Horrible person
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/the-actress-who-crushed-a-critic/
shareNo surprise. Always detected a deep, narcissistic, feminist rage in Mulligan. Ugh.
shareA critic nearly lost his job for...being a critic? On the other hand there was a really vicious critic of the 1970s named John Simon who attacked what he felt were the ugly faces of stars like Liza Minnelli. Carey Mulligan wouldnt have survived that guy...he gave no quarter. Which reminds me...Maggie Gyllenhaals face was too unattractive to fit her character in The Dark Knight...over whom two handsome, powerful and in one case superrich men compete...but miscasting didnt hurt the gross at all...
shareI think Maggie Gyllenhaal is gorgeous personally. And in the case of Bruce Wayne at least she was supposed to be a childhood friend, so it’s understandable that he would have a deeper connection to her beyond looks. Yes he is rich and powerful and he could get more attractive women, but it wasn’t just about her looks.
shareI hear that about Maggie G, and beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder , but it is my opinion, rather than fact, that Maggies looks did not fit the part and the point here is that whether professional critic or paying customer we are entitled to that opinion. Surely after young Kim Basinger, young Michelle Pffeifer, and especially young Nicole Kidman, Maggie was not in their facial league..."indiefilm" casting. A critic should not get fired for such an assessment or fear firing.
shareCont. Meanwhile director Robert Altman so hated critic John Simon for insulting the faces and features of actresses and actors that he walked away from Simon at an event, saying "Sorry I cannot speak to a man with yellow teeth."
shareCont. By the way, Pauline Kael was fired for writing a bad review of The Sound Of Music in 1965. But this was Redbook Magazine and they felt her mean POV didnt fit a "Ladies Magazine."
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