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4 responses to “A Very English Scandal”

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   Shakti

   August 21, 2018

   “High Grant”
   Now that he’s no longer pretty – and boy, has he aged! – he gets to play serious roles where he can display his acting talent.
   So he’s like Leonardo DiCaprio, who had to age into his role of being half eaten by a bear? Does this mean Hugh Grant no longer stutters in half his lines to communicate “I’m a charming shithead in a rom-com?”

   Do you think that aging positively affects acting talent? If so, I think that would be a real problem for the majority of female actresses (because roles dry up and it actually makes sense for them career wise to freeze their face with botox.)

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      Clarissa

      August 21, 2018

      I’m sure he was talented to begin with but he was never given roles with any depth to them. And right now he’s so wrinkled, I didn’t recognize him at first. He did a great job in this difficult role, though. The fellow he plays is a clear bastard but Grant gives him a lot of depth.

      At least,we are not at the point yet where an actor like Grant us prevented from playing a gay character because he’s not gay himself.

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      Dreidel

      August 21, 2018

      Some actresses get more physically attractive with age. Helen Mirren is an example, very slender and sexy today. In her early acting career (late 1960’s, early 1970’s) she had a habit of running around stark naked in some of her movies, and she was a bit on the chubby side back then.

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   el

   August 23, 2018

   In case you missed:

   “Хіба ревуть воли як ясла повни” и “Преступление и наказание”: сравнительные читения
   https://morreth.livejournal.com/3031234.html

   and continuation:

   https://morreth.livejournal.com/3031390.html

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