by Nathaniel R
THE SUBSTANCE
We’re updating all Oscar charts this weekend (if we can manage) and of course we start by spotlighting Best Actress, the category we live for as actressexuals. As is silly tradition, we like to mush all the contenders together and see what we’ve got. A unique caveat: it feels a little weird to play this game in a year where one of the nominees comes from a movie that does create a creature, “Monstro Elisasue”, by fusing women together. ANYWAY… If you stitch all of this season’s Best Actresses together your Bride of Frankenstein beauty is a 47 year old raven-haired American actress (with family ties to the UK and Brazil) enjoying her first ever nomination. Read on for more craziness...
She plays a defiant woman, whether fighting for justice, refusing to age, living her truth whatever the cost, or merely trying to get her bag. Her genre-busting movie is a body-horror musical with political undertones overtones that took Cannes by storm and hasn’t stopped winning flowers since. Though our MonstroBestActress is the one in the spotlight, she actually shared leading lady duties in her movie with another fine actress (who campaigned in supporting). Her film debut was either in the early 80s or in 2015… it’s hard to say. She is a fiery Aries with Scorpio rising we think---we’re not official astrologists! Collectively she has eight kids.
See the new chart here and vote daily for your favourite contender!
But since this is the time of year when we also mourn the snubs (call them omissions if “snubs” offends you) here’s an extra actressy poll to vote on, too…