Beautiful girl, but
her performance is as exciting as cardboard.
shareI see your point...it is a very understated performance and appears to be rather wooden. But I think this is exactly what the showrunners wanted. Christine is a very aloof and disconnected person. She is not warm, not engaging, and not particularly comfortable around people.
Her cold and surface-level performance matches the show and its themes perfectly.
"This is dead air, Barry....dead air."
Exactly. Also, if you see Riley Keough in her other performances, or in any of her interviews, you can see that she is not anything like the character of Christine Reade. In fact, I didn't even realize she was the same actress as the one who plays Capable in Mad Max, they are so completely different.
What a lovely day!
@moviefool09 They are probably trying to copy Sasha Grey's performance which was equally flat, likely due to the fact that she couldn't really act either. I wouldn't call it understated, I'd chalk it up to inexperienced. Elvis was a better actor than her, so is Priscilla Presley. Lisa Marie is likely where Riley gets her flat acting skills from. I am rooting for Riley, she is beautiful, but she needs to develop her acting skills. You can't have a detached flat performance coming from the lead of your show, it won't work, and people will catch on, if they already haven't. I found the Sister, her parents, and, actually, everyone else in the show to be better actors with better performances. The producers are really trying to bolster her with the supporting casts performances, but you can't do that forever. You watch, it will change, it will have to.
shareI understand your viewpoint, I really do. I think it just depends on how much leeway you give Riley in portraying Christine with such rigidity. I don't think they wanted someone to show emotion. Christine has been described by some critics as a sociopath. I am not sure the showrunners would go that far but they wanted someone primarily to show aloofness, coldness and isolation. To each his own, but I think Riley got across her character very well.
How good of an actress is she? I'm not sure. She's pretty young and presumably will have a lot more work ahead. We'll see if she is able to show more shades. As far as Mad Max, what I mostly remember about that great action film is the action and Charlize's gritty determination in her role. And I've seen it twice. Don't necessarily mean that as a knock on Riley but take it how you will.
"This is dead air, Barry....dead air."