Michael & Alicia Fassbender ~ A Loving Couple Thread

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Kyoko Karenina said:
I know this is sort of old, but I'm just now catching up on who she is (despite having seen at least three of her movies, apparently!). And this photo is... interesting. Now I totally get that "thinking man's Blake Lively" comment. Wow. That shade was real.
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There's a big difference,actually... Alicia was at the Weinstein's showreel( with Gyllenhaal and Sienna Miller) because Tulip Fever is distributed by Weinstein. He's not even the producer.But Tulip Fever is her first film distributed by Weinstein,I'm not considering her cameo in Adam Jones. Also,Tulip Fever is not the film for which she's being predicted for some awards. Weinstein has other priorities (Carol,Hateful Eights,Southpaw). He will not campaign for her and for a film that seems just a generic costume drama.
Blake Lively is not a very good actress and actually Weinstein has promoted her career. AV was the lead actress in an Oscar- nominated film three years ago,and it was NOT produced by Weinstein.:smile1:
The thinking man's Blake Lively was a reference to the way BL was promoted after Gossip Girl,like some kind of beautiful and sophisticated actress.AV was interviewed at the MoMA, the journalist found all the thing pretentious.
 
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#183
Tbh, I didn't get that Blake Lively reference at all. She's talentless, not the brightest candle on the cake and easy to influence (see her wearing Weinstein's wife's dresses to please him). At least Alicia has talent, saved her arse from wearing those horrendous designs by his wife by getting with LV and she's a bit more ambitious than getting married and having kids.
 
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You know, I didn't get that Blake Lively reference either. The best I could come up with was maybe it had to do with PR or something. But, after seeing this pic of her with Harvey Weinstein... well, there is gossip that if you're a "Weinstein Girl" more opportunities will come your way -- and not just acting opportunities, because Weinstein is that powerful. Gretchen Mol was supposed to be one back in the day, and now Blake Lively is the most gossiped about today. So that picture of AV & HW just made me wonder if that's what the journalist was referring to. Either way, it was a pretty clear diss of her (and Blake Lively, all at the same time). I've never seen that kind of thing in a profile of an up and coming actor!
 
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Well yeah, if you're in a Weinstein movie you kinda sold your soul for the time of the campaign. You have to be seen with him which gives you great opportunities meeting other influential people but you also have to shake lots of hands and attend lots of business parties. It used to be (at least with American actresses) that they also had to wear his wife's dresses which made it clear on the red carpet that you're under his thumb. Actresses like Jennifer Lawrence, Marion Cotillard and now Alicia who worked with him several times got lucky because they're struck up a deal with a different fashion house and therefore didn't have to wear those dresses. He really is relentless in his campaigning and using the actors for that.
 
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Kyoko Karenina said:
You know, I didn't get that Blake Lively reference either. The best I could come up with was maybe it had to do with PR or something. But, after seeing this pic of her with Harvey Weinstein... well, there is gossip that if you're a "Weinstein Girl" more opportunities will come your way -- and not just acting opportunities, because Weinstein is that powerful. Gretchen Mol was supposed to be one back in the day, and now Blake Lively is the most gossiped about today. So that picture of AV & HW just made me wonder if that's what the journalist was referring to. Either way, it was a pretty clear diss of her (and Blake Lively, all at the same time). I've never seen that kind of thing in a profile of an up and coming actor!
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The so-called "Weinstein girls" work consistently with him as a producer too.This is not her case at all,if you look at her IMDb page.:smile1:
The journalist was annoyed by her publicist and by the alleged pretentiousness of the location. That's the reason of the "comparison".I remember very well how people were trying to sell Blake's image as a "serious actress".

BagBerry13 said:
]Well yeah, if you're in a Weinstein movie you kinda sold your soul for the time of the campaign. [/B]You have to be seen with him which gives you great opportunities meeting other influential people but you also have to shake lots of hands and attend lots of business parties. It used to be (at least with American actresses) that they also had to wear his wife's dresses which made it clear on the red carpet that you're under his thumb. Actresses like Jennifer Lawrence, Marion Cotillard and now Alicia who worked with him several times got lucky because they're struck up a deal with a different fashion house and therefore didn't have to wear those dresses. He really is relentless in his campaigning and using the actors for that.
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Yes,but he will not campaign for her and her film,which probably is not even coming out this year. He has much better material. Blanchett and Mara for the critically acclaimed Carol and he bought the rights of another film with Sarandon and Watts.
 
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Even though she gets critical acclaim for her performances, i get the feeling that she won't be widely recognized until she stars in a franchise..lol I was half expecting her to join the MCU because i read some Civil War rumor a few months back (i can't find anything substantial about it though). So she's presumably joining AC and Bourne isn't all that surprising to me..
Also she probably just wants to try out new things, the circle is another tech thriller even though it has different premise to Ex Machina.
 
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