Topic 3: Favorite actor
cincodemaygirl asked: Favorite actor and why you love them?
And argh, that is hard. I love so many actors. I have had crushes on many more actors than real people. It took a lot of restraint not to list them all here. :)
But I guess the one who has been most consistent since I've been a grownup, and isn't really tangled up in hormones, is Sarah Polley. She is an excellent actress, thoughtful in her performances and choices of projects, a talented director, a lovely singer, and pretty without being perfectly-Hollywood-pretty (ex. charmingly crooked teeth!). I like that she's more or less my age. I respect that she's an atheist and a political activist, too. I will watch her in pretty much anything, and it's bound to be worthwhile.
I fell in love with Sarah Polley when I was maybe 16 years old and saw her in Guinevere with Stephen Rea, for reasons that maybe had more to do with myself than anything else, but whatever. I went through some of her back catalog, sometimes just to see her and sometimes by coincidence. She (and everyone else) was spectacular in The Sweet Hereafter, and she was good in Exotica, too, although she had a lesser role in that one. I remember having fun watching her in Go.
A college friend and I went to see her once when she came to the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, possibly to promote her directorial debut, Away From Her, and that was a treat. Since then, I have enjoyed her even in so-so movies like The I Inside (which I watched for *cough* Robert Sean Leonard and only recall his Pert Plus hair and an argument on a staircase) and Dawn of the Dead, and in downright bizarre ones, like No Such Thing. She hit it out of the park in The Secret Life of Words, even if I couldn't gauge the accuracy of her accent.
Probably most fandom people who are familiar with her know her from Slings & Arrows? I'm really looking forward to watching that one day. Ditto for the two recent movies she directed and got many accolades for: Take This Waltz (in the Netflix queue) and Stories We Tell, which I was disappointed to miss when it played at the AFI this spring.
In conclusion: \Sarah Polley/
And argh, that is hard. I love so many actors. I have had crushes on many more actors than real people. It took a lot of restraint not to list them all here. :)
But I guess the one who has been most consistent since I've been a grownup, and isn't really tangled up in hormones, is Sarah Polley. She is an excellent actress, thoughtful in her performances and choices of projects, a talented director, a lovely singer, and pretty without being perfectly-Hollywood-pretty (ex. charmingly crooked teeth!). I like that she's more or less my age. I respect that she's an atheist and a political activist, too. I will watch her in pretty much anything, and it's bound to be worthwhile.
I fell in love with Sarah Polley when I was maybe 16 years old and saw her in Guinevere with Stephen Rea, for reasons that maybe had more to do with myself than anything else, but whatever. I went through some of her back catalog, sometimes just to see her and sometimes by coincidence. She (and everyone else) was spectacular in The Sweet Hereafter, and she was good in Exotica, too, although she had a lesser role in that one. I remember having fun watching her in Go.
A college friend and I went to see her once when she came to the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, possibly to promote her directorial debut, Away From Her, and that was a treat. Since then, I have enjoyed her even in so-so movies like The I Inside (which I watched for *cough* Robert Sean Leonard and only recall his Pert Plus hair and an argument on a staircase) and Dawn of the Dead, and in downright bizarre ones, like No Such Thing. She hit it out of the park in The Secret Life of Words, even if I couldn't gauge the accuracy of her accent.
Probably most fandom people who are familiar with her know her from Slings & Arrows? I'm really looking forward to watching that one day. Ditto for the two recent movies she directed and got many accolades for: Take This Waltz (in the Netflix queue) and Stories We Tell, which I was disappointed to miss when it played at the AFI this spring.
In conclusion: \Sarah Polley/