Raunchy Rihanna and Miley Cyrus get OK from actress Emily Browning

Actress Emily Browning says the singers shouldn't be blasted for being sexy
Hitting back: Emily Browning (Picture: Dominique Charriau/French Select/Getty)
Ann Lee15 August 2014
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Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and Rihanna are often blasted for being too sexy but Emily Browning claims they should be left alone.

The Australian actress, 25, thinks the raunchy divas should be free to express their sexuality however they want and critics should back off.

She said: “I’m not a fan of people and society policing women’s sexuality. I think it’s nice for girls to see an array of different women expressing their sexuality in lots of different ways.

“I don’t see how that element of pop music is really that harmful.” Browning plays a depressed wannabe singer who escapes from a psychiatric hospital and sets up a band with two of her friends in her new film God Help The Girl.

It’s the latest in a long line of troubled characters that Browning, who has appeared in Sucker Punch, Pompeii and Sleeping Beauty, has portrayed on screen.

She said: “I feel like human beings are troubled. Generally we’ve all got weird, dark s*** going on. The characters that I’ve played are the ones I’ve found the most interesting.”

God Help The Girl is out in cinemas next Friday.

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