This might not be as terrible as it sounded...

If you'd seen any of the pictures of Christina Aguilera and Cher shooting scenes for up-and-coming Cult Camp Classic (to be confirmed), Burlesque, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was gonna be the most boring movie about stripping ever made! We mean, look at these photos (via Dlisted). It looks like they're filming an Activia anti-digestivum bifidustifum advert, not a 'motion picture' about sparkles and nipples. Where are the sequinned basques and horse-hair whips? Where's the giant martini glass full of spongey ice cubes? Where's the rocking horse? (!)

Yeah, yeah we know those are pictures of them filming on the streets, but still. People who do Burlesque don't walk around dressed like that between shows. Look at Dita von Teese! She doesn't own an item of clothing that isn't in some way vintage or glittery. Or both! She doesn't wear chunky-knit-sweater-dresses. She rocks 'burlesque' every day.

And yes, we get that Christina Aguilera is probably not playing an internationally-renowned, unthinkably rich, modern Burlesque icon, like dear Dita. She's probably playing some down-on-her-luck, but gutsy everygirl, who gets a job at her local 'Burlesque' club where the dancing is more Pussyflap Trolls, than Dita von Teese or Immodesty Blaize. BUT YOU GET THE PICTURE. Those aforemtioned (and aforelinked) pictures are BORING and hinted at a film full of dullness as well as terribleness, which is a given.

Anyway if you watch the exclusive 'behind the scenes' footage above, you'll see that the film is going to have more in common with Aguilera's "Dirrty" and "Lady Marmalade" videos than you possibly could have hoped for. It'll probably still be awful, but at least it'll be sparkly and fun. Oh and Cher, acting really isn't that hard, babe. We hope you were employing ultra-dry humour, and it just didn't register on your face, because we'd like to see you working a night shift at an understaffed hospital and then call acting hard.