Here are the first photos of Emily Blunt filming The Girl on the Train. She honestly doesn’t look drunk enough. [LaineyGossip]
There’s video of Serena Williams chasing down a phone thief. [Jezebel]
Pat Robertson has convoluted thoughts about sexuality. [OMG Blog]
The CMAs featured a Josh Duggar joke. [Starcasm]
Emma Watson & Malala Yousafzai hung out. [Buzzfeed]
Jared Leto is returning to music? [A Socialite Life]
Giada De Laurentiis is already dating again, but it’s not Bobby Flay? [I’m Not Obsessed]
Rest in peace, Melissa Mathison. [CDAN]
Nicole Richie wants another baby? [ICYDK]
Mike Huckabee doesn’t understand the Constitution. [The Frisky]
Pinocchio Butt is shilling for butt cream now. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Her gin blossoms look fabulous to me. They match mine perfectly.
Yes! She looks realistically drunk and hungover.
So do I.
Yeah, I’ve looked drunker.
Damn. I was really excited for this role for her. I was hoping they would want her to gain more weight.
Like she’d agree to that – not!
I have never liked her. I saw one of her first American films, The Wind Chill, on cable, and she was such a witch, you could tell that was her real personality. She has a witchy look in every single picture I’ve seen of her. Plus, she is not attractive, at all.
Rachel was also supposed to be chubby or a bit fat due to her alcohol abuse. I don’t see any of all these Hwood skinny actresses in the role, maybe Lena Dunham…but Emily totally not.
Yeah. It’s really frustrating. I get that the acting is what matters but…..the characters chubbiness is pretty important to her characterization and to how all the OTHER characters treat her. I was really excited at the prospect that they would keep this….but obviously thin comes first for hollywood.
Do you remember the treatment in Gone Girl of Dune? In the book,their age gap between Amy and her husband is important in the book but they chose to ignore it in the movie
I think that the drunkenness is what influenced how others treated her more than her weight. And I didn’t get the impression that the character was seriously overweight, just bigger than she used to be and it shamed her.
@Tiffany Well obviously. But I’m saying her gaining weight is an important indication to distinguish the difference in the transformation of her character from past and the present. And especially to show how badly she gets treated by everyone for not being “pretty” anymore. The anger, resentment, and the overwhelming insecurities she feels regarding it too. She’s not seriously overweight, but she’s on the larger side of a normal weight and gets called disgusting insults for it by quite a lot of people. It’s not the only part of her character, but it’s an important thing to include because it is a direct consequences of her being an alcoholic.
I have no faith in this film adaptation anymore. The book honestly sucks but I get excited about Emily Blunt being in it because I thought it would be a fun role for her and because I believe she’s talented enough to really give this character more dimension. I wish she had gone further to embody the physicality of this character.
Also holey moley is this adaptation moving fast. I thought they just recently decided on someone to play Tom like last week.
I think a lot of her not being “pretty” anymore was from the lack of care that she took in her hygiene, like having puke on herself for example. I think all of those feelings you mentioned she felt (resentment, insecurity) was not because of her weight so much as her drinking. Being a touch overweight, looking sloppy, those are all results of her drinking issues. I think that can be conveyed without the actress gaining 10 lbs. The 10 lbs isn’t the real problem, the drinking is.
I think that sometimes when it comes to translating books to film, people make perfect the enemy of good. They want the film to match what they see in their heads, which clearly will always be a unique and singular vision that is different for every individual who reads the book. I don’t think everything needs to be exact in order for the essence of the book to be brought to film.
I just see being upset that she doesn’t look more “on the larger side of normal” to be splitting hairs. She looks shleppy enough to get the point across, IMO. I think she is a great actress and has the complete ability to bring dimension to the character even if that dimension isn’t at her waistline.
Lisa Kudrow has been cast in this film, the cast keeps getting more D and F-List by the minute. Not one person in the cast has ever been able to open a film.
They have ruined the movie with the cast.
I hate when that happens, and Hollywood does it too often. A good book made into a film, and the cast ruins everything.
More than likely this film is a flop waiting to happen.
Melissa Matheson died! RIP.
ET: the Extra Terrestrial
The Black Stallion
The Indian in the Cupboard
I mean….incredible work. Also wrote the BFG adaptation coming from Spielberg.
And thank you Celebitchy for not mentioning her ex-husband in the link. Nothing against him but the gross casual sexism of other sites putting that fact first, over her brilliant work, has been pissing me off.
Her resume was pretty, pretty great.
Man, this one was a shocker.
Where? The Guardian mentions Ford in the third paragraph.
The link above goes to a site where she’s referred to as “the Ex-Wife of Harrison Ford” right in the title of the article. So annoying.
She was wonderful. I feel sad for her kids. Her daughter is only 25.
She was responsible for the famous line: “E. T. phone home”. So sad.
The E.T. novelization is amazing, too. So many hilarious lines about the mother’s frustrations and inner life. (Which I understand was adapted from her screenplay for the film.) As much as I used to be a Harrison Ford nutter, I’ve remained mad at him for not making it work forever with Melissa Mathison. She was a wonderful writer and creative mind.
She’s really overdoing the fillers lately (or botox? I don’t really know the difference).
Still not how I pictured the character, but I thinks she looks convincing.
Very sorry to hear about Melissa Matheson. She was a talented writer, and it sounds like a lovely person.
Emily looks to have a flu for me
Yeah, she is your typical pretty, skinny actress lightly “made under” for the role. She has the chops to pull it off though, I think. I agree with Lainey that if she gets the emotional piece right, the rest is less important.
But in The book the fact that she is chubby is important!
was it? I was going to say it wasn’t that important, because I can’t remember that detail at all. I was really underwhelmed with this book, but I think because the hype was just off the charts
It was totally important. I knew they wouldn’t include it.
yeah, just no memory of that being a big deal. I remember she was supposed to be not-that-cute/plain but I don’t remember fat/chunky playing any major role in the story.
Yes, I guess my overall impression from the book was schlubby more than chubby.
I finished this book last night and at first I really liked it, but the more I think about it the less I am impressed. For one, towards the end certain characters go from 0 – to sociopath way to fast. I hate when villainous characters do a long exposition dump explaining all their motives because there was no lead-up to the big reveal. One moment he is someone with whom you sympathize, then he is suddenly crazy McBludgeon…. there was no progression. Also, why didn’t Rachel get credit for solving a “mystery” the police could not? It just wraps up, and not on a very cheery note (that isn’t required) or any sense of growth from any characters including Anna, which – spoiler alert – how did she not go to jail? She seemed complicate in the violence toward Rachel in the final scenes. IDK, the book kept my attention but it could have had more nuance and subtlety.
She has perfect RBF.