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Aubrey Plaza as "Wow Platinum"


I haven't seen this now-infamous Old Auteur Coppola's testament yet but...

...I have read of Aubrey Plaza playing a character called "Wow Platinum."

And I gotta agree: that's a helluva name for a movie character, especially a female character to be played by one of our career-hottest(and deadpan funniest, and offbeat sexiest) young stars.

As some wag wrote: 'Wow Platinum is almost as wild a name as...Aubrey Plaza."

It also rings clear now why last season, Aubrey Plaza hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live...blonde. I only saw clips. Did Plaza reveal the look was for..."Megalopolis"?

Anyway, I"d say Aubrey Plaza and the long-missing Dustin Hoffman(Metoo got him, old) are the two players I'm most looking forward to seeing in Megalopolis.

Wow Platinum. Wow.

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Dustin has about 3 minutes total screen time.

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Oh. Maybe I'll skip it. I'm sort of not kidding.

On the one hand, its too bad.

This man -- in his "era" -- late 1960's(The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy), the 70s(Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Lenny, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Straight Time, Kramer vs Kramer); the 80s, (Tootsie, Rain Man -- let's forget about Ishtar)..was a "prestige superstar" (and two time Best Actor Oscar winner) to go alongside Nicholson, DeNiro, and Pacino.

On the other hand, evidently his Metoo-ish stuff was a bit more prove-able than with other accused, and screenwriter William Goldman in his book "Adventures in the Screen Trade" ratted Hoffman out as a tyrant towards co-stars Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider on Marathon Man. (Hoffman in turn said Goldman was lying and seeking revenge against Hoffman for changing the ending of the film "on set.")

Who knows?

Mighty once, now fallen ,nearing 90 , doesn't much care.

Three minutes may be all he needs.

PS. A clue to the Hoffman personality. I cannot cite this but I read this quote from him back a coupla decades:

"Movie stars are sometimes wrongly pigeon-holed. Everybody says Warren Beatty gets all the girls...but I get all the girls, too."

Fair enough...except he was married at the time(still is, same woman.)

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On the other hand Plaza has a lot of scenes

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OK...I'm back IN!

She was truly Wow Platinum in Dirty Grandpa.

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... to be played by one of our career-hottest(and deadpan funniest, and offbeat sexiest) young stars.

She's forty.

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Wow, I didn't know she was that old (pun intended). She looks/acts young anyway.

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I didn't know her exact age tbh before looking it up but when I saw that "young star" line I thought - hang on she was in Parks and Recreation and that was years ago! So I realised she was no spring chicken...

Anyway, what was your pun (didn't get that)?

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In this particular movie she plays a character named Wow Platinum.

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LOL, don't know how I missed that ! 😞 (

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That's young to me!

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"One two three, yippie...yee." - Wow Platinum

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The hottest she ever looked on the screen. I liked the character, too.

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