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Interesting how she has never done a proper action role


She has done a plethora of different roles but never a action role where she does stuff like stunts, fighting, running, jumping, etc.

Has she ever talked about it or why she doesn't do it?

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Doesn't "The River Wild" count?

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I have never seen "The River Wild". I plan on looking it up right after I post this message.

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Have you seen it yet? She's not like she's in other movies.

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She considers The River Wild to be an action movie. She has said that her children wanted her to do an action movie, so she did that one.

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Because she is a true actress and knows that such action roles only lower her profile and make her less prestigious.

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She's an overrated hack who sticks to Oscar bait. A really good actor and actress is someone who can play different types of characters and in different types of movies convincingly, not just Oscar bait (Marlon Brando, Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson, Peter Sellers, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, etc.).

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