They got her early. She had a few solid credits to her name when she did Iron Man 2, but the smart MCU move at that point was to recruit young-ish talent and get them signed on for multi-movie contracts relatively cheap. Hopefully what we all get out of that sort of arrangement is that talented actors make enough MCU money to go off and do whatever out-there artsy stuff that creatively appeals to them and fosters their talents, rather than having to plug away in garbage movies just to pay the bills.
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lobut@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
This is just me, but I always felt her acting talents were wasted in the MCU. Same with Brie Larson.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 day ago
jacksilver@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
She was definitely a name before Ironman 2 with movies like “Lost in Translation”, “The Island”, “Girl with a pearl earring”, “Black Dahlia” to name a few.
I remember people being excited about seeing her in Ironman 2.
You are right that they grabbed cheaper people originally, but they werent unknown names.
HadOwenKiRoast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I agree on Scarlet but not on Brie Larson, I find most characters she plays to be bland or not move is as much.
While Scarlet in Lucy, Dark Blue and ghost in the shell really really make it clear how good of an actress she is.
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
What about when she played Envy Adams on Scott Pilgrim!
youtu.be/1xcSDYy3Dl4
I mean it was a smaller role years ago, but I loved it.
For Scarlett, I think she was amazing in Marriage Story.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Great song by Metric. Black Sheep
moakley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Larson did the vocals in the movie version of the song. Sounds just like Emily Haines.
HadOwenKiRoast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I didn’t know it was actually her in scott pilgrim, tought it was a good imitation. That is amazing.
Will add marriage story to my watchlist, can’t remember having seen it.
toynbee@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I was very surprised to discover it was her in Room (not The Room).
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Neither her best film with Ghost in the title, nor the best version of Ghost in the Shell.
Not that I disagree with your point. She has acting chops wasted in MCU.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
She wasn’t the problem with Ghost though, at least outside the whitewashing aspect. Probably the best part of it tbh. Movie was just mid all around.
yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just a reminder since people apparently still have this confusion; ghost in the shell wasn’t white washed. The character from book one is described as western looking specifically to be able to infiltrate any country without suspicion falling on Japan.
We can discuss why they didn’t white face a Japanese person if thats somehow less offensive than hiring for the look of the android body instead of the original body that died of cancer as a little girl, but that seems even more silly than people that had no interest in the series (or anime/manga in general) getting upset about accurate casting.