My Bookie Is Gonna Break My Knees, I Know It!
Posted on April 14th, 2008 | by Mirzha |For this year’s Actress Psychic Contest @ The Film Experience, I decided to do something I didn’t last year: Enter it, of course! Last year I didn’t, sadly (read: THANK GOD). I had both Natalie and Scarlett on my draft for The Other Boleyn Girl. *embarrassed by somewhat disturbing fanboy tendencies*
Anyway… I did indeed enter this year! And if you look close enough, you can find me on there…
Oh, yeah, great. There goes the sly positive of semi-anonymity! I hate you, me. Well, since the inconsiderate Joeyocentric cat is out the bag, why not just tell you why I chose them, eh? And guess what?
Emily Blunt in The Young VictoriaWitness the one Fanboy J.D. wants in the most. Yup, even more than the other four. Listen, she needs this nomination. He’s still pissed off that she missed for The Devil Wears Prada, despite being understanding of why it didn’t happen), which is definitely one of the best comic performances of the decade.
“No. Shan’t.”
BRILLIANT. But all sides of J.D. thinks she deserves to be a helluva lot more famous, and this might bring it to her. (drctly rltd) I especially love the fact this is in the realm of possibility! Yay the realm of possibility! I like you!
Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky
The reviews out of Berlin have been very strong, and she also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress. It’s a Mike Leigh film, and he’s good with getting actresses nominated. I think. I mean, Staunton also had festival buzz and awards… but that was Venice, a whole 6 months down the calendar. And she’s not as known, but that could work with the “new girl” slot. Or not. Maybe I didn’t think this through. Maybe a lot of people didn’t think this through. Well, we’ll see, I guess.
Keira Knightley in The Duchess
I know what you’re thinking:
“You’re an idiot.”
And you’re right! I believe this is Fanboy J.D. being an irrational twit. I actually didn’t realize how stupid of a choice this was until after I sent it. Oops! It’s not gonna happen. August/September release date, no-name director, the fact it’s Keira. It’s not entirely impossible, mind you. It seems like it could be, if the film is worth something, a very juicy role that could breed a very strong performance out of her, and one that could bring in raves. The odds of her getting enough and then having them last the long dry fall into legitimate buzz… *sigh*
Meryl Streep in Doubt
There’s really nothing I can say on her that been said, insinuated, or thought. Inevitable? Pretty much, yeah. So, um…
Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road
Now this, thankfully, is where the chaotic streams of Fanboy J.D. and Rational J.D. merge into the Great Winslut River, a beautiful nirvana of an aquatic road. Like Streep, nothing really needs to be said. But…
*ahem*
Fanboy J.D. wishes he could’ve included…
Anne Hathaway. Mostly Anne Hathaway. 99% Anne Hathaway. But, now, it doesn’t make sense. Well, it doesn’t! She’s one of my very favorite actresses (and was better in Ella Enchanted than La Skank in M$B, I’ll say it) and I would love love love love love love if I could see that oh-so-desired prefix in front of her name, but I’ve always feared that it’s never gonna happen. She hasn’t gotten the respect she deserves, despite numerous failed attempts at headlining a movie — I mean, of the three major films she has first billing for, Becoming Jane is probably her most important, for f*ck’s sake.
And Dancing with Shiva and her role in it seem incredibly intriguing, honestly. But I get a lot of Margot at the Wedding (minus asexual kid and manipulative bitchiness) vibes reading it’s plot description, which makes me sad, confused, scared and pre-disappointed.
*sigh*
I’m gonna suck at this, ain’t I? Mm. Ah, well. Such is life.
So, did you try out your psychic skills for it? Do you wanna tell me who you’re predicting anyway? Do you wanna give me some sleeping pills?
Because that’d work too.
