Blind Items Revealed
June 5, 2012
This actress used to be on the cusp of A list. It was right there for the taking. Then she lost it and it all happened because of a part. A part that she thought would take her from sexy to Academy Award. Our actress never had a problem working. She always worked. She just wanted to be taken seriously. She felt like after a few years of lead roles that all directors and producers wanted her for was her body. She had been on enough casting couches to start a furniture store and the only thing that kept getting her those roles was her willingness to be on the couch. She knew as she started to get older there would be younger and more attractive actresses that would also be willing to roll on the couch so she wanted more. She finally figured out how to get off the couch. Get a role so good that people would take her seriously. She was going all in on the role and decided to go method. Really method. When she was cast she started doing everything her character would do. She lived that life for months before filming. Sex, drugs and practicing what would be the clincher in the movie. She was ready. She was her character. She nailed it. She did exactly what she set out to do and received lots of praise and awards. Nothing big, but she had been noticed.
The problem is that after the film was finished, she could not escape the role. Not that she was typecast, but she had involved herself so deeply into becoming the person she was playing that she kept living the same life. She goes from guy to guy just like her character. She loved living that party lifestyle which she convinced herself was work before but was now just an excuse to still stay in that one moment where people took her seriously. The character became such a part of her life that when she read for directors she would end up acting just like the character. As a result, with the exception of two or three decent performances, the past decade has been a wasteland of forgettable roles. As she starts to age now, the casting couch is back in play again. Even though she has B list name recognition and is probably still a B- list actress she finds herself in the same position she was before, but just can't seem to ever get out.
Heather Graham
Was the move Boogie Nights?
ReplyDeleteBut hasn't Heather always had a hippy vibe about her? I swear years ago I recall reading in a women's magazine about time spent in India.
ReplyDeleteRollergirl! P.S. The carpet doesn't match the drapes
ReplyDeleteWas it for Boogie Nights or another roll? I know that is her type set but I don't watch enough of movies to know her rolls. I don't think there was much method to Austin Powers. I can't remember what big moment Roller Girl had in BN.
ReplyDelete@Rose They're referring to the roller skating :)
DeleteShe looks great for somebody in her 40s living the part lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteHmm...did Heather Graham write this? Seems very specifically personal and not much like the observation of another. "..stay in that one moment where people took her seriously"
ReplyDeleteIt's OK, Heather. Every moment is followed by another. Give the next moment a shot - maybe it'll be great.
Use them tits for every penny they are worth, Heather. Roller Girl 4 Life!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if when an actress starts to age, they gotta start giving up the butt on casting couches?
I've always liked her.
ReplyDeleteI remember her talking about how "tantric sex worked for her," and it made me wonder. I mean, long hours of joylessly holding one's genitals in contact with someone while ignoring their presence and focusing upon the Atman/Brahma and doing astral travel through the Great Beyond...As I say, it just made me wonder about her sanity.
ReplyDeleteThat don't sound fun at all.
Delete"And don't fucking cum in me!"
ReplyDeleteI wonder if she's talking to her parents yet...
ReplyDeleteBoogie Nights didn't hurt Marky Mark too much. Fake echoing and all.
ReplyDeleteSchlong spelchek
ReplyDeletei saw her once at an event i was at - and she was sitting in front of me, and she saw my tights and said that she loved them and it was only then I realized it was actually heather graham. she is so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAlways liked her. Good actress and she seems like she could be a smart girl from the roles I've seen her in. Havent seen roller whatever or boogie nights to judge performance on either...
ReplyDeleteThis seems fishy. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a Young Artist Award, both by 1990. Then in 91 she was nomi9nated for another YAA. She only won an MTV award for Boogie Nights, and then the other noms/wins were as an ensemble. She has more individual awards for Austin Powers (a Saturn, a Blockbuster award, and a ShoWest award for "female star of tomorrow"). And she was nominated for a Blockbuster award for Bowfinger. So how wasn't she being taken seriously? People at least respected her ability. Was Boogie Nights the method role? Also, that woman is known for living a very clean lifestyle and she's aged extremely well. She could pass for years younger. This all just seems strange to me...
ReplyDeleteAre you really using MTV, Uranus, and Blockbuster awards as justification that she was taken seriously as an actress? And "female star of tomorrow" just means you ain't shit yet.
Deleteshe has that big eyed small town look PERFECTED
ReplyDeleteShe was in some really weird movie with Joseph Fiennes. Could that be the role?
ReplyDeleteShe is from my neck of the woods but, sadly, I look nothing like her.
I wonder if she's responsible for getting Heath Ledger hooked. They dated way back when......
ReplyDeleteWhat was that movie she was in with the trailer and some dude?
ReplyDeleteI have looked all over her IMDB and cannot find what I'm thinking of! Grrrrrrr.
ReplyDeleteI feel bad for her. It's a shame really; that she always ends up in x rated roles. It doesn't help that most of her scenes are insignificant.
ReplyDeleteHG was in one of my favorite movies of all time--Drugstore Cowboy.
ReplyDeleteI saw her at Caesar's when Hangover came out in DVD, she was really beautiful. I wondered why she would walk a red carpet for a DVD release though. Oh well, free trip to Vegas I guess.
ReplyDeleteShe's still really pretty, was Boogie Nights the movie?
ReplyDelete@ Barton Fink - Maybe she was using tantric sex while she is on the casting couch. From your definition it seems like daydreaming while having sex you dont enjoy.
ReplyDeleteThe part of Jack the Ripper victim Mary Jane Kelly. The Johnny Depp ripper movie, can't think of the name...that's the last thing I can remember seeing her in.
ReplyDeleteFrom Hell.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah she was in the Hangover too.
heather graham is a terrible actress. the only thing she was decent in was From hell. anything else was awful.
ReplyDeleteI would guess her career kind of stalled out because she aged out of the pretty young blonde thing (even though she still looks good) and didn't really have the right talent to compete for the limited roles for women.
ReplyDeleteHer biggest role was in Boogie Nights, period. I'm laughing, because I think a lot of you are too young to know that Heather Graham was NEVER taken seriously as an actress. She is Roller Girl, and every part since then has been just another version of her.
ReplyDeleteshes not just roller girl to me, i also remember JD banging her while some shitty indie rock song played and Zach Braff delivered one of his contrived monologues
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, Heather was WONDERFUL as Judy Moody's kooky aunt a couple of years ago in a movie my kids still enjoy--played a more wholesome version of the same character, but still good.
ReplyDeleteI remember her in License to Drive with the Corey's and always thought she was so pretty.
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