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The main actress: Unlikable?


For some reason, I had a very hard time watching this movie, not because of its content, but because of the main actress.

For the most part, I thought Natalie was pretty bad in this movie. I never heard or recognized her before, but her acting was just... flat, wooden, and awkward. Maybe she was miscast, because she couldn't really carry this film and deliver the emotions.

Plus, she looked incredibly rough, and I found her facial expressions to be a cold-hearted you-know-what, but like as if she was a recovering druggie. In general, and this may sound bad, but I found her face to be incredibly annoying.

Anyone agree???

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She should only do roles that need a vapid bitach

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Natalie has looked a lot better. I think she's too skinny these days.

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I didn't find the actress annoying, besides the talking out of the one side of her mouth.

It was the character that I wanted to slap. Dumb as ditch water.

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The main actress was pretty unlikable, she stunk basically.

But I've never given a movie a rating of 1 before, this one worked hard to earn it. It's terrible, so i guess Natalie's acting fit right in there. If youmhaven't watched it, trust me, don't bother.

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I've never seen The Tudors or Game of Thrones, but I've seen her in other movies and I've never disliked her as much as I did in this. Part of it is the writing (which is dreadful) but a big part of it is the way she plays the character: hard, combative, stuck up, uncaring, etc. But it's not just the choices she makes... her performance is also pretty bad. The flashback scene where she talks to her sister while going through their dead grandmother's stuff made me cringe. Plus, they keep saying she shouldn't go in the forest because she's sad, yet she didn't convincingly act sad at all! She just acted like a snobby bitch. I definitely think she was miscast, but the material is so bad that even a perfect casting choice couldn't have saved it. I'll try not to hold this movie against her!

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