14 DAY TRIAL // “American Sniper,” based on the life of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, is Clint Eastwood’s biggest commercial hit to date as a director, having a US debut worthy of a big-budget superhero flick. The film also made infamous the plastic doll that stood in for Kyle’s newborn daughter, as audiences were unable to move past how fake and plastic looking it was on the big screen.
Within hours of the release, Twitter was riddled with jokes about the doll, including how Bradley Cooper deserved his Best Actor Oscar nomination for not bursting into laughter while cradling it and moving its hand with his thumb.
Some even said that the doll deserved its Oscar nomination as well, perhaps in a new category set up for it, called Best Prop.
Well, the doll has heard you all and it’s not happy. In a video posted online, the creepy doll makes an appearance to issue a statement on the “American Sniper” controversy, the one concerning it, not the one about whether Kyle was a coward or a hero.
The doll is upset people called it a “fake baby,” because it’s “got less plastic in [it] than half the actors in Hollywood.” To all those who mocked the doll’s performance in the film, consider this: “If you think that job was easy, you try being cradled in Bradley Cooper’s arms for six hours and not wetting your pants.”
That out of the way, look for the doll in its next movie, the sequel for “Boyhood.” This fake baby is going places!
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