Why did Glenn Close's career go straight down the shitter?

I am the old straight frau flight attendant who insists on hitting on him despite purses flying out of his mouth.

Ooops, wrong thread.

She was unattractive.

No Oscar-worthy performances.

she looks like a man?

Glen Close ..... ??

No, R1....you're in the right thread.

She's too cold to be a truly big, popular star.

Faye Dunaway was cold in the 1970s, too, and it didn't stop her from being a successful leading lady. But she was beautiful.

G isn't. So she's for the most part been relegated to character-type roles from the beginning.

Fatal Attraction was her version of Faye Dunaway's Mommie Dearest.

Nice picture from her triumphant one person performance as Conan o'Brien: The Tonight Show War.

Her time has passed.

She needs to hang 'em up with grace.

She deserved an Oscar for Dangerous Liaisons.

[quote]R8 Fatal Attraction was her version of Faye Dunaway's Mommie Dearest.

Mmmm....Glenn Close [italic]is[/italic] extraordinary in FATAL ATTRACTION. She almost didn't get the part because no one thought she was sexy enough to play a 1-night stand. And by mainstream movie standards for big budget movies, she isn't. But that actually makes her better for the part, because you can sense her character's a woman who's been rejected, who hasn't had everything handed to her in life, who hasn't necessarily had it easy.

They wanted Isabelle Adjani for it, initially. Sooooooooooooooooo many actresses auditioned for that role!!

Interestingly, the cinematographer thought one thing that would make the character of Alex mysterious and interesting is if you rarely got a good look at her face straight on. The way it's shot, there's usually a hank of hair falling into her face, or she's in 3/4 profile, or there's lighting keeping half her face in shadow....techniques that keep you from cleanly seeing her full on. It's not done in every single shot, but that was the visual concept.

This also might have helped Close's appearance, because straight on, she's not a traditionally super attractive woman (in movie star terms)

refuses to look like a woman

I would classify her as a character actress. There's that strong New England/Kate Hepburn chiseled bone structure look about her that is too intimidating for most Americans.

R14 = Glenn Close

[quote]r14 I would classify her as a character actress. There's that strong New England/Kate Hepburn chiseled bone structure look about her that is too intimidating for most Americans.

But in her youth, Katharine Hepburn was often a traditional leading lady, in addition to taking on more "character-like" leading roles.

Glenn Close made her film debut playing Robin Williams' mom.

r14 and Glenn Close only WISHES her looks were EVER in the same catagory as Hepburn's!

Come on.

in mr bowers expose of him being a pimp, he says how he set Hepburn up with women of a certain look....its a fab book, and movie

careers have ebbs and flows, close still works but her star isnt as bright as it was thirty years ago.

101 dalmations was a misstep in her career.

she was uber fab in sunset blvd.

Really? I'd think that helped her keep visible in a very mainstream, commercial movie.

I thought it made money...?

^^ for r19

Hepburn?

Oh c'mon! During the Golden Age of Hollywood, Glenn Close would have been considered for the role of Miss Gulch in the Wizard of Oz....losing out to Margret Hamilton.

Close would have had a career as the poor man's Margorie Main.

If she can get some support behind her, she may have a shot at an Oscar campaign next year for "The Wife."

^^ And looking PRETTY as ever!

We love you, Glennie!

Wow, dublin_zoetrope is on DL now?!

Her best roles are far behind her.

r26

Is she 80 now?

why she want alwys look mannish????

Her career is not down the shitter, trolling OP.

She should star in a TV show. All the other great older actresses are doing it.

R30 We wonder the same thing, Melania.

What a bunch of bitchy cunts! Glenn is still a star and still turning out amazing performances. Wait until you see The Wife later this year....now, go,suck a cock and let Glenn be the star she is .

Hi Glenn/R34. So nice of you to join us!

R32 She already did! Damages.

She's fucking amazing on Damages. Her and Rose Byrne were such a combo. Miss that show

DAMAGES is one of my favorite shows ever, too : )

Still my favorite scene.

[italic]"You heard me..."

Glenn Close is a legend. Maybe if she cozied up to big wigs like Harvey Weinstein, she would be further along in her career by now. Nevertheless, she is still a respected actress.

P.S. Meryl Streep isn't some timeless beauty either. And, who cares? What is this law that says actresses have to be beautiful? There are plenty fat, bloated, and ugly actors/directors/execs in Hollywood.

close had/has a great career. her career is not in the shitter or in decline.

maybe she was born with a cock, she does seem like a dude/looks like one too

Um...she got old.

hell she aint old::: black don't crack!

Her career is in the shitter though.

She's a wonderful actress who will work til she drops, and a nice person too. I think a bit too well adjusted and decent to hit the apex and stay there. What and who you have to do and all that. A person close to me had close ongoing contact with her in a service type position and she was a good egg to them when there was nothing in it for her. Wish her well.

I'd put her interpretation of Patty Hewes on "Damages" well above anything Streep hacked out over the past 15 years.

She’s a good technical actor. I find it hard to connect with her performances on an emotional level, though. There is an aloofness and cerebral quality to her acting that I find distancing. It works for certain roles like Fatal Attraction and Dangerous Liaisons where the character is a sociopath.

R42. Agreed. 3 emmys . 3 Tonys. Six Oscar nominations. Still works. Most actors would sell their souls to the devil to have her acclaim. Op doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about.

She’s homely.

Glenn is superb.Far and away a better actress than Meryl could ever hope to be. I remember every one of Glenns performances that I have seen,(I thought she was hysterical as Cruella) but the only one I remember of Meryl is Sophies choice,and that one only because of her atrocious accent.Thats not true,she was fabulous in Devil wears Prada,but that was mostly because of her outfits.

Good point R49. Glenn, for instance, could never have pulled off Karen Silkwood, for instance. Can't think of a single role Close as done that Streep couldn't have done just as well.

Lead roles in movies slowed down when she hit her 40s but her career never really stopped. She spent a few years doing Sunset Blvd. to great acclaim onstage and won an Emmy in the early 90s plus continued to get supporting roles in films. Then success on TV with Damages. She's never really had huge lulls.

Am I the only one who thinks she looks like Robin Wright?

Am I the only one who thinks she looks like crap?

You always hope the M lines will be funny and witty... and they never are.

They're lame and unfunny.

And tired.

[quote] And tired.

Just like her choice of roles as of late.

Glenn Close is to movies what Bonnie Franklin is to One Day at a Time.

She works hard and is extremely focused on her career. That's how she has lasted as long as she has.

Her natural competition in the Odd Looking Leading Lady category is Streep and Streep is the better actor.

It's extraordinary that Close didn't fade away 20 years ago.

She's a very nice person. (I've told this before but.......)

I used to work in a bookstore as a teen that she came to a lot. I used to get so nervous waiting on her. I was star stuck. I never even made eye contact. One day she kind of smiled and started a conversation about the book she was buying. Looking back she was clearly trying to draw me out. From then on I'd always chat with her and ask her questions about her films and she'd always chat so enthusiastically.

I love hearing from M in the Glenn Close threads, R57 !

We're extremely lucky she takes the time to post here.

r56 is an impostor. My post have been more subtly passive aggressive and not so overt. I would have said something like I'm glad G is keeping busy and may even get an Oscar next year. She deserves some happiness after yet another divorce.

The M comments are tired, not funny, overused and don’t make anyone laugh- just irritated. Glen Close is a legend with great insight and technique....please stop with the super lame M responses....ughhhh

Stop posting on DL? That would be as likely to happen as me not being nominated.

Why must she insist on looking like alice b toklas?

Blessed with a 4 inch clit, she pleases all the hot young dykes in town....

Remind me again.....what's television?

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She lacked charm.

o meryl now u want a bevy of emmys? reese n old kidman aint gonna stand fer dat.

[quote] She's fucking amazing on Damages

It might be worth noting she got Damages because she had so impressed FX with her stint on "The Shield".

She never learned to rooooolllll with the punches. And believe me, in this business they come left, right, and below the belt.

glenn had a lack oof sense of humor, many took offense at her opulent narcissism, and felt her own worth was a bit less than the lady who wandered on the boulevard, alone and pennyless….but with her cock intact god dam it.

R69 That's not television.....that's HBO!

She had huge roles in the 80s. She was already in her upper 30s when she broke through with Fatal Attraction. She continued to work steadily in the 90s and after. The problem is that Hollywood doesn't write many leading roles for women 40 and over. They'll write roles, for 60-year-old men, but they'll only hire a woman in her 20s/30s for the supporting role as "the wife" of the old codger.

I saw her in "Barnum". Glad to hear she's still working.

Is Glenn Close?

was she doing heroin with that guy from "Murphy Brown" who OD'd?

She's won three Tonys, dissed Frank Rich and his wife from the podium, had thousands of Oscar noms, and loads of hunky boyfriends. What has YOUR life been like LOL? Am seeing her today in THE WIFE.

[quote] and loads of hunky boyfriends.

Pity she never could hold on to any of them.

Aside from FATAL ATTRACTION (which is a very striking role, and does half the work for the performer), she's really only made a strong impression on me on TV, in THE SHIELD and DAMAGES.

Both times she played hard bitten women in power, whose jobs forced them to forgo vulnerability. She's good in that steely stuff. It presses a charge out of her that she usually lacks.

R52, I'll always remember Meryl as the actress who always goes "click click click". After I read that Hepburn said that about her, I can't get that out of my head.

It's not like K. Hepburn was particularly naturalistic, herself.

Why is 'M' poster more of an insufferable cunt than Streep herself?

She's very short, and it's hard to keep the weight off when you're stout. And she has a hard-jawed, handsome-woman look that's not right for romances.

But starved-to-perfection, carefully styled and paired with tiny Michael Douglas- she nails it.

I'd answer you r85 but I don't respond to people who say cunt.

[quote]r86 But starved-to-perfection, carefully styled and paired with tiny Michael Douglas- she nails it.

If you're attracted to hedgehogs...then Yes.

[quote]Can't think of a single role Close as done that Streep couldn't have done just as well.

Oh please. Meryl in Fatal Attraction?!

You're probably the same one who thought Streep could have done Body Heat.

r86

someone younger and prettier was wanted for that role, closes acting skills made them think again

I certainly acknowledge she's pulled off some very good performances in a long career. And for all I know she's a lovely person. There's just something about her I don't like. That clip from Damages when she tells the young lawyer to get out is not all that great or even realistic. Sorry, Glenn Lovers. I'm sure there are other fabulous clips.

R89 Please give me a break. While Kathleen was getting busy petting and panting with William in Body Heat, I was creating truly iconic screen eroticism in my chiller-thriller "Still of the Night".

Glenn was always an also-ran to other stars that audiences more fully embraced. She is also manly and has the personality of a WalMart greeter. She sometimes seems frivolous and girly but also very butch, like a Lez who watches Football in the basement. She made some good movies but always was a B-Lister. It’s easy for me to see why she never won an Oscar. Just not that well liked or admired, like Amy Adams.

[quote]She made some good movies but always was a B-Lister.

She was the most talked about woman in the country in 1987.

What must have killed Glennie was playing the spinsterish crone sister-in-law to Meryl's angelic new bride in THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (1993)

Pretty much sums up how it's always been...

I saw Glenn Close on stage years ago in The Real Thing with Jeremy Irons. She was charming, incredibly charismatic and, yes, tiny and feminine onstage. Really different presence than what you get onscreen. Real star quality--Jeremy Irons, who was the protagonist, not so much.

The delicate magic than is Glenn

M in the same movie:

M up front, Glenn shoved to the back...Redgrave in between

Fatal Attraction was big, but Glenn was never the biggest star in the world.

No one said Glenn Close was the biggest star in the world. But in 1987, Fatal Attraction pretty much moved her into icon status.

Dangerous Liasions. She will always be A-list.

And if she wins the Oscar for The Wife, the cheers from the audience will register on the Richter scale.

Glenn Close has been married four times, each ending in divorce. She also has the dubious honor of being nominated six times for an Oscar and never winning. Close, but no cigar.

Maybe she had a shitty career compared to icons and the top of the A-list, but compared to 99% of actresses she has had a remarkable career, especially considering she already looked like an old witch in Fatal Attraction.

She's a household name, Fatal Attraction is one of the most well-known films off all time and she's hardly been struggling for work since or in poverty.

This is true. She is a star. She just reached her apex quite a while ago.

[quote]Glenn, for instance, could never have pulled off Karen Silkwood, for instance.

Please, that role was hardly Hedda Gabler. Any one could pull that off.

[quote]Oh please. Meryl in Fatal Attraction?! You're probably the same one who thought Streep could have done Body Heat.

Ha!

I love how versatile she is. She was terrific in Hamlet.

G - One of the best men out there.

Glennie's not one to quit when she's down. I've admired that about her for the longest time.

Does Glenn's pussy stink?

She's had a successful career by any measure, but I say her big problem is she lacks warmth. The greats have some quality that you want to connect with them. With Close you just want to say I really respect your work and then move on. She's basically the 'you're likeable enough, Hillary' of acting.

that and her looks, she was never the ingenue type

Glenn Close has a reputation for being "difficult to work with".

Not that this makes Close a bad person, I'm just giving one example, I guess Close butted heads with Eric Roberts in a Wig - sorry!! - Julia Roberts in the ridiculous period piece Roberts tried and failed to pull off, "Mary Reilly".

Close also angered a lot of people in Hollywood when she successfully lobbied for the early parole of a woman who murdered her two year-old daughter into a women's rooms of a fast-food restaurant and slammed the child's head against the wall until the child died. I guess Close was either doing research or volunteering at women's penitentiary when she met this woman.

[quote]Glenn Close has a reputation for being "difficult to work with".

We know what that means - she has her own opinions.

she wont acknowledge her dykeness

R115 Yes, that could be what it means. It could also mean that Close is an unrepentant pain-in-the-ass.

She’s always been manly and weird.

She has also always been pretentious. I mean in every...single...interview.

why she so afraid to admit her dyke side, weird

[quote][R115] Yes, that could be what it means. It could also mean that Close is an unrepentant pain-in-the-ass.

It could also mean that "difficult" is a woman with strong ideas, but never a man. A man would be called ambitious.

This thread is all wrong. She's had a pretty steady career. She hit a bit of a slump in the late eighties/early 90s as most woman her age do but she roared back with Sunset Blvd, one of her most acclaimed movies ever. She's continued to work on TV, win Emmys, Tonys, do other theater....what more could a actress want?

Nothing wrong with her at all...

[quote]She was unattractive.

Says you! I think she's beautiful- in several ways!

[quote]what more could an actress want?

An Oscar.

[quote]why she so afraid to admit her dyke side, weird

r120- FINALLY, somebody else says what I've thought for a while- that she would make a great gay woman! And I mean that as a compliment.

She can work on TV as long as she wants to. Her projects aren't as interesting as Jessica Lange's, but that's alright.

I don't think her last thing SEA OAK was well received, but she'll do well again in some forceful character.

r127- I loved Sea Oak! So sad that we never got to see more of it. There was great potential. It just wasn't promoted enough, or correctly.

She's going to win an Oscar next year.

Unlike some others -- Demi Moore, Sean Young, Melanie Griffith, Jessica Lange, Meg Ryan -- her career never collapsed. Look at their IMDbs and you see they all reached a point where there's nothing. Close has worked constantly in at least decent stuff, even if it never quite 'happened'.

She’s a steady working actress...she’s done quite well for herself and happily comfortable with growing older. No hair dyed, Botox or stretching of her skin. She looks great. I hope she does get the Oscar.

Sea Oak was actually pretty great and Glenn was excellent in it. I don't think it not being picked up for series had anything to do with the show's quality. Amazon released those three pilots and didn't pick any of them up, which is a shame and also kinda strange. That pilot with Bridget Everett and Loni Anderson was really great, too.

[quote]r132 Sea Oak was actually pretty great and Glenn was excellent in it. I don't think it not being picked up for series had anything to do with the show's quality.

Can you describe the pleasures of the show?

I think I wasn't interested in seeing her play a drab (grandma?) character. Maybe because she's just a little bit drab, herself.

Maybe I sold the series short and should check it out.

Cinematic Parallels:

Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction (1987) / Glenn Close, The Wife (2018)

Glenn Close is a six-time Oscar nominee. With "The Wife," she deserves to finally win

Glenn is winning an Oscar and I got cut out of the Mama Mia sequel and am on that Desperate Housevies/Nicole Kidman show?

MAMIE!!!! Bring me the ax!!!!

Glenn will never win an Oscar. Her peers in the film community has been clear on how they feel about her, by repeatedly denying her in the past.

She's a good actress. She's no beauty, more of a "handsome" woman. There were a couple of years when she looked quite attractive. During "The Natural" and "Fatal Attraction" she was at her best.

R13 the academy has changed a lot since the 80s when she lost 5 times. She was never going to win in 2012 for Albert Nobbs but it shows she still commands respect that she got nominated over others like Tilda Swinton and Charlise Theron.

Had it been 2012 instead she could have won. That was an absolute shit lost except for the old French lady who got robbed.

R128 and R132 I agree, I thought the pilot was great and wanted more. It could only have a limited run given the premise but it still deserved a chance. Loved Glenn being so vulgar at the end. "Get your cock out!" lol

Sorry that was to R137

And I meant had she been up at the 2013 Oscars instead. Gosh, even Chastain came close that year.

She's lucky her family was rich enough to start her off with some plastic surgery, right out of the gate.

She’s had a great career. To suggest otherwise is stupidity.

It’s not fair to let a man like Glenn run as best actress.

r49, For you and others who say it's hard to connect to her on an emotional level, watch her version of "South Pacific" (from 2001). She gives a very emotional, heartfelt performance that is impossible not to feel. And yes, I'm being serious!

r114, If Hollywood is shunning her for having a merciful heart, then more power to her! She's awesome and seems to have a very fun personality/great sense of humor.

I love Glenn Close - fantastic actress. And y'all have reminded me that I need to watch that Damages show.

R145 = Superfrau

[quote]Glenn Close has been married four times, each ending in divorce.

She needs to consider coming out of the closet.

Because that's where crap goes, OP.

She has a new movie coming out and the reviews are great.

Not really. It got a B in Entertainment Weekly for Boring.

What's your favorite Glenn Close film?

My favorite Glenn Close film is Mrs. Doubtfire.

I have a theory that the "M" posters are really just Glenn superfans who want to make everyone resent Meryl.

Glenn is not very likable and aloof. And yes, pretentious. She once said she has the memory to walk across the stage as any character she has played in the past. What an ass. It would just look like Glenn Close the man walking across a stage 30 times.

she so me 2

gurl cum out o da closet

do wonders fer ya

So many posts in this thread say she needs to "come out of the closet". Yet, when this was suggested in a thread about her in the past, DL was amendment that she was straight, straight, straight!

Make up yer minds, people!

I hope Glenn wins for The Wife. It’s a bit weird in tone but she is great. And what about that project with Streep? They have to play period rivals - it would be delicious.

BUMP

Who is the little old man at OP?

Because she is about to lose an Oscar to Lady fucking Gaga of all people.

I hope to God she wins. She deserves it. I wasn't wild about The Wife, but she's great in it. I'm not sure it's her best work ever, but no one ever wins for true career-best work anyway.

Because she lost her 7th Oscar, dear!!

She still has had a great career.

The Aspie Redundant Thread Thief has outed itself as the "Straight Down the Shitter" Misogynist Troll?

Color me SHOCKED, then F/F the OP nuisance. Here's where he stole from:

I'm pretty sure it's Meryl Streep, Rose.

Poor Glenn.

Stop it, M!