So Anne Hathaway is going to play her. Well, they could do worse. As long as they still use Judy's actual singing voice (I know Anne can sing, but you can't make a biopic about a singing legend and then not use her own voice) I can live with it. I think. My main issue is that while Anne can easily look the part of the young, fresh-faced, wide-eyed Judy Garland, I don't see how they're going to make her up to look like the older, beaten down, drug-ridden Judy of the 1960's.
This can work:
This, however, not so much:
This is a picture of Judy Garland in 1969 with her fifth and final husband, Mickey Deans. She died twelve days after her 47th birthday, so in all likelihood this picture was taken when she was 46 (she only married Deans in March of that year). This is what drugs and alcohol do to a legend. It makes me incredibly sad. Anyway, my point is that I can't imagine how they can possibly get pretty young Anne Hathaway to look like THIS.At least she can act. I saw Rachel Getting Married on Saturday, and I was blown away. Hello, Oscar? Where were you?
And who on earth is going to play Mickey Rooney and all her famous co-stars?
PS - if you haven't seen the tv miniseries Life With Judy Garland: Me & My Shadows, for which Judy Davis won a Golden Globe and an Emmy, do yourself a favour. It's brilliant. I won't deny that Judy Garland was probably quite an awful person, self-centred and difficult to live with, but Davis really brings out her vulnerability and "Little Girl Lost" quality. I'm not actually sure how they can better this miniseries with a movie....we'll see.
I've grown to love Anne Hathaway, and I haven't even seen Rachel getting married yet! I'm sure she's do a great job... as for the ageing, all they need is BButton's make-up & CGI team! Thanks so much for dropping by my new blog, I got so excited to find a comment and a vote!!!
ReplyDeleteHaha, I'm sure all your readers will be across there soon! I hope I was right about the date.:-) I'm so excited to find out you were a model! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteTrue about Benjamin Button's CGi team - although I do feel it took away some of the emotion of the movie.
It will be really interesting to see who they would cast as Mickey Rooney!
ReplyDeleteHmm. I'm interested in seeing how she does in this role. She's definitely grown up since her (sort of lame and sort of awesome) Princess Diaries days, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteSarcastically bitter - Hopefully he's better than the guy in Me & My Shadows. He was so OTT camp it was embarrassing!
ReplyDeleteJess - Me too! I loved her in Princess Diaries, but she's done some fantastic stuff since then!