Paltrow to play Dietrich

[Mink]

http://imdb.com/title/tt0413425/

Well, it's official. Start the fighting.

 

[LoveMyBoots]

Okay. It's not so much that Gwyneth Paltrow is playing Marlene Dietrich but how this film would be another biopic....

 

[ultramarine]

Hum ... Cate Blanchett wud've been perfect ...

 

[thehepburn]

Cate Blanchett is perfect for most roles.

The Dietrich biopic has been rumored for a while so I'm already over it.

 

[Anastasia]

Who are they going to get to play James Stewart? Jake Gyllenhaal? Love him, but it's about as accurate as Gwenyth as Marlena.

Agreed on Cate Blanchett.

 

[VainJane]

I'm sick of bios

 

[stellablue]

They have similar eyes, so maybe likeness was a strong factor?

 

[thehepburn]

pic from ONTD

 

[MulletProof]

I dont see how someone could get sick of biographies...unless they've missed good adaptations of course.

anyway, i'd like to see gwyneth as deitrich...or any actress anyway. i find it a little strange that people go inmediately into physical comparisons when a a contemporary actress is playing a legendary one 'she doesnt look like her', it's acting goddamit, not imitation.

 

[thehepburn]

Can you correct the spelling in the title of this thread? It's DIEtrich, not deitrich.

 

[oanadobre]

Done

 

[*Happiness*]

will they have a John P. Kennedy (john F. kennedy's father) in this film....Marlene and John P. had an affair for a while. I wonder.

 

[jennifer~]

I don't mind Paltrow, but even if I did, I can't imagine getting too worked-up over these things. Marlene will always be Marlene, whether or not a harmless biopic attempts to debunk this fact - and I fully believe the recent influx of biopics serve a purpose in filling the void which comes from having few present-day icons who can compare to the likes of their featured subjects...

With that said, I'd love to pick the cast of Lindsay Lohan: From Birth to... Here...

 

[Miss Dalloway]

I dont see how someone could get sick of biographies...unless they've missed good adaptations of course.

anyway, i'd like to see gwyneth as deitrich...or any actress anyway. i find it a little strange that people go inmediately into physical comparisons when a a contemporary actress is playing a legendary one 'she doesnt look like her', it's acting goddamit, not imitation.

I agree with you its all about good acting no actress can totally look like Marlene,Marilyn,Audrey.etc and that is not even the point!!!I love bios and i saw a lot of damn good ones,Capote blew me away!

 

[cosmogrl5]

I could have sworn that Kevyn Aucoin made her over into Marlene in his book "Making Faces" for some reason.

Anyway, I am sure that other actresses could have played it better, but I think that Gwyneth will do a fine job. She is not a bad actress. Plus, she has not been in a movie in so long that maybe she will really give this her all as her sort of "comeback role". Wouldn't be surprised if she took the role thinking in the back of her mind: Biopic = Oscar.

I'll be curious to see this one....

 

[Scott]

I still would rather see Tilda Swinton in this. I say it time and again,but she's got that vein about her that reminds me so much of Dietrich. Paltrow....sorry but I find her incredibly overrated. She's really not that great.

 

[fashionista-ta]

I think she's a good actress ... but if she can pull this off, she's a better actress than I thought In my mind, she just doesn't have that I am Woman, hear me ROOOOOAR quality that Dietrich did ...

 

[shelley502]

i personally like paltrow and can't wait to see her in a new movie

 

[Miss Dalloway]

I still would rather see Tilda Swinton in this. I say it time and again,but she's got that vein about her that reminds me so much of Dietrich. Paltrow....sorry but I find her incredibly overrated. She's really not that great.

Actually(OT)did you hear that Tilda is going to play Babe Paley in a biopic?
I think that might be interesting and could bring her an academy that she soo deserves!We Will see!
She is also currently filming a bipoic about Nico the Andy Warhol superstar so i guess she is on biopic overload!

 

[SiennaInLondon]

^ Good grief! I dont think Tilda deserves an academy. Poor woman. I think she is too good for an oscar.