Hello, everyone, JA from MNPP here, popping my head in while Nat rests up. On my agenda: I'd like to wish the wonderful actress Miranda Richardson a happy 51st birthday.In thinking about Richardson for this post, I realized that I love her due to some really random choices out of her filmography - namely her campier work in Southland Tales, Snow White, and Sleepy Hollow, her Rita Skeeter in the Harry Potter movies, and most of all her amazing multi-character high-wire juggling act in David Cronenberg's Spider. It appears that somehow, most of her earlier acclaimed performances, like her Oscar nominated role in Damage, I haven't seen. Huh. I'm a Miranda Richardson loving fraud!
Anyway, because I'm seemingly unfamiliar with most of her prestige-ier work, I went looking through Nat's mentions of Richardson then - he named her #46 in his Top Actresses of the Aughts countdown - and what I noticed was the word "underused" attached to her most frequently. I concur. She works steadily, but she ought to be worked harder. Faster! Given some plum roles! She knows what to do with 'em, that's for certain.
I don't know how big her part will be in the Emily Blunt starring The Young Victoria - Richardson plays the Duchess of Kent, but I didn't even notice her in the trailer - but hopefully she'll get to shine some there. Her other upcoming credit is called Telepathy and co-stars Sam Neill and has the most delightful plot outline I've read in forever:
"A pair of identical twins are separated by Russian scientists to determine if they can communicate with each other while one is kept on earth and the other is launched into space."
Russian scientists! Twins launched into space! That is some must-see stuff right there.
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