In "It's Complicated," Jane Adler's husband leaves her after 20 years of marriage for a girl young enough to be their daughter. That's the sort of relationship screw job that will futz with your head. Which might explain how Jane, played by Meryl Streep in a Golden Globe-nominated performance, ends up in the offices of a plastic surgeon for a consultation.
Does she go through with it? No spoilers here. You can find out yourself when the film arrives in theaters on Christmas Day. What you can find out now is the "Complicated" stars' opinions about getting lifted and lipo'd in real life, because we asked them during a recent interview.
"I think there's a clichй of how people look when they have it done," explained Steve Martin, who plays an architect who starts falling for Jane. "I don't have anything against it theoretically if you don't end up looking weird, like a non-person."
Streep herself didn't divulge her personal plastic surgery thoughts, but she neatly encapsulated Jane's feelings on the issue. "I think she was just terrified of it," Streep laughed.
Where does Alec Baldwin fall on the issue of artificially enhanced beauty? (He plays Jane's ex, who begins to think he made a mistake when he left his wife for his young mistress and soon begins an affair with Jane.) The actor's fine with it, as long as you don't go overboard.
When that happens, Baldwin laughed, you can end up looking "like a tranny." He's cool with plastic surgery, he continued, as long as "your goal is not to look like a tranny."
Baldwin was quick to add that he has nothing whatsoever against transvestites. More power to them! "I'm not saying 'tranny' in the pejorative sense," he said. "I mean in the descriptive sense."
Check out everything we've got on "It's Complicated."
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