"Don't cry, Jane, they'll hear you."

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I completely blame you for this, missfoxie

Can some kind person/people please recommend me a Helen Mirren film? All I have in my home is Gosford Park, which I watched yesterday while lying in a pool of my own illness (metaphorically speaking only, there was no actual pool) and promptly fell head over heels with her. 

So. Aaaaaany film at all, preferably with some form of angst. Thanking you all very kindly, oh wonderful people I know.

There would have been an accompanying poll but lj screwed around with me and I have to go and lie down again now, so instead I shall give you the questions and maybe you can tell me in the comments? With your helpful Helen Mirren film suggestions? *puppy eyes*

1) Favourite actor/actress (or one of them, I know it's difficult to choose!)
2) Favourite scene said person has done.

I was going to put this next bit behind a cut, but I feel it's important for you all to read:

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the last couple of memes I've done, because they've meant I've conversed with all of you lovely people and you all really do make me smile and giggle and make me feel better when my own body is conspiring against me. I guess what I mean is that I'm glad I've met youuu, all of you crazy people, even the ones I've not spoken to a lot or have just met recently, and that talking to you or reading things you've written genuinely does make me all yaye. So thank you, for being brilliant people. That is all.

I'm very sorry. I'm hormonal and emotional and my head hurts. Sorry if that last paragraph sounds a tad crazed.

 

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My favourite Helen performance is Elizabeth 1...you must watch that one. She is utterly amazing in it. I loved her before that but that refuelled the love in a big way! It's a really good miniseries too, Jermey Pinkcastle and Hugh Dancy are fabulous too.
Tell what you think of Calendar Girls! She's adorable in that.

Fave actor/actress....ohhhhhh Moog, can I have a few???

Miranda Richardson - 'Damage' final scenes and 'Dance To The Music Of Time' - the scene at the bottom of the steps where she's just been revealed as Simon Russell Beale's fiancee and the scene by the church in 'Gideon's Daughter'

Johnny Depp - in 'Blow' the scene where he finds out Barbara is ill...also the final scene with his 'daughter'... The final scene with Freddie Highmore in 'Finding Neverland'...

Juliet Stevenson - on film it would be the breakdown scene in 'Truly, Madly, Deeply' but on stage it would be her scene with Trigorin where she begs him to stay in 'The Seagull', her scene in the attic in 'The Alice Trilogy' and her final breakdown also in 'The Alice Trilogy'

Rupert Graves - His crying scene when he's ill in 'The Forsyte Saga: To Let', on stage 'The Exonerated' where he's describing his treatment in jail.

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Just want to also say that I LOVE KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS TOO!! She was utterly heartbreaking in The Seagull.

Moog, I loves you and your emotional rants....I think you're lovely

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Ooooh darling, I watched Calendar Girls this afternoon with my mother! I'd actually seen it a few years ago but didn't enjoy it then - I think that was because of where I saw it/who I was with - but this time, I adored it! It was marvellous! *glee face* And so sweeeeet. And Helen was a goddess and everything was lovely except Julie Walters who I just don't like.

Is Blow your favourite Johnny performance then? Hmm. I was really underwhelmed by the whole thing. If I were to pick, I'd go for Ed Wood, I think. Something about the optimism and child-like nature of the character struck me, but Johnny makes it something slightly more...I don't know, I'm probably talking rubbish.

Oooh, and I was given Truly Madly Deeply for Christmas! I shall be watching it soon! I watched Garden State last night - the film itself didn't make me go 'wow', and Zach Braff is a pretentious little prat when he's not in Scrubs, I have just discovered, but Natalie Portman! She was wonderful! I love her! Thank you for purchasing it for meeee!

Your Miranda choices - yes. Very much yes. As for Rupert Graves - I really do need to see The Forsyte Saga!

Will there be a long lj post about the Londoning and the plays and Kristin the darling? There should be. On this subject, did I ask you if you'd seen Line of Beauty? I can't remember if we discussed it when we talked about Hayley Atwell - oh, and did you think I was right to judge her a Fran-clone?

This comment is a little bit long. I sorryful!

Loves youuuu toooo, my lovely lovely darlink.

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Oohhhhh but long comments are funnnnnnnn!!

Ok, hmmm, lots of things to say...where do I begin?

I will, of course, be doing a long old rant about London, just try and stop me ;) Shall tell you in such detail about Kristin, it will almost seem like you were there...

YOU HAVE TRULY MADLY DEEPLY??? YOU ARE GOING TO WATCH AND SEE THE JULIET WONDER?? Oh my god, I'm so excited, I can't tell you...

I think Blow probably is my fave Johnny performance...(along with Sleepy Hollow, Finding Neverland, The Libertine...the list goes on...) I don't really know why...those two scenes probably...just found him extremely truthful and affecting in it. Perhaps he put a lot of himself into the role, more than usual? And you're so not talking rubbish about Ed Wood, he is heartbreakingly childlike in it, it's beautiful and sad all at the same time.

Oh nooo, you're weren't keen on Garden State...I think I actually am in love with the film, you see. I've never seen Zach Braff on Scrubs but ME LOVE HIM in Garden State...you loved Nat, yeyyyyy!! Isn't she so tiny in it? I love her...she's adorable...I just bought the soundtrack in London too...love it.

Yey for Calendar Girls too! I love her when she wins the cake prize thing and laughs like a mad loon. That stuck out for me cos I just thought her joy was fabulous.

Watch The Forsyte Saga indeed madam! I haven't seen The Line Of Beauty but I would like to. Is it on dvd? I guess cos I'm so close to myself I wasn't sure if Hayley acted like me...and she's definitely quite amazingly more beautiful than me!!

Off to rant on London...

Loves you my darling one

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