JA from MNPP here. Today is Sarah Polley's 30th birthday, so we all must take a moment and bow down to this most lovely of creatures. Here are ten reasons why she's awesome.1 - She played Sally Salt in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen when she was 9 years old, and recently described the experience as "incredibly unsafe" and "traumatic"... so much so that she publicly derided Terry Gilliam when he cast a girl of the same age as his lead in Tideland. I mean, I love Gilliam, but you go, girl.
3 - She was in an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series. Insta-cool points.
4 - "And here I thought you just gave me head."
5 - She cuddled with Scott Speedman. Swoon.
6 - She loves doing genre flicks. She kicked ass as the lead in Zach Snyder's pretty-decent remake of Dawn of the Dead (no matter your opinion on the whole of the film, I think we all must admit that those first fifteen minutes are killer), and her only two upcoming credits on IMDb are a time-jumping fantasy called Mr. Nobody opposite Jared Leto (more on that here) and a sci-fi-tinged horror story about DNA disruption opposite Adrien Brody called Splice (more on that here) I mean, I like it when she does the prestige stuff too, but the girl knows how to let her hair down as well, thankfully.
7 - "You know what makes it better? If you take a lot of pot with it. I mean, like, A LOT of pot."
8 - Along with Michelle Williams, Polley is a big part of the "previous co-star procession" nightmare that goes through Katie Holmes' brain every night as she tries to sleep and thinks of all the people she worked with back when she was doing good work and now they are so much more established and respected than she is, even though she was the hot one back in the day. Ha - suck it Katie!9 - "Who the hell are you? Monty Hall?"
10 - As her very first feature film directing gig at the tender age of 27 she took on the challenge of crafting a loving ode to long-term commitment and the loss and regrets of old age. And she hired Julie Christie and lit her like the most amazing thing you'd ever seen in all of the world. (Which she is, of course.)Happy birthday, Sarah!
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