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Post by Oxynia on Mar 7, 2023 13:09:01 GMT -4
Not sure if she's ever attempted a British accent, but her Irish "brogue" in Mary Reilly was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
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Post by Ginger on Mar 7, 2023 13:18:22 GMT -4
I can't imagine Julia Roberts with a British accent. Has she ever attempted one? She attempted an Irish accent in the mid-90s for Mary Reilly and her dour performance and terrible accent were endlessly ridiculed. Julia has a number of fine attributes as a performer, but period dramas and accents are not her thing. I would say thank God she didn't ruin Shakespeare in Love, but who cares anyway. I liked it at the time, but it's such piffle and not rewatchable. |
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Post by famvir on Mar 7, 2023 14:44:09 GMT -4
But with Julia in the role, Saving Private Ryan would have won best picture. Even Weinstein couldn’t sell Julia as the “muse for the ages.”
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Post by Ladybug on Mar 7, 2023 18:02:16 GMT -4
LOL, that walk! I always get a kick out of her Lancome commercial where they do these quick cuts so as not to show too much of that hilarious gait. When she's clomping down the stairs in Ocean's Eleven and Matt Damon finds it so sexy  |
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Post by Ginger on Mar 7, 2023 18:45:19 GMT -4
LOL, that walk! I always get a kick out of her Lancome commercial where they do these quick cuts so as not to show too much of that hilarious gait. When she's clomping down the stairs in Ocean's Eleven and Matt Damon finds it so sexy I probably said it before in this thread, but what cracks me up most about that scene is that Entertainment Tonight did a behind-the-scenes piece that showed them filming it. You can't see her feet when she's walking down the stairs. She did it barefoot. After the director called Cut, she asked everyone if she did a good job of looking like she was walking in heels. She was barefoot and she clomped on purpose. |
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Post by forever1267 on Mar 7, 2023 21:40:14 GMT -4
Julia's Movie Star character in Notting Hill is playing British, but I can't recall if she uses an accent in that scene.
Her next film is a family drama based on the novel Leave the World Behind. Anyone read that one???
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Post by scarlet on Mar 7, 2023 23:33:45 GMT -4
Julia's Movie Star character in Notting Hill is playing British, but I can't recall if she uses an accent in that scene. She doesn't. They don't actually show her doing the scene in character, just discussing it with her co-star and then co-star asks her who Hugh is and she blah blah blahs 'he's nobody, he's actually becoming a bit of a pest' blah de blah and Hugh is hurt and leaves and more drama happens before they end up happily ever after. Yeah, my fave JR movie--and one of my fave rom-coms--by a mile. |
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Post by ahah on Mar 8, 2023 8:22:40 GMT -4
Her next film is a family drama based on the novel Leave the World Behind. Anyone read that one??? I read it. To illustrate what a terrible book it was, when I read your comment I looked up the book to find out what it was about only to realize I’d read it. It’s about a family isolated in a house trying to understand why there’s been a widespread power outage. Not a lot happens beyond characters being self involved. Julia should be great in it! |
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Post by cremetangerine82 on Mar 12, 2023 2:37:09 GMT -4
I'm still pissed that Katharine Hepburn liked HorseFace over Meryl Streep. Is it because the latter was more of a threat?
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Post by technicolor on Mar 12, 2023 12:00:02 GMT -4
I don't know why Hepburn preferred Roberts, but Pauline Kael voiced criticism towards Streep that I think many of those who haven't warmed up to her would sign. Kael basically made the case that Streep is too technical and that there wasn't enough passion/warmth with her. Of course Kael didn't see the later development of Streep, so perhaps she'd have changed her mind.
Personally, I do think sometimes you see the wheels turning/technical showcase too clearly, but she's been outstanding in stuff as well. Roberts is not her equal as an actor, but she does have moments of spontaneity/charisma on screen in her best performances that even Streep might have trouble reaching IMO. To me, Streep is always a better actor than Roberts, she's not always a better movie star, in other words. ;-)
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