Terrible acting from Gaby Rodgers?

I think it was the right performance for this film. Her character is supposed to be both self-centered & stupid … and yet she winds up possessing the secret that could destroy the world. Anyone who's even remotely intelligent & cultured doesn't fare too well in this film, from Christina to Trivago to Soberin.

Lily/Gabrielle is an immature, unfinished caricature of an adult, a low-IQ child ineptly playing at being either a waif in distress or a seductress ... but she still manages to get the better of everyone, including Hammer. The only thing that stops her is her own insatiable greed & ignorance. Gaby Rodgers conveys all of that quite effectively, I think.

What I mean is, even if she really is a bad actor, the things that make her bad actually work for her character. Just as we can see through her playacting, many of the characters and see through it too. Which is her secret advantage. Everyone underestimates her. She may be obvious & not very bright, but she also has sheer animal cunning, working on impulse & instinct rather than brains. She's not even smart enough to know any of that, she just knows that she can get what she wants.

Apparently she was playing it as though her character was on drugs throughout most of the film. At least according to the commentary track. I mean, I guess it's a valid excuse for the acting choices... I honestly don't think I would have minded her performance so much if, at the end, the performance was completely different and she no longer sounded so spaced-out and monotone and ditzy - it would have been quite an effective way to reveal just how much of her entire character up to that point had just been an act for Hammer's sake in order to get him to let his guard down around her to have actually got a notable change with regards to her speech and general alertness-levels. Instead, her entire performance throughout the film just comes across as her genuinely not being a good actress.