Gemma Ward

[yesitsdagny]

Thanks for keeping us updated, acester! and thanks for the video

her mom is just as lovely and beautiful as Gemma herself is

 

[soymilkfreak]

omg acester how was she?
you're so damn lucky I hate you! but not really

 

[melbguy]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/9067071/supermodel-turns-shy/

 

[Susann]

Gemmas mum in the video is really such a mix of Sophie and Gemma!

 

[FrankieP]

Lissy, how was it, I'm dying to hear!

 

[Giovy]

I can't be tired to see her, I always want more and more.
I'm so happy with her back, to can see her again, its so amazing.
How could be someone so perfect? *-*

 

[Hoother]

"highly exclusive official after-party at The Bird" The Bird is Perth's hipster bar lol.

 

[stellarfungi]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/9067071/supermodel-turns-shy/

Is that a new candid at the article link? I love it! My fave new pic of hers! (But I always loved her candids and backstage pics...)

 

[cestmagique]

^I understand cause that is one gorgeous shot of her!

 

[acester]

^^ I like The Bird, and it's near the theatre.

Sorry it's taken me forever to write anything up, life has seriously gotten in the way. But I lovedddd it!! It was such an ingeniously sick type of humour and so so funny and Gemma was just divine. Like seriously, you can't not watch her. Only thing I have to say is that she is (like most reviews have said) outshone by her costars especially the wonderful Brendan Ewing (but I am probably bias because I think he's amazing). But really I just thought I had to say something a little tiny bit not positive so my opinion seemed valid.
I loved it, but that style of theatre is very much 'me'. Other people have seen it and not got it at all, which is fine too!!

Photos were not allowed and the actors didn't come out after the performance, which is fair enough considering Gemma's 'status' and I personally hate popping out into the reception area after a performance!

I really really really can't wait to see more from Gemma

 

[FrankieP]

Glad you loved it!! It must have been surreal to have seen her up there right in front of you in real life like that.

 

[Sophie02]

Acester I can't believe you got to meet her! Lucky duck! Can't wait to see more of her. I've missed her so much!

 

[melbguy]

Artist finds model muse

HERS is a face that's been on the cover of just about every leading fashion magazine and now Gemma Ward's likeness could hang in the Art Gallery of NSW as Matt Doust's entry in this year's Archibald Prize.

The Perth artist has been feverishly putting the finishing touches to the portrait before it is packed up tomorrow and shipped to Sydney to meet the deadline.

"I think he's extremely talented, he's going to go so far and I was very honoured to work with him," Ward told us.

Doust had only seven days to complete the portrait, having abandoned another painting of Ward at the last minute.

He met Ward through a mutual friend last November and said he was drawn to the bold facial features that had made the beauty a global modelling superstar.

"Just the alignment of every feature on her face intrigues me," Doust said.

The shortlist for this year's Archibald Prize will be announced on April 8.

from here http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/en...finds-model-muse/story-e6frewt9-1226028604327

 

[anisorfue]

^wow that's lovely.

 

[acester]

^^ So crazy, not long ago Matt approached me in the street asking if he could paint me!
Him and a friend had a massive canvas and I think it must've been for that painting!!!

 

[dazzledbyedward]

woww that is sensational

 

[acester]

Diving into the shallow end

MARIUS von Mayenburg's The Ugly One presents various paradoxes about the self, but is fundamentally trapped in its own paradox.

Purporting to be about the shallowness of measuring existences by physicality alone, it wallows in that very shallowness. How we sell ourselves is how we draw attention to what we have to say.

If our self-image is of being ordinary or even remarkable in some way, as the play would have it, why should the opinions of others so sway us? The tensions between being a social organism and a unique individual are put to the test.

Lette, confidently played by Benj D'Addario, is an inventor, told he can't promote his own product at a convention because he is intensely ugly. Nobody has brought this to his attention. They all, including his wife Fanny, assumed he knew, or simply did not want to offend him. It takes his boss, Scheffler, played by the spruce and larger-than-stage Geoff Kelso, to tell him the blunt truth. In the end, business sense must win out.

As a result, Lette has surgery to beautify himself, and becomes the face of his times; loved, lusted after and ultimately replaced, until his beauty has no fetishistic worth because it is too readily available. His wife has an affair with his assistant, made over with the same new Lette face, only because she loves the look. So, an indictment of human vanity, of capitalism, the beauty industry in particular, and a John Berger-like subtext on ways of seeing.

Melissa Cantwell's direction, making use of clean lines and a planar space, works well enough. Gemma Ward, cast as Lette's wife, and also a 73-year-old CEO who lusts after the new Lette, makes yet another subtext. Supermodel, and one of the faces of her time on the catwalk, she becomes a mirror for proliferating narcissism.

Ward was acceptable, and certainly knows how to use the stage and hold her glances. But her voice was thin, and though the

roles were deliberately flat, she could have made them more dynamic. The play relies so much on skin-deep humour that she was well-placed with her industry background to bring this out.

The humour falls flat in the context of the CEO's homosexual son, (one of Brendan Ewing's roles). He wants Lette as much as his mother does, via a menage-a-trois that is presumably supposed to shock the audience, but doesn't. The son is an embodiment of narcissistic desire. Even if von Mayenburg intends this to be a parody of sexual stereotypes, it fails.

Essentially, it's a light play that borders on farce, paying too much attention to Albee and Ionesco, and more accurately, their imitators. The absurdist premise is simply not absurd enough, and tedium rather than innuendo arises with lengthy pseudo-technical discussions of male and female parts in high-voltage power sockets. The Ugly One tries hard for little return.
[theaustralian]
not a good review
It has some good points though, but I do think this reviewer took it a little too seriously...each to their own of course!

 

[lepip]

Just got home from seeing The Ugly One! Have been waiting for this day for months (and years to see Gemma again in the flesh!)

Still processing it all (was literally front row center!) but decided in the car on the way home the thing I am going to miss most about Gemma in the end is she wont be as accessable to me now as she has been before (in her modeling days). I will have to fight for tickets and pay $56 and wait till her next play just to get a 70 min glimpse of her.

Best 70 mins of my year though! Not ready to judge on her acting yet. Maybe tomorrow. Had a great night though, like I said- have been waiting years!

 

[Hoother]

^Pretty jealous of you. Apparently I have 'really, really good seats' for one of the last nights so I hope that means front and center.

 

[acester]

^Because it's a studio setting, everyone has good seats in my opinion hehehe