One of the most brilliant actresses of her generation.
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LifeVsArt — 11 years ago(April 08, 2015 12:47 PM)
Yeah, equal parts sensitivity and intensity, well said. She's had some great costars, too - Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddelston, Julianne Moore, Nichole Kidman, and more. Mia's got a certain gravity that draws you in.
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LifeVsArt — 10 years ago(April 09, 2015 08:41 AM)
She becomes her characters so perfectly that you might even not recognize her at first, when you watch a film in which she plays. That's a fine trait IMHO.
That's her chameleon ability. I can't think of any actor of her generation that can disappear so completely like that, where she looks, sounds and moves like a whole other person. Take a role like Mia in "Jane Eyre" and compare her to her Ava in "Only Lovers Left Alive" - it's hard to see her as being the same person. -
LifeVsArt — 10 years ago(May 24, 2015 08:34 AM)
Do you know that Mia's "Madame Bovary" is coming out soon - June 12.
This article appeared today in the Sunday entertainment section of the New York Times.
Ms. Wasikowska, having already been Jane Eyre and Alice in Wonderland, is now something of a specialist in literary heroines and does a lot of acting here just with her eyes. I think she could be in silent films, Ms. Barthes said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/movies/madame-bovary-and-gemma-bovery-revive-and-refract-a-heroine.html?_r=2
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Benedict_Cumberbatch — 10 years ago(June 08, 2015 10:11 PM)
She's my favorite actress of my generation.
Adele Exarchopoulos (on the strength of her extraordinary work in "Blue is the Warmest Color" alone), Rooney Mara, Lea Seydoux, Carey Mulligan, Jennifer Lawrence, are all extremely talented, but Mia is my number 1. She's incredibly versatile, subtle, nuanced, and comes across as an extremely smart, sensitive, and humble young woman. She may have done Alice in Wonderland (who would turn it down?) but she's obviously not in the game for the money and fame. She will take smaller parts on the strength of the project (director/writer/co-stars), yet she's offered these great leading roles because she's just that good at her job. She has a very special aura, and I wish her a very long career.
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SwingBatta — 10 years ago(August 11, 2015 09:36 PM)
She will take smaller parts on the strength of the project (director/writer/co-stars),
yet she's offered these great leading roles because she's just that good at her job.
Case in point: she was willing to take quite a small, nothing-special role in Lawless because of the director (John Hillcoat) and that killer cast (except Shia LaBozo, but nobody's counting him anyway).
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LifeVsArt — 10 years ago(November 14, 2015 11:16 AM)
I agree, those characters were like archetypes, but, at the same time, Mia, Tom and Jessica played them with real humanity - it was beautiful, but actually a very tragic story. Mia's scene in the morgue was heartbreaking.
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yakirue — 10 years ago(December 30, 2015 02:27 AM)
I completely agree. First saw her in "Stoker" and I've been hooked ever since.
Definitely one of the best in her generation. The way she acts gives me glimpses of the characters inner thoughts/emotions. She makes me understand the character better than other actresses these days. -
LifeVsArt — 10 years ago(December 31, 2015 09:36 AM)
First saw her in "Stoker" and I've been hooked ever since
By the time "Stoker" came around I'd already been deeply impressed by "In Treatment" and "Jane Eyre", and everything else I'd seen her in - "Stoker" kind of came out of left field and, combined with her other performances, solidified my sense that her talent was extraordinary.
The way she acts gives me glimpses of the characters inner thoughts/emotions.
And the way she does it I find kind of mysterious, because her performances seem to grow even deeper with re-watching. I think her acting engages the imagination - it's kind of open-ended. As you said, Mia becomes the characters. She's like a super-sensitive tuning fork for the emotions.