If her career tanks, she'd do well in Hallmark/Lifetime movies-of-the-week based on Lavyrle Spencer books (mostly set in the Depression, featuring dirt-poor but hardworking women looking for love).
Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.
'War Stories'
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Kathy A - Mar 07, 2005 8:15:56 am PST #9720 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
DebetEsse - Mar 07, 2005 8:17:53 am PST #9721 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
She could make a really nice Alexandra if they ever do another O! Pioneers.
Nutty - Mar 07, 2005 8:18:13 am PST #9722 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
She's too raw-boned.
She's also quite a bit too skinny to be a proper 40s siren, no? Need something to fill out that bullet bra, and the idealized cheekbone did not have a hollow below it in those days.
I don't know a thing about her acting, but her looks are very distinctive, and not in any of the several "classic Hollywood" ways.
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2005 8:20:03 am PST #9723 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
She looks like she's packing a C -- how big do you need to be for a siren? Given padding technology too?
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2005 8:21:07 am PST #9724 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aims - Mar 07, 2005 8:23:17 am PST #9725 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Anyone watch Their Eyes Were Watching God last night?
Steph L. - Mar 07, 2005 8:27:34 am PST #9726 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
The thing with Swank is, she's very good at the kind of role she does (downtrodden but strong-willed) but I don't think she has much of a range.
I'd tend to agree. In anything else, she's more wooden than a lumberyard.
She was great in Beverly Hills 90210. Where she, in fact, played a downtrodden-but-strong-willed single mom who managed to make a living on the Peach Pit's waitress salary.
Vonnie K - Mar 07, 2005 8:30:32 am PST #9727 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
She's playing a period siren with Scarlett Johansson?
Oooh. If there's a catfight between those two, I'd totally watch. Johansson would try to scratch Swank's eyes out, then Swank could just scoff in derison and punch her face in.
I initially read the title as "Blue Dahlia" and thought they were remaking the Veronica Lake/Alan Ladd pic. Whew.
Nutty - Mar 07, 2005 8:34:56 am PST #9728 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
how big do you need to be for a siren? Given padding technology too?
I guess I'm not talking specifically about breasts, which, yes, can be faked up. But the 40s pinups tended to be hale (petite, usually, but hale) and quite a bit rounder than the current bony standard. The real trouble is that the roundness wasn't strict musculature, either, which, I'm sure there are female Russell Crowes on this earth, willing to change their bodies away from the beauty standard for art -- but I have my doubts.
The weird part? I've read that novel. (It's not that great, but given it's an Ellroy novel, it will be adapted within an inch of its life if it has any chance of being 2 hours long.)
§ ita § - Mar 07, 2005 8:37:21 am PST #9729 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm sure there are female Russell Crowes on this earth, willing to change their bodies away from the beauty standard for art
Well, she's already done that for M$B, hasn't she? But yeah -- the Crow/Clooney/Diesel effort seems to be mainly matched in women by them not wearing as much foundation.