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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone summarize the key debates in the previous thread?

I’m calling it now. Blake’s new castaway movie will do “surprisingly” well.

She’s still a gorgeous woman (looks better thick too) and people crave mindless romcoms.  [/quote]

Blake is looking too old to star in romcoms.

Playing the “hot blonde” doesn’t work when you’re in your 40’s and look it. [/quote]

I actually think this movie sounds like a good fit for her age and personality. Rom coms are targeted at women, not men. The point is not to cast the most stunningly beautiful young actress you can find. Rom com actresses have to be relatable. That's why women in rom coms are always falling down, putting their foot in their mouth, or making boneheaded mistakes at work -- it helps the women those films/tv shows are targeted at feel like they can relate to someone who otherwise would be out of their league. So Blake actually suits a rom com concept more in her late 30s or 40s than she would have at 28, because her age and status as a mom (and maybe even her experience with this lawsuit) humanizes her and makes her feel like an attainable avatar for regular women watching her on screen. Thus, when she gets the guy and lands the big job, the audience will root for her instead of resenting her.[/quote]

The problem with that viewpoint is that romcoms are usually about women in their 20’s or 30’s. I agree that there’s a market for actresses that have an interesting look and it’s not just about casting the most beautiful model.

But it has to make sense…

An actress who looks 40+ playing a 20 something takes me out of the story. That’s part of the reason Blake fell flat in IEWU. It’s bad casting. Like the 1980’s movies with “high school” students who were in their 30’s or white actors in blackface.[/quote]

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