She is ruining this series, either whispering/lisping like a little girl or intoning her lines in the most boring flat voice. What a difference it would have made if someone who could actually act had been given this part.
shareYou're missing the point, Jessica IS disconnected , wooden and disjointed. This is a person who from age 4 has no connectivity to other people and has no real social skills because she never learned them. Jessica us ver off and the actor did a Avery good job.
shareOK, maybe my comment was a little flippant. So she is meant to be wooden and disconnected. But she was wooden and disconnected in a really really annoying, lisping, stupid way that I personally could not stand. Arby was similarly wounded but for me, his childlike and vicious demeanour was entirely believable because a tortured little boy, crying out to be normal, could be discerned beneath his psychopathic exterior.
Jessica's woodenness was more to do with lack of acting skill than successfully portraying a character. I don't doubt Fiona intended to make her wooden, but it was more plank-u-like than disconnected and disjointed. My point all along being that a better actress would have made a better job of it and Jessica could have been believable rather than silly and annoying.
The performances actors give are not particularly their choice. The writer defines the character, the director tells the actors in which way to behave to express the characteristics the writer says they exhibit. So if her lisping was annoying to you it's more likely that the director was instructing her to do that not an actual choice.
shareTo me it seems less like the acting but much more the writing. There is just so little growth in that character. Arby gets a whole biography and is allowed to change and to feel pain, which shows many different sides of that character. Jessica is just always in the same enigmatic state with a pokerface and not much more. She simply does not get the scenes to do anything.
shareExactly, she does a great job acting someone this *beep*
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I could not agree more. The performances in general aren't that good (with few exceptions like Stephen Rea) but they're mostly OK. However, watching Jessica Hyde on screen is just painful. I've stopped watching the show because every time she appears (which is quite a lot), i ended up fast forwarding to the next scene.
shareNormally, I don't pic on actors in forums. But I have to agree, that the acting of the woman playing Jessica Hyde left me totally untouched. The guy, playing Arby has to do a similar role and he is very convincing. Jessica is just annoying. The actress does look like a woman on the run for her whole life (too thin, hollow face, pracvtical clothes), but she is overacting most of the time. There were one or two scenes, where she was believable, but the rest was a little painful to watch. And it's sad, because the character is so important for the storyline. The other characters are well played imo.
shareI think her delivery suits the part she's playing, it's the perma-pout that grinds my gears.
shareI think you miss the point of the whole show. The show is a live action comic. Everything is hyper reality. From the choice of colour filters to the sound editing and all the characters are basically comic characters. It's not supposed to seem realistic, if it was, why would Lee wear a yellow suit? Why would Arby carry around a neon yellow bag? Everything about this show is like a comic, but not in the Marvel kind of way.
shareI personally love her. I felt like I was tripping when I watched that scene where she convinces the kid to separate from the group with her.
The guy we're meeting with can't even grow his own hair?!? COME ON!!!-Gob
I think Fiona (Jessica) got the role because of her interesting facial features, great cheek bones! She looks like some sort of comic book female hero type, especially with the hair cut. Reminds me a little bit of Aeon Flux (animated series) not from the crappy Charlzie Theron movie.
shareOP is a moron. She's whispering because the director told her, "OK, you're supposed to be whispering in this scene." She's being "boring" and "flat" because her character was borderline insane. She was raised to be a ghost, to kill, and she was tortured. You're complaining about her acting when her acting was spot on. You don't hate her acting you hate her character. If your beef is the fact that her character is flat that's got absolutely nothing to do with her acting.
shareop, her and arby are probably the the coolest characters on tv. so much bad ass.
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