Miranda Richardson……
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TeamStrode — 18 years ago(September 30, 2007 06:54 PM)
R.I.P.: Reese, Angel, Darren, Chad, Kyle, Jake, Mitch, Keith, Ryan, David, Trent, Scott
I hate to say it but she steals the show from the two leads-and it's all in about 2 scenes, memory serves correctlyBeen a while since I watched it through though soon as I get it in the mail I will watch it and who knows show it to my students-college students btw. -
vdemon96 — 18 years ago(October 25, 2007 02:49 PM)
The scene in the kitchen is truly amazing.
she should have won but I don't think she wanted to. she's a very private person and she is a true actress, more interested in performing than winning awards for it.
I'm not saying she would have refused it if she won, I just think it wasn't that important to her. -
TeamStrode — 18 years ago(October 26, 2007 08:59 PM)
R.I.P.: Reese, Angel, Darren, Chad, Kyle, Jake, Mitch, Keith, Ryan, David, Trent, Scott
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0-IQKcHVam0
And I know what you mean. Here's an article from the times that's on her website. The whole academy awards thing is a ways down:
November 13, 2005
Miranda Richardson: from Queenie to meanie
Miranda Richardson has played Ruth Ellis and Elizabeth I, but as Harry Potters tabloid foe, shes really making history, she tells Jeff Dawson
Its sort of irresistible to be part of this great leviathan that is Harry Potter, declares Miranda Richardson, who, like the rest of the films participants, seems to be either toeing a party line that would shame the North Korean dictatorship or vaunting the greatest outpouring of communal love since the Swinging Sixties. Actually, Richardsons enthusiasm is entirely genuine. The sense is its part of history, and for that reason its great, she continues. As it would have been to be part of The Lord of the Rings. And I like the fact that kids everywhere are clutching a hardback book to their chests and huddling off into corners, getting absorbed in a new world. Its not all about looking at a screen, using their thumbs.
When it comes to Hogwarts, Richardson has a bit of previous, all the same. In a 2003 Comic Relief spoof, you may remember, she put on the matted mane of Hermione Granger to play opposite the HarrynRon of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Around her neck, on a leather thong, she deliberately wore a piece of Quidditch paraphernalia. My last line was, Are you looking at my Snitch? she recalls. But they wouldnt let it go out on the air, and I was very sad about that. Richardson was relieved that Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint had the good grace not to mention this. But I was a bit nervous of Emma (Watson), she adds. I thought she might say, Im not like that! In the new film, Richardson plays Rita Skeeter, gossip columnist for the Daily Prophet, a character JK Rowling had been trying to introduce from the outset, but couldnt find room for until book number four. Shes more Dame Edna on the page. And I thought, Well, then, cast Barry Humphries, says Richardson. Im not gonna do that. Ill do something else. She has turned Skeeter into a garishly power-suited vamp, Vivienne Westwood revisited, with a slightly bubbly perm, as she puts it. Skeeters gift for insinuation seems uncannily similar to that of the real tabloid gossipmongers who did their best to skewer young Emma Watson as being some- what tired and emotional after the films premiere party last Sunday.
Several of their kind were used for inspiration. But I certainly wouldnt name any, Richardson beep Come on.
Though only a small role, it marks, for Richardson, a return to her long-term collaborator Mike Newell, who directed the now 47-year-old in her breakthrough performance as the condemned Ruth Ellis in 1985s Dance with a Stranger. With apparent quirkiness, though in reality serious consideration, Richardson followed up her debut triumph by turning down the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction. I thought it was part of a whole series of events and stories that were demonising women, she says. And I thought, Its so easy. Youve just played somebody the public term a murderer, and now they want you to do the same again. She concedes that her career could have gone in a very different direction.
Fortunately for all of us, she instead made the somewhat unlikely jump to play the part of Queen Elizabeth in Blackadder II one of the best-loved characters on British television and one still recalled every time Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren or whoever tries on the orange Tudor afro. A career as prolific as it is diverse has followed.
Richardson renewed her acquaintance with Newell on Enchanted April (1992), which saw her hit a rich, award-scooping vein of form with films such as Damage, The Crying Game and Tom & Viv. She has twice been nominated for an Oscar, but it remains the one big award to have eluded her. Some are still mystified as to how Richardsons portrayal of a blubbing emotional wreck in Damage (said one commentator: She does breakdowns better than the AA) was ignored in favour of Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny.
Well, there are all sorts of stories floating around about that one, she laughs. They were very rude about Jack Palance (who presented the award for best supporting actress that year), and how he misread it. Such are the politics of gong-giving, she is not overly concerned by it all I dont think it matters, she whispers and she continues to employ her considerable talents to such demanding tasks as not being distracted by Nicole Kidmans false nose in The Hours.
Richardson has several new films on the go (Im very aggressive at the moment, she says), including Spinning into Butter, with Sarah Jessica Parker; Provoked, an Anglo-Indian collaboration about a Punjabi woman who kills her abusive husband, starring Aishwarya Rai; and Southland Tales, a near-futuristic film set in LA and -
bron-tay — 13 years ago(September 21, 2012 08:02 PM)
To be fair, the show was not that hard to steal from the other actors, whose parts were actually written as blocks of wood; she acted one of the few actual characters.
That said, she was magnificent. It was not only the kitchen scene, but many other shots where she had one word or zero words and her face spoke volumes.Please put some dashes above your sig line so I won't think it's part of your dumb post. -
romadiva — 13 years ago(June 25, 2012 12:54 AM)
A class act. Still would have loved to have seen her with an Oscar, but at the same time it would have affected her personal life which she has always been guarded about.
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kellyannekanye — 10 years ago(March 04, 2016 11:59 PM)
She was fantastic in this film, definitely the most sympathetic character. Her last two scenes broke my heart, with the transition between her fury and devastation in the kitchen to her cold, cynical stoicism in the bedroom. Possibly the best movie breakdown I've ever seen. I loathed Stephen with all my being.
