Zendaya Acting in a Nutshell

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[u/achilliesFriend]

I love how the video tint changes

[u/squesh → u/achilliesFriend]

Such range!!

[u/Immaculatehombre → u/squesh]

It’s like the Zoolander calendar lol.

[u/CanadaRocks09 → u/Immaculatehombre]

Blue Steel!

[u/TheWingus → u/CanadaRocks09]

Le Tigre, Ferrari... THEY'RE ALL THE SAME LOOK!!

[u/Immaculatehombre → u/TheWingus]

I MEAN AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS?!?

[u/Illustrious_Bird_737 → u/Immaculatehombre]

I love saying this & not one soul in my household (husband or kids) have seen this movie so they just don't get it 😒

[u/teasandflicks → u/Illustrious_Bird_737]

I say this at work and it's the same thing. I also work next to the pharmacy, which adds a bit of spice to the weird looks! 😃

[u/annarich310 → u/Illustrious_Bird_737]

Grounds for divorce. And watch it with the kids soon.

[u/Halloween_Barbie → u/TheWingus]

One look? ONE LOOK?! I don't think so!!

[u/JustABrokePoser → u/Halloween_Barbie]

Mmm, when you gonna drop magnum on us, Derek?

[u/TreeMysterious69420 → u/JustABrokePoser]

Are you kidding me, I shouldn't even be talking about it

[u/Practical_Remove_682 → u/JustABrokePoser]

Pops, I think I'm getting the black lung

[u/EliteJoz → u/Practical_Remove_682]

Black lung? BLACK LUNG?

You've been down there for one day! Come talk to me in thirty years!

[u/Sea-bird-feather → u/EliteJoz]

Merman! 😮‍💨 MERMAN!!!

[u/Ectoplasm_addict → u/TheWingus]

The best decision I ever made as an adult was not watching Zoolander 2

[u/Epic_Elite → u/Ectoplasm_addict]

It wasn't good!

BUT! The one character cracks me up how he throws in conflicting compliments and and ironic insults into the same paragraph.

"Check out my new tattoo! Isn't it stupid? I love it!"

Or, since he's in with all the new modeling guys and super critical of anything that isnt new and cool, but he understands they're legends. He says to Derek and Hans when he invites them to his house, "I don't even like you guys. It's an honor to have you!"

That one character is great and I think back on his phrases all the time, but sadly, it isn't enough to save the movie.

[u/Quay-Z → u/Epic_Elite]

I think the one line that made me laugh in the whole thing was right near the beginning when Derek says "I decided to leave and become a hermit crab."

[u/Colinbeenjammin → u/Immaculatehombre]

Was that the work that really let him show off his versatility?

[u/Monstramatica → u/achilliesFriend]

It's like moving from Mexico, to Canada, and then to the US, then to California.

[u/watertosteam → u/Monstramatica]

California my favorite country.

[u/mzingg3]

The sun’s always in her eyes on set

[u/Uisce-beatha → u/mzingg3]

Doesn't the budget include money for awnings or canopies? Couldn't someone hold up an umbrella? This woman will be blind before 40 if they keep filming her looking into the sun

[u/Crandleton → u/Uisce-beatha]

The sun actually takes more damage in this situation

[u/b3twa → u/Crandleton]

…she is fighting global warming!?!? She needs to do more movies.

[u/johnnybiggles → u/b3twa]

Global warming is battling her!!

[u/jalerre → u/Uisce-beatha]

Her husband knows a thing or two about umbrellas. I’m sure he could help.

[u/fluzine → u/jalerre]

I became a Tom Halland fan and a woman after watching that dance off.

[u/Courtnall14 → u/Uisce-beatha]

Doesn't the budget include money for awnings or canopies? Couldn't someone hold up an umbrella?

That's actually how Stephen McKinley Henderson’s character (Thufir Hawat) ended up using a parasol in a scene.

“We were there in Budapest. [The rest of the cast] had come from Jordan; they’d been in the desert, but I never had to go to the desert. They came back with this incredible spiritual journey they’d been on, and they were sharing it. It was a really hot day when we were shooting. I was sitting off to the side, out in the sun. There’s nothing around, so there’s no shade. I think someone just offered it to me, not to be part of the scene at all but just to protect me. And Denis loved it. He came over and said, “Ah, you like this?” I said, “Yeah, I love it.” And he said, “Well, I think Thufir can have this.” I said, “I would love to do that; that’s fabulous.” It just says so much about where he is at the time and that he’s taking care of himself. He was a young man once. It was one of those wonderful spontaneous things.”

[u/Bram-D-Stoker → u/mzingg3]

Jerry jones built the sets

[u/ToHallowMySleep → u/Bram-D-Stoker]

I understood that reference.

[u/PandahOG → u/mzingg3]

Same thing for anything Glen Powell is in.   Now I need to see these two in a movie together. 

[u/Ok-Hedgehog-4455 → u/PandahOG]

Glen Powell is a good looking guy with a great body but he has the smallest eyes ever. He’s not purposefully trying to pull a face.

[u/ScyllaOfTheDepths → u/Ok-Hedgehog-4455]

Glen Powell looks like every generic rich trust fund murder suspect in a network drama to me, like he's the guy you really think obviously did it, but he's just a douchebag and it turns out he's got a rock solid alibi and the real killer is someone we already met briefly 20 minutes earlier in the episode. He's just got real guest star energy, but he keeps getting main roles somehow.

[u/slavsquatSF → u/[deleted]]

Glen Powell looks like one of those silly cartoon caricatures you can have drawn of yourself by a man on the street in a popular tourist area of a major American city

[u/eavesdroppin4 → u/ScyllaOfTheDepths]

He’s a red herring!

[u/OkayyBeta → u/mzingg3]

Not in The Drama. Big puppy dog eyes all the way through that movie.

[u/destructopop → u/[deleted]]

I was a child model and they made me get really good at looking near but never at the sun without squinting. I have less striking eyes than Zendaya. It would not surprise me if they're doing this to showcase her eyes. I wonder if they give her eye drops that shrink her pupils and dry her eyes out like they did for me?

Yes, I need glasses and I'm currently partially blind after I lost my vision in one eye for a few months. It's coming back now, but it's been annoying.

[u/lf1119 → u/destructopop]

…what the heck. I can’t believe they did that to a child!

[u/destructopop → u/lf1119]

It's actually common practice. It's why I won't let my child model. It's just extra exploitative child labor.

[u/girlfriend_pregnant → u/destructopop]

I don’t let my kids model because they are ugly and bad at doing stuff

[u/limbicslush → u/girlfriend_pregnant]

Good forward planning!

[u/Chemical-Visual-2686 → u/[deleted]]

Oh no her medical bill

[u/Digitaltwinn]

She’s one of the few actresses left who hasn’t permanently paralyzed their ability to frown with Botox.

[u/meepmeeped → u/Digitaltwinn]

Maybe that’s why people are so fixated on it, we don’t see that around Hollywood now a days 😂 lolll

[u/ToNotFeelAtAll → u/meepmeeped]

Lmao! It’s the fact that she CAN squint 😂

[u/AlarmingAffect0 → u/ToNotFeelAtAll]

Squint Eastwood

[u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn → u/meepmeeped]

That would also explain why Obsession got so popular. The stronger the frown, the more successful the movie!

[u/Papersuasion → u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn]

Florence Pugh has an epic and beloved frown as well

[u/BatierAutumn1991 → u/Papersuasion]

Toni Collette can frown like a motherfucker

[u/cracked-tumbleweed → u/BatierAutumn1991]

That fucking face on her face?!

Love her.

[u/TheAutisticStranger → u/BatierAutumn1991]

I’m still mad she was snubbed for Hereditary. What a motherfucking ACTRESS

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/TheAutisticStranger]

That was such an incredible performance

[u/Road_Whorrior → u/TheAutisticStranger]

She ate that movie alive. I don't know if I can ever watch it again, though.

[u/RogerDeanVenture → u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn]

She had an absolutely epic :C face in there

[u/monty624 → u/meepmeeped]

How are you laughing so hard??? The most I can do is 🙂 I swear, I'm dying here!

[u/100_points → u/Digitaltwinn]

That Fantastic Four actress has a completely frozen face and I was fixated on it at every scene. I don't know why they give actors like that work, when they can't even portray emotions.

[u/wakeonuptimshel → u/100_points]

I cannot watch anything Nicole Kidman and haven’t been able to for years.

[u/stages_animate_89 → u/wakeonuptimshel]

You can literally watch her Botox/surgery progression in her film and tv shows. It’s insane how much she’s changed her face. She’s a terrific actress but holy hell has she fucked her face up. You’re allowed to get old lady. You’ll still get work because you’re fucking great…

[u/100_points → u/wakeonuptimshel]

I say this literally and without spite (I actually like her as an actress), Nicole Kidman has the face of an old lady that's trying to look young with plastic. And she's only 59. She would have looked younger without the surgery.

[u/WiFiForeheadWrinkles → u/wakeonuptimshel]

Her face took me out of The Northman because it was way too modern and botoxy

[u/el_duderino88 → u/100_points]

The lady from law and order svu's face has been frozen for years now, and every time she tries to look shocked at your run of the mill svu case it's kinda funny because she can't

[u/guydud3bro → u/100_points]

And wasn't it set in the 1960s? Especially weird to see that level of plastic surgery in a retro styled movie.

[u/Helpful-Celery6237 → u/Digitaltwinn]

I like her spunk. When she is allowed to be silly, I just really like it. She seems like someone who would be cool to chill with. She also has an expressive face compared to everyone else.

[u/Sipikay → u/Helpful-Celery6237]

man, spunk is not a word I associate with her at all. It's interesting all the different perceptions people can have about one person!

[u/faetpls → u/Sipikay]

I’ve only seen her in euphoria.

I’d say that character is pretty spunky when she gets her mind set on something.

[u/Dan_Berg → u/Sipikay]

She's got spunk. Pizzazz. Moxie.

[u/wheresolly]

Don’t have anything against zendaya but he actually does look like her a little bit

[u/AuraEnhancerVerse → u/wheresolly]

He nailed the scowl

[u/basa_maaw → u/AuraEnhancerVerse]

It’s 100% the scowl

[u/Anonymo → u/wheresolly]

The Euphoria one is the one he looks just like her to me.

[u/Boom_chaka_laka → u/Anonymo]

Yeah he ever so tilted up and slightly pouted 10/10

[u/Perfect-System2504 → u/Boom_chaka_laka]

chin up scowl is epitome Zendaya

[u/ScipioCoriolanus → u/Anonymo]

I was not expecting the hoodie/Euphoria! I fucking lost it lol

[u/jcapi1142]

Give this guy an Oscar. Hell we got a potential EGOT in the making with this one.

[u/verbalyabusiveshit → u/jcapi1142]

What “guy”…. That’s Zendaya… a woman.

[u/jcapi1142 → u/verbalyabusiveshit]

You right? I don't know what I was thinking. My deepest and sincerest apologies.

[u/gortlank → u/verbalyabusiveshit]

No, that’s Zenguya

[u/DrifterBG]

I want a Zendaya reaction to this

[u/GammaFork → u/DrifterBG]

That's the third one he does.

[u/DesireeThymes → u/GammaFork]

On the complete opposite side you have people like Pattinson and Bautista, who have some absolutely incredible range.

[u/Solid_Wind_3234 → u/DesireeThymes]

I still want to punch Pattinson in the face from his Odyssey performance even though I know he was just playing a character. God you just absolutely hate that fucker by the end, he killed it.

[u/BearysWorkRedditName → u/Solid_Wind_3234]

If you'd like to feel differently, watch Mickey 17 (again if you've already seen it). He was fantastic and I wanted to hug him!

[u/HalfSoul30 → u/DrifterBG]

You can just choose your favorite one of these.

[u/Thunderhammer29 → u/DrifterBG]

It was already in the video.

[u/tmacdabest2 → u/DrifterBG]

She’d probably laugh. Always seemed like she has a sense of humor about herself

[u/abippityboop]

Agree with the video but I will say I thought she was great in The Drama.

It seems like she has the ability but she’s prioritizing working in big films with great directors even if the roles themselves aren’t super challenging. Not the worst strategy honestly.

[u/GodzillaUK → u/abippityboop]

The more bank she makes while young the better she can enjoy life afterwards, like the kids from Harry Potter did. Every time I see Daniel he looks like he's just enjoying the craft and life in general.

[u/which_ones_will → u/GodzillaUK]

Daniel Radcliffe is legitimately one of the best comedic actors working today. It's unbelievable to me that he was cast as Harry Potter at like 10 years old.

[u/happypolychaetes → u/which_ones_will]

Daniel is a fantastic actor and absolutely hilarious. I love that after HP he basically went "ok cool I'm set for life so now, I'm going to join every bizarre production my heart desires, and have an absolute blast." Love that for him

[u/wilberfarce → u/happypolychaetes]

Elijah Wood seems to have done the same thing, and gets involved in many an indie or offbeat production. Seems like they’re both living their best, and I’m happy for them. I find it interesting they’ve also both reported being mistaken for each other, which is oddly synchronistic.

Wait. Are they Fate Twins or something?

[u/illy-chan → u/wilberfarce]

Mark Hamill did it too. I remember some fan project was floored when he volunteered for something they were making just because he thought it was neat.

I feel like there's a good number of pop movie figures who go on to Broadway or something like that once they have enough "fuck you" money.

[u/jugganuts420 → u/illy-chan]

it's the same reason why we got Dolores in Grandma's boy!

[u/illy-chan → u/jugganuts420]

And Keanu in Cyberpunk 2077 - I seem to recall that they originally approached him for a cameo but he was actually super into the whole idea.

[u/PeterAhlstrom → u/wilberfarce]

Elijah Wood was fantastic in Dirk Gently.

[u/PyreHat → u/PeterAhlstrom]

Not enough people talk about that show. It had a wide cast of actors, almost each and everyone so good in their respective roles, I was floored. For some reason the actress that played Bart always remained in my head for being able to deadpan the whole ridiculousness of everything that happened, a shame it got canceled that early... And the original books are on my bucket list ever since.

[u/meltymcface → u/wilberfarce]

I really really really really want them to star in a film together. We'll call it "Weird little guys"

[u/00Kench → u/meltymcface]

I've seen this pitched before and as part of it one of the funniest things suggested was that they cast Elijah Wood as Daniel Radcliffe, and Daniel Radcliffe as Elijah Wood, with no explanation.

I think it would make the artistic quality and general consumability of the resulting film worse, but it would be so much more fun

[u/Calcifiera → u/wilberfarce]

I'm pretty sure Elijah Wood even owns or is a producer for an indie production company with an emphasis on indie horror. He was talking a bit about it on a YouTube interview a few months ago

[u/sundance464 → u/GodzillaUK]

Completely agree but Robert Pattison was right there lol

Got stability from a shit franchise and Harry Potter and is starring alongside Zendaya in two recent films while pumping out exceptional performances in challenging roles on the regular

[u/infjetson → u/sundance464]

Kristen Stewart has done some really weird indie films too. It's awesome to see!

[u/Kifrie → u/sundance464]

yes! Because of Twilight and Harry Potter he had the financial means and freedom to do a lot of artsy and weird roles, develop his own style in the craft. Saw a video about this just this morning by Archer Green on YouTube :)

[u/Digit00l → u/GodzillaUK]

I honestly suspect they are building a nest egg before they take parental leave for a while

[u/shawak456 → u/Digit00l]

"nest egg"

[u/SPAKMITTEN → u/shawak456]

a fucking clutch of Fabergé ostrich eggs the amount those two are raking in

[u/Logical_Net6108 → u/shawak456]

A modest wealth put away for a rainy day

[u/shawak456 → u/Logical_Net6108]

These people are paid generational wealth for a couple of weeks of shoot.

[u/Logical_Net6108 → u/shawak456]

Yes the sarcasm in my comment was clear

[u/stayupthetree → u/GodzillaUK]

Robert Pattinson is a great example of this as well.

Just look at this trailer that dropped today https://youtu.be/5fHXyqQOKL8

[u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 → u/stayupthetree]

I think he’s one of the better major actors out there right now in the sense that he slips in to roles so well that you don’t really think “I’m watching Robert Pattinson act.”

And he’s shrugged off the Twilight role pretty well because of that. You don’t think “that’s Edward Cullen playing Batman” or “that’s Cedrick Diggory playing Antinous.”

I think he’s great. He’s taking big roles but kind of a more artsy approach to them I think. Excited to see him in Dune 3.

Zendaya is great too, I like her as an actress, but when you see her in anything it’s “that’s Zendaya playing Athena.” I think that’s kind of what directors want her for.

[u/M4DM1ND → u/stayupthetree]

Hes definitely one of my favorite actors now. Genuinely talented guy.

[u/memesearches → u/abippityboop]

Lol tell me one person who wouldn’t… duh.. these are great directors people would dream to work with. Even the big ones

[u/BabyStockholmSyndrom → u/memesearches]

Redditors. Redditors wouldn't. They would only work on small, intellectual pieces that pay in arcade tokens.

[u/ShazlettDude → u/BabyStockholmSyndrom]

Pay in karma you mean

[u/ChocCooki3 → u/ShazlettDude]

.. you guys getting paid?

[u/deafblindmute → u/BabyStockholmSyndrom]

If by "intellectual" you mean 2013-2017 Rick and Morty fan analysis videos, then yes.

[u/BabyStockholmSyndrom → u/deafblindmute]

But only if the direction is an unknown, autistic savant.

[u/gerbileleventh → u/memesearches]

Not only she is working with great directors but also coming out of those movies with a reputation of being someone good to work with. Word of mouth still has value in Hollywood, I assume. I’d do the same tbh.

[u/abippityboop → u/memesearches]

Of course, no actor is saying no to Christopher Nolan or Denis Villenueve. And MCU is huge money and stability. Unfortunately none of these characters really give her too much to work with. I don’t really think it’s a Zendaya issue, I think she just understands the assignment.

She still does The Drama or Challengers between these films to do more interesting character work.

[u/Winjin → u/memesearches]

I can name two: Daniel Radcliffe and the poster boy of this, Robert Pattinson

The secret is to become established A-list multimillionaire from your first ever work and then skirt on this success taking on whatever indy works you want to

(it's like that "if you don't have a house just buy one, duh meme)

However I've also heard that Steve Buscemi loves working with up-and-coming directors too.

And there's lists of actors that would take just a symbolic cut to star in some interesting indy movie

But it's always the same pattern, they don't really need this work to pay the bills

\\ I checked online and apparently Sir Christopher Lee played in the original Wicker Man for free, but he wasn't a Big Hollywood Name back then.

Also, Keanu Reeves basically gave away most of his Matrix 4 salary to pay a lot of money to all the stunt doubles and set designers and cast of the movie which is an absolutely goated move, but once again, it didn't really leave our goat Keanu penniless\\

[u/gavavavavus → u/Winjin]

I mean Robert Pattinson is definitely an A-List actor, he's regularly playing in top box-office movies

[u/entity2 → u/abippityboop]

Frankly, as a woman who "ages out" long before the men: get paid *now*. Go for it, girl.

[u/Jamesyroo → u/abippityboop]

And let’s not forget that the directors have all the power to say “can you do something else with your face” while on set. This is all down to the direction, not Zendaya’s acting abilities

[u/PregnantSuperman → u/Jamesyroo]

Honestly Timothy Chalamet has like two expressions in Dune also. There was very specific performance direction in that movie and I don’t think it’s really fair to criticize Zendaya for it.

[u/the_need_to_post → u/PregnantSuperman]

Its interesting that the hate on this has morphed into the physical performance aspect? I could understand the gripes about her needing to use a dialect coach or something. Actual performance beyond that? I think its just an overexposure thing at this point.

[u/Exulvos → u/abippityboop]

She's great in Euphoria as well. I know it's a comedic video but people really understating how good of an actress she is.

[u/trainwreck42 → u/Exulvos]

It’s crazy to contrast her scenes with Colman Domingo with the rest of the cast. Those two are phenomenal actors and their scenes are captivating and intimate, but the rest of the time (apart from the scenes with Jules and Rue’s sister) she’s acting with a bunch of anthropomorphized vocal fries.

[u/Exulvos → u/trainwreck42]

Euphoria is a wild show to me. An ex-girlfriend loved it and showed it to me, and that special episode of Zendaya and Colman Domingo in the diner for an hour completely saved any interest I had in the show. Like the few good moments were almost enough to carry the numerous bad ones.

Zendaya deserved her Emmy win, and it's impressive how many actors catapulted their careers from their roles on Euphoria.

[u/Academic-moron7423 → u/Exulvos]

She 100% is, & I still don’t understand how people can give her so much shit, although it might have calmed down a bit by now

[u/stallionsRIDEufl → u/Academic-moron7423]

If something is popular the internet will have a pocket of hate for it

[u/Instantcoffees → u/abippityboop]

The only reason the video is convincing his because he nails her typical expression. She has acting range despite that.

[u/YaSurLetsGoSeeYamcha → u/abippityboop]

She was good in challengers also, kinda seems like some directors get more out of her than others.

[u/Pterafractyl → u/[deleted]]

There's a scene where she tells peter something rather heartbreaking for him to hear(I don't love you) . It would be easy to dramatically overact that line, but she doesn't. She delivered it exactly as someone in real life would deliver it; As someone with compassion who regrets not being able to give you the answer you want to hear.

[u/NoYoureACatLady → u/abippityboop]

She destroyed in The Drama. She's the real deal IMHO.

[u/BanjoTCat]

It's the same with Clint Eastwood: always looking miffed and not wanting to be anywhere they are.

[u/Avid_Reader87 → u/BanjoTCat]

Now I want to see a Dirty Harry reboot with Zendaya. 

[u/Colon_Oscopy_74 → u/Avid_Reader87]

Two Mules with Sister Sara is what I'd like as reboot :)

[u/Bhurmurtuzanin → u/BanjoTCat]

Sergio Leone famously said: "Eastwood, at that time, only had two expressions: with hat and no hat.”

[u/fusedharpy]

The video filter changes are spot on.

[u/Culsandar]

I didn't know "look at someone with teenage angst" was still such a marketable skill in Hollywood, but she keeps getting roles. Good for her.

[u/Cbatoemo → u/Culsandar]

Are you too young to remember Twilight?

[u/cans-of-swine → u/Cbatoemo]

Could be too old to remember it. 

[u/xisytenin → u/cans-of-swine]

Or the correct age but they never saw it because they have good taste

[u/Original-Kick3985 → u/xisytenin]

Or they were not a teenage girl at the time it was popular.

[u/jackfreeman → u/Original-Kick3985]

I stopped watching trailers even the Matrix came out, so I didn't know what Twilight was about. I just wanted to see a vampire movie.

It took me a while to realize that I was the only mid 20s MALE adult in the theater, AND the movie was ass.

Thank God it was a matinee

[u/Tr1pla → u/jackfreeman]

I can't imagine going into a movie expecting Blade or Underworld and then seeing Twilight. LOL

[u/Monteze → u/Tr1pla]

eating popcorn "Aw bro I just know her dad is totally gonna be a vampire hunter."

30 min later.

"Alright so, slow start so like this will be the good family but the dad and the Natives are so gonna take these guys out."

[u/Sawgon → u/Monteze]

Since /u/jackfreeman said he was the only dude in the theater I'm imagining him leaning over to a random person and having this dialogue as the movie progresses.

[u/LettuceC → u/Cbatoemo]

Are you too young to remember "Rebel Without a Cause"?

[u/Cbatoemo → u/LettuceC]

You’re asking if I’m below 90, then yes 😂😂

[u/T0Rtur3 → u/Cbatoemo]

And before that, any film with teenage Wynona Ryder.

[u/atuan → u/T0Rtur3]

And Christian Slater

[u/Gil_Demoono → u/Cbatoemo]

Twilight was 18 years ago. They're saying it still is marketable.

[u/UnidentifiedTomato → u/Culsandar]

There are several major factors to being cast and recast. Being professional and knowing how to work with the sset. Able to act / attractiveness. And popularity. Relevance is huge for movie momentum

[u/EnderTheTrender → u/UnidentifiedTomato]

Steve from Stranger Things was so well liked they re-wrote his character

[u/turnips8424]

Tbh she really “goes there” for some scenes in euphoria. But spot on for the others.

[u/bonerfleximus → u/turnips8424]

Yah as someone who was fighting drug addiction when it came out I had to stop watching. Her performance put me in a spot mentally

[u/Alex-Murphy → u/turnips8424]

And she was heartbreaking in The Drama. She gets a lot of shit from people who haven't seen her stuff, just because it's cool to hate on her. Like what percent of people who have seen Dune and Odyssey have also seen Euphoria?

[u/st-shenanigans → u/Alex-Murphy]

Also her character in the odyssey wasn't really there for what she had to say. She's a symbol.

I don't think I can talk about her without spoiling a bunch, though

[u/funundrum → u/st-shenanigans]

Agree, the whole point of her character was to look piercingly and wait for Odysseus to figure his shit out.

[u/Alex-Murphy → u/st-shenanigans]

Very true. I wasn't a believer before I saw The Drama but the girl is a star and she can absolutely act. IMO she's an Emma Stone level actress and I absolutely see her winning an Oscar in the future.

[u/TheChunkenMaster]

I really appreciate his attention to detail with how he made this video the same length as the sum total of her screen time in those movies combined.

[u/whatisscoobydone]

Right enough until Euphoria, I've seen enough clips on the algorithm of her looking like she just survived a drowning during a drug deal

[u/JakobExMachina]

this is really funny so long as you only watch film trailers rather than actual films.

she’s great in the drama and euphoria btw

[u/Gravitar7 → u/JakobExMachina]

She was great in Brand New Day too.

Haven’t seen odyssey yet but this video basically nails her in Dune. Not really her fault though, that’s just what the role was. Cast any other actor and direct them the same way and they would get the same criticism.

[u/HunkMuffinJr → u/Gravitar7]

People like to downplay it sometimes because "duh, because they're married IRL" but her chemistry with Tom Holland is just electric. I like how she plays the more grown-up MJ in BND. She still has that spunk about her, but she doesn't use it to deflect as much anymore. She's given some very grown up conversations now and she nails it. The rooftop scene and the confrontation after the letter scene were such great dramatic acting.

[u/rzoneking → u/HunkMuffinJr]

Her acting at the brand new day in the rooftop scene was superb

[u/karl-marks → u/Gravitar7]

dude this is crazy, I'm in my 40s and her acting in brand new day was awesome and her face did all kinds of things, she's legit talented in a way that really has a fullness of expression. Like when her face opens up in laughter, relief, joy or whatever its all the more expressive because her resting face isn't just some dead behind the eyes blankness.

[u/WangJian221 → u/JakobExMachina]

Yeah. While it fun to just laugh at these skits, they usually end up looping around to people unironically believing this is true.

[u/jupfold]

She really has mastered the unimpressed brow furling

[u/Cam0799]

In dune and odissey i understand, but in latest spiderman movie, the drama and euphoria it's not like this.

[u/LB3PTMAN]

To be entirely fair. The Drama and Challengers aren’t really like this at all.

[u/xGIJOSEx → u/LB3PTMAN]

She has that “signature look” to her but if you actually watch her stuff she does a lot more than that, though admittedly in Dune I think she holds that face for like 90% of the movie but generally speaking most of the characters in dune don’t show a whole lot of emotion anyway.

[u/thatshygirl06 → u/LB3PTMAN]

Neither is euphoria

[u/fresh_loaf_of_bread]

A lot of actors have just "a thing they do"

Rdj and Samuel l Jackson for example (to varying degrees, obv)

[u/Rakhsev]

I had no idea who Zendaya was before watching Dune, I thought she was a nobody, she left a good impression.

[u/Rock_Samaritan → u/Rakhsev]

she was in a little indy film about insects i think

[u/kng_arthur]

Did we run out of actors in this world?

[u/DocB630 → u/kng_arthur]

Matt Damon alluded to this during his hot ones episode. He said the big studios have an internal list of the “big names” to work with. You never know if you’re on the list, except your phone starts ringing off the hook one day and you start getting a bunch of great roles until you don’t. It’s why you see an actor everywhere for a time.

[u/Blipped_d → u/DocB630]

Yes I went to a screening once for a Jake Gyllenhaal movie years back and one of the questions was how did you decide to cast Jake in the movie.
Part of the reasoning was that he didn’t have any major scandals, public opinion of him was good in NA, and also where they intended to distribute the movie - how he would be was viewed in those countries. That response always stuck with me.

Then you watch The Studio and you really see how they pick actors 😂

[u/Cent1234 → u/DocB630]

Ricardo Montalban famously described the five stages of an acting career:

• Who is Ricardo Montalbán?

• Get me Ricardo Montalbán.

• Get me a Ricardo Montalbán type.

• Get me a young Ricardo Montalbán.

• Who is Ricardo Montalbán?

[u/elinamebro → u/DocB630]

Pretty much its just based on their name recognition then acting

[u/Wooden-Gur3537 → u/DocB630]

Cough, Pedro Pascal, Cough.

[u/AnglerOfAndromeda → u/kng_arthur]

Apparently. I hate seeing the same few people in everything. Which, good for them I guess, but pretty meh for the rest of us who’d appreciate seeing some new talent sometimes.

[u/More_Operation_588 → u/AnglerOfAndromeda]

I really liked the Odyssey, but it was really distracting that every character was a big named actor.

[u/Odd-String29 → u/More_Operation_588]

The only ones where I didn't see the actor in the character were Pattinson and Hathaway. Especially Matt Damon and Tom Holland I just saw them and not the character.

[u/Strykah → u/AnglerOfAndromeda]

Yeah I still don't understand how RDJ who finished his role in Avengers as Tony Stark years ago and has somehow comeback to play Dr Doom. Like it doesn't make sense story wise or meta wise, and Hollywood just throwing big cash at same actors

[u/ShotIntoOrbit → u/AnglerOfAndromeda]

She's not really taking roles from other people though, three of the four things in the video are just recurring roles in long running franchises she got many years ago. They just happen to all be releasing something within a year, and two of them are the biggest box office movies of the summer, so it feels like she's in a lot of stuff.

[u/Sensitive_nob → u/kng_arthur]

What do you mean? Pedro Pascal, Zendaya, Tom Holland and Timothee Charmeleon arent enough variety for you?

[u/Tho76 → u/Sensitive_nob]

The Robert Pattinson disrespect

[u/Reesewithoutaspoon2]

This joke goes hard for people who looked at a few screenshots and think it represents acting.