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seriousficSo right now, I am crushing hard on Olivier Award-nominated English actress Frances Barber.
Look at this HBIC! This is her in a stage production of Cleopatra & Antony, but she looks like fucking Wonder Woman in a Wonder Woman movie where Wonder Woman wore actual clothes (Wonder Woman). Or like Wonder Woman's cool aunt who steals her boyfriends... I've put too much thought into this.
Anyway, I've only seen her in two movies, Boudicca and Flyfishing. In Boudicca, she plays Nero's mother, who is... let's just say a bit too free in her maternal affection (they fuck). And in Flyfishing, she plays a woman who has sex with her daughter's boyfriend (he's a male prostitute. Yes, that old story). So, mother who is way too involved with her kids' sex lives... that's a weird niche to have, isn't it?
Central Casting: Alright, Tracy Morgan, you'll be playing the wacky comic relief who says all sorts of crazy things.
Tracy Morgan: I got this.
Central Casting: And Frances Barber, you'll be playing a mom who fucks her son.
Frances Barber: All over it!
It really doesn't help that in both movies, she has sex scenes where she's very... enthusiastic about the proceedings. By contrast, judging by Jessica Alba's acting, her body double could be a RealDoll.
To bring my point around, we need more stories where the love interests (or heroines... goddamnit, I would watch a JSA movie where she was Hippolyta) are unconventionally attractive* middle-aged British women; obligatory breasts of Catherine Tate. I'm getting a little tired of Blake Lively being in every genre movie. Yes, dear, you're totally a worn-out Boston prostitute.
*And I mean unconventionally attractive in the sense that she wouldn't get a spread in Maxim, not in the Gabourey Sidibe way**.
**Am I the only one who really got sick of being all settled in to watch a fun movie and having to see the trailer for Precious? It's like "Woo, Iron Man 2!" RAPE! CHILD ABUSE! TEEN PREGNANCY! CRUSHING POVERTY! "Woo... Iron Man 2...
Thanks a lot, Gabourey Sidibe!
ETA: Ian McKellan bought her a library! That's the most awesome thing I've ever heard that's actually true. It's like saying "I motorbiked off a volcano to high-five Sean Connery," only it REALLY HAPPENED.
Look at this HBIC! This is her in a stage production of Cleopatra & Antony, but she looks like fucking Wonder Woman in a Wonder Woman movie where Wonder Woman wore actual clothes (Wonder Woman). Or like Wonder Woman's cool aunt who steals her boyfriends... I've put too much thought into this.
Anyway, I've only seen her in two movies, Boudicca and Flyfishing. In Boudicca, she plays Nero's mother, who is... let's just say a bit too free in her maternal affection (they fuck). And in Flyfishing, she plays a woman who has sex with her daughter's boyfriend (he's a male prostitute. Yes, that old story). So, mother who is way too involved with her kids' sex lives... that's a weird niche to have, isn't it?
Central Casting: Alright, Tracy Morgan, you'll be playing the wacky comic relief who says all sorts of crazy things.
Tracy Morgan: I got this.
Central Casting: And Frances Barber, you'll be playing a mom who fucks her son.
Frances Barber: All over it!
It really doesn't help that in both movies, she has sex scenes where she's very... enthusiastic about the proceedings. By contrast, judging by Jessica Alba's acting, her body double could be a RealDoll.
To bring my point around, we need more stories where the love interests (or heroines... goddamnit, I would watch a JSA movie where she was Hippolyta) are unconventionally attractive* middle-aged British women; obligatory breasts of Catherine Tate. I'm getting a little tired of Blake Lively being in every genre movie. Yes, dear, you're totally a worn-out Boston prostitute.
*And I mean unconventionally attractive in the sense that she wouldn't get a spread in Maxim, not in the Gabourey Sidibe way**.
**Am I the only one who really got sick of being all settled in to watch a fun movie and having to see the trailer for Precious? It's like "Woo, Iron Man 2!" RAPE! CHILD ABUSE! TEEN PREGNANCY! CRUSHING POVERTY! "Woo... Iron Man 2...
Thanks a lot, Gabourey Sidibe!
ETA: Ian McKellan bought her a library! That's the most awesome thing I've ever heard that's actually true. It's like saying "I motorbiked off a volcano to high-five Sean Connery," only it REALLY HAPPENED.
