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sxpnce wrote: Simon Woods is another gay actor, yet it did not detract from his role as "Bingley" in Pride & Prejudice and "Edward" in Penelope. He was completely adorable in both movies and convincing as a male suitor.
Funny that you posted that - at first I thought you'd gotten another actor mixed up, but you didn't! LOL....anyway, this prompted me to look up the actor Simon Russell Beale, who played Charles Musgrove in the 1995 Persuasion, an almost perfect movie. Beale has never been in the closet, and even after I learned he was gay, I still thought his character study of Charles M was fabulous. I could see myself as Mary, Charles' cranky wife. So not fantasizing s*xually, but really enjoying the character that Beale presented. Well, anyway, googling him, I find that he's considered Britain's greatest living theatre actor by many, and has received wild acclaim even though he's a pudgy li'l fella, not the kind of person you normally think of as the tortured Hamlet, for instance. But my point in writing this is, he becomes his characters, and his fans love that about him. It's the same way really about N.Kidman. In every dadgummed movie I see her, I think, "Oh, this must be what she's really like, look how she really *is* her character." In Moulin Rouge, the irritating Cold Mountain, The Hours, Practical Magic -- she was that character. I had a crush on a First Nations actor who played a good-hearted meddler in a little movie called "Medicine River." I thought, man, he and I together would make quite a pair! I later learned that the actor is a brooding, angry person .... but that doesn't keep me from thinking of his character in MR as the kind of guy I could realy have some adventures with, fixing up everybody else's life on the reserve. Heh!
Somebody wrote that it's now hard to watch Angie Jo and/or Brad believeably because we simply know too much about them, and because the characters they play are pretty much....action heroes, not very dimensional. Same goes for CTC, and, if she ever gets another film role, KAK. Neither of them really honed their acting chops, opting for "staring into the camera and running" in his case and the "easy" way to fame and fortune in hers. Good discussion, guys!
May 26 08 7:44 AM
MamaJunebug wrote: Somebody wrote that it's now hard to watch Angie Jo and/or Brad believeably because we simply know too much about them, and because the characters they play are pretty much....action heroes, not very dimensional. Same goes for CTC, and, if she ever gets another film role, KAK. Neither of them really honed their acting chops, opting for "staring into the camera and running" in his case and the "easy" way to fame and fortune in hers.
Somebody wrote that it's now hard to watch Angie Jo and/or Brad believeably because we simply know too much about them, and because the characters they play are pretty much....action heroes, not very dimensional. Same goes for CTC, and, if she ever gets another film role, KAK. Neither of them really honed their acting chops, opting for "staring into the camera and running" in his case and the "easy" way to fame and fortune in hers.
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May 26 08 7:59 AM
chaotic2 wrote: sxpnce wrote: Simon Woods is another gay actor, yet it did not detract from his role as "Bingley" in Pride & Prejudice and "Edward" in Penelope. He was completely adorable in both movies and convincing as a male suitor. I thought he and Rosamund Pike had had a relationship previously. In fact, on this very board, someone had accused RP of dumping him whilst the movie was being made.
I thought he and Rosamund Pike had had a relationship previously. In fact, on this very board, someone had accused RP of dumping him whilst the movie was being made.
That would be me.
Rosamund Pike was in a relationship with him and left him for the film's director in the middle of filming, or so we were told in the UK. Unless I totally got them mixed up.... Someone else knows?
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May 26 08 8:08 AM
a film should not be dummed down to suit an audience (i'm talking to you MPAA)
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May 26 08 8:37 AM
princesspeach said: The MPAA is not a "governing" organization and does not "dumb down" anything. It's rating system is intended as a guide for parents
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KidLawless77 wrote: MamaJunebug wrote: Somebody wrote that it's now hard to watch Angie Jo and/or Brad believeably because we simply know too much about them, and because the characters they play are pretty much....action heroes, not very dimensional. Same goes for CTC, and, if she ever gets another film role, KAK. Neither of them really honed their acting chops, opting for "staring into the camera and running" in his case and the "easy" way to fame and fortune in hers. I feel the same way. When I watch these big movie stars, I can never believe they are the characters they are portraying on screen. OTOH, someone like Meryl Streep, Kevin Spacey, Kevin Kline or Laura Linney does seem to melt into their roles. I totally can believe they are the characters they are playing.
Another one of my favourite actors is Kathy Bates. I don't know anything about her private life and I prefer to keep it that way, not to let her persona get in the way of the character she is playing.
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