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I Understand Why People Are Not Keen About Her


It's because her pretty looks don't hide the fact that she is not a very good actress. She has this go to expression she uses in all her movies. I'm talking about a facial expression that always seems to exude condescension and exasperation towards those around her. As if her character is always the smartest person in the room. If you need an example just look at the scene in The Longest Ride when the art auction is taking place and the painting that no one wants, and rightfully so, is up for bid and just look at her expression. She looks at all those people like they are crazy for not jumping at the most worthless piece in the collection. In that scene it's blazingly obvious and done for a purpose, but she has this expression in other projects like Tomorrowland and checkout the trailer for The Space Between Us. She does not show the exact mouth hanging open expression of exasperation, but the smartest girl in the room look is there.

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haha ya, I was a fan of her's when I was younger, but like a faze I grew out of her. She definitely has the condescension thing down. Have you seen any of her interviews? she's the same way in real life too. I find her interviews to be grating. You should see the way she treated Scott Eastwood in some of them, granted he's not the brightest bulb but a lot of the time she just seems cold. I wonder what it must be like to co-star or work with her, she reminds me of Katherine Heigl. Arrogant actors in general must be a struggle to work around. I'm not a fan of her crying scenes either, they're completely insincere; if you've seen "Mother's Day" you would know what I mean. I wouldn't call her look "the smartest girl in the room" I would simply call it arrogance, I'm pretty sure she didn't even go to high school so I don't know what you mean about the "smartest girl" thing.

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I have never watched an interview of her, but if it's true that what I notice on screen is how she is in real life I don't expect to ever see her in anymore big budget Hollywood films. She'll fall back to the small screen and people will scratch their head trying to remember where they know her from and it will eventually hit them that she was that pretty but annoying girl from the box office bomb Tomorrowland.

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Yes, she is returning to TV but not before she has two roles in two movies within the next few months, I would say that they don't look that compelling; she's playing "the love interest" in both, and I think both movies are about a month apart from each other so that might not make either performance stand out, considering they are so close to each other and they are basically the same role/character. But she'll be staring in a series for Netflix and recently that's become a hot thing, just look at "Stranger Things". So, who knows what turn her career will take but I wouldn't consider her widely popular yet. She's kind of been getting the grunt roles, no actress wants to be known as "the Love Interest" but grunt roles are better than no roles. I think she prefers TV over cinema anyways I've heard her say that. She comes from TV (that's where I know her from) so it makes sense that she would have better connections in the TV world than in the cinematic one. Like I honestly couldn't picture her working with pedigree directors in the future like Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, David O'Russel- she just wouldn't have the connections for that. She's also not represented by a very good agent/agency which could contribute to her not getting good parts.

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I totally get what you're saying about her interviews. When my kids were in pre-school, they had a teacher who would talk to my wife and me during our parent/teacher conferences as if we were five-year-old students of hers...very condescending as if we almost brain dead. I wanted to say, "can you talk to us like we're adults here?" When I saw the very first interview of her, she reminded me of that darn teacher.

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maybe she is one of the best actresses today, her non-verbal language is outstanding, and there are people who realize how good is she; they believe that she uses the Stanislavski method. There are subtle things that few can note, but that is what give the credibility to her roles, if you watch Triple Dog or Ask Me Anything, you will see a different kind of characterization of other movies; including Tomorrowland

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Hahaha!!

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She would be right at home in a Hallmark film, a Michael Bay film, or softcore porn.

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oh, but here we have the zero patient!!! The haha disease consume the brain very quickly

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