"Famke Janssen is dressed for her photoshoot at the Covent Garden hotel exactly as her character, Betty, would dress in the new Netflix crime drama Amsterdam Empire lacy and floral but tailored and mini, with long school socks. Is the look sexy in a sardonic way, or irony expressed through fashion? We spend a lot of time, one way or another, talking about objectification, the beauty myths of the patriarchy, the collateral damage of the self sexism, basically."
"So it hardly seems the time to mention how smoking she looks; her face as flawless and cheekboney at 60 as it was nearly 30 years ago, in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye. It's almost unnerving if she were a man, I would mention it without hesitation. She puts it down to clean living: I get judged very quickly, that I must have had work, which I haven't."
Famke Janssen appears dressed as Betty from Amsterdam Empire: lacy, floral, tailored mini with long school socks. The look raises questions about sardonic sexuality versus ironic fashion and connects to debates about objectification, beauty myths, and sexism. Janssen’s career spans more than 60 films across 30 years, with prior modeling experience. Her face remains striking at 60, which she attributes to clean living and denies cosmetic work, noting contradictory societal shaming. Amsterdam Empire is her first production in the Netherlands and her first acting in Dutch. The story centers on Jack’s cannabis empire and Betty’s refusal to go down quietly.
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