So, say you're a young actress and you've accepted, for some reason I can't really imagine at this point in my life, a role as a chained-up nymphomanic. How would you get a nice, unhealthy chained-up nympho look?

Well, if you're Christina Ricci and you were preparing for your role in the new film Black Snake Moan, you'd look around you and figure the quickest path to looking unhealthy would be a sugar diet.

During preparations for the film, Ricci apparently ate only candy and raw sugar. Egads.

Apparently, it worked, as Ricci notes she looks really unhealthy in the film.

I'll have to take her word for it. Great cast--can anything with Samuel L. Jackson in it be really bad? But it looks too intense for my taste. Like a big ol' spoonful of raw sugar.