What makes her so special
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LostFRINGE — 15 years ago(May 28, 2010 02:08 PM)
OMG! I totally agree! She's just so gorgeous. It's unbelievable how old she is.
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ilovedessert-1 — 15 years ago(July 25, 2010 03:55 PM)
HI, The best way I could answer is to say that much as Streep doesshe becomes who she is playing.
Think about the fact that after a few minutes of watching Gena, you forget who she is, because you are so busy watch who she has become! -
cjpmak — 15 years ago(November 03, 2010 01:11 PM)
I adore her, and have since seeing her in Gloria. That performance just blew me away.
And I agree with the other person who said her voice is one of her biggest strengths. Like Colleen Dewhurst, that sultry voice is magnificent and mysterious.
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aidosh94 — 15 years ago(November 19, 2010 04:21 PM)
I know exactly what you're talking about. Her smile is so warm and kind and unique, I always think about it when I see her in a movie, and the fragility of he16d0r smile always came out in John Cassavetes' movies.
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wiked_wich — 15 years ago(January 15, 2011 08:44 PM)
Well, I don't see her in that way, but I just know that she is an awesome actress. My first embedded memory of her was in the movie, Gloria, when it was on TMC in the early 80s, and I thought she was an excellent actress. She was watchable, and I was a teenager then. I didn't see her other or earlier works, but when she again appeared in Hope Floats, Taking Lives and The Skeleton Key that I watched, I was happy to see her again and she did a fine job playing different characters that weren't even alike. Unlike Julia Roberts playing herself in several movies she made. No disrespect meant to her, but GR is a superior actress.
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mmitsos-1 — 15 years ago(March 23, 2011 11:43 PM)
Yes, she exudes class and warmth and intelligence and, of course, beauty. She's a stradivarius of an actress, and a dynamo in just about everything she does. Loved her in "A Woman Under the Influence", and she was completely robbed of an Oscar that year.
I want to see her in her earlier works that she did with Cassavetes, including "Faces", because I know she was a stunner in her younger years (but is still a beautiful woman), and I love that period of film-making. -
mnc9292 — 14 years ago(July 05, 2011 06:46 PM)
I totally agree with you. I just LOVE her! You just can't put it into words. Every time I watch her, I just smile and wish she was my grandma. She is an incredible actress and such a sweet, warm person. I just want to run up to her and give her a hug!
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moira-j — 13 years ago(November 04, 2012 10:54 AM)
She's got class , she's unique ,she comes across as a lovely person both inside and out I love her in movies even if her part is a small one and she doesn't have lots of lines she makes her characters sympathetic and believable.She can do no wrong in my opinion
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truetexian — 11 years ago(May 25, 2014 02:39 PM)
Aside from being one of the most gifted actresses of our time, she's the perfect "every"woman. She's the embodiment of what most seek in a partner, wife, friend, teacher, and mother.
Men want to be with her. Physically, she has been stunning at whatever her age.
Women want to befriend her.
Children find her warm nature inviting and can easily respond to her as teacher or as mother.
She has "it", whatever that is. Whenever I get the opportunity to see something she has done, I get lost in my study of herher voice (at the same time that it's very distinctive and unique it seems very familiar), her physicalitythe way her mouth and body move, her numerous nuanced gestures (simple as how she turns her head or touches her own hair), my eyes follow her every move. I am mesmerized, absorbing whatever from it I can as if the opportunity might not ever come my way again.
Craft-wise, she has the uncanny ability to portray vulnerability and stability simultaneously. Her screen persona possesses a feminine strength surpassed by no other.