Monday
Dec292014
Lead Actress Chat-a-long
Monday, December 29, 2014 at 3:42PM Epix only uploads tiny pieces of this for viewing but someone has uploaded their whole Best Actress roundtable. The Supporting Actress version was up briefly before being pulled so watch it while you can. Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Emily Blunt, Shailene Woodley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Jessica Chastain.
They talk for about 10 minutes at the beginning about singing and musicals -- someone needs to cast Gugu in a traditional musical straightaway!
UPDATE: Though the special presentations are not available in full for embedding, you can see all five of them here at the Epix site.
Reader Comments (18)
All of these are available to stream for free (in full) on the Epix website. At least, they were this afternoon.
Got about 3 minutes into it, and then it seems to have been taken down.
Apologies, seems to be working again now.
It seems like Jen and Emily are old friends and need to work together pronto.
Just saw Belle tonight. What an incredible performance from Gugu.
I watched this one before but never saw the supporting actress one! Gonna try to find it.
This is my favorite roundtable of the season. Especially love hearing Emily talk about being invited into the rewrite process for Edge Of Tomorrow. Fascinating.
Gugu seems to be a truly bright young actress, while Shailene at this point is just pretentious
Disclaimer : I'm about to offend everyone probably.
Jessica Chastain annoys me. Every interview it's 'At school...', 'Now that I have success, after no success...'. We get it Jessica.
It's sad as I imagine she's great, but her worthiness and self awareness is awful. You can discuss your craft without discussing it in the way she does, and still make a profound point, see Emily Blunt.
Emily Blunt is a natural - no hang-ups, no I-take-myself-seriously attitude, etc. She makes this interview very watchable. In fact, I prefer this to the stiflingly predictable round-the-table actress discussion by Hollywood Reporter (Julianne, Laura, etc.)
EVERYONE - hayden is right. I guess I was looking at the wrong epix site or wrong section within it. You can't embed them but all five roundtables (acting plus directing) are available here for streaming.
This one was way better than the Hollywood Reporter version -- all those actresses seemed to be on guard. You really need a few women on board who have big personalities or it's just too dull.
Oh my god I totally second Keegan's comment about Jessica Chastain. Her mind is like where irony goes to die. People accuse Anne Hathaway of being overly earnest but at least she's self-deprecating and sells a little humor. Chastain sounds like Amy Adams with a college degree but is even less charming, because she's attempting to sound deep and authoritative.
It's like she's defending a thesis, answering a beauty pageant question, and speaking slowly to a small child all at the same time. It's even more pronounced on such a loose, fun panel of women.
I am not getting the dislike for Chastain , I find her really lovely and charming and super intelligent. She is there to speak about acting not to be self-effacing for the sake of the viewers
Jessica Chastain:
- a great actress
- a deeply intelligent human being
- there's something about her that makes her extra special, that rare Streep / Blanchett / Kidman thing, manifested through her own gifts.
- she's fucking JUILLIARD-trained, I mean... if you're American, it doesn't get any better than this!
Emiliy Blunt: I barked with laughter when she said "I cried on Tom Cruise when I put the suit on" and when she acted out the situation I died :D :D :D
This puts the THR roundtable to such shame, it's unbelievable. Thanks for posting!
I caught this on Youtube. Interesting how the conversation moved to women in Hollywood (parts for women, women directors, writers, etc.) and how some of these actresses said that there are more good parts for women in TV (and/or Netflix, Amazon.)
Having just binge-watched the rest of Mozart in the Jungle, there ARE great parts for women in TV (see Debra Monk, Saffron Burrows, and younger performers like Lola Kirke and Hannah Dunne.)
"Chastain sounds like Amy Adams with a college degree" lol
I like her as an actress, but I'm in the "she's a little annoying" team. we get it, you paid your dues... now find a new narrative!
"...she's fucking JUILLIARD-trained, I mean... if you're American, it doesn't get any better than this!"
Beg to differ, let's just take NYU, Yale, CalArts, Goodman for starters.