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Post by Allenism on Jan 21, 2019 13:31:44 GMT
Who's the better actress?
For me it's Foy, fairly easily. Blunt just never really cut it for me outside of "My Summer of Love". There's just something quite surfacey about her acting. Foy brings more naturalism and gravitas to the table even if she may not be as physically commanding.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 21, 2019 18:46:16 GMT
Blunt for me. She's never quite wowed me but she's consistently solid. I haven't seen enough of Foy to really have an opinion yet but I didn't care for her in First Man at all. I think the writing undercut her character and revealed despite its best intentions how little she actually factors into the story (cutting between Neil's training and Janet's housework was emblematic of that). I also think her performance was oddly terse. It was like watching Unsane all over again but that off-putting rigidity was so much more appropriate to that film and is what made her third act transformation into an unbreakable badass compelling.
I haven't seen enough of The Crown to have an opinion there and I never saw Girl in the Spider's Web. Give her a few more years and maybe I'll feel differently, but for now I definitely give the edge to Blunt.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 19:02:41 GMT
I like Foy, but I think Blunt is a Streep-esque chameleon who can do a lot more.
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Post by Allenism on Jan 21, 2019 19:17:55 GMT
I like Foy, but I think Blunt is a Streep-esque chameleon who can do a lot more.  She’s actually the opposite of versatile to me. |
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Post by speeders on Jan 22, 2019 12:05:35 GMT
Emily Blunt is one my favorite working actresses. Her strongest turn was her criminally overlooked performance in Sicario, but she's been great in Looper, My Summer of Love and even tends to be the best things about fairly mediocre stuff like The Devil Wears Prada, A Quiet Place, the Girl on the Train, Sunshine Cleaning, The Young Victoria and Edge of Tomorrow. I do think it's worrying how she seems stuck in the Disney machine for a while now with potential Mary Poppins and Jungle Cruise franchises. She is so much better than that.
Foy was excellent in First Man and seriously deserve a nomination and even a win as far as I'm concerned, rang quite false and phony to me in The Crown but decent, irritating in Unsane and dreadful in the Girl in the Spider's Web. But given her surprisingly strong work in First Man, I think she has a lot of potential to tap into something more raw and deeper than we've mostly seen from her so far.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jan 22, 2019 12:13:53 GMT
Blunt by a long way.
I'm still not even sure if I like Foy, though I will say I haven't watched The Crown.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 22, 2019 14:42:05 GMT
AMPAS: "Neither!"
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Post by Allenism on Jan 22, 2019 14:43:37 GMT
At this rate I still see Foy getting one before Blunt. |
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