I can't believe all the hate on this board - I'm beginning to think that a hater has created several different aliases s
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benmasta — 13 years ago(September 06, 2012 02:10 AM)
yeah its definitely that people only saw her on madmen. I remember when thats all i had seen her on and i was like "jeez why isnt this women in everything?!" I mean shes absolutely gorgeous and i she plays betty draper flawlessly.
Its obvious that in madmen she wasnt acting. She must really be the same character in real life and so the part came naturally to her. I mean shes just a bored, spiteful, spoiled woman, there are lets just say, ALOT of women who have that attitude.
I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that shes gorgeous, and if she really was as good as other characters as she was as betty, there would be no stopping her. Isnt it a sign when her first big break in a big movie as a completely new character in a different setting (than madmen) was pretty much the last thing she ever did? Shes got just about NOTHING comming up, and madmen is losing popularity cause of its retarded hiatuses. -
benmasta — 12 years ago(December 25, 2013 05:41 PM)
like someone else said,1354 it is 100% because she completely embodied betty draper on mad men.
everyone mistook her incredibly realistic and believable preformance for acting chops. She obviously made the mistake of not keeping herself typecast and grabbed the first big role that she could get.
too bad for her it backfired and everyone saw how limited her ability is. We all learned that she is betty draper, not an actress that can play betty draper.
the hate started in 2011 when she was seen on xmen. Thats why people "all of a sudden" started to hate on her. Before that it was mainly mad men and she was excellent on that. -
ptomley47 — 11 years ago(May 17, 2014 06:35 AM)
Hey everybody she is playing a character in screenplay and she is BRILLIANT. She is Betty Draper the cold upper crust wife of Don Draper(a beast) and then I couldn't believe she was in X Men.Her shifting gears is fascinating as Betty Draper you can see the depth of character just by a look or the tone of her voice.She does remind me of Grace Kelly in looks but she is a much BETTER actress. I love her but I hope she doesn't get stereotyped as the 'cold' blonde even though I love her. I hope she plays comedy and then you'll see what a great actress she is. I love you January and wish you all the success in the future
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done_holding_back — 14 years ago(February 01, 2012 10:57 AM)
I'm 6 episodes into season 1 of Mad Men and would also describe her acting as wooden. I don't think she's a bad actress, I think she just needs to loosen up. I realize she's playing a very uptight 1950s housewife, but that's now how people really are - just how they behaved - and it's clear from the writing so far that her character struggles with that dichotomy. But the actress doesn't present that struggle her lines seem full of potential but that goes wasted upon delivery.
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Hedley_Lamar — 13 years ago(April 18, 2012 12:54 AM)
I'll put my two cents into it.
I think she's good in Mad Men. Her looks and acting style suit the role perfectly.
I recently saw her in X-Men: First Class, and I felt she was there more as eye candy than anything else.
A while ago I saw her in Unknown and I felt she was seriously miscast.
So, I think Mad Men has made her popular, and either she or her agents are choosing the roles which aren't giving her the chance for some real acting.
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carstereobandits — 13 years ago(April 20, 2012 09:33 PM)
I wouldn't say she's a bad actress but I can't say that she is at all a good actress. From what I've seen on MM she's not very visually dynamic, like with facial expressions and reactions and stuff. She's not very likable in the show either, I can't put my finger on it but there's just something about her that bothers me, and it's not the character herself, it's JJ's interpretation of the character. Even if the character is supposed to be despised in the show, the actor should make it something that you love to hate, like Campbell's character.
But what's this got to do with the CIO? -
anthropo — 13 years ago(April 21, 2012 06:33 PM)
I hope she has a great career ahead of her.
As long as whoever she's related to is powerful in Hollywood, she will continue to get parts. No other way an actress as meh as her could be working as much as she is. -
Quarantino_II — 13 years ago(April 25, 2012 01:29 PM)
I wouldn't agree that January is THE best actress on the show, but I agree that Betty is one of the most believable characters. Insecure, subdued and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Betty, in a way, is a 'poor actress', she's adamant to keep up appearances but people sense that something is off. Anyone who's ever met such a person in real life gets it immediately. I think it's that authenticity that's perceived as 'poor acting' by people who have a very narrow view, they somehow perceive Betty's 'stiffness' as January's. Funny that; She was hired by seriously picky people with insane attention to detail, she was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe (twice) but none of those people know anything because Joe Blow in his mom's basement has used his awesome power of acting ability evaluation to determine that she can't act worth a damn.
Jessica Par gets the same treatment over on her board not merely for her supposed lack of talent and acting chops but also her teeth. -
michaelrene — 13 years ago(May 08, 2012 12:50 PM)
Well, a heads up. Joe Blow here decided that watching more than just Mad MenWhy don't you tell us how wonderful she is in Unknown and X-Men: First Class?
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DrankyDrank — 13 years ago(May 14, 2012 01:52 AM)
I'd have to agree, while I wouldn't say her acting ever stood out as great it never stood out as bad either. I don't understand why so many posts are chastising her like this Did she burn down an orphanage or something else I don't know about?
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WolfyLarsen — 13 years ago(May 22, 2012 02:21 PM)
As long as the role is limited and calls for a wooden performance with zero range or emotion than JJ is serviceable. She fit in well on Mad Men because her character was supposed to be repressed and subdued. But her movie roles have gone from mediocre to abysmal. Maybe being associated with Ashton Kutcher has enabled his "acting" DNA to rub off on her.
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Quarantino_II — 13 years ago(May 24, 2012 06:59 PM)
JJ is rather one-note but that's fine. Many actors are. The last 20 or so times I saw Christopher Walken in a role, he played well, Christopher Walken. Most actors aren't transformation freaks like Meryl Streep and Daniel Day Lewis.
Some people seem to rate performances by degree of transformation (zomg he plays a retard he must be the greatest actor evvar), which is an amateurish POV like n00bs who think that guitar skills are rated by how fast you can play, therefore Yngwie must be better than Jimi Hendrix.
There are so many other parameters to consider in acting, but the most important one is of course to embody a role and make the character believable. And for the role of Betty, JJ is a perfect fit. She's not versatile, she's more corkscrew than Swiss army knife, but if all you need is to open a bottle then a corkscrew will do the job wonderfully. You think she's wooden? Well good, because Betty is pretty much made of wood. 10/10 for the casting.
I think some of the hate may stem from her underwhelming performance as host on SNL. It was pretty bad. But the girl is pathologically shy and got into acting almost as therapy to overcome her shyness, and getting up in front of an audience and millions of viewers to do comedy for an hour and a half is hell for someone like that. She was probably on the verge of crapping her pants the whole show. Actually one of the sketches was just a non stop farting extravaganza so maybe she took the opportunity -
stayprettystockholm — 13 years ago(October 21, 2012 06:52 PM)
she's not a fraction as horrible as haters exaggerate7ec. and why do they only pick on her? why not pick on ACTUALLY wooden, emotionless actors like Natalie Portman (at least she was better as a kid), Zooey Deschanel, Jennifer Lawrence, or hey, Christina Hendricks' overrated acting that people only pretend is so good because they appreciate how slutty Joan is?
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