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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched The Circle a while back. It was tough seeing her try to look natural at the dinner table of her American, middle-class family with dad Bill Paxton(!)

BUT, once she became the tech visionary/icon  livestreaming with a global audience living her best life, she actually had an energy that worked. She even smiled while sticking it to company heads Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt(!!) Every time she acted on a negative emotion, though, her poor acting came through.

The casting was crazy.[/quote]

I think she's someone whose acting strengths don't really match her physical type (ingenue) so she gets cast in roles that call for being natural and sweet and understated when actually she's probably more of a character actress. This happens with young men all the time which is why there are so many wooden leading men running around Hollywood -- producers and casting directors want to turn them into Prince Charmings when actually they would be better off playing sidekicks and villains.

This probably has to do with her path to stardom. Hermione is a young character but not an ingenue -- her whole thing is that she's outspoken and borderline tedious but also good-hearted. And the kids got cast based more on how well they naturally embodied those roles than their acting ability. So she cut her acting teeth on a role that really was not about being an ingenue at all -- not about playing someone lovelorn or innocent or sexy or whatever. But her age and appearance at the time Potter wrapped meant all she got put up for were ingenues.

Danielle Radcliff and Rupert Grint got better acting educations out of those movies because they played roles that were more similar to what they've since been cast in as adults.[/quote]

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