http://lebeauleblog.com/2013/10/27/what-the-hell-happened-to-rebecca-d e-mornay/
Rebecca De Mornay starred opposite Tom Cruise when they were both young actors on the rise. Cruise went on to star in Top Gun and became the biggest movie star in the world. De Mornay, on the other hand, struggled to capitalize on her early success.
What the hell happened?
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shareShe needs an ABC Family series.
shareShe should do some of her own TV series!
shareRebecca's story is similar to that of many actresses.
sharehttps://www.looper.com/142793/whatever-happened-to-rebecca-de-mornay/
In the pantheon of actors who came of age during the 1980s, few seemed as destined for superstardom of Rebecca De Mornay. Then again, few '80s actors could lay claim the same blend of wit, humanity, and raw (not to mention refreshingly unapologetic) sexuality that seemed to put De Mornay a cut above most of her contemporaries. Indeed, it was those very qualities that helped get her a foot in Hollywood's coveted door and land a minor role in Francis Ford Coppola's largely forgotten 1981 musical romantic drama One from the Heart.
While One from the Heart failed to make much of an impact at the box office, it did earn an Oscar nomination for Tom Waits' brilliant original music. Coppola's film also earned praise for its impressive cast, all of whom gambled big that the director could find magic in a music venture that was a patently risky proposition circa early '80s. It didn't come together as the cast and crew may have hoped, but De Mornay made the most of the moment, delivering a memorable performance that put her leading lady chops on full display.
She'd earn earn her first starring role in her very next film, and while that film seemed destined to make a star of the young actor, the stardom never quite materialized. Still, Rebecca De Mornay has done her best to hang around Hollywood for the past few decades, and we're betting you've seen her more than you realize. Here's where.
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She's a lovely woman who I imagine is well into her forties. What wonderful blue eyes !
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Her like so many other female actresses she reached her expiration date. Rebecca had that sexy woman child look that doesn't translate too well to old age. She is still attractive, but not like she was in the 1980's.share
Attribute that to sexism in Hollywood or just reality, something of which feminists are devoid.
Sex sells, boys can fantasize about doing a woman slightly older than themselves, just as men can of doing one younger than themselves. Neither fantasize much about doing grandma. That goes well outside the confort envelope.
Old females are death at the box office which the recent movie Poms provided ample evidence. Even the remake of Ghostbusters! with an entire nearly over the hill by Hollywood standards cast dropped like a lead balloon.
I thing the whole Me Too! travesty came about due to a few women who sold themselves decades ago for a "shot" now wanted a few additional minutes in the limelight and were trying to make their poor earlier quid pro quo judgement calls into a revival of their career. It didn't.
A lot more women who didn't depend entirely on their looks are moving behind the camera and from their they can have a more powerful effect than they did in front of it by taking off their clothes.
Respectfully, I don't agree with very much of this post. The Ghostbusters reboot was likely a bad idea regardless if it starred Kate Upton or Bea Arthur.
I sorta balk at how people want to characterize the climate in Hollywood regarding female actors. It's too much of a generalization. There are just too many Patricia Clarksons and Laura Linneys to consider it hostile, while Hanks and Clooney have had to mostly called it quits. There may be a dearth of creativity for older parts, but I don't think women are disproportionately stigmatized.
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/22367944--the-hand-that-rocks-the-cradle-
Demornay's career may have been negatively affected by her father's alleged association with white supremacists.
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It’s amazing how Rebecca’a career didn’t take off like Julianne’s - especially considering how Rebecca was more famous at that time. I think the her taking part in the awful TV movie version of the Shining ruined her career.
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She actually turns 60 in August! I always thought she aged very gracefully.
shareEmma Thompson is also 60. She looks exactly that. Healthy and clear-eyed with a toothsome smile. The short hairstyle isn't exactly a turn on, but I'm sure it works for her.
shareI have no idea what she looks like, but unless she completely let herself go (Kathleen Turner?) I have to imagine she's still quite fetching.
shareHer choices of films didn’t hit – Arguably Risky Business and The Hand That Rocks The Cradle were the pinnacles of her career. The former she was a co-star and the latter she was the antagonist. If her intent was to become a star then she really needed financially successful films where she was the lead and those never seemed to materialize.share
Her “look” wasn’t really saleable – De Mornay isn’t “conventionally attractive” and that seems to have made selling her to audiences, difficult. If she was somewhat more attractive, she might have hit bigger.
She can do drama…but she’s not an action or a comedic actor – De Mornay tried comedy with Feds in 1993 and The Slugger’s Wife earlier and she wasn’t funny. She tried “action with the Charlie Sheen version of The Three Musketeers and that also flopped. She seems to operate in a limited range and that has never been proven to be in demand.
She took time off in the late 1990s and early 2000s, apparently to have her two children – While she was away, other female actors took her “place” and she was demoted back to supporting roles.
She aged – De Mornay turned 40 in 1999. That meant she was going to be relegated to mother and eventually grandmother/matron roles and she doesn’t seem to have prepared herself for them. Now that she’s 62, she’s out of contention for most roles and her profile slipped even further.
I have never liked De Mornay. Her whole demeanour just screams 'sleeze'.
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