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Always seems pissed off


From all interviews, promotional materials, talk shows, and award shows I have seen her on she always seemed to be in a terrible mood. Her face is in a permanent scowl and when she is at the podium she comes across are rude and distant. When she was on a talk show at one point she said she refuses to give out autographs or do pictures. How hard is it to just pretend or be nice to people, I actually think you sometimes have to go out of your way to be a jerk. Also, she is only famous because people watch her movies so you would think she would want to hold on to some sort of fan base.

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I agree. She's a great actress, but I also get that in her roles too. She always looks like she had a bad and is ready to snap at someone for looking at her.

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She always has the look on her face of someone who was just told something they didn't want to hear.

Like you work in a key shop and she walks in as a customer and says "I'd like get this key cut" and you say "sure but we're about to close so you'll have to pick it up tomorrow" and she just stands there, staring at you with distain.

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Exactly! Not only that, but she's overrated as an actress.

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That doesn't sound far from how she's been described in real life at all. She seems like one of those very stuffy, very proper, very self-absorbed, "classy" ladies out there. You know, the type that can smile for the cameras but can never actually tell or take a joke (except in her case, not even that).

Funnily enough, I had an English professor recently who not only looked just like her, but also fit that personality I described to a T. That woman was a bitch.

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This woman got a lot of notoriety because she openly advocated for diversity quotas in movies. Many of her peers wildly applauded this, and there are some who mistakenly think a forced quota system will right historical injustices and level the playing field, but the position is one that will ultimately be detrimental to the arts if quotas of hires are based on ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other distinctitions. This fixture on identity politics has become rampant in the Democratic Party, and the upper middle class has embraced it as if it were the next evolution of the Civil Rights Movement. The position is ultimately reactionary, the polar opposite of progressive. But it does no good to try to convey this to the Frances McDormands of this world.

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