Jennifer Love Hewitt says hooker role is “about female empowerment”

Jennifer Love Hewitt is dutifully promoting that housewife-turned-hooker Lifetime movie she stars in, The Client List. It airs tonight at 9pm and is getting mixed reviews. Some are bashing it as a sad commentary on the state of Hewitt’s career, but others say there’s a kind of joy in how cheesy, trashy and over the top it is.

In her latest interviews Hewitt is of course spouting the same kind of contradictory faux-empowering crap she usually does. I like her and find her kind of endearing in her clueless way, but it gets old hearing the same thing over and over again from her. She’s told us she wants a body like Gisele Bundchen while saying just a moment earlier that we should love ourselves as we are. Now she’s telling us to throw away our scales because it’s no use keeping track of our weight, and that we should be happier with who we are so that we can date better men. Oh and Hewitt also thinks in all seriousness that her Lifetime movie about a woman turning tricks to support her family is “about female empowerment.”

On how her movie is “about female empowerment”
“It really struck me, particularly where we are in the world economically. This is real stuff that people are dealing with,” Hewitt says. “And I loved that, in this, it was about female empowerment. It was really her taking care of her family and I loved her struggle.”

For the role, Hewitt trained by taking pole-dancing classes (she now has a pole in her house for her work-out regimen), but did little other research before filming began.

“I wanted to learn as Sam was learning it and I think it helped me in doing that,” Hewitt says. “This project in particular, I really went on the journey with her because I didn’t do any real research or any preparation. … I really felt for Sam and her story and her struggle.”

It was this emotional journey with Samantha that makes the character, and the film, one of Hewitt’s favorite roles in her 20-plus-year acting career.

“Emotionally, this was one of the hardest things I ever had to do because it was work that I didn’t understand. It was, quite honestly, a world that I was judgmental of before I did the part,” she says. “It was difficult, but it would probably be a tie now between Sam and Audrey [Hepburn in The Audrey Hepburn Story].”

Besides showing her emotional range, the film is also a testament to Hewitt’s personal growth and being “at the right place” in her life to take on this part.

“I’ve had these types of things come around a lot and I never did them because I was like, ‘I couldn’t even act that if I tried. I don’t know that woman yet, I don’t know that part.’ And I do right now, where I am in my life,” she says. “I was ready to be open to a new side of life and see why certain woman do things and find themselves in this situation.”

“You do root for her and you do judge her, and you love that you judge her and by the end of it, you really forgive her for all that she’s done,” Hewitt says. “Sometimes the best role models, and the people you should look up to the most, are the ones who actually do make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them.”

[From Fox News. Last quote from Celebrity Cafe]

Wow, she really is suited to playing these type of one dimensional characters. Here’s her quote about how we should throw away our scale and not be at all concerned about how we’ll look in lingerie on screen:

On how we should never weigh ourselves
Love Hewitt refuses to step on a scale outside the doctor’s office. “I don’t have scales anymore and I don’t weigh myself. I would urge women everywhere to throw out their scales,” she stated. “Even when I go to the doctor’s office I’m like, ‘Don’t tell me’. Just write it on your chart and don’t tell me.’ It does you no good to know,” she further urged

[From Celebrity Cafe]

In yet another interview, with USA Today, Hewitt reveals that she’s working on a “prequel” to her self help book, The Day I Shot Cupid. It’s all about how you need to feel good about yourself so you can find a better man. Because that’s the only reason to feel good about yourself, right? She said “I realized that (in Cupid) I had helped people through the process of finding a man. But there’s a whole group of women out there, me included, that don’t realize the reason they haven’t found that right man is they haven’t learned how to love themselves first. Once you really love yourself, the caliber of men you can be with goes up.” So we should be happier with ourselves because we’re not happy without a good man, according to J-Love. Poor gorgeous conflicted TV-hooker playing J-Love.

Photos from Lifetime via Daemon’s TV