Jennifer Lawrence

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I’m not sure why.  Maybe I’ve watched too many sci-fi movies that wanted to be Star Wars and make huge money on limited budgets but I always feel like there isn’t much interest in bringing in talented actors or actresses to play these roles.  Getting Patrick Stewart to play Professor X seemed so impossible in the pre-2000 world that I lived in.  Comic books were not mainstream and the idea that major actors would want to play these roles seemed like a pipe dream.  Superman and Batman seemed the exception to the rule just because they were so iconic that they had jumped over to the silver screen and be half-heartedly accepted.

Then Blade came out and showed that movies based on Marvel comic books could make money.  Suddenly, Fox announced that they were doing an X-Men movie and filled it with a mix of established talent and unknown actors.  After they ran into the ground after three movies, they rebooted the franchise with a prequel.  Getting James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender was spectacular and awesome but the best casting may have been getting Jennifer Lawrence to play Mystique.  Jennifer Lawrence was just coming off being nominated for an academy award for “Winter’s Bone” but was still unknown to most of the movie audience.  That did not last long though as “X-Men: First Class” and then especially “Hunger Games” shot her into the spotlight and the top of the entertainment hot list.  Since then, she has done a great job switching between the two huge franchises and doing quality Oscar-nominated work for “Silver Linings Playbook” and “American Hustle”

One has to wonder what will happen when Hunger Games ends this year and X-Men: Apocalypse comes out next year.  I don’t know how many X-Men movies she is signed to and whether or not she would keep doing them or leave to do more Oscar-bait films.

Evanna Lynch

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Sometimes you don’t know something is missing until it shows up.  From the first time Luna Lovegood shows up in the Harry Potter series, she is a breath of fresh air.  The Harry Potter series was expanding from the “Power Trio” to “Dumbledore’s Army”.  Luna shows up as the reverse Hermione.  If Hermione is logic, Luna is fantasy.  She is crazy but in a completely awesome way.  Because of the love for the character, people were nervous about who would play her in the films.

Their fears were quickly put to rest though.  Evanna Lynch was Luna Lovegood in the flesh.  She came in to audition for the role of Luna with no Hollywood acting experience and yet impressed the producers with her knowledge and imitation of the character.  She wore her own radish earrings that she had created and won everyone over including J.K. Rowling.  She is the ultimate ascended fangirl.

Danielle Sharp

 

I know.  I haven’t done anything on the blog for 3 years.  It’s weird.  I’m pretty sure that Lost killed the blog.  I could either write for the blog or binge-watch the show.  And you see what won out.  And after six seasons of it, Lost ended in a way that made me happy for the characters but still be frustrated with the fact that there are still a ton of things I wished they had explained but they didn’t.  And then other boring things happened and blah, blah, blah.

I don't have any lofty reasons for this one.  She's not an actress and she hasn't starred in a film that meant a lot to me.  She's a British model that I think looks absolutely stunning.  In a modeling world of overly-tanned models, she has pale skin which is stunning especially when countered with dark hair and makeup that really sticks out.  Or she dyes her hair blonde when matched with her really dark make-up which still looks amazing.

I’m not sure why she has really caught my attention this week.  Hollywood and the internet is full of attractive women.  Sex sells and there are a lot of things that are trying to catch your attention with sexy women.  They all show lots of skin and it becomes hard to distinguish between them.  It’s almost a form of white noise.  You look through the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and look at all the pictures but do any of their names or pictures stand out to you in the end.  You forget them as soon as you finish looking at them because you are on to looking at something else.

I think it’s that just beneath the sexiness is sweetness.  Looking at pictures of her where she is just being normal, she just looks like the sweet innocent girl next door.  It’s such a great dichotomy that it really works for her.