I think it must be heard to be that beautiful and yet feel real. She was a luminous character in Easy Virtue, lots of heavy dialogue requiring comic timing, and in an emotional roller coaster, and she pulled it off. I didn't expect it, honestly. If she can pull off a Noel Cowardesque comedy, she can do more.
I wish she'd do something else I'd like to see. They might have to ugly her up for a role but it'd be worth it.
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shareShe's ugly enough, already.
Easy Virtue? More like easy direct to DVD. The public has caught on to the hype. She's unremarkable as an actress. She's not exactly bad or anything, she's just so dull and lifeless, which is the way she comes across off screen, too. All she has is a great body with an unremarkable face and talent.
I agree -- she was great in Easy Virtue! If you liked her in that I'd suggest watching 'The Tall Man' -- completely different theme, but her best performance to date, and a great story.
shareThank you. I'll look for it.
shareI liked "Easy Virtue" a lot.
Kristin Scott Thomas was amazing.
About Jessica, i agree she is not bad, nor excellent, but lifeless and unremarkable really aren't the most appropriates adjectives...
Far as the press released back there, she was the second option to do the Cat Woman in Nolan's TDKR...
...which means she surpasses 20 excellent actresses, including Keira Knightly and Natalie Portman - the ones everybody knew weren't testing for Talia, reason i don't mention Rachel Weisz, who probably was testing for Talia...
And she looses to Hathaway, who is an amazing actress.
I think she is amazingly athletic, and this is already something.
I don't understand why you dislike her so much, because there is plenty of worst actresses out there, like Blake Lively and Ashley Greene - the first is weak, the second can't act.
Maybe is because Jessica still getting good jobs...
And i think she have the merit of want to be take seriously. She could do like Milla Jovovich and make a lot of money by doing the athletic-hot girl action crap-movies - she declined the Black Widow role after Emily Blunt drop it -, but instead, she goes try her luck in the same movies of Anne Hathaway, loosing the majority of roles, like in "Les Miserables", "TDKR" and "The Devil Wears Prada", but being cast on "Hitchcock" and "Nailed", the last one, surpassing Hathaway.
I think of her like a new Jessica Lange.
I don't like Jessica Lange, but i don't be offended by directors picking her, or by people liking her. And Lange, who have great looks and isn't a bad actress, made a great career.
I don't think you're wrong about Jessica Biel, but i don't get the surprise about her partial success or the overreaction against it...
Jessica chooses well her roles, and that's why her career keep going.
Plenty of beautiful starlets gain space then loose it by becoming their "number one act", like J. Love Hewitt (the sexy nice girl), Zooey Deschannel (the cute hipster crazy), Neve Campbell (the melancholic strong persona), Heather Graham (the dumb hottie)... All this girls have a start of stardom, staying in top for four or five years, than they just get stocked in bad choices and the same role...
Hewitt and Graham are weak, but they are madding movies like Heartbrakers, Boogie Nights, From Hell, acting with Hopkins, Hackman, Weaver, Depp, Cheadle, Hurt, Oldman... Today the first is in a LAME tv show, the second only "b" movies or cameos in comedies.
But Neve and Zooey were very good actresses, and sunk their careers...
Choices are important to an actor.
Tom Cruise is a good actor, nothing amazing, but because of his choices, he have one of the greatest careers in the movie business. Win an oscar, work with the biggest directors of his time, was in several major blockbuster, and sometimes was acclaimed by the critics, like in "Magnolia", "Collateral" and "Tropic Thunder"...
Gary Oldman never wins an oscar...
Alan Rickman never wins an oscar...
Nick Nolte never wins an oscar...
They are in my top ten actors.
Yes, i think is unfair. But i also think is normal, and i don't blame Tom, who knew how to play the game and have his merits.
I have not watched this movie yet, but I bought a used copy.
At the same used video store, I saw a black-and-white copy of an Alfred Hitchcock movie with the same title! I was surprised...
Are the two movies the same story?
Curious...
I haven't seen the Alfred Hitchcock movie but I doubt it.
I'd imagine that Hitchcock would be some kind of mystery or whatever and Jessica's movie is somewhat of a romantic comedy, post WW1 period film set in the English countryside.