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Posted by: haplo at August 24, 2011 10:53 AM
eddie redmayne.
i just...can't.
sorry guys.
Posted by: beet salad at August 24, 2011 10:59 AM
Eddie Redmayne in a non-Medieval role? I didn't know he had it in him.
Posted by: PaddyDog at August 24, 2011 11:00 AM
I'm with you beet salad. Guy creeps me out.
Posted by: PaddyDog at August 24, 2011 11:01 AM
She doesn't look anything like MM. MM was bigger all over. Bigger boobs, bigger hips, bigger lips, and more hair (MW's hair looks like it's falling out).
And to be honest, my eyes didn't go to MW, but to whoever the guy is on the right with the hand. He looks like he was cut and pasted into the shot from this decade. His hair is all wrong.
Posted by: BWeaves at August 24, 2011 11:01 AM
That's because he's Eddie Redmayne, BWeaves. everything about him is wrong. and if you look directly into his eyes, the creepiness will overtake you.
eddie redmayne is the samara morgan of 2011.
Posted by: beet salad at August 24, 2011 11:13 AM
Okay, I know rationally that Eddie Redmayne is creepy looking. And yet... I'm kinda buying what he's selling. More than I should anyway.
Posted by: Sassafrass Green at August 24, 2011 11:23 AM
It's probably almost impossible for anyone to look exactly like Marilyn, and people are always going to compare whoever's playing her to the real thing, but for an initial look this isn't too bad. I like the poster. It'll be interesting to see (well, hear) what she sounds like.
I have no idea who Eddie Redmayne is and do not find him creepy in this one pic.
Posted by: Carrie at August 24, 2011 11:31 AM
I'm with you BWeaves, but if they got an actress as bodacious as Marilyn was, no matter how great the movie ended up being, all anyone would talk about is how fat the actress playing her was.
Posted by: ZombieNurse at August 24, 2011 11:35 AM
Mmmmm Eddie Redmayne
Posted by: Anna von Beav at August 24, 2011 11:39 AM
I don't even think it's the look so much as MW isn't as vivacious and lively as MM was. MW has that sort of soft, wispy, ephemeral, hippy-chick thing going on, while MM was very in-the-moment earthy and sensual. It's two completely different energies.
Posted by: Donut Plains at August 24, 2011 11:41 AM
Sorry, but no, not buying it at all.
Posted by: xoxoxoe at August 24, 2011 11:45 AM
Second AvB's Mmmmm, and add a HONK of my own. I think the film'll stink though.
Posted by: Caspar at August 24, 2011 12:01 PM
It's funny Marilyn was never considered much of an actress when she was alive but everyone that's tried to be her since has found it much tougher than imagined.
Posted by: logan at August 24, 2011 12:07 PM
There are certain people who look like aliens and Eddie Redmayne is one of them. He reminds me a little bit of Cillian Murphy... who might also be an alien.
Posted by: MRod at August 24, 2011 12:31 PM
Carrie:
Check out Elizabeth: The Golden Age or The Other Boleyn Girl or Pillar of the Earth or Black Death (see what I mean about medieval stuff give or take a decade?). He's just creepy. What freaks me out is that he was a very successful model before acting. I would run the other way if I saw him in an ad.
Posted by: PaddyDog at August 24, 2011 12:32 PM
It seems like Marilyn's size is greatly exaggerated. She doesn't look like she weighs any more than Jennifer Lopez, who is fit by today's standards. She looks much smaller than Christina Hendricks, who receives a little backlash for her weight but most people still find attractive.
From everything I've seen she was 5'5 and 120 lbs most of her career. That's thin.
I agree that Michelle Williams is thinner than that but not substantially thinner. I don't think she has that same sparkle but no one does. She's serviceable.
Posted by: becks at August 24, 2011 12:36 PM
No, Micheal Williams doesn't really look like Marilyn, but she is close enough and I'd rather they go with someone with the talent to pull it off. I'm not so sure MW can do that either, she has never really played someone like Monroe, but I'm gonna give her the benefit of the doubt. I'm judgement is reserved until a trailer pops up.
Posted by: Freller at August 24, 2011 12:53 PM
This Joe-Schmo-hangs-around-a-star plotline is about as tired as the I-have-issues-about-my-Dad/boy's-coming-of-age one.
It looks like they put Calendar Girl (1993) in a blender with The Bodyguard (1992).
Posted by: Ally at August 24, 2011 5:01 PM
That's no bombshell in that picture. PASS.
Posted by: Candy at August 24, 2011 11:14 PM
I have no hope for this at all. BWeaves is right MW looks all wrong and hasn't gained anywhere near enough(or any at all?) to play the role
Posted by: Nadine at August 25, 2011 9:48 AM
The thing about Marilyn Monroe - and other actresses of the era - is that they weren't obsessively toned, so while they weren't "fat" per se, they were soft and not muscle-y. Christina Hendricks is actually probably bigger than a number of actresses from that period, but she approximates the body type more closely than Jennifer Lopez or Jessica Biel, who have bomb-ass curves but are very taut. Clothing sizes weren't as standardized, either, especially when talking about couture or custom clothing, which someone of Monroe's stature (both financial and physical) would have commissioned often.
The point being, Michelle Williams looks blah as hell and this movie is probably going to suck, but maybe not as much as a movie starring Naomi Watts as Marilyn.
Posted by: Geetch at August 25, 2011 11:37 AM
Not tall enough, not busty or womanly enough hips to be MM. The only thing close is the face.
Posted by: Mr. Stitch at August 25, 2011 9:29 PM
gulp