Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Daniel Radcliffe seems remarkably hardworking and stable for a former child actor. The British actors are generally more grounded in the artistic work rather than the celebrity.
Agree with this but I also think proximity to Hollywood, and the age at which you became famous, play a role.
I remember watching this video and thinking about how Olivia Colman comes off as really genuine and normal, and Emilia Clarke seems like she's trying too hard, and maybe lying about some stuff, and just being kind of weird:
https://youtu.be/EXIW5zIdFqU?si=i-z2qMlKx9flIXOv
And I think it's just that Colman is really secure in who she is. Her Hollywood fame came much later even though she had been working in the UK for a lot longer, she never spent any time as the ingenue because she's more of a character actress (though also has the chops to play leading roles -- she's the rare actor whose career seems to be truly based on talent and good work), she married someone in the business before either of them were successful and their marriage seems super solid, and she had kids before having them could be particularly disruptive of her career. Like she basically had a pretty normal life and then suddenly some of her TV work got attention in the US thanks to streaming (Broadchurch, Fleabag, the Night Manager) and then she won an Oscar for The Favourite when she was 45. And now she's having this kind of surprise success later in her career. That never happens. I think it makes her unusually grounded and well-adjusted because she got to really mature and have a real life before she became famous.
Meanwhile, Emilia Clarke did Game of Thrones when she was 24, just a couple years into her career. And she immediately became Hollywood-famous and started getting roles in really big budget movies (Terminator, Me Before You, the Hans Solo movie). She had money and was getting recognized in the street essentially from the very beginning of her career. It seems much "luckier" than Colman's trajectory but that's just because people love the idea of overnight success. I think it's actually scary and stressful, and especially when you know your fame and appeal as an actor is, to a great extent, premised on you being young and beautiful, I think it can be destabilizing. I just think she never had a chance to be a regular person, whereas Colman did.