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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't care if its Ernest Borgnine in a dress, just get rid of Julia Roberts.
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She's not the archetype anymore and she proved it by bombing
America's Sweethearts so badly. Since then, she's going to focus on either walk-ons that she can do it in her sleep (
Ocean's 11,
Ocean's 12,
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) or follow the path that Michelle Pfeiffer who is about ten years older than she is did (compare
Mona Lisa's Smile (2003) to
Dangerous Minds (1996)). She's also going to try and reinvent herself as a sexy older woman (see
Confessions of a...), which isn't going to work Every few years she'll pull out something to try and get Oscar attention, and in about ten to fifteen years, she'll start getting the roles that Susan Surrandon gets now. Not the Meryl Streep good actress roles, but the more spitfire, not as hard to play roles.
