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to prepare for the role. It was a practice which was looked upon with affection rather than derision; columnists wrote anecdotes about Brand's tactics, and the
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had done a nude shoot for a calendar, Brand said that she would "look good in a potato sack" and provided photos of her posing suggestively in one.
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