Friday, May 31, 2024

GREAT MOMENTS IN BACKGROUND ACTING, with Xmastime

A DIFFERENT WORLD
Strangers on a Plane 9/28/89

MAGNIFICENT performance by the girl in the white shirt on the steps; what other actor can simultaneously keep up the "OMG??!" face with a friend while also leering at Dwayne Wayne, all stretched over an improbable 21 seconds? Her being perched on the steps also means I'm surprised we didn't get some sort of "oh, lawsy!" pearls-clutching fainting spell to let her really take it over the top. Whatever happened to this acting genius? Where is she now? How many Oscars has she won? Is she still on those steps trying to squeeze even more performance onto the screen for us?

GREAT MOMENTS IN BACKGROUND ACTING, with Xmastime SCORE: 9.2

Pretty sure this will be the gold standard for any foreseeable future.

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