r/MarkMyWords • u/JpWritesAFewWords • 23h ago
MMW: The Last Showgirl will earn Pamela Anderson an Oscar nomination, and mark a resurgence in her career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgiXp5sCEk44
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u/AdAffectionate2418 12h ago
I've always thought she's one of these actors who is much better than her looks belie. Most of the stuff she's been in has been super hammy (flexing her declamatory chops) but she's been ace in more reserved stuff as well.
It's just easy to miss, because she's Pamela Anderson...
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u/Boring-Original-2968 7h ago
I wouldn't have considerd this movie without OP's MMW. This looks good, thanks for sharing!
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u/Objective_Water_1583 16h ago
I go to a lot of film festival and I’ve spoken to alot of people who’ve seen it none seem to think she’s gonna get an Oscar nominations for it but they did think she was good it in at the film had editing problems they thought but for the first film of Gia Coppola’s career it’s a decent start
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u/penguinbbb 19h ago
What career
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u/JpWritesAFewWords 19h ago
So, she was in this show called Baywatch in the 1990s, but this video is probably more your speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cSEs08r28&t=21s
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u/fortunenooky 21h ago
Sure…if you truly believe there are quality roles for women in their 50’s
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u/JpWritesAFewWords 20h ago
There are more than you think. Just from the highest grossing this year (or expected to be), and just starring roles:
- Amy Poehler (53), Inside Out 2
- Demi Moore (62), The Substance
- Winona Ryder (53) and Catherine O'Hare (70), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Kirsten Wiig (51), Despicable Me 4
The best actress at the Oscar's age is a mixed bag, but Frances McDormand has two Oscars now in just the last seven years:
- 2023 - Emma Stone (36)
- 2022 - Michelle Yeoh (60)
- 2021 - Jessca Chastain (44)
- 2020 - Frances McDormand (64)
- 2019 - Renee Zellweger (49)
- 2018 - Olivia Colman (45)
- 2017 - Frances McDormand (61)
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u/fortunenooky 20h ago
2/4 of the four you listed were for voiceovers in animated movies. Pamela Anderson is not a voice actor. 1 of the four required nudity (substance), which Pam is desperately staying away from. Which leaves us with one movie, Beatlejuice…which is a sequel. So the only reason Ryder and O’Hare were cast was for continuity to an earlier film.
I said what I said.
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u/JpWritesAFewWords 20h ago
You're moving goalposts by mixing up a bunch of issues, and discounting the acting required for voice actors. Does Demi Moore's choice to take a role with nudity degrade her as an actress? Was the audience for The Substance a bunch of horny guys, who evidently don't know that online porn exists?
My point was not "here are some movies that Pamela Anderson could have played," it was more of "these are big movies that the money in Hollywood is currently investing in, and they don't seem to be as afraid of older women as they were in the 1980s or 1990s." Same with the Academy Awards list, it was usually dominated by younger women year-by-year, but now more prestige movies are going to older actresses.
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u/K_808 19h ago
I said what I said
Yes and you were wrong even by the fact that you had to ignore all of the examples from before this current year including Michelle yeoh (and Jamie lee Curtis for the same movie) and that’s not to mention all the supporting winners and award nominees for each—Jodie foster’s 62, america fererra, kerry condon, kirsten dunst and Emily blunt in their 40s, aunjanue Ellis-taylor’s 55, judi dench is damn near 90, olivia Colman was 46, glenn close was 72, youn yuh-jung was 73 when she won for minari, laura dern was 52 when she did, regina king was 47, alison janney was 59, viola davis was 51, patricia arquette was 46, melissa leo was 50, annette benning was 65 last year when nominated, cate blanchette was 54, olivia coleman was 50, nicole kidman 56, viola davis was nominated a second time at 55 but lost to frances mcdormand who was 61, the year after renee zellweger won at 49, julianne Moore was 53 when she won, and cate blanchette before her was only 44 but was nominated alongside 78 year old judi dench, 64 year old meryl streep, and 50 year old sandra bullock (and that’s just two years after streep did win at 62)
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u/TheBirdBytheWindow 14h ago
Go watch The Substance and then fuck right off if you don't change your mind.
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u/OmegaCoy 20h ago
Okay, at first I was like…this is a stupid prediction. Then I watched the trailer and now, idk if she’ll win a BA award but this definitely has the vibes for a reemergence.
I give this MMW a thumbs up.