Bad career decisions/outcomes. SHOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BIGGER!!!!!!!
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larpine — 13 years ago(December 18, 2012 08:59 PM)
REALLY?
It's a myoptic approach to an understanding of stardom if it's judged solely on box office and figures pulled from the internet.
Furthermore, The Grifters earned Bening her first Oscar nod and a three million dollar paycheck for Batman Returns. When her pregnancy required she forfeit the role, Michelle Pfeiffer was offered one million for the same part, proving that Bening was considered, at least to the Batman franchisee, to be the bigger star. -
TMC-4 — 12 years ago(March 27, 2014 03:05 PM)
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=13556983#page:showT hread,13556983,1
Except for The Grifters, in which she was great, the rest of Benings career consists of scenery chewing which would make you think she had just escaped from a North Korean internment camp.
by: Anonymous reply 5 01/06/2014 @ 03:01PM
Bening has given some memorable performances but also some pretty terrible ones. She is a talented but uneven actress who needs very firm direction, and lots of it. As far as her marriage, how many wonderful performances has Beatty given in the past 20 years?
All told, I think shes had a good run of it. We cant all be Meryl.
by: Anonymous reply 8 01/06/2014 @ 03:04PM
Yeah, Bening is rather inconsistent. But she never hit the top, regardless. Thats the point. But maybe the lack of consistency/discipline or whatever was as much the issue with her career as Beatty was.
by: OP reply 44 01/06/2014 @ 04:23PM
Annette Bening made the choice early on to stay away from commercial films without what she considered to be high artistic merit. She came close to doing FREAKY FRIDAY and dropped out anyway a2000nd that script was about as good as family friendly studio movies get.
by: Anonymous reply 84 01/06/2014 @ 05:40PM