Daryl Hannah

There are a lot of people in the rock world who groaned when she started dating Neil Young. She's considered somewhat of a black widow.

Has she been in anything since Kill Bill?

She is a cult or fetish actress and there are enough arty farty cineastes that hire her.

"As a child, she was so shy she was diagnosed as borderline autistic. Even today, she says she likes to just sit in a corner and just observe people."

She had her 15 minutes with "Splash" and then soon drowned in a sea of schlock.

She was in Sense8....a small part, but still.

Splash was huge.

Sense8 was terrible.

"Daryl Hannah is my favorite actress"

She is not so "well-known."

She has had a few iconic roles - Splash, Blade Runner, Kill Bill. And she is very attractive. That is enough to keep her career going.

John Candy was so hilarious in "Splash": he stole that movie from Hannah & Hanks.

She's always been mystifyingly around.

she coasted on her looks, and has connections to the biz.

untalented, she wanders yes blithely thru roles...

She comes from money....

Has that aloof dull snobbery that that entails.

She opened up about her autism a few years ago.

Yes she's autistic but when will Darryl come clean about being born a man? That's a man Maury.

They wanted me for "Splash" but I chose "Out of Africa" instead, and waited decades to work with Tom in the more serious and penetrating "The Post". Daryl was cute, but was totally unable to convey the schizoid torment inherent in a mermaid's psyche.

[quote]Why do think she is still so well-known and cast in such prominent roles?

What prominent roles?

I don't know how much family money went to Daryl Hannah (her mother's second marriage was to a wealthy man), but her half sister Tanya Wexler is definitely loaded.

Seriously though, was there a moment in Splash or Steel Magnolias that wasn't amateurish?

Not that she had that much to do in Blade Runner but her part in it was terrific. And to this day, when I blunt-cut some of my ornamental grasses I consider that I’m giving them the Pru treatment.

R20 I liked her in both. And also in "Legal Eagles"!

Summer Lovers was the first time I saw her.

R1 you left out the part about her dating Neil Young while he was married and helping to break up an almost 40 year marriage.

She was acceptable in Splash with the help of Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, but her performance in Steel Magnolias was a joke.

Dating JFK Jr. bought her at least a decade of fame.

she was more famous when she was JFK jr. girlfriend. She should have married him

I love Reckless. Aidan Quinn was sex on a stick in that. And Hannah was good to as the vapid white girl tempted by him.

For an actress of limited ability, she has appeared in a surprising number of distinguished films and worked with some great directors. In addition to those already mentioned:

The Fury

Roxanne

Wall Street

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Granted, a couple of these were cameos and she was miscast in Wall Street, but it's a more interesting filmography than, say, Brie Larson's.

She was wonderful in Footloose.

R28 I remember dancing like that as a teen at Mudd Club

I love Kenny Loggins!

and here too

Thing is she wasn’t even particularly pretty - perfect example of someone who was considered so only because she was tall and blonde.

When I saw her sister Paige in the movie Shag - who isn’t attractive at all - you could see they both had the same horse face and looked a lot alike.

Long blonde hair can hide a lot.

Daryl and Neil were made for each other.

Oh please r34. She was quite beautiful.

I'd tell you what I think of Browne if I could speak.

Daryl and Lori Singer

[quote]Daryl's face and Neil's fist were made for each other.

Fixed that for you.

R37 You've already been there and done that, Joni.

Jackie didn't like her; that's why they didn't marry. I seem to remember she went to Jackie's deathbed with roller blades on. Johnjohn was forbidden to marry her, and then he went on to find rough lookalike CBK and married her quickly.

Jackie inadvertently spared Daryl a watery grave.

Her Playboy pictorial was clearly an attempt to cash in on the sex tape / pussy flashing trend.

R35 Oh please, Miss thing Geneviève de Fontenay, that was a pretty American girl!

If she got over being an object of desire and her little baby girl voice, she could probably play a good transgender role.

R45) Yep!

Horrible actress.

[quote]Thing is she wasn’t even particularly pretty - perfect example of someone who was considered so only because she was tall and blonde.

Oh thank you for saying this!

Darryl was just legs and THIN blonde hair.

.....and lips...

She was robbed of an Oscar for her subtle, multi-layered performance in Steel Magnolias.

She was also robbed of an Oscar for her performance as Elle Driver in Kill Bill.

She came from money like lots of uninteresting actors.

Now she is with Neil Young, she is happy, I think

Was she much of an actress? No. Was she beautiful when she was young? Absolutely. Her beauty was what made her career. She was good in Kill Bill, though.

Now she would be a youtube star posting videos of herself taking selfies and doing her makeup

Streep. Blanchett. Winslet. Mirren. Hannah.

One of my favorite 80s movie is Wall Street. She was good as a vapid interior designer.

She would have killed as the lead in Terms of Endearment instead of that fucking nobody in a tracksuit Debra Winger.

She was affecting and exceptional in SPEEDWAY JUNKY, as was Jordan Brower. But I always say that.

Her sex scene with a neanderthal in "Clan of the Cave Bear" should be on her highlight reel.

Why is there a Speedway Junkies troll?

She’s ruined her looks:

She played a lesbian in The Hotflashes—a movie about middle-aged women playing basketball to raise money. Her plastic surgery was distracting.

It would be cool to see a Splash sequel in present day with Daryl walking around topless in Manhattan with a mermaid fin.

R57 but they both got to star in that classic Legal Eagles.

I wonder how many parts have been handed to her. It's hard to imagine her auditioning better than someone else.

She would slay in Handmaid's Tale and Homeland.

She's actually a good choice when you need a cipher character, or a female at one remove from society in some way (i.e. prostitute, killer, mermaid).

Perhaps her good performances are accidental, or directed. But some entries on her IMDB certainly are good and we Queens can't take that away from her.

R28 reminds me how much I fucking love Romeovoid. BENEFACTOR was a great album.

And could Debora Iyall be any cooler? Now there's an interesting woman in the performing arts.

I thought her break out roll was Summer Lovers? I always wanted to go to Greece after that and have a 3 way for the summer. With guys that is.

If you watch her interview on Howard Stern with Quentin Tarantino it's shocking.

I believe the stuff about her being semi-retarded. Not mention how drugged up she appeared to be.

[quote]R5 She had her 15 minutes with "Splash" and then soon drowned in a sea of schlock.

I believe ROXANNE was a hit...wasn't it?

r69 Summer Lovers was a flop when it came out. It only became a hit on cable as the years went by.

I would think Blade Runner was the film that really launched her.

Yes r20, it was an awful film and I don't know why women and gay men love it so.

I like her. I’m not sure why .

R67 which are the good ones again?

I liked The Pope Of Greenwich Village.

You wonder if there was some sort of Harvey Weinstein action going on for her to get all of those roles without having much talent.

I think her heyday was before Harvey Weinstein's time.

There was always a Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood, and there were and are still plenty of them.

She must have had some scarlet pussy for JFK Jr. to choose her over every other woman on earth.

She's got to be the most successful autistic actress ever.

R71 "Roxanne" was a big summer hit, but I didn't think Hannah's role and performance amounted to much, and the movie was, if not schlocky, kind of borderline corny and sappy. I prefer Steve's earlier movies. The mountain town was beautiful, though.

She seems like she would be really into adult coloring books.

I'm Wall Street, she was a character still pervasive in modern-day Manhattan: a "pretty", clueless, social-climbing retard girl getting by on blowjobs.

You wonder why a vacuous blank slate like her wasn't scooped up by Tom Cruise or John Travolta to prop up at premieres and red carpet events.

The gills and mermaid costume could not have helped her in the vag odor department.

Robbed of an Oscar nomination for Kill Bill

I loved the movie "Reckless." Haviland Morris as Mary Pat Sykes stole the show. If it hadn't been for that movie, I'd have probably never heard the song "Never Say Never." Anyone notice Jennifer Grey in the movie?

I so much wanted someone to just take me away like that.

Cause I slipped her my John-John.

Giving her best Lori Singer

R86 thinks he’s hilarious.

R89 isn’t much better.

Summer Lovers was a stink bomb of a script. The only reason Barbara Rush and Carole Cook did it was for the free trip to Greece.

Beats me...Oops I have that the wrong way

She had that Amazonian big-lipped look the 80s adored. Like Kelly LeBrock.

I liked Reckless a lot too, whenever I mention it (and the burning hot scene between her and Aidan Quinn in his tighty whities) to anyone, they tell me they've never heard of it. Maybe because it came out in 84 (I think), which was before the Brat Pack moved in and took over with some help from John Hughes.

Doesnt she come from money ?

She and Uma Thurman look like a pair of drag queens. They don’t look like they were born female. Can’t stand her as a actress but she was good in Kill Bill. Agree with the poster who said she’s good in playing outsider roles.

R96, yes. Her step-father is/was a mover-societal shaker in Chicago/Illinois. (Her mother 'Married Up.')

Darryl's best film: "Roxanne"

[quote]Splash was huge.

And I was the FIRST choice for Madison but MOM told me to turn it down and do Wet Gold for t.v. instead! Thanks Mom!

Neil Young's house that burned in Malibu last week is the house he bought from Hannah last year.

She has that dumb, look at me because I have nothing to say act that is popular now.

Most unlikely to have a comeback

She was pretty AND she rode JFK Jrs hairy cock for several years. That's enough for people to remember.

Daryl is one of the few female celebrities who legitimately looks to me as though she could have been born male.

Did she have cheek implants? She's always had that harsh square jaw, but I could never pinpoint what she did to her face until looking at side-by-side comparisons.

I wonder if she rims Neil Young first thing in the morning on these 90 degree plus summer days. He doesn't seem like someone on top of his hygiene.

R70 Shocking how? Any juicy highlights?

I like her. Daryl was in a lot of movies so, for some, she is remembered for the nostalgia: She was a constant presence in the '80s: Summer Lovers, Blade Runner, Splash, Reckless, Legal Eagles, Roxanne, Wall Street, Steel Magnolias.

I liked her in Crazy People, an underrated comedy from 1990 with Dudley Moore. She was also in the Grumpy Old Men films. And played the mom in A Walk to Remember, the Mandy Moore weepfest.

And she was excellent in Kill Bill. Quentin Tarantino got the best performance from her. She should have rode the buzz and critical acclaim she got from that film, but she continued with straight-to-video B films and bad plastic surgery.

She looks a bit like French actress Emmanuelle Seigner. And a little bit like Robin Wright too.

[quote]She should have rode

Oh, DEAR!

Her Lori Singer lookalike days

Even before she opened up about her autism, I met her at the post-screening for "Silver City "at the 2004 TIFF. She's physically quite striking in person, but she was just standing there, barely interacting with anyone, including her castmates and the director, looking at her feet. It was very odd and, years later, when she talked about her autism, I wasn't surprised at all. It was obvious there was something quite off with her in terms of being comfortable around people.

Steel Magnolias is an awful movie in general. My mother, having given birth to three sons and no daughter, was quick to inculcate me in the art of the chick flick. I never ever took to Steel Magnolias. Shelby was the author of her own misfortune and the other ladies should have been allowed to say so.

Still bangin Neil

Because she’s Reckless baby!

I'm from the South and a lot of hyper-Christian women like Annelle are similarly lacking in self-awareness. She wasn't the best in the cast but she wasn't miscast.

[quote]Shelby was the author of her own misfortune and the other ladies should have been allowed to say so.

They were killing her with that damn juice they made her drink!

She is rich and nice.

John, does Daryl remind you of someone? Aunt Rosemary perhaps? Not just a little bit?

I admire that she never cashed in on her relationship with JFK, Jr. as so many others did who wrote books after he died.

That said, I wish she would.

I haven't seen Reckless since I was a teen, but back then I wanted a hot guy to pick me up on his motorcycle and take me away while Bob Seger's Roll Me Away plays

I'm trying to recall which comedian observed that Hannah had played an apewoman, a robot, and a fish, and maybe she should try playing a human.

Some would argue she's never played a human, though not for lack of trying.

I remember her Oscar campaign for Steel Magnolias - cover of VF during the nominating period and everything.

R21, Her character's name was Pris, not "Pru".

Why did her parents give her a male name? She should have switched her first and last names when she first entered showbiz; Hannah Daryl just sounds so much better.

Her finest moment in Jackson Browne's "Tender is the Night" video

I hate Steel Magnolias. I would have loved to have seen Catherine O'Hara in the part instead, she was close to getting it but I think she would have upstaged everyone.

Daryl is only good in weird parts. She was really good in Kill Bill and I think if they would have cast her as villains it would have been a great use of her. Unfortunately she fucked up her face with bad cosmetic surgery and she's done. Do none of these former starlets have friends who say 'Don't!' or are they all sabotaging each other for the same roles?

r126 That's not one of his best songs but he looks good in that video

She's also in the video for "You're a Friend of Mine" by Clarence Clemons and Jackson Browne

Rocky relationship with Jackson Browne--"In the Shape of a Heart" is about it.

Forgettable actress. Magnolias is a mess--despite being a southerner (well from Atlanta), Julia Roberts is a weak link as is Shirley Maclaine who was in her peoriod of playing brittle versions of the daffy women she played in the 60s.

Another idiot who destroyed her looks