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.
Wow, you've really mastered the power of positive giving-up.
Cordelia ,'End of Days'
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erikaj - Nov 15, 2006 5:40:01 pm PST #5712 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
ChiKat - Nov 15, 2006 5:54:40 pm PST #5713 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
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?
P.M. Marc - Nov 15, 2006 5:56:03 pm PST #5714 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.)
Gris - Nov 15, 2006 5:57:06 pm PST #5715 of 10001
Hey. New board.
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.
Cashmere - Nov 15, 2006 6:02:09 pm PST #5716 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
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.
Glamcookie - Nov 15, 2006 7:14:44 pm PST #5717 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Huh, I thought SMG was pretty consistently outstanding as Buffy. She's just picking the wrong big screen roles.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 15, 2006 9:27:37 pm PST #5718 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 16, 2006 3:31:27 am PST #5719 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Huh, I thought SMG was pretty consistently outstanding as Buffy. She's just picking the wrong big screen roles.
Right. Even her attempts to do indie movies have been backfiring (see HARVARD MAN - or don't - and SOUTHLAND TALES which was the other big bete noir at Cannes besides Marie Antoinette - and was much more roundly despised, and has yet to pick up a distributor).
Ailleann - Nov 16, 2006 4:12:36 am PST #5720 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
She's just picking the wrong big screen roles.
Two words: Simply Irresistible.
Amy - Nov 16, 2006 4:19:29 am PST #5721 of 10001
Because books.
I think The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing could be a good choice, though, if the movie's any good. Oh, and the Alice movie, too.
I never understood all the distaste for SMG. But I don't read a lot of the personal stuff about her.