Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Today's Blind Items - She Scares People
This actress used to be almost A list. It was mostly movies. That is what she is famous for. Over the past few years she has gone from a flood of movies every year to a trickle. One a year at this point maybe. Although she is a very good actress, she started to get less work because she had a habit of making people very uncomfortable. She scared them. Our actress has no problems stating exactly how she feels and if she is sitting at dinner one night and thinks a thought about someone at the table she will say it. More than once she has told someone she thinks that person is going to die. She has been on at least three sets where the power went completely out. She then employs her favorite expression which is Death Hour. She is convinced most people die in a certain time of the day and that she knows what that time is. It varies depending on her mood. She always talks about death and loves seeing photos of death. It all can become too much. At first, someone might think it is quirky, but after months of working with her, and living through it everyday, it turns from quirk to fear and not wanting to be around her any longer. This, over time has caused her to get fewer parts and for her to get even that more scarry.
Winona.
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ReplyDeleteParker Posey??
ReplyDeleteLilli Taylor??
I'd guess HBC (because she seems quirky like that) but she isn't exactly hurting for roles.
ReplyDeleteMinnie Driver
ReplyDeleteBridget Fonda.
ReplyDeleteKinda kidding, but then again, she DID go from tons of roles to nothing, in spite of family connections. Then again, it's been 20 years plus she can't act anyway.
Ill go with Uma.
ReplyDeleteWinona sounds like a good fit, but she's hardly 'used to be almost A-list'. She has two Oscar nominations and probably could have opened a film on her own in the 1990s
ReplyDeleteShe has one movie this year, one planned for next year. In 2012 she had 3, including one voiceover. One in 2011. Two in 2010, including The Black Swan.
@Figgy, I went to school with Bridget Fonda. She wasn't a huge diva there, more insecure than anything else. Never knew if people liked her for herself or for her name.
ReplyDeleteAccording to IMDB she hasn't worked since 2002.
That makes me incredibly sad for her.
DeleteSharon Stone?
ReplyDeletekate hudson
ReplyDeleteNot Winona. Her career was derailed from the shoplifting scandal. Plus she was definitely solid A list.
ReplyDeleteI like the Lilli Taylor guess. She's talented; was everywhere for a while--but not quite A list; and then just disappeared.
Megan Fox?
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ReplyDelete@Topper, Lili Taylor has had 3 movies in 2013, plus another filming, plus 9 episodes of a TV series called "Hemlock Grove" - not sure what that's about. Lili also had 4 movies in 2012.
ReplyDeleteAngelina J.
ReplyDeleteLeelee Sobieski.
ReplyDeleteShe wants a lock of everyone's hair when she works on a movie.
Who knows what this nut does with them.
Leelee sounds good, but isn't she making a good living as a dominatrix? Wynona was my first thought, but she was def A list. Hmmmm,,,,,, I'm going to have to think on this one.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Pfeiffer?
ReplyDeleteMichelle Williams?
ReplyDeleteAnnette Bening
ReplyDeleteChristina Ricci. She has the weirdest quotes and stories sometimes, so can be her.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.askmen.com/celebs/entertainment-news/kate-hudson/psychic-hudson.html
ReplyDeletePlus "almost" "famous" Scarry not scary
Well she's a real genius since EVERYone is going to die eventually...
ReplyDeleteWhat DID happen to Bridget Fonda? Did she quit the biz?
ReplyDeleteKate Winslet?
ReplyDeleteKinda thought of Tilda, just because she is so very, um, unique.
ReplyDeleteBridget Fonda was seriously injured in a car crash in 2003. She was out of commission with a broken back for a good long while. She also got married. Maybe she decided to focus less on her career after that? Or maybe her career just lost momentum when she had to drop out of sight to recover.
ReplyDelete+1 on christina ricci
ReplyDeleteI believe Bridget Fonda was in a serious car accident. Love her work. For some reason, Mary-Louise Parker came to mind.
ReplyDeleteAunt Gale
ReplyDeleteWinona? She wasn't almost an A list...she was an A list. Winona has been working more lately than she has in years.
ReplyDeleteHilary Swank?
ReplyDeleteShirley MacLaine. She's famous for thinking she is a medium of some sort & believing she is reincarnated from a past life.
ReplyDeleteBridget Fonda seems to be happily married to Danny Elfman. She has given up acting.
ReplyDelete@NuttyFlavor - Hemlock Grove is a Netflix series. We came upon it by chance and liked it a lot. Apparently others did too because they're making a second season. It's totally over the top with werewolves, vampires, gypsies, mad scientists, etc.
ReplyDeleteBridget also has a heart condition. Winona is a good guess. Christina Ricci is more tv now than movies. I can't think who else used to make a lot of movies every year-Liv Tyler? Since her dad is the answer to the other blind.
ReplyDeleteI read this as Winona, too. This and her demanding attitude have derailed her career.
ReplyDeletei don't know if she would be A list but this system is so screwy but what about Fairuza Balk?
ReplyDeleteFairuza has been on a bunch of those bio celeb ghost story shows and talks about seeing ghosts and being able to tap in to the other side
ReplyDelete@littlemanwhatnow I could totally see Fairuza Balk for this, except for she never really had a flood of movies. She'd come and go. But she does seem to have a healthy appreciation for the macabre.
DeleteI'm leaning toward Ricci. She really did slow to a trickle pretty suddenly.
Just want to add that I love Lili Taylor! Love! If Hollywood had a better eye for talent, she'd work a damned lot more!
but winona took a break from acting she only does a movie a yr or two
ReplyDeleteBridget Fonda is a very nice person with no attitude.
ReplyDeleteJust being a mom and wife in Santa Barbara...
And this makes me happy....
DeleteI like the Christina Ricci guess
ReplyDeleteKate Hudson had to be A-list with How to Lose a Guy and Raising Helen. It started to peter out after that, with her only doing spokeswoman work now - low commitment, likely, with just a few photo and commercial shoots. Not as much time to scare. Actually now I'm thinking it's maybe her.
ReplyDeleteFairuza was an interesting pick but was she "almost A"? I was a wee lass in the 90's, so I've only seen her in like two movies.
Amanada Peet? Halle Berry?
ReplyDeleteI don't know ....just thinking of people who have been working less past few years ....could be anyone.
Rachel McAdams. She was in every movie that came out for about 2 years. Now, not so much.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna say.. Joan Cusack.
ReplyDeleteJennifer Connley came to mind.
ReplyDeleteSo late, but maybe renee z?
ReplyDeleteRenee Z is in pre production for the first movie she's worked on since 2010. First person I thought of
ReplyDeleteJennifer Jason Leigh. Good actress, troubled roles, and she's a method actress.
ReplyDeleteIt's my girl Christina Ricci...
ReplyDeleteI don't get why people are naming A-listers. The blind says an actress who used to be ALMOST A-list. Someone slightly under the radar.
ReplyDeleteSo it's not Winona (she was definitely A-list in the 90s), not Kate Winslet (she's totally A-list and never went from a flood of movies to nothing; she always takes breaks between her work), not Kate Hudson (she's not as popular as she used to be but she was A-list at one point with the rom-coms).
My pick is Christina Ricci.
Unless her guesses/predicitons are all coming true, what's to be scared at?
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ReplyDeleteMy area of study involves a lot of death.
ReplyDeleteMy job is essentially nothing but death.
But you know what I don't do? Go around talking about death and how interesting and cool it is. Because nobody wants to hear that shit.
This person needs to get over themselves. I've encountered so many people like this in my line of work, and they never get hired. Ever.
Fairuza Balk is a great guess!
ReplyDeleteYay people like my guess xD
ReplyDeleteUsually I always get it wrong and people say 'hell naaaah'.
xD
I really still think Ricci, but Fairuza is a good guess too. I follow her on Twitter (huge The Craft fangirl back in the day) and she is 'kinda' odd, haha. I am just not sure if she was ever almost A list. I am sure Ricci was close to A list, but not sure about Fairuza.
Another guess for fun:
ReplyDeleteNeve Campbell?
During Scream she was pretty big, and now she barely does anything. She comes off very shy and odd.
My top 3:
1/Ricci
2/Fairuza
3/Neve
A friend of mine was a extra on The Road To Wellville and called Bridget Fonda "The biggest bitch shes ever met"
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