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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 14, 2017 20:10:47 GMT
Here in Mexico, too. She was seen just as a sex symbol but not a good actress. Gael García and Diego Luna are also criticized for random things but at least they are considered talented actors.
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Post by onebluestocking on Dec 14, 2017 20:13:30 GMT
Who condemned her because she was female? A lot of people just didn't like the episode, it had nothing to do with the gender of the director. I didn't even remember who the director was. In some cases bias against female-led projects is clear ("all-woman Ghostbusters is going to be terrible, I know before I even see it!") but I don't think a male director would have changed the reception for T6T.
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Post by queenzod on Dec 14, 2017 20:17:47 GMT
I did not like TST very much. To me it’s the worst episode, but that has nothing to do with Rachel. I thought the writing was poor, and it pains me to say that because I absolutely adore Mark. I also could care less about Mary’s character and thought Amanda overacted, especially with the death scene. But that’s neither here nor there.
Salma is fabulous and I’m so glad she’s speaking up, and I feel terrible for what she’s had to go through, as well as all those other women as well. Harvey is a disgusting pig and should be in jail.
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Post by coolclearwaters on Dec 14, 2017 20:18:47 GMT
I haven’t seen Diego Luna in much, but Gael Garcia Bernal is one of my favorite actors.
I do think Salma is a good actress. It’s hard to prove yourself if you don’t get the parts. She was excellent this year in Beatriz at Dinner. She and Lithgow should both be up for awards. She was the best thing in that Oliver Stone movie, Savages, from a few years ago ...and she made a brilliant comedic turn as Alec Baldwin’s romantic interest in 30 Rock.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 14, 2017 21:24:03 GMT
RT was treated very badly on Twitter after T6T aired. I guess fans had placed all their hopes and dreams on that episode, and were furious. They also went after Louise Brealey for agreeing to tell Sherlock she loved him. She tried to explain that Molly was a fictional character saying those lines, but fans took it very personally and felt that she had let them down.
I know that the vast majority of the blame always goes to SM and MG when fans aren't happy, but it does seem to me that often there are higher expectations for women.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 14, 2017 21:31:53 GMT
About Selma Hayek - I've never seen Frida, but if there is full-frontal female nudity, there had better be a fully nude man in the movie somewhere, too. I've been ranting about this issue for decades. It even bothers me seeing scantily-clad women in movies where the men are fully clothed. The only reason for such a scene is because somebody (e.g. Harvey Weinstein) demanded it for his own pleasure.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 14, 2017 21:36:03 GMT
Probably my favorite performance by her is in a Mexican movie called El Callejón de Los Milagros. She did it just before she went to Hollywood. The thing is she was more knew then as a soap opera star than a movie actress then in Hollywood was sell as a Latin sex symbol for a while. I'm glad she is now working with interesting directors as Arteta and Matteo Garrone. Diego Luna and Gael García were actually child actors and they frequently worked also in soap opera. There was one in which García was the hero and Luna the nasty rich kid or the funny fat boy. I don't remember! Just look at them! www.google.com.mx/search?q=el+abuelo+y+yo&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg0drTuYrYAhVD64MKHWkpACEQ_AUIESgB&biw=360&bih=512
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Post by coolclearwaters on Dec 15, 2017 1:24:20 GMT
They were adorable!!!
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 15, 2017 2:18:21 GMT
There is another great Mexican actor in Hollywood called Demián Bichir. He was nominated to the Oscars a few years ago and in the leading man category.! Neither García Bernal nor Luna can presume of that. It was slightly surprising because even when he like other Mexican actors had did a few small roles in American film, most of them with plots related to some Latin American country, it didn’t seemed he was trying to have a career in Hollywood as the other three. He was by then very respected in Mexico and was still working here. Then he did an indie American movie about an illegal immigrant and suddenly he was nominated to the SAGs and later to the Oscar! I remember some people on those award forums being cynical about him because they didn’t know who he was so he was “the nobody no one cares who will not win”
He was actually named as one of the Latin actors who supposedly was considered for play Khan in STID but he said they never offered him the role. He had a meeting with JJ Abrams but he was attached to a play in Mexico so he couldn’t do it and he admitted, they never actually offered it anyway. He will play Tom Holland’s father in a popular sci-fi adaptation but I’m not cool enough to know the name of it!
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Post by coolclearwaters on Dec 15, 2017 4:36:00 GMT
I’ll watch for him. I did look him up and he’s acted in some respected tv shows in the U.S. and some big name films: The Hateful Eight, Alien Covenant, Dom Hemingway, and Machete Kills (those last two aren’t exactly big name, lol, but have famous directors and casts). He was in Savages with Salma Hayek. I don’t remember anything about the Oscars, but he had already been a regular on Weeds, a very popular and respected tv series, and had been in Stephen Soderbergh’s Che movies.
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