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In Reply to: Cate Blanchett... greatest actress today? Perhaps, but I get posted by tinear on November 20, 2006 at 04:41:58:
You'd have to define what makes one actress better than another. Can we go by the Academy awards? No because people pick favorites instead of the work -- well some do. The actors award is better because their peers choose - same with the Director's guild but there is still favorites.Too much of this industry is who you know and who you blow to get the part because some actors like Keanu Reeves can't act his way out of matrix paper bag and he's managed to become a big star.
Cate is a very good actress who I have followed since her wonderful performance in the sorely overlooked "Oscar and Lucinda." Also starring Ralph Fiennes in one of his better works and Geoffrey Rush excellently narrating.
I can't fault you here for your choice - but best is impossible since many actresses have done some terrific and varied work.
I would very much like to see what the recent British best TV actress winner for the new Dr. Who, Billie Piper can do when she breaks into films. She is already the number one selling female pop star in the history of Britain and she dumped to act and she is far better as an actress than she is as a singer. Very few television efforts generate emotion and she has done in England.
I would also like to see more of Sophia Myles.
I would also like to see Jodie Foster get into something better than she has been selecting of late.
Follow Ups:
I quite like Oscar and Lucinda and thought Cate was wonderful in it. Great cast and even a fine soundtrack.I can't buy Kidman as a great actress.
A great beauty maybe.
But great thespian? Nope. Talented, yes - great, no.
I am not in the Kidman camp either -- I don;t see her as much other than a "star"I don't mind "stars" though -- that is why I defend Julia Roberts. There is nothing wrong with a personae and often times the actors are typecast into doing certain things over and over and they are said to be one note performers -- some are of course but I think many stars get unfairly knocked when they're much better than the slagging they get on forums. Sure Emily Watson is a better actress than Julia Roberts and sure it may frustrate some that Julia makes a kabillion dollars more for playing "safer" romantic comedies but that is just the way it is.
And after watching Ralph Fiennes in Maid in Manhatten and in films like Schindler's List, Sunshine, and Spider -- he said the romantic comedy is the hardest thing to pull off and gave a lot of credit to people like Cary Grant. Of these films he was easily the worst in Maid in Manhatten. The main problem is not him or the actors in such miscast roles...but actor's actors need deep characters or in the case of Amon Goethe deep psychological issues or political juiciness to play. Give Fiennes a cardboard cutout cartoon character like that in a dimbulb romatic comedy and he has nothing to work with.
Conversely a Jack Nicholson who mostly shows up as Jack Nicholson has such overpowering personae that he can simply be Jack and that can get him through dysmally written characters.
Drama is easy comedy is hard. Jodie Foster is considered a great actress on the backs of films like Silence of the Lambs, the accused, Taxi Driver but IMO when she truly showed me she could act was in the movie Maverick.
...also was very good as the fixer in Spike Lee's Inside Man, a role which called for a light touch as well as dramatic moxie. (And she got to show off her great gams.)The light touch doesn't come easily to Fiennes, however.
Oddly enough, as a voice actor in Wallace & Grommit/Curse of the Wererabbit, he was loose and quite funny.
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