures)

Director: John McTiernan (known by Die Hard & The Hunt for Red October).

Producers: Michael Tadross, Pierce Brosnan & Beau St. Clair.

Written by: Alan Trustman, Leslie Dixon & Kurt Wimmer.

Main Cast: 

Pierce Brosnan -------- Thomas Crown 

Rene Russo ----------- Catherine Olds Banning

Denis Leary ------------ Detective Michael McCann

Faye Dunaway ------- Thomas' psychiatrist

Esther Cañadas ------ Anna Tyrol Knutzhorn

Fritz Weaver ---------- John Reynolds

Frankie Faison ------- Detective Parretti

Ben Gazzara -------- Andrew Wallace

Pierce Brosnan, all eyes on Rene Russo: "Do you wanna dance or DO YOU WANNA DANCE?"
(photo credits: MGM Pictures)

Release Date: August 6, 1999 (USA) / September 3, 1999 (Brazil)

Running Time: 113 min. 

Budget / Box office: $48 million / $124.3 million (box office success).

Plot summary: Based on the 1968 movie of the same name. In the remake, Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan, great in Mrs. Doubtfire & 007 movies), a self-made billionaire, is bored of everything he desires, but he's irresistible to women. Therefore, Thomas has a hobby - stealing art masterpieces.
After the theft of a Monet painting (stolen by Thomas Crown), the only person who suspects Crown is Catherine Olds Banning (Rene Russo), a sexy insurance investigator, but smart, driven and alone. Her job: get the painting back to the MET Museum, in New York City.
 But in the middle of the investigation, Catherine falls in love with Thomas in an unexpected way. The romance happens in three moments: a black and white ball, a gliding flight and two days in Martinique (France).
Back in Manhattan, Catherine thinks she has reason to be jealous, so when he suggests they go off together, she hesitates... because the insurance investigator also suspects that there's another woman in Thomas' life, Anna (Esther Cañadas), which makes Ms. Banning very unsure to trust Crown. 

The ending is when Catherine, shaken and fallen apart, is on plane to Britain. A hand reaches through the seats from behind her and gives her a handkerchief while using a voice that doesn't quite sound right. She looks in the seat behind her to find Crown. She leaps at him, furious at his actions. "Did you set this up?" shouts Catherine to Thomas, and her screams were listened by the stewardess.

And both kissed each other. While Ms.Banning hugs Mr. Crown, she whispers, in a seductive way, in his ear: "If you pull a stunt like that again... I'll break both your arms!"

Rene Russo in scene of Thomas Crown Affair... so sexy and seductive!!!
(photo credits: MGM Pictures)

Fun Facts about the movie:

• There are several changes comparing the remake from the 1968 original (directed by Norman Jewison), most notable for the amount of intimacy and nudity scenes between Catherine (Rene Russo) & Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan).
• Rene Russo's clothes were entirely done by Michael Kors for the Celine collection. Along with her hairdo used in the movie, Rene's Catherine Banning was her best character done in her entire acting career.
• Rene Russo did her first nude scenes of her career in Thomas Crown Affair.  
• First of two remakes John McTiernan did from Norman Jewison movies. The other movie was Rollerball (2002), starring Rebecca Romjin, Jean Reno & rapper LL Cool J.
• When Catherine (Rene Russo) is at Martinique (France), she drapes a white towel around her breasts... and when she "lassos" her towel around Thomas' neck took sixteen takes to get it just right. Weights were added to the towel to get it to work correctly.
• And in Rene's recent interviews on TV, many of the interviewers ask of... Thomas Crown Affair. According to Rene (Russo): "Many women ask of him (Pierce Brosnan)... what was he like? Is he cute? Is he dreamy? Yes he is. He's a good kisser. (...) For the love scenes, are always really hard! (laughs)" (see "Rene's Valentine's Day Special" post)

Rene Russo: concentration in scene. (photo credits: MGM Pictures)

Critical Reception:

• IMDB: 6,8/10 
• Rotten Tomatoes: 70% (100 reviews, fresh).
• Metascore: 72/100
• AdoroCinema (Brazil): 4/5

Next week, I'll talk about Rene's character in Thomas Crown Affair, Catherine Banning... !!!  

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Loveuguys.

xoxoxo 

ME

RENE RUSSO FANPAGE'S VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL!!!

Rene's family moments in the Academy Awards: along with her husband, Dan Gilroy (left),
and along with Dan and her daughter Rose Gilroy (right). (photo: Getty Images).

While in United States Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14, in Brazil, this day is celebrated on June 12 (tomorrow).

As I said on the end of part 2 of her bio, since 1992, Rene is happily married to Dan Gilroy, and both have a beautiful daughter, Rose Gilroy, who pursues modeling since 2016. 

And what about in movies? I selected five romantic opposites with whom Rene she played: Mel Gibson, Pierce Brosnan, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman & last but not least, Jake Gyllenhaal. 

Mel Gibson, Pierce Brosnan, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Jake Gyllenhaal:
the 5 lucky men of the Valentine's Day Special. (collage: M.E.Serrano)

1- Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4 & Ransom)

Rene Russo and Mel Gibson, 1992. (photo credits: David McGough/Getty Images)

Mel Gibson is well known for doing Mad Max & Lethal Weapon franchises, Conspiracy Theory, and many others. And what's Rene Russo got to do with this story? Well, here it goes. Most of the movies Rene starred were next to Mel Gibson (3 times in total). In Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), while Lorna (Russo) and Riggs (Gibson) were comparing scars, they share a kiss together, and in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), they work again together, now their characters are wife and husband.

But between Lethal Weapon movies, they worked together again in Ransom (1996), Mel and Rene were Tom and Kate Mullen, respectively. Both have to face their son's kidnapping, done by Jimmy Shaker (Gary Sinise, great in Apollo 13 and CSI NY)
2- Pierce Brosnan (Thomas Crown Affair)

Rene Russo and Pierce Brosnan, 1999. (photo credits: Ronald Simmoneit/Getty Images)

Pierce Brosnan is best known as roles as Mrs. Doubtfire, some 007 movies and... Thomas Crown Affair, along with Rene Russo. In a People magazine article, according to Pierce, "Rene is the only woman of the summer in my book. She does it in such a gorgeous, sensuous, sexy way.”  

And in Rene's recent interviews on TV, many of the interviewers ask of... Thomas Crown Affair. According to Rene: "Many women ask of him... what was he like? Is he cute? Is he dreamy? Yes he is. He's a good kisser. (...) For the love scenes, are always really hard! (laughs)" 

3- Robert De Niro (The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Showtime & The Intern).

Rene & Robert De Niro, holding Rocky & Bullwinkle plushies.
HOW CUTE! (photo credits: Time & Life Pictures)

Another actor who worked most times with Rene was Robert de Niro, great in many movies, such as Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Cape Fear remake, Casino and many others. But with Rene... he worked three times, two as a romantic opposite: Showtime and recently, The Intern (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle doesn't count... even De Niro worked together with her, Rene's romantic opposite was Jason Alexander, great in series as Seinfeld, and in movies such as Pretty Woman, The Paper and Shallow Hal).

In Showtime, De Niro plays Mitch, while Russo plays Chase, a TV producer (in the end there are hints of romance between both of them), and in The Intern, Robert plays Ben (a widow), and Rene plays Fiona (the massagist). In my opinion, the best part is when Fiona appears massaging Ben's back... so relaxing...

In the end of The Intern, Ben and Fiona ended together. 

4- Dustin Hoffman (Outbreak)

Dustin Hoffman hugging Rene Russo during Outbreak premiere, 1995.
(photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage)

Dustin Hoffman is best known on Tootsie, Rain Man (he won an Academy Award), Kramer vs. Kramer, The Graduate and many others. Now, in Outbreak, Hoffman portrays Sam Daniels, Robby's ex-husband (Robby is portrayed by Russo). Sam and Robby reconcile when he and Salt (Cuba Gooding Jr.) saved her from Ebola disease. 

5-Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler & Velvet Buzzsaw)

Jake and Rene: perfect chemistry in scene. (photo credits: StarTraks Photo)

And finally, last but not least: Jake Gyllenhaal. Jake is one of the actors with most popular audience, specially youngsters (and girls too). He is great in Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead, Southpaw... and Nightcrawler. 

Like I said on the Nightcrawler post weeks ago, Rene Russo and Jake Gyllenhaal have such chemistry in Dan Gilroy's debut (Jake was Lou, Rene was Nina). Both were great... and the public (specially Rene and Jake fans) questioned themselves... Why Jake and Rene were forgotten on the Golden Globes & the Academy Awards? (...) Jake should have received something, he should have received a nomination! 

And this year, Rene and Jake are working again together, in Velvet Buzzsaw, by Dan Gilroy. Jake plays Morf Vandewalt, and Rene, Rhodora Haze! We're excited for both working together! 

Other Rene's romantic pairings...

Along with these five, Rene also worked with Kevin Costner (Tin Cup, 1996),  Clint Eastwood (In the Line of Fire, 1993), John Travolta (Get Shorty, 1995), Emilio Estevez (Freejack, 1992), Tom Berenger (Major League, 1989), Jim Belushi (Mr. Destiny, 1990), Dennis Quaid (Yours Mine and Ours, 2005), and many others!

Wish u everybody a Happy Valentine's day!

Hope u like it!

love u guys.

xoxoxo

ME