Laura Linney gushes about Elton John, eating al fresco, Grand Central Station, Juilliard, daffodils and tulips

I like her as an actress but when I saw her on Inside the Actor's Studio she took herself too seriously.

[quote]Charming, or annoying?

These profiles tend to make most celebs sound annoying, so you have to keep that in mind going in. What I do know is that bangs would take fully twenty years off her face.

I guess they are pushing that crappy Ethan Hawke movie about Flannery O'Connor starring Ethan Jr.

“I went to Juilliard. I’m on the board at Juilliard. Walking through the halls of Juilliard and seeing young artists at a level of concentration that you only have when you are in the midst of training, I find it incredibly life-affirming. It confirms everything I want and know to be true about why the arts are important.”

ANNOYING AS FUCK

How did she have a kid at age 50?

She still sounds like an annoying, privileged, theater geek uptown nepo baby STILL (at age 60!) trying to impress the admissions staff at Juilliard.

But what does she think about the Palestinian conflict?

I will always love her as an actor. But I have a friend who went to Brown with her and said LL acted like she was queen of the theater world there.

Did your friend have any success?

I always get her mixed up with the actress that Billy bob dumped for Angelina

[quote] Did your friend have any success?

My friend is a professor with a named chair at her college.

But should it matter? Are only successful people allowed to criticize celebrities?

Mary-Ann Singleton was a cunt.

She has a very dull monotone voice that makes her acting sound flat

I worked with her on one of her first shows on Broadway. She was a total stuck up cunt then. I also remember many of us were surprised she was as old as she was (nearing 30), as she looked much younger. I was college aged and I thought we were peers.

It didn't stop Ethan Hawke from hitting on her every chance he could get. She wanted nothing to do with him.

Dull monotone? You must be thinking of someone else.

R9 you mean Laura Dern?

Not a fan. Anne Hathaway gets the hate this one deserves.

this is the first film I recall seeing her in /

any fans of this one?

I always pay attention to connections. I'd liked her in what I'd seen, so I liked her as an actress in the early days.

But then I read that she was good friends (via Tales of the City) with Armistead Maupin who is a verified asshole, so I figured she was one, too.

That little bit of an article didn't disabuse me of that opinion.

She's Laura Linney and this is Masterpiece Classic.

Laura Linney is one of those people who tries to come across as a normal person but in an effort to come across as a normal people, she comes across as a freak.

Meryl sometimes is guilty of this as well.

Wow, Laura Linney hate? Really? She’s about as harmless as they come. She’s family friends with someone my husband is quite close with in our business, and I’ve met her a few times socially. I originally met her the year after she lost the Oscar for You Can Count On Me (a beautiful little movie that she gave an extraordinary performance in) to Julia Roberts, and she was as charming and down to earth and normal as one could be. We joked extensively about Juilliard since we’d both attended, and chatted a bit about her loss which she took well. I found her totally charming and sweet. She can read as cold and cunty on screen which is why she was so good in that Netflix show with Jason Bateman. This criticism of her here is really weird. There are much better targets. Was this thread started by Hathaway’s PR bitch?

So she's a chronic people pleaser, which sometimes manifests itself as being cunty. I'm sure many of us can identify with that. I agree with r21, you're being too harsh on her.

She talks about the production of The Seagull that she and Ethan Hawke were in in 1992. The New York Times lambasted in:

the productions lack any artistic passion or even coherent points of view...The results achieved in this Chekhov production, as directed by Marshall W. Mason, are superior to last season's only in the sense that mediocrity is superior to catastrophe. Given the larger number of good actors onstage, the waste of resources and talent is, if anything, more conspicuous...acted by the promising Ethan Hawke with an arm-waving display of unfocused nervous energy...Laura Linney, the highly gifted young actress cast as Nina, may be the most commanding actor of the lot, but her bracing, unmodulated vitality, so appropriate to the mature Nina of the final act, seems out of sync before then.

I loved "You Can Count On Me " but I found Mark Ruffalo had the dull monotone and I always wondered how he got so far in his acting career.

she had a nice pair of jugs on "tales of the city"

[quote] Wow, Laura Linney hate? Really? She’s about as harmless as they come. She’s family friends with someone my husband is quite close with in our business, and I’ve met her a few times socially. I originally met her the year after she lost the Oscar for You Can Count On Me (a beautiful little movie that she gave an extraordinary performance in) to Julia Roberts, and she was as charming and down to earth and normal as one could be. We joked extensively about Juilliard since we’d both attended, and chatted a bit about her loss which she took well. I found her totally charming and sweet. She can read as cold and cunty on screen which is why she was so good in that Netflix show with Jason Bateman. This criticism of her here is really weird. There are much better targets. Was this thread started by Hathaway’s PR bitch?

Well, obviously if you like her personally and cherish your vague acquaintance with her, then no one else on this forum should be allowed to criticize her. We'll make a note of it!

I find her intolerable.

Doesn’t she live in Colorado?

She lives in Brooklyn Heights

Calm down. r26. Your absurd posting about her is ridiculous. Shut up.

Actually, his posting wasn't the least bit absurd or over the top. It was an opinion, plain and simple. However your post, R30, is quite ridiculous. Take your own advice.

I Did it For You, Laura Linney

Ages ago, I saw her on a date with Eric Stoltz. We were all at a show at the Minetta Lane theater in NYC. I can’t remember the show, but those two were cuddling outside during intermission. I don’t think anybody else recognize them.

Good in Tales of the City

Sucked in Love Actually

Her face and demeanor say girl next door but her acting is metallic and cold.

I just saw her in the movie Suncoast on Hulu. She was quite good as the abrasive mother of two teenagers, one of whom is dying of brain cancer in a hospice. Although a well-studied performance, it is interesting to consider in light of the criticism above of the vitality Linney brought to her character in The Seagull. Even thirty years later, playing an overworked mother in her late fifties, sleeping every night on a fold-out cot in a hospice, she had a spring in her step that seemed out of tone at times.

Annoying. Thread closed.

She's playing FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S MOTHER?

Please.