Michael & Alicia Fassbender ~ A Loving Couple Thread

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Alicia looks fantastic, and clearly enjoying the occasion [emoji3]

I found more photos on Getty Images and particularly like the ones below. And Kate Winslet managed to attend too, must have been a big dash for her to get there in time after Sunday's premiere, but she still looks fresh and elegant!ImageUploadedByPurseForum1445339930.025226.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1445339954.302444.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1445339968.992468.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1445339984.232668.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1445339992.137273.jpgImageUploadedByPurseForum1445340002.492484.jpg
 
I have been reading comments on this site for a while, I am a bit of a film buff, and I have to make a comment about Ms Alicia Vikander. Please note this is purely subjective.

It's blatantly obvious that she's a very pretty young woman and a competent actress, but I really don't understand the hype surrounding her acting.

She's not classically trained, which is no bad thing, neither is Jennifer Lawrence, but I totally understand Lawrence's appeal. She makes you empathise for her, there's an everywoman quality about her, you root for her on screen, and off screen to many she comes across as endearing.

Alas, the same can't be said of Ms Vikinder. Don't get me wrong she's a capable enough actress and maybe in a decade's time she'll be a fine one, but in my opinion she hasn't merited "the one to watch" media attention given to her from the film roles I have so far seen her in, such as - A Royal Affair, Anna Karenina, The Man From U.N.C.L.E and ex Machina. From the few interviews I've seen or heard, her persona is more of a pretty but slightly smug, a bit too entitled and just a tad too pleased with herself college sophomore.

I definitely think she appeals to men, particularly those of a certain age, who have a taste for that still dewy from pubescence look, but I don't think her appeal crosses over well to the majority of women. It's hard to muster up feelings of support and empathy for someone who gives off the aura that she merits everything she has so easily acquired without putting in decades of hard graft to earn it. I have rarely seen an actress give off that energy in such a matter of fact manner. I am sure she doesn't mean to do it, but to me that's how she comes across.

I have to say I would much rather have seen the over half a dozen roles gifted to Miss Vikander shared out amongst the likes of Léa Seydoux, Kirsten Dunst, Mia Wasikowska, Saoirse Ronan, Lupita Nyong'o, Rooney Mara, Sheridan Smith, or Margot Robbie, who've all at some point blown me away with truly impressive film or television performances. Maybe all the roles given to Miss Vikander were turned down by the above named actresses due to scheduling or other commitments, who knows.

The only other actress I know of who's been given so many plum roles is Jessica Chastain, but unlike Vikander she's turned in strong crafted performances in virtually all of them.

I wish the (generally middle aged male) Hollywood executives and producers would go beyond their physical peccadilloes and choose really strong actresses for really strong nuanced roles, and if they can't quite get past the looks of their latest crop of PYTs, at least make sure their flavour of the month actresses don't give off the impression that the major roles gifted to them are a little beyond their hopefully burgeoning capabilities.
 
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