Best first time acting performances
03-29-05 | 12:05 AM
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Best first time acting performances
Name some great performances by first time actors.
~Edward Norton in Primal Fear
~Keisha Castle Hughes in Whale Rider
I'm sure there's a hundred more.
~Edward Norton in Primal Fear
~Keisha Castle Hughes in Whale Rider
I'm sure there's a hundred more.
03-29-05 | 12:45 AM
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Norton had never been in a movie before, but he had been acting in plays since he was a child.
Hughes really was an amateur that they picked out of a classroom.
I'm just saying.
Hughes really was an amateur that they picked out of a classroom.
I'm just saying.
03-29-05 | 09:24 AM
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Sidney Greenstreet in The Maltese Falcon
Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves
Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves
03-29-05 | 11:21 AM
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God...I can't believe I'm about to say this...but Oprah Winfrey in THE COLOR PURPLE.
03-29-05 | 11:49 AM
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Catalina Sandino Moreno.
Not that I put much stock in Oscars, but getting nominated on your first film (Maria Full of Grace) isn't a bad start.
Not that I put much stock in Oscars, but getting nominated on your first film (Maria Full of Grace) isn't a bad start.
beat me to it.
03-29-05 | 12:33 PM
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03-29-05 | 04:58 PM
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"I'm just saying" was meant to translate as:
Even though Ed Norton had never appeared in a movie before, I don't think it's accurate to call someone who had been acting on the stage for almost two decades a "first time actor".
This especially bears contrasting with the case of Hughes who literally was acting for the first time in her life.
"I'm just saying" was meant to translate as:
Even though Ed Norton had never appeared in a movie before, I don't think it's accurate to call someone who had been acting on the stage for almost two decades a "first time actor".
This especially bears contrasting with the case of Hughes who literally was acting for the first time in her life.
03-29-05 | 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Count Dooku
In reply to Scott Shelton
"I'm just saying" was meant to translate as:
Even though Ed Norton had never appeared in a movie before, I don't think it's accurate to call someone who had been acting on the stage for almost two decades a "first time actor".
This especially bears contrasting with the case of Hughes who literally was acting for the first time in her life.
"I'm just saying" was meant to translate as:
Even though Ed Norton had never appeared in a movie before, I don't think it's accurate to call someone who had been acting on the stage for almost two decades a "first time actor".
This especially bears contrasting with the case of Hughes who literally was acting for the first time in her life.
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03-29-05 | 05:55 PM
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'nother vote for Natalie Portman.
Eve Marie Saint in On the Waterfront comes to mind as well.
Eve Marie Saint in On the Waterfront comes to mind as well.
03-29-05 | 06:46 PM
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the endless nitpicking of minutiae
If you've had occasion to look at the Cult TV Tournament over in the TV Talk section, you might appreciate the value of "the endless nitpicking of minutiae".
Oh, and, of course...
