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Post by scarlet on Nov 30, 2014 12:57:37 GMT -4
I thought she was funny in Clear History. In general I find her pretty inoffensive. Almost Famous is one of my favorite movies, so she'll always get a pass on that from me. But I hope the blind item about her sending an assistant to break up with Owen Wilson for her isn't true. Didn't she and OW go back and forth a million times? I feel like they were on, then off, then on, then off. And that was before Armstrong and A-Rod, right? Oy, her romantic life is messy. She was great as Penny Lane and it's a great example of someone never living up to the early hype.
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Post by Hamatron on Nov 30, 2014 19:42:26 GMT -4
It's weird, because if I am remembering correctly, she went from a prestige film, which almost won an Oscar, starred in a disastrous period piece, and then committed to only making shitty comedies and romantic comedies.
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Post by celerydunk on Nov 30, 2014 23:38:20 GMT -4
I never understood the Almost Famous hype. It was an okay movie, but I don't think her portrayal was that deep or compelling. If just about any other decent* actress had played that role, it would have been the same movie.
*At first I had just typed actress, but then I imagined Katie Holmes in the role and realized there are actresses that could have ruined the movie.
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Post by twodollars on Dec 1, 2014 1:25:16 GMT -4
I think Hudson was remarkable in Almost Famous. She made you understand why everyone who knew her fell in love with her character. She's never matched that performance, but she deserved an Oscar for that role.
I think it is very hard for actresses to find good movie roles. There are so few good ones that aren't taken by Blanchett, Winslet, etc. Her romantic comedy roles are the equivalent to Vince Vaughn's bro comedy roles. But men never get crap for doing those movies while actresses that do romantic comedies are called talentless, etc. Total double standard.
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Post by divasahm on Dec 1, 2014 9:31:01 GMT -4
I'm not so sure there's a double standard. McConaughey got dinged pretty hard for dippy roles and too many by-the-book romcoms, a couple of which co-starred Kate. He was able to turn his career around by refusing any more of those roles, but not everyone is in a position to take a couple of years off and wait for the the kind of Oscar-bait roles that he started receiving--and even those who are in that position might not attract those prestige projects anyway.
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Post by FotoStoreSheila on Dec 1, 2014 11:51:41 GMT -4
I think it is very hard for actresses to find good movie roles. There are so few good ones that aren't taken by Blanchett, Winslet, etc. Her romantic comedy roles are the equivalent to Vince Vaughn's bro comedy roles. But men never get crap for doing those movies while actresses that do romantic comedies are called talentless, etc. Total double standard. Purely, my opinion, but I find Kate Hudson thoroughly unlikeable, in life and on-screen. She has none of her mother's charisma. A charming actor can elevate crappy material. Everything Goldie Hawn made in the 80s is evidence of that. I think KH is talentless. And not because of her gender.
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Post by Wol on Dec 1, 2014 16:11:01 GMT -4
I thought she was brilliant as Penny Lane.
Big time casting directors who met her fresh out of high school said her sense of entitlement was off the charts. Like they should just hand her starring roles immediately because she was Goldie and Kurt's spawn (not really, I know, but she's appropriated him) and she was just that brilliant. They compared her to Kiefer Sutherland who came in willing to work, great attitude, etc. Exactly the opposite.
She had her nose done and her ears pinned back. In her late teens.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2014 16:47:33 GMT -4
She was great as Penny Lane. I love the scene where William tells her that Russell traded her to another band for a six-pack of beer. She was so heartbreaking, and then she killed it with, "What kind of beer?" I just adore that character. I think Kate fancies herself something of a real-life Penny, or at least she did in her Chris Robinson days, so maybe that's why she was so good in that role. Personally I can't imagine another actress playing her.
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Post by Atreides on Dec 1, 2014 20:21:35 GMT -4
What happened to her career? She was on a hot streak for a while there but seems to have fizzled out.
As for her choices in film roles, yes there are few great female roles that haven't already been taken by the A-list but it's not like money was an issue for her. She could have gone the indie route, or just fought harder. I remember Anne Hathaway saying in interviews that she had to fight very hard to get the role of Andy in The Devil Wears Prada and look where she is now.
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Post by Ginger on Dec 2, 2014 20:11:19 GMT -4
I think another factor in her career decline was that at the height of her "it girl" fame she married a homely, has-been rock star and gave birth to a homely child. She should have married an A-lister and had really cute kids. Then she'd be Jennifer Garner.
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