#dkeen

None of these are in any particular order. Obviously NOT comprehensive. Just the first few names that quickly came to mind.

Top Actresses Under 30:

Hailee Steinfeld, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Dafne Keen, Isabela Merced

Top Actors Under 30:

I legit can't think of any good young actors right now. Do those even exist anymore? Truly none come to mind. I'm blanking completely. My favorite one was Anton Yelchin. RIP my boy.

Top Actresses Over 30:

Elizabeth Olsen, Ruth Wilson, Britt Marling, Jenna Coleman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Top Actors Over 30:

When award shows aren’t clownery and actually nominate shows and talent that deserves it? *chef’s kiss* The BAFTAS do it right for a change. This is why the Brits are perpetually superior.

I hadn’t done any research on her yet. For some reason I just assumed this was her breakout role but it isn’t. This is the first and only other thing I’ve seen of her:

I don’t need to watch anything else to know she’s not going to be an Emma Watson 2.0. To hear that she asked the question Patrick Stewart says she asked during the audition makes me think this kid is some sort of fucking acting savant because she was probably what...ten in that video??? And she asked if she could do that???

You could throw every single actor the CW has ever hired since the inception of that shit network up until now into a blender and not juice even 1/4 of the amount of talent that child has in a strand of her hair out of them. She’s so good that it’s fucking unreal to watch. It is.

Ruth Wilson is on another league for me in terms of acting. Always has been. I’ve been saying that for years. And to watch an ACTUAL FUCKING CHILD keep up with her is truly mindblowing. I can’t even comprehend it.

Only one of two things is going to happen with her:

1) What she’s going to be able to do when she’s Ruth’s age is BEYOND anything my mind can grasp. That kid is going to be a fucking powerhouse actor as an adult.

or

2) She’s going to be an Emma Watson Vol 2.0. Emma was SO GOOD at playing Hermione because she *IS* Hermione and she wasn’t acting. The moment you put her in any other role she falls fucking flat. She can’t perform anything else to save her life but you can’t deny what she did on the HP films is undeniably great.

I finally got around to watching it just now and it’s not bad. I’ll fully give you that. Dafne didn’t have much to work with for 90% of the movie because she was uh...not speaking...lol. Easy to not fuck that up. Her and Hugh actually did hit a nice stride after she finally started talking. They had some nice moments together and Hugh had some great, grounded pieces. Superhero movies would be a lot more tolerable if they were less about the spectacle and more about character like this one.