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Originally Posted by David
I just saw her in "Vanity Fair." I thought she was utterly vacuous. I thought she was a hole in the screen. She's a lightweight. She's a girl you might pass at the mall. She was lashed about by the tremendous role of Becky like a kitten with a tigress by the tail.
Also, her French pronunciation is bad.
I did not see her performance in the Cash movie. But I saw her in that movie a few years back that takes place in Texas or somewhere, & her ex-husband wants her back & she's about to marry some rich, effete snob. She was good in that--again, the kind of girl you'd see at the mall, shopping for shoes.
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You've seen the wrong movie David, to treat Thackeray as Mira Nair did should be a crime. She's a great director, but the project was clearly on assignment, and Witherspoon couldn't do much there. As Eliud said, you should try Election, or even Pleasantville, SFW, Cruel Intentions. She's extremely instinctive, surprising, intense and very generous as an actress, able to work with the smallest things and gestures.
Romy