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| See how easy it is, ladies. |
Keira Knightley is my least favorite of this first group. Honestly, I do not think she is much of an actress. My favorite performance of hers is still as the chav Jules in Bend It Like Beckham. She is good in Never Let Me Go, too. And her and Carey Mulligan are reunited in that film, as well. Except in Never Let Me Go, Ms Mulligan gets to be the star.
Rosamund Pike (what a frickin' great name!) on the other hand is one of my favorite actresses working today. And she is so lovely. What a perfect face. Her performance in Made in Dagenham is small but powerful and her portrayal of the gorgeous, glamorous, yet hopelessly thick, Helen, in An Education is sublime, full of panache.
Meanwhile, the American actress, Jena Malone, who played Lydia in Pride & Prejudice, is about to start production on a film telling the story of another one of Michael's Women Michael Loves, Carson McCullers. Ms Malone will play Ms McCullers. Ms Malone will also play the lead in the film version of A Doll's House, too. Damn!
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| One of America's greatest novelists, Carson McCullers. |
Talulah Riley got to literally perform the old noir Hollywood trick of taking her glasses off, letting her hair down and revealing herself a bombshell. In Pride & Prejudice, the exquisite Ms Riley played the plain bookish Mary. Four years later in Pirate Radio she was completely different and a knockout as Marianne.
Anyone who is reading this does not need me to elaborate on Ms Mulligan or on all the ways I am fond of her.
Kelly Reilly is not a Bennet sister, she plays Bingley's sister in Pride & Prejudice but she gets included here, too. I love her work, especially in Me and Orson Welles and as the only good thing in Mrs Henderson Presents.
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Like Pride & Prejudice, my least favorite of this next group is Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the female "star" of the picture.
My favorite Scott Pilgrim actress is Alison Pill. (Another amazing name!) I loved her as Zelda in Midnight in Paris.
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| Scott Pilgrim stars at the London Premiere. |
Ellen Wong's CV is woefully short. And that is a shame. She should be bigger than she is right now.
Anna Kendrick was definitely the only good thing in the awful Up in the Air, that is for sure.
Mae Whitman is a splendid talent. You can see her every week in the teevee series, Parenthood. She has also done a ton of voice-over work, including appearances on Family Guy.
The sultry surly fantastic Aubrey Plaza is currently a part of Parks and Recreation. But she is prob best known for her astounding chat show performances.
And Brie Larson has been a child actor, a recording artist, cable teevee star, (w/ Toni Collette! in The United States of Tara) and a film actress.
I love them all and wish them fabulous happy careers.
-- Ardent
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