Carey Mulligan is kidding herself if she thinks looks aren’t important in cinema
Some actresses make more plausible femmes fatales than others – that s not sexism, it s chemistry
In Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan plays against type
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To while away the evenings, my son has been working his way through his father’s classic Hollywood movie collection. Watching
High Noon together, we marvelled at the great beauty on screen. Yes, Grace Kelly is lovely. When the Princess of Monaco walks into a room, all heaven breaks loose. But the actor whose looks the boy and I couldn’t stop drinking in was Kelly’s co-star Gary Cooper. With his Stradivarius cheekbones, Coop is arguably the most handsome leading man of all time, but he wore that attraction like a summer sweater tossed casually over one shoulder as the night drew in. A nonchalance which only made him more desirable.
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