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Gah, I can't wait till we get S3!!
I'm getting withdrawal symptoms
I'm getting withdrawal symptoms
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A New York Times article on "Shane" yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/arts/television/12aurt.html
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thanks for the article spinster! i hadn't read that. the episode where she cheats on carmen was HOT. the following one was kinda cheesy. a little uneven and too quickly resolved.
I love that they are delving into her inner life...definitely makes her character more rich and even more likeable (i almost put lickable
...HOWEVER...they should veer away from tying things up in neat little bows like they did in the last episode...
I love that they are delving into her inner life...definitely makes her character more rich and even more likeable (i almost put lickable
...HOWEVER...they should veer away from tying things up in neat little bows like they did in the last episode...skinny_boho
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I want to see season 2 and 3...
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season 3 screen caps from thelwordonline.com
Don't ask...
nice biceps though B)
Don't ask...
nice biceps though B)
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At a party I've known a guy which looks a lot like her
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If she were a guy i wouldn't look twice...*yawn"
but since she's a girl...
but since she's a girl...
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I know... 
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thanks to mundo for pointing me in the direction of this article:
New York Times
April 11, 2006
A Show Needs a Tomboy? She Can Look the Part
By ROBIN FINN
She is a self-proclaimed tomboy who, no lie, dreamed of becoming a doorman but was sidetracked by acting at age 10 — and only "begrudgingly," said Katherine Moennig, slugging a post-performance Corona from the bottle at a dimly lighted pub on the Bowery.
She made a convincing debut in semi-drag as Christopher Robin in a Philadelphia children's theater production of "Winnie-the-Pooh" and, precociously in touch with her inner androgyny, went on to portray a cross-dressing teenager on WB's "Young Americans" and a transsexual on "Law & Order" before inhabiting her breakout role as Shane McCutcheon, a seductive womanizer who happens to be a woman, on Showtime's soapy lesbian melodrama, "The L Word." Now, at 28, she is — finally and anxiously — making her Off Broadway debut as, of all things, a heterosexual bumpkin whose libido gets her very much into trouble in Iraq. A dose of international infamy follows.
In ripped stovepipe jeans and velvet Gucci jacket, which both cling to her angular frame like a second skin, Ms. Moennig, who possesses the bone structure and metabolism of a gazelle, an angelic sulk and a smoker's cough (her latest role demands a few antsy puffs), does not so much bend as transcend gender. Especially when she smothers Shane's trademark eye-obscuring postmodern shag haircut beneath a one-size-fits-all knitted skullcap. The tattoo of a violin — she got it the day after her father, William, a renowned violin-maker, died two years ago — that graces her lower back is not on view, either.
"I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing," Ms. Moennig said. That is perhaps the best attitude to take after being typecast by label-conscious Hollywood as a classic androgynous type.
"Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' " she added. "I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there," she said, referring to Los Angeles, where she lives with a pair of dogs who transfer along with her to Vancouver for the four-month shooting season of "The L Word." "The femme fatale. Or the white-trash heterosexual hillbilly." Not even a kinky one.
Which is why she jumped at the chance to portray such a hillbilly Off Broadway in the Culture Project's production of "Guardians," a deliberately provocative two-character play by Peter Morris. In alternating, bizarrely colliding monologues, it explores the Abu Ghraib prison scandal from the perspectives of an opportunistic British tabloid journalist (the Golden Globe nominee Lee Pace), who fakes torture photos to advance his career, and a disgraced yet defiant American soldier (Ms. Moennig) facing a court-martial for posing in torture photos at the Iraq prison where she was stationed. Any resemblance to Private Lynndie R. England is purely intentional.
"That was the tricky part," said Ms. Moennig, who said she studied television clips of Ms. England and read her recent comments from prison. "Not necessarily to imitate her. I knew the character wasn't solely based on her. We don't look alike, and I can't say Lynndie England has the most vivacious personality. When I first heard about the scandal, I thought, 'How could a girl do something like this?' "
Since taking on the play, Ms. Moennig has revised those thoughts. "It's all about power, and how desperate people do desperate things," she said. "The message is so clear: that power can be completely misplaced, and, because of that, a lot of things go wrong. I fell in love with this character: she doesn't play the victim, and she's unapologetic."
She is, from the start, similar to what Ms. Moennig said her "L Word" character is becoming in the show's third season: "an open wound."
The play's director, Jason Moore, better known for his lighter side as the Tony-nominated director of "Avenue Q," said, "Kate got the part because she possesses, among other great things, the thing I value most in an actor: fearlessness. And this part demands it."
In "Guardians," Ms. Moennig's primary wardrobe consists of a voluminous orange prison jumpsuit. She wears no makeup, and her hair is scraped into an unflattering ponytail. She calls it "exciting" to play a part "where I could get my hair off my face, and let my eyebrows grow in."
"I can't even put acting on television and acting in this play in the same category," she continued. "This is taking me out of my comfort zone."
Pleading privacy, Ms. Moennig makes it a personal policy to keep her own sexual orientation under wraps.
"It's not for the sake of being mysterious; it's really that I believe it's nobody's business," she said. "I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show business game, and it's one game I won't play." The same goes for talking about her relationships with a couple of A-list relatives in the business, Gwyneth Paltrow (her cousin) and Blythe Danner (her aunt). Ms. Moennig makes it clear that her career has not been fast-forwarded by nepotism.
"Thus far, I've never been in a position to pick and choose my roles," she said. "I have to eat, and I have bills to pay." She found herself in the final rounds of auditions for the role in "Boys Don't Cry" that won Hilary Swank an Oscar. But she understands why she did not get the role. "I was green as grass," she said. "Besides, the bitter pill is a waste of time. All it does is make you want to ... take a nap."
When she got her "L Word" role, she hadn't worked in a year. "I liked the risk that was behind it, but I thought, 'This can either fly or flop,' " she observed.
It flew. And, she said, the ensemble cast behaves like an ensemble even when off-camera: "I look at them as my sisters."
In "Guardians," she is on her own. It is a risky venture of a different sort: darkly satiric, intermittently shocking, caustic to the core. "Just the amount of dialogue I had to learn was a challenge, and then everything behind the dialogue is a challenge unto itself," Ms. Moennig explained. "It's not like there's the chance to pull the wool over anybody's eyes with this character. It's bare bones. I was terrified to take the part — which is exactly why I knew I had to do it."
New York Times
April 11, 2006
A Show Needs a Tomboy? She Can Look the Part
By ROBIN FINN
She is a self-proclaimed tomboy who, no lie, dreamed of becoming a doorman but was sidetracked by acting at age 10 — and only "begrudgingly," said Katherine Moennig, slugging a post-performance Corona from the bottle at a dimly lighted pub on the Bowery.
She made a convincing debut in semi-drag as Christopher Robin in a Philadelphia children's theater production of "Winnie-the-Pooh" and, precociously in touch with her inner androgyny, went on to portray a cross-dressing teenager on WB's "Young Americans" and a transsexual on "Law & Order" before inhabiting her breakout role as Shane McCutcheon, a seductive womanizer who happens to be a woman, on Showtime's soapy lesbian melodrama, "The L Word." Now, at 28, she is — finally and anxiously — making her Off Broadway debut as, of all things, a heterosexual bumpkin whose libido gets her very much into trouble in Iraq. A dose of international infamy follows.
In ripped stovepipe jeans and velvet Gucci jacket, which both cling to her angular frame like a second skin, Ms. Moennig, who possesses the bone structure and metabolism of a gazelle, an angelic sulk and a smoker's cough (her latest role demands a few antsy puffs), does not so much bend as transcend gender. Especially when she smothers Shane's trademark eye-obscuring postmodern shag haircut beneath a one-size-fits-all knitted skullcap. The tattoo of a violin — she got it the day after her father, William, a renowned violin-maker, died two years ago — that graces her lower back is not on view, either.
"I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing," Ms. Moennig said. That is perhaps the best attitude to take after being typecast by label-conscious Hollywood as a classic androgynous type.
"Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' " she added. "I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there," she said, referring to Los Angeles, where she lives with a pair of dogs who transfer along with her to Vancouver for the four-month shooting season of "The L Word." "The femme fatale. Or the white-trash heterosexual hillbilly." Not even a kinky one.
Which is why she jumped at the chance to portray such a hillbilly Off Broadway in the Culture Project's production of "Guardians," a deliberately provocative two-character play by Peter Morris. In alternating, bizarrely colliding monologues, it explores the Abu Ghraib prison scandal from the perspectives of an opportunistic British tabloid journalist (the Golden Globe nominee Lee Pace), who fakes torture photos to advance his career, and a disgraced yet defiant American soldier (Ms. Moennig) facing a court-martial for posing in torture photos at the Iraq prison where she was stationed. Any resemblance to Private Lynndie R. England is purely intentional.
"That was the tricky part," said Ms. Moennig, who said she studied television clips of Ms. England and read her recent comments from prison. "Not necessarily to imitate her. I knew the character wasn't solely based on her. We don't look alike, and I can't say Lynndie England has the most vivacious personality. When I first heard about the scandal, I thought, 'How could a girl do something like this?' "
Since taking on the play, Ms. Moennig has revised those thoughts. "It's all about power, and how desperate people do desperate things," she said. "The message is so clear: that power can be completely misplaced, and, because of that, a lot of things go wrong. I fell in love with this character: she doesn't play the victim, and she's unapologetic."
She is, from the start, similar to what Ms. Moennig said her "L Word" character is becoming in the show's third season: "an open wound."
The play's director, Jason Moore, better known for his lighter side as the Tony-nominated director of "Avenue Q," said, "Kate got the part because she possesses, among other great things, the thing I value most in an actor: fearlessness. And this part demands it."
In "Guardians," Ms. Moennig's primary wardrobe consists of a voluminous orange prison jumpsuit. She wears no makeup, and her hair is scraped into an unflattering ponytail. She calls it "exciting" to play a part "where I could get my hair off my face, and let my eyebrows grow in."
"I can't even put acting on television and acting in this play in the same category," she continued. "This is taking me out of my comfort zone."
Pleading privacy, Ms. Moennig makes it a personal policy to keep her own sexual orientation under wraps.
"It's not for the sake of being mysterious; it's really that I believe it's nobody's business," she said. "I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show business game, and it's one game I won't play." The same goes for talking about her relationships with a couple of A-list relatives in the business, Gwyneth Paltrow (her cousin) and Blythe Danner (her aunt). Ms. Moennig makes it clear that her career has not been fast-forwarded by nepotism.
"Thus far, I've never been in a position to pick and choose my roles," she said. "I have to eat, and I have bills to pay." She found herself in the final rounds of auditions for the role in "Boys Don't Cry" that won Hilary Swank an Oscar. But she understands why she did not get the role. "I was green as grass," she said. "Besides, the bitter pill is a waste of time. All it does is make you want to ... take a nap."
When she got her "L Word" role, she hadn't worked in a year. "I liked the risk that was behind it, but I thought, 'This can either fly or flop,' " she observed.
It flew. And, she said, the ensemble cast behaves like an ensemble even when off-camera: "I look at them as my sisters."
In "Guardians," she is on her own. It is a risky venture of a different sort: darkly satiric, intermittently shocking, caustic to the core. "Just the amount of dialogue I had to learn was a challenge, and then everything behind the dialogue is a challenge unto itself," Ms. Moennig explained. "It's not like there's the chance to pull the wool over anybody's eyes with this character. It's bare bones. I was terrified to take the part — which is exactly why I knew I had to do it."
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Gay or not?
Hope I'm not sounding offensive or anything with my question. Because that's not my point, NOT at ALL. But I've been wondering about it for while. Everytime I watch her show randomly, I doubt. I mean, I know that's the whole point of the show but it, plus her looks (not so femenine), plus that show she used to be when younger... I dunno, just asking. Anyone knows?
Hope I'm not sounding offensive or anything with my question. Because that's not my point, NOT at ALL. But I've been wondering about it for while. Everytime I watch her show randomly, I doubt. I mean, I know that's the whole point of the show but it, plus her looks (not so femenine), plus that show she used to be when younger... I dunno, just asking. Anyone knows?
She's awesome though!electricladyland
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well, she's probably gay...but i'm wondering why it matters...
No, it doesn't.
But it's like hanging there because it's not a fact. So, it's even more intriguing is she, or isn't she? But it doesn't matters. It's like Angelina and Brad together before they came clean. Nobody really cares but everybody wanted to know just because they wanted to know.
But it's like hanging there because it's not a fact. So, it's even more intriguing is she, or isn't she? But it doesn't matters. It's like Angelina and Brad together before they came clean. Nobody really cares but everybody wanted to know just because they wanted to know.
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then, if she "comes clean" everyone will want to know who she's with...and then how serious it is, and then where they shop, and then whether or not they played footsie at dinner, and then...you get my point...
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^^^ B)
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She's a little bit too androgynous for my liking...but I guess that's the basis of her appeal?
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well, tushka, you're always looking for the lesbians so you found the right thread!!
i absolutely love this thread! im so obsessed with kate moennig, well shane.. gosh if i ever met her id faint!! i have a boyfriend and all but i just have crush on this girl..so i dont know if that makes me bi or what but i would so totally do it with this girl..she is so beautiful, yet androgyne and sexy...
