Oh, she had her moments, no doubt. Lots of them. Prophecy Girl is indeed an excellent example of that. The first act of The Body. Lots of eps and scenes where there were no Emmy-style Emotional Moments, but she was completely
on
in the Buffy role. She just wasn't spectacular with enough consistency that I ever thought "This girl can, should, and will go on to a very successful, diverse film career." Unlike, say, Alexis Denisof (AD for Joker!) or Seth Green (Seth Green for... getting more parts in better movies!) or Amber Tamblyn (Amber Tamblyn for some role other than SMG's little sister in The Grudge 2! Seriously, if she follows that path I might die (and yes, I know Amber Tamblyn isn't in Buffy or Angel and therefore this is random (I also know that it's uncouth and confusing to put parenthetical expressions inside of other parenthetical expressions and I don't care (I love SMG's delivery of that line in "Welcome to the Hellmouth", speaking of moments when she's on (just the "I don't care" part, when she's talking to Giles in the library about the dead guy, not the rest (obviously))))))
In other news, I finally saw
Marie Antoinette
the other day. So pretty! I quite liked it.
Anti-Freeze: What number is Joss Whedon on your speed dial?
Wouldn't that be sort of counterproductive, what with having to wait until Hell freezes over to make the call?
She was pretty unpleasant about leaving, wasn't she?
I mean, I can't blame an actress for thinking "Hey, I don't really want to be doing Shakespeare at forty having the audience yell out "Hey, Buffy, where's your stake?' or for finding week-to-week tv rigorous, but there is such a thing as...gratitude or something. She could've been working in Wal-Mart.
Yes, she was.
Yep, she played Dawn's friend.
And, should it concern me that I followed all of Gris' parenthetical asides with no problems?
I think she's an excellent TV actress with skills that don't translate well to the big screen. (She could probably do ensemble comedy fairly well. Maybe an ensemble comedy law show? Or even ensemble drama, if one must. She'd be good in a law show of any sort.)
Yes, she was.
Oh yeah, I forgot! Not exactly the highlight of her acting career, though. She was also in The Ring for about 2 minutes before dying a horrible death, thus making her not so much a SMG follower to the American Remake of Japanese Remakes as a leader. Sort of. Technically.
She could've been working in Wal-Mart.
Nah. She was working in daytime tv on a soap (Susan Lucci's character's daughter). If she hadn't landed Buffy, I suspect she'd have a few daytime emmy's to her name.
I agree with Plei in that she's a good small screen actress with a modicum of talent. I would hope that even if she resents Buffy a little, that she understands and respects Joss and what the show did for her--but she may only do that when she visits her accountant.
Huh, I thought SMG was pretty consistently outstanding as Buffy. She's just picking the wrong big screen roles.
I'm with Gloomcookie. I don't much like the actress on a personal level, but I thought she generally did a very good job across the board (other than "Halloween") until the writing started letting her down. And I've thought her good in every film role I've seen her in except for the execrable Scooby Doo movies.
