Why is it nobody ever had to ugly up Garbo?

Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.

@Razzler: And if you ugly her up, that just takes away the main reason people go see her. It's a Catch-22.

And no, I doubt she'd know what that was.

enriquez the water bottle

Her brother once walked into my store in Santa Monica. Having seen the "boy" version of her six years ago kind of ruined her for me...until I saw her at the gas station last year. As far as I am concerned her pumping of gas at the Mobil station was the best "live" performance I saw by any actress in 2007 Oscar winner or not. She is smoking hot.

Kdoggy

I feel bad for her. She really does want to be seen as a real actress. But all the ugly-makeup and Method training in the world isn't going to magically bequeath her with acting talent.

Razzler

Let's wait until she turns in a convincing performance with her natural good looks before handing her that chin wart, okay?

Colonel Mustard

I thought that's what they were doing to her with the blond hair and blue contact lens in FANTASTIC 4.

CatherineTrammell

You know that guy who's still got hoop dreams, even after all the scouts saw their game and passed...

mr.Man

If frumpy and fugly = Oscar... I should be gettin' my own Little Golden Guy upon rolling out of bed each morning after a previous night of martini bingeing. I can throw in dark eye circles and some dry heaves for a Golden Globe.

PaisleyPajamas

@enriquez the water bottle: Agreed. Also, her material has a lot to do with it. Do a couple of indies per year, work for scale, don't be a bitch on set, pee/inject yourself/get domestically-abused on-screen and still headline something big-earning but artistically vacuous, and then see where your credibility is.

I should be an agent. If it wasn't for this damn soul thing that keeps niggling away at me.

viruswithshoes

@Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.: or Deneuve, or Loren, or Aimee et al?

Answer: it ain't because they's European.

IBentMyWookie

There aren't any talent prosthetics... bad for her. Even with an expressive CGI proxy her voice acting would diminish the character like a black hole shredding the molecules of a diamond.

Cultmember

Unfortunately for Jessica, "multi-faceted" means someone who can look good in both a string bikini and a one-piece.

LIttle Mintz Sunshine

She can't act her way out of a paper bag when she's looking good; what's ugly going to do for her?

pixie-stix

She couldn't even convincingly put up an invisible force field, yet she wants to take on Hamlet or The Seagull or even A Streetcar Named Desire?

Oooooooookay.

Until the role of Ophelia requires a bikini, a nice ass and good abs, I'm afraid that Miss Alba will have to wait.

William Mize

I worked on the second season of "Dark Angel", so I was around her/talked to her numerous times. Back in those days, at least, she was nicer than you'd expect. Her line readings, however, were the joke of the set.

sugaritis

Maybe it's time for someone to give her the "being taken seriously is overrated/for the ugly ones" pep talk. The last thing the world needs is her attempting to emote from around a prosthetic nose.

City_Dater

I have a hard time buying it. She's got plenty of money to coast on until those great acting parts start showing up. Start small...build some acting credit. And STOP with the action/thrillers. If it was possible to get an oscar for acting in one of those, Sigourney'd have that tied up by now.

Shumina

Like Ms. Alba, I, too, admired Ms. Theron's performance in 'Monster'. But if she doesn't already realize it, someone needs to tactfully point out to Ms. Alba that it wasn't prosthetics that made that performance but the ability to convincingly evoke the impacted rage and fear of that character.

And I am not sure that can be learned unless you already have the basic chops...

gwendolyn

She can be as ugly as she wants from the chin up as long as the role requires partial nudity from the neck down.

popsocket

i have no sympathy for actors who complain about not getting real roles because they are too attractive. i can't remember the last time i heard someone working, at any job, EVER, say 'i wish i wasn't so good looking - then i could really get ahead.'

yesteryear

@IBentMyWookie: Case in point: Belle de Jour, where the whole premise depended on Deneuve being so perfect she must have been shipped about in packing peanuts.

Her Royal Empress Dr. Bufflekins III, Esq.

'To do something where I got to just concentrate on the performance and discover, that's the ultimate, as far as I'm concerned.'

Oh barf.

distractedbyshinyobjects

Learn to act Jessica. But I believe that is beyond your range. I hear SAKS need a new mannequin on the ground floor...

Miss d