Holly Hunter

Not really. Indifferent. Not really a fan, but she's not a celeb that I don't like or annoys me.

Her recent interview with Marc Maron only confirmed that. It wasn't bad, and wasn't great (he has a lot of interviews that I've really enjoyed). Just meh.

For the most part, yes. She’s enjoyable.

She gave two of my favorite performances in Broadcast News and The Piano, and she should have had her second Oscar with As Good As It Gets, so yes, I like her.

R3- that was Helen Hunt, my dear. And she won an Oscar for the movie. Which is a shonda.

Meh!

I love her.

Though I saw her on the London stage in By the Bog of Cats and that was shit.

I love her,always have. I wish she'd have gotten better roles.

I hated her in 'Copycat."

No. She's meh. And her accent is bad too. She probably slept with someone to get up there.

God, yes. Love that woman. So many great performances, including Broadcast News and the criminally underseen Living Out Loud.

She's not my favorite, but I like her--and I respect any actress who manages to keep working the way she has. She's made interesting career choices and found ways to work when she aged out of the big star roles.

I worked near where she lives in Brooklyn, ran into her a couple times. She is so petite, serious, and has this intense aura about her.

nope

Loved her in Living Out Loud.

Home for the Holidays is a good one.

Yes. She's perfect.

Love her--and Living Out Loud is one of the all-time great movies.

I love this interview with her. (Portions are on youtube; the whole is on netflix.)

Audio there from the podcast, to add to r17

Mute schmute, she didn't have to memorize a single word. All she had to do was show up, braid her hair, and fartic. Stalker Channing, she may be a long shot, but at least she had lines. She talked from the beginning of the move to the end of the movie. She had alot to say to the fresh prince. Alright let's go the phones the number is 555-4444. Give us a call we'll talk no big whoop. Hello?

What’s not to love about this????

[quote]Her recent interview with Marc Maron only confirmed that.

It's a stretch calling what he does interviewing. He can't stop talking about the mediocre, boring self.

She doesh thish strangsh thing with her teethsh that'sh kinda like a lispsh, more like a grating--and very grating it is indeed. So affected....

Not really, but I won't boycott a movie if she's in it.

I like her. And she's managed to have a long career without being crazy, which I admire.

At the end of her interview on Inside the Actors Studio she was asked what her favorite curse word was and she proudly and loudly said, Cocksucker!

No, she said, "Cockshucker."

R22 It's almost like the way deaf people talk, or her dentures aren't in properly, or both.

Fuck no

I love how she talks with her teeth clenched

in Searching for Debra Winger Frances McDormand said she and Holly made a pact not to have plastic surgery, but I think Holly broke it.

Yes, Holly has absolutely had work done. She held off for a long time, but once she hit 50 I guess she felt she had to - she'd always been able to pass for younger than she was, and she probably started losing roles. I am pretty sure that she had Bell's palsy at one point in her life, which is what the clenched teeth/sometimes twisted mouth on one side is about.

I like her. I like her intensity and the variety of roles she's taken on - she's a risk-taker, and those are always welcome.

I think she’s a weirdo. She used to live on my block in the Village and I would see her with her (hot) husband and 2 kids all the time. R12 is right. She’s TINY and serious and intense but maybe because she didn’t want people bugging her. She and her husband always wore these dumb little hipster hats. Her accent is excessively southern in my humble opinion. Inwish she’s dial in back some.

She and Frances McDormand were roommates before they became famous. They seem like 2 of a kind.

Her lispy Southern accent is too annoying

The Piano and Raising Arizona

Yesh

Loved loved loved her in Broadcast News!!!

And that’s about it.

I said that R3 because Helen Hunt won the Oscar she should have won. The role was written for Holly Hunter by Brooks.

Why does she continue wearing blonde hair? That was never a good look on her.

[quote] she should have had her second Oscar with As Good As It Gets, so yes, I like her.

[quote] that was Helen Hunt, my dear. And she won an Oscar for the movie. Which is a shonda.

Holly was actually offered the female lead in "As Good As It Gets" but talks broke down over her fee, so Holly walked away.

^ leading her to quip, 'This is NOT as good at it gets'.

I was offered "Broadcast News" but chose a less fluffy role in "Ironweed". I finally made my news picture, "The Post", last year and the rest is history.

I don’t LIKE her, but she’s a very good actress.

'Living Out Loud' should be better known. And the massage sequence with Eddie Cibrian is one of the few erotic moments in a mainstream Hollywood film

She was good as the mom in the movie “ Thirteen” starting Nikki Reed & Evan Racheal Wood.

R43,

When Living Out Loud came out, I was sure that guy was going to have a huge career.

I was wrong.

Living Out Loud is a seriously underrated movie. Hunter, Danny DeVito and, especially, Queen Latifah give the performances of their careers and, for me, the movie itself is just about perfect. Too bad she had to drop out of As Good As It Gets because I would love to have seen her opposite Nicholson. And, to be fair, Helen Hunt was very good in AGAIG. Oscar worthy? Probably not but not every Oscar given is a deserving one.

I thought she was wasted in that recent HBO series (I can't even remember the name of it). The whole thing was misguided and she wasn't very good.

She’s terrible in those Jane Campion Elizabeth Moss Up on the Lake or whatever series.

Yeah, Helen Hunt wasn't anything all that special in AGAIG, but she did give a terrific and brave performance in The Sessions, where she got the nomination for best supporting, but was never going to get the win against the AnnE Hathaway train. So Oscar-worthy actress, IMO, just not in the role she won for.

Holly Hunter was the lock for The Piano in 1994. Nowadays, I think she would have had to duke it out with Angela Bassett in What's Love Got to do with It.

I enjoyed Holly Hunter in Thirteen. Actually that was a great movie all around. Should've had multiple acting noms.

R27, isn't Holly partially deaf in real life?

She should cut the hair.

Her pussy stinks.

Great actress but The Piano is overrated. One of those art house flicks that pretentious critics jizz all over. Pauline Kael would have trashed it.

Angela Bassett and Madonna gave better performances that year.

I love her as an actress and I've always liked her as a person. She had a really strong reputation at the time and she deserved it, imo.

Also, The Big Short was hugely MEH but she and Zoe Kazan were charming.

Love her. If all she'd ever done was [italic]Raising Arizona[/italic] I would love her. "Give me that baby, you warthog from hell!"

^The Big Sick, sorry lol

I am occasionally a fan of Holly Hunter. Like Debra Winger, i know she’ll deliver a solid interesting performance in anything.

I don’t seek out her projects, tho.

Her best performance i’ve seen is in LIVING OUT LOUD.

R54 Yet Kael jizzed all over "Last Tango in Paris" for ten or so pretentious pages in the"New Yorker".

Tango was overrated, but Piano is 90's tasteful moviemaking cliché.

You're comparing Bertolucci to Campion?

I would rather watch all three Clinton-Trump debates again than either "The Piano" or "Last Tango in Paris". "Tango" was one of Kael's derided tasteful moviemaking cliched "come-dressed-as-the sick-soul-of-Europe parties", but because it was sexed up and starred Brando she shot her load over it.

I like her but the Piano is one long cliche

Hunter has a brilliantly performed scene in Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her where she walks down the street after an abortion and has an emotional breakdown. It's just unbelievable that that father was Gregory Hines.

I hated her character in The Piano, primarily because she opted to fuck nasty Harvey Keitel over Sam Neill.

I thought she was BRILLIANT in The Piano . I love that movie,but one I dont rewatch often because it upsets me so.Like Schindlers List.

Yes.

Raising Arizona, Broadcast News, Miss Firecracker (though Alfie Woodard's performance stole the movie), The Piano, Thirteen

The '90's for women actors was the best decade: Holly, Demi, Michelle, Jody, Sigourney, Nicole, Juliet, Linda, Helen, Lara Flynn, Laura, Geena, Susan, Kathleen, Emma, Sandra, Angela, Meg, Winona, Sharon, Meryl, Julia, Goop, and our incomparable DL Icon, Her Highness Cathy Zeta Jones, who was a teenage protégé at the time.

Name another decade that included the such talent and impact on Women in Film -

I looove Holly. Of course, it helps that Jessica Lange is her favorite actress. ;-)

She's wonderful, though.

I love her in:

The Piano

Living Out Loud (an underrated gem. I used to jerk off to Antonio Sabato Jr in this. He was so fucking perfect.)

Home for the Holidays

Broadcast News

Copycat

Raising Arizona

Thirteen

[quote]Holly Hunter: I wish I could go to the theater and see Jessica Lange more often because she is my favorite actress.

[quote] Holly, Demi, Michelle, Jody, Sigourney, Nicole, Juliet, Linda, Helen, Lara Flynn, Laura, Geena, Susan, Kathleen, Emma, Sandra, Angela, Meg, Winona, Sharon, Meryl, Julia, Goop, and our incomparable DL Icon, Her Highness Cathy Zeta Jones,

R66, you have me at this whole list except Helen and Lara Flynn! (And no Jessica).

R68 - Have you watched Lara Flynn's performance in "Afterglow"? Her best performance, ever.

(Then there's J. Christie's performance, Nolte's performance, and the beautiful Johnny Lee Miller . . . but such commentary on this film is another DL classic thread from the past.)

R53 = Hank Azaria

She provided a wonderful narration of our favorite actress' "intimate portrait".

That's the Biography episode. This is the Intimate Portrait episode narrated by Holly.

What is up with her voice? Is she purposely overdoing it - or is it really 100% naturally like that?

Her work in "Raising Arizona," "Broadcast News" and "The Piano" alone earn her a permanent spot on the A-List.

Greatest scene of all: playing the clueless cop in "RA" and singing that "lullaby" to the baby.

Namely, "Down In The Willow Garden." A classic American "murder ballad."

I howled for days.

I know her brother. He's a rich republican jerk

For real r75?

For real. He's in his 60's and was essentially born and raised in a small town that was predominantly white until the late 1990's. Their family are big land owners and ranchers. I met him through my sister. She dated one of his friends (the richest guy in town - he's a mega wealthy widower- inherited most of his money). Sister's boyfriend used to go big game hunting in Africa and all over the world hunting. Holly's brother went with him a lot. They aren't openly racist. But it's there. Both men live in modest homes. But they have many homes. A lake house, places in Florida on the water and some property in Colorado and Wyoming with hunting cabins on them. My sister asked her boyfriend about Holly. He didn't have much to say about her. She moved away over 30 years ago

My sister is the one from the revenge threads. And she's rabidly liberal. Even though she's straight she is more gay rights than anyone I know and she supports kneeling during the pledge as if her own life depended on it

Thought she was amazing in The Piano so went to see her on stage in the West End in By The Bog of Cats and it was shit.

She's cute with a lateral lisp. Broadcast News, The Piano and very much fun in The Firm. Under Gary Busey's desk, yuk. Still I don't thinks she is one of the great actresses and I never miss her when she goes. Her accent and speech impediment are very distracting. Like everything, it seemed less terrible when she was young.

She's not very bright or interesting in interviews, but she's not a Hollywood game playing phony bitch either. So there's that. All Actors are intensely ambitious. Holly is not fun. Or funny. Some of the bitches are a lot funnier.

Sarah Paulson does a good Holly impersonation....stick around for her Drew Barrymore.