Hepburn Role Was Horrible
Great movie. In fact, one of the best in my opinion. But that portrayal of Katherine Hepburn was horrible. I was so happy when they passed that point. Hughes would've ordered 200 reels to fix that annoyance!
shareI respectfully disagree. I thought she nailed the role. Maybe you just don't appreciate Katherine Hepburn. By the way, and not that it matters as you are clearly entitled to your opinion however Blanchett won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. Anyway it was a brilliant film and for the record, I also enjoyed the woman who played Ava Gardner.
shareI found it over-the-top. It was very grating on the ears. Perhaps I need to google some Hepburn performances and listen.
shareDunno how accurate of a portrayal it was to the real Hepburn but my god her voice and inflection and mannerisms were annoying. Did men actually find that attractive back then?
Everytime she spoke I imagined as if she should be wearing a comically oversized pinstripe suit and hat with a Groucho moustache and cigar, playing a man in an old slapstick comedy and saying "YA SEE?" after everything. Don't wanna imagine what she'd sound like in bed...
That's a good way to put it, the portrayal was typically overblown Blanchett, more like an SNL skit version of the person rather than authentic performance - it's no surprise it was favourite for the awards, just a standard Oscarbait role. Hepburn was a notorious bulldyke and her public persona was her greatest performance, but this film needed to spread across the award categories as much as possible so it square-pegged her into a romantic interest whereas in reality Hughes was too fastidious to be attracted to her. Just the typical formulaic biopic designed around award night clips.
shareI read she was bi, but the actress did a great job.
shareIt seemed more like a lampoon of Katherine Hepburn than a serious portrayal.
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