Sean Young in Blade Runner. She would have made a great Vicki Vale or Catwoman as well.
Perfect - Milla Jovovich “The 5th Element”
Perfect - Maureen O’Hara “The Quiet Man”
Perfect - Annette Bening “The American President”
Perfect - Liv Tyler “That Thing You Do”
WTF were they thinking? - Shelley Duvall “The Shining”
Not a beauty certainly, but I thought she had a good, scared out of my mind, “I don’t have to be beautiful, I’ll look horrible and sweaty” selfless quality in that role.
Johnny Depp in “Benny and Joon”. Much prettier than his female co-star. Only in the movies are nutcases beautiful, funny, and appealing.
Some of you may be interested to know, when we visited Gettysburg last year and had a licensed battlefield guide to show us around, I asked if he’d ever guided any celebrities. He had. I asked which were the best-informed about the Civil War and, without hesitation, he said… Lynda Carter!
…And I only just noticed that nobody’s yet mentioned Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia. Certainly, there are and were more beautiful women, but Fisher brought a sort of grace and nobility to the part that was exactly what it needed.
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. Beautiful, conniving, evil. Perfect for that part.
They could have had anyone there, the entire film was shot in complete darkness, :mad:so honestly, you have to take the film-makers word it’s actually her.
My first thought, but also, Kate in Little Children which was a whole different look, a whole different facet of her beauty, but perfect for the character as well. (She should have won the Oscar for that. Oh, Academy, always a year late and a film short.)
I’ve got to agree. Wonder Woman was an Amazon. Tall, strong, beautiful. Deschanel is pretty, not beautiful, but more importantly, she’s got a 2010 Hollywood body. Big boobs, oddly sturdy thighs, but strength and endurance? Not a chance.
Jennifer Garner as Electra in Daredevil. She was so perfect in the part they had another movie just about Electra, which would’ve been all right if the script to Electra hadn’t been incomprehensible when it wasn’t stupid.
Romy Schneider in La piscine (The Swimming Pool)
Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.
I wouldn’t think particular grace or nobility - more a gutsy no nonsense character to the role - which it needed to stop becoming just another damsel in distress all the time
I’ll cite Simone Simon in Cat people 1942
Rebecca DeMornay in Risky Business. Just the right mix of beauty and street smart for the role.
Have you read William Goldman’s book ‘Adventures in the Screen Trade’? He wrote the screenplay for Stepford Wives, and apparently Newman was the director’s wife. The moment the director floated her name as a possible for the role, Goldman knew the film was sunk - she was the reason why all the other actresses had to wear long flowing skirts, instead of having lots of nubile young things prancing around in shorts and miniskirts.
Quite honestly, I think Elwes is an actor of very limited skill.
That too, but the grace struck me more. Consider the medal ceremony at the end of Star Wars, for instance (which I maintain is one of the three best scenes in the series for Leia).
Nobody has passed Diana Rigg as Mrs Peel for me.
http://www.briscoebarnyard.com/pictures/diana.jpg
a teenage crush, me at 13
real girls were too scary then
I could name a few big stars who are good-looking but possess what I’d consider quite limited acting abilities ::coughKeanucoughcough::, so I don’t think that’s a dealbreaker in Hollywood.
Absolutely. And Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole in How to Steal a Million. Quite possibly the best looking couple ever captured on film. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had nothing on them.