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i love Anna she's one of my fav actresses, i thinks she's really beautiful too:
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I like her. I think it's great to see a female in Hollywood make it who doesn't fit the usual "beauty standards" and who I can easily imagine actually being her characters. She's not the most gorgeous per se, but she seems quite nice and talented and that's enough for me.
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She seems to wear the same thing over and over. Dress or top with straps and a boring neckline, paired with a below-the-knee A-line skirt. Sure, it looks nice but it would be good to see her try another look.
Doesn't her skin look luminous though?
Doesn't her skin look luminous though?
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I like her in the green dress. Yea for color, although I was disappointed in the Cannes outfit. She looks good though and she always looks classy so I can't really hate her for that. She looks so much prettier when she smiles; the sexy "look" isn't working for her. She just ends up looking a little angry. Still lovely though.
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source: telegraph.co.uk 28/5/06
The girl with the X-factor
Anna Paquin is that rare thing: a precocious child star who somehow managed to stay the course - and out of trouble. As her latest X-Men film opens, she tells Strawberry Saroyan how she did it
Anna Paquin stands in a suite of a Beverly Hills hotel poised for the photographer. The one-time child star - at 11 she became the second youngest actor to win an Oscar, for her performance in The Piano (1993) - looks the sophisticated starlet, in a gauzy tan puff-sleeved chemise, high-waisted black pencil skirt and red patent heels.
'Look at me! Look at me! - that's just not my thing'But then 'Love Me Do' starts up on the stereo, and Paquin breaks into a sweet, impromptu little dance.
It's a rare moment in which the 24-year-old seems like a child all over again. And it's a long time since we've seen that side of her on film. Starting with Hurlyburly nearly a decade ago, in which she played a runaway, Paquin has become known for playing precocious teens who peddle their sexuality as proof of their bravery.
There was the kleptomaniac sl*t in All the Rage (1999), the predatory groupie in Almost Famous (2000), the flirty minx in 25th Hour (2002) - all played with the same insight and intelligence that marked her out as a prodigy all those years ago.
This edgy complexity is on show again in her two latest films: The Squid and the Whale, which opened last month, in which she plays the love interest of a divorcing dad; and X-Men: The Last Stand, which opened last week, in which she reprises her role as the beautiful mutant Rogue, who is condemned to suck the life out of anyone she touches.
In the past she has spoken intelligently about the character. 'Rogue's the ultimate adolescent,' Paquin has said. 'Frightened of being really close to others. Not knowing whom you can trust.' But today she clams up when I ask about the film. 'There's so little I can say because they keep that top secret,' she tells me.
She does, however, loosen up when we hit on the topic of the film's special effects. 'We had a lot of explosions - lots of large things blowing up, like, 20 feet away,' she says. But noticing the crew keeping a greater distance than the actors gave her pause.
'They're, like, "Yeah, yeah, it's totally safe - just let me put my protective goggles on." And we're like, "Wait a second. You guys are all barricading yourselves and you're even further away than we are? Like, what is that?"' Paquin pauses. 'But they know what they're doing. I mean, accidents happen occasionally, but fortunately not on this one.'
In person, Paquin could be any attractive but otherwise nondescript young woman; on screen she is magnetic. One reviewer noted that in The Piano she had a presence rare in an actor of any age. And yet, surprisingly, it's only recently that she has realised acting is for her.
In 2000 Paquin went to Columbia University in New York, but dropped out after a year. 'It just wasn't where my passions were,' she says. 'I had a couple of attempts at going back but ended up getting jobs and writing grovelling letters to the dean saying, "Can I defer one more semester?'' It was a good way of clarifying that I liked acting.'
Whether or not she was certain about acting, Paquin has worked almost non-stop since her debut. After The Piano, she acted in films that she and her parents, both teachers, agreed were of value. 'They were, like, "Well, if it's something really amazing, you can do it. If it's not, then it's not worth you missing your childhood and school and being with your friends for.'''
Paquin cites her second film, Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996), in which she played the young heroine, as the sort of fare of which they approved. 'He hasn't made that many more films because he's not, you know, a spring chicken any more,' Paquin says of Zeffirelli. 'I feel really privileged to work with someone like him before he stops making movies.'
Having had no formal training, Paquin had to rely on instinct in her early films. She did consider going to drama school to hone her technique, but in the end compromised by going on the stage. She made her debut off-Broadway in 2001, playing a homicidal woman in The Glory of Living, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
'I pretty much begged him to hire me and said, "You say jump, I say how high." He is so nice and so cool, and he's just great, but he put me through my paces - hardcore.' One of the more uncomfortable episodes was learning of her actorly tics. 'It's kind of embarrassing, in a good way, when someone points out something you were doing that was, in fact, terrible. It's, like, "Oh my God, you're right, that's awful, I'm never doing that again.'''
Paquin, the youngest of three children, was born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1982. Her parents decided to move to New Zealand when she was four, and she lived a quiet, uneventful childhood until, aged nine, she tagged along with several older girls to an open audition for The Piano.
With Halle Berry in X-Men: The Last Stand
More pictures'I didn't even know what acting was. I thought actors were just people who lived in your television set. I mean, not literally, but I didn't really get how that all kind of worked,' she says. (She surmises that making up stories about her dolls enabled her to 'pretend' convincingly in the audition room.)
So when she got the part she was caught off guard, but that was nothing to finding herself nominated for an Oscar. She says her mother briefed her on the art of losing gracefully - 'You clap and smile' - but it didn't occur to either of them that she might win until they each had one foot out of the limo. 'Have you thought about who you'd thank?' her mother asked. No, Anna told her. 'Well, who did you like?' her mother replied.
When Paquin's name was announced her lack of preparation carried the day. Dressed in a blue taffeta gown, she won the audience over by standing at the podium in silence, terror-stricken but smiling, for a full 20 seconds. Then she thanked her co-star, Holly Hunter, the film's director, Jane Campion, and a few others before walking right back to her seat. No one told her that she was supposed to go backstage to meet the press. 'I was just, like, I have no idea what I'm doing.'
Rumours abound about that night - did she really do a jig with Hunter in the bathroom and fall asleep at the after-party? - but Paquin says none of them is true. But she did weigh the statuette in the bathroom when she got back to her hotel, and can report that it tipped the scale at about 10lb. 'I remember being, like, "Wow, that's a good quarter of my body weight right there." Those things are heavy.'
It was some start, but Paquin says that it has not changed her unduly, and that she continues to live a normal and largely private life to this day. When I ask about boyfriends she says she is involved with someone but doesn't really want to talk about it.
As for her whereabouts, she lives in what she terms a 'small, cluttered' apartment in Manhattan with her dogs, Sasha and Dee Dee. Her Oscar is 'on a dresser behind a lamp behind a door in my bedroom… "Look at me, look at me" - that's just not my thing,' she says.
Against the odds, Paquin seems to have made it through what could have been a difficult journey from child star to serious adult actress. As for the future, she's hoping to produce a film, though she can't be more specific, she says, because the deal is still pending.
Would she like to direct? 'I don't feel I know enough about the world or other people's stuff to tell anyone what to do just yet, but that is something I'm really interested in,' she says.
Before we part, she seems to have a change of heart about the placement of the Oscar in her flat. It might yet emerge from the shadows of her bedroom and take a more prominent place, she says. 'It's an awesome thing. I got to have this career that I didn't know I wanted and, as it turns out, I love.'
The girl with the X-factor
Anna Paquin is that rare thing: a precocious child star who somehow managed to stay the course - and out of trouble. As her latest X-Men film opens, she tells Strawberry Saroyan how she did it
Anna Paquin stands in a suite of a Beverly Hills hotel poised for the photographer. The one-time child star - at 11 she became the second youngest actor to win an Oscar, for her performance in The Piano (1993) - looks the sophisticated starlet, in a gauzy tan puff-sleeved chemise, high-waisted black pencil skirt and red patent heels.
It's a rare moment in which the 24-year-old seems like a child all over again. And it's a long time since we've seen that side of her on film. Starting with Hurlyburly nearly a decade ago, in which she played a runaway, Paquin has become known for playing precocious teens who peddle their sexuality as proof of their bravery.
There was the kleptomaniac sl*t in All the Rage (1999), the predatory groupie in Almost Famous (2000), the flirty minx in 25th Hour (2002) - all played with the same insight and intelligence that marked her out as a prodigy all those years ago.
This edgy complexity is on show again in her two latest films: The Squid and the Whale, which opened last month, in which she plays the love interest of a divorcing dad; and X-Men: The Last Stand, which opened last week, in which she reprises her role as the beautiful mutant Rogue, who is condemned to suck the life out of anyone she touches.
In the past she has spoken intelligently about the character. 'Rogue's the ultimate adolescent,' Paquin has said. 'Frightened of being really close to others. Not knowing whom you can trust.' But today she clams up when I ask about the film. 'There's so little I can say because they keep that top secret,' she tells me.
She does, however, loosen up when we hit on the topic of the film's special effects. 'We had a lot of explosions - lots of large things blowing up, like, 20 feet away,' she says. But noticing the crew keeping a greater distance than the actors gave her pause.
'They're, like, "Yeah, yeah, it's totally safe - just let me put my protective goggles on." And we're like, "Wait a second. You guys are all barricading yourselves and you're even further away than we are? Like, what is that?"' Paquin pauses. 'But they know what they're doing. I mean, accidents happen occasionally, but fortunately not on this one.'
In 2000 Paquin went to Columbia University in New York, but dropped out after a year. 'It just wasn't where my passions were,' she says. 'I had a couple of attempts at going back but ended up getting jobs and writing grovelling letters to the dean saying, "Can I defer one more semester?'' It was a good way of clarifying that I liked acting.'
Whether or not she was certain about acting, Paquin has worked almost non-stop since her debut. After The Piano, she acted in films that she and her parents, both teachers, agreed were of value. 'They were, like, "Well, if it's something really amazing, you can do it. If it's not, then it's not worth you missing your childhood and school and being with your friends for.'''
Paquin cites her second film, Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996), in which she played the young heroine, as the sort of fare of which they approved. 'He hasn't made that many more films because he's not, you know, a spring chicken any more,' Paquin says of Zeffirelli. 'I feel really privileged to work with someone like him before he stops making movies.'
Having had no formal training, Paquin had to rely on instinct in her early films. She did consider going to drama school to hone her technique, but in the end compromised by going on the stage. She made her debut off-Broadway in 2001, playing a homicidal woman in The Glory of Living, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.
'I pretty much begged him to hire me and said, "You say jump, I say how high." He is so nice and so cool, and he's just great, but he put me through my paces - hardcore.' One of the more uncomfortable episodes was learning of her actorly tics. 'It's kind of embarrassing, in a good way, when someone points out something you were doing that was, in fact, terrible. It's, like, "Oh my God, you're right, that's awful, I'm never doing that again.'''
Paquin, the youngest of three children, was born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1982. Her parents decided to move to New Zealand when she was four, and she lived a quiet, uneventful childhood until, aged nine, she tagged along with several older girls to an open audition for The Piano.
More pictures'I didn't even know what acting was. I thought actors were just people who lived in your television set. I mean, not literally, but I didn't really get how that all kind of worked,' she says. (She surmises that making up stories about her dolls enabled her to 'pretend' convincingly in the audition room.)
So when she got the part she was caught off guard, but that was nothing to finding herself nominated for an Oscar. She says her mother briefed her on the art of losing gracefully - 'You clap and smile' - but it didn't occur to either of them that she might win until they each had one foot out of the limo. 'Have you thought about who you'd thank?' her mother asked. No, Anna told her. 'Well, who did you like?' her mother replied.
When Paquin's name was announced her lack of preparation carried the day. Dressed in a blue taffeta gown, she won the audience over by standing at the podium in silence, terror-stricken but smiling, for a full 20 seconds. Then she thanked her co-star, Holly Hunter, the film's director, Jane Campion, and a few others before walking right back to her seat. No one told her that she was supposed to go backstage to meet the press. 'I was just, like, I have no idea what I'm doing.'
Rumours abound about that night - did she really do a jig with Hunter in the bathroom and fall asleep at the after-party? - but Paquin says none of them is true. But she did weigh the statuette in the bathroom when she got back to her hotel, and can report that it tipped the scale at about 10lb. 'I remember being, like, "Wow, that's a good quarter of my body weight right there." Those things are heavy.'
It was some start, but Paquin says that it has not changed her unduly, and that she continues to live a normal and largely private life to this day. When I ask about boyfriends she says she is involved with someone but doesn't really want to talk about it.
As for her whereabouts, she lives in what she terms a 'small, cluttered' apartment in Manhattan with her dogs, Sasha and Dee Dee. Her Oscar is 'on a dresser behind a lamp behind a door in my bedroom… "Look at me, look at me" - that's just not my thing,' she says.
Against the odds, Paquin seems to have made it through what could have been a difficult journey from child star to serious adult actress. As for the future, she's hoping to produce a film, though she can't be more specific, she says, because the deal is still pending.
Would she like to direct? 'I don't feel I know enough about the world or other people's stuff to tell anyone what to do just yet, but that is something I'm really interested in,' she says.
Before we part, she seems to have a change of heart about the placement of the Oscar in her flat. It might yet emerge from the shadows of her bedroom and take a more prominent place, she says. 'It's an awesome thing. I got to have this career that I didn't know I wanted and, as it turns out, I love.'
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No i dont think they are dating- im pretty sure he's with michelle tratchenberg (dawn from BTVS)
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