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Post by frapperia on Mar 13, 2008 15:53:31 GMT
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Post by QuincyMD on Mar 13, 2008 16:33:01 GMT
Shes been shite in A2A.
There I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2008 20:00:03 GMT
I haven't seen her in A2A, but I thought she was average in Spooks. She just was a bit, well, not wooden, but more laminate. She seemed like she was acting in a soap rather than glossy drama. I never took to her like I did to Ruth, Jo, Connie and especially Ros, and while part of that might be the character, a part is also Keeley.
That and she's beyond shit in that bloody Olay advert.
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Post by pauliepoos on Mar 13, 2008 20:18:39 GMT
ATTRACTIVE ACTRESS SLAGGED OFF SHOCKER!!!
I have to say, I was relieved when I opened this thread and it was only about her acting skills, and not because she was dead.
I've not seen Ashes to Ashes but have seen a few things she's been in and she's been all right in those, not the best actor in the history of acting, but one of many very attactive actors of both sexes who have been dismissed. Which is what should have happened to the story slagging her off, frankly.
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Post by Nick on Mar 13, 2008 22:32:48 GMT
I love her in Ashes to Ashes, but, unlike the rest of you, I'm viewing her from my perspective and am therefore sort of possibly just a tiny bit more right.
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Post by thelovelykate on Mar 14, 2008 9:55:23 GMT
I think that thus far she has done quite well in Ashes to Ashes. She's not great at acting sad but I think she's good when she's getting cross with Phillip Glenister and I do think they have chemistry. I also think she acts drunk very well.
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Post by Rad on Mar 14, 2008 12:11:27 GMT
I like her in A2A - the character is fairly (deliberately?) annoying, so maybe that's part of the reason she has got so much flak.
I hate the No 7 adverts.
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Post by David on Mar 14, 2008 12:33:25 GMT
I think such a response is what you'd expect from those who just want to watch The Gene Hunt Show. That's not the point of either Ashes To Ashes nor the character of Gene Hunt. Alex is very different from Sam Tyler, and has very different motivations for wanting to get back home. As for Keeley Hawes' acting, who is anyone else to determine how they would react after being shot and living in a subconscious visualisation?!
And she looks AMAZING in the No.7 ads.
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Post by Rad on Mar 14, 2008 16:01:35 GMT
I think such a response is what you'd expect from those who just want to watch The Gene Hunt Show. That's not the point of either Ashes To Ashes nor the character of Gene Hunt. Alex is very different from Sam Tyler, and has very different motivations for wanting to get back home. As for Keeley Hawes' acting, who is anyone else to determine how they would react after being shot and living in a subconscious visualisation?! And she looks AMAZING in the No.7 ads. She does indeed (especially the summer make-up ones) but that doesn't stop them being annoying. I agree with what you say about people seeing it as 'The Gene Hunt Show'. When they posited the second series I figured this might be what it would become and I couldn't really see how it would work a second time round. I think it has been a clever move to make some of it quite different to Life on Mars, and although I get a bit annoyed by Alex's knowingness at times, I don't see how they could have NOT had that in there - it then really would have been a rehash of LOM which wouldn't have worked. I think A2A works nicely because it is quite different, and because Alex and Sam are not identikit characters. Apparently she has relaunched the perm as a trend. I don't recall any 80s perms looking as cool as Alex Drake's does, mind.
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Post by klee on Mar 23, 2008 13:31:10 GMT
Perms always start off looking like Keeley Hawes' but end up rather more like Liz McDonald's.
I like Keeley Hawes. Have done ever since I saw her being bloody marvellous and moving in Our Mutual Friend ten years ago now. She was playing opposite a very scary David Morrissey and it was just beautiful.
Unfortunately she's tarred with the old 'model turned actress' brush. And she's also a woman filling a man's shoes.
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Post by The Moog on Mar 23, 2008 15:05:33 GMT
Keeley Hawes will always be amazing, simply for her appearance in this: click
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Post by David Hunter on Mar 23, 2008 23:08:47 GMT
I first noticed Keeley Hawes in 'The Blonde Bombshell' when she played the young Diana Dors. I don't mind her at all but she's never blown me away in anything. Until recently she was an actress you'd see in something and wonder what else you'd seen her in without knowing exactly who she was.
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Post by pauliepoos on Mar 23, 2008 23:26:29 GMT
I knew she'd been a model before acting, but I didn't realise she'd been a Sylvia Young Stage School poppet too before that.
Just having a look at her resume, she's been in lots of things I've seen: Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus & Karaoke, Our Mutual Friend, Wives And Daughters, Othello, Macbeth, Under The Greenwood Tree, The Canterbury Tales and of course Spooks and Tipping The Velvet.
The first I was aware of her was in The Last September, a very worthy period piece with Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Jane Birkin, Fiona Shaw and a young David Tennant.
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Post by SweatShop on Mar 26, 2008 16:50:08 GMT
I haven't seen much of her work. I mean, I didn't watch Spooks and I didn't even recognise her in any adverts (though i'm guessing i'll hate it, as most cosmetic ads are loathesome.)
But I have seen her in Ashes To Ashes, and I think she's pretty darn good. Then again, didn't reeeealy watch Life On Mars so i'm not comparing her to John Simm.
Was really surprised to hear that she's actually younger than Marshall Lancaster (aka Chris in LoM and A2A) though.
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Post by frapperia on Mar 26, 2008 17:04:57 GMT
Talking of Chris, I'm really glad Shaz (sp?) didn't die in A2A (at least, not yet) - she and Chris are really sweet together.
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