Olivia Colman is kind of gross

I was used to her by the end of the season, but her RBF annoyed me for half the season.

I agree OP.

Olivia had a good year playing queens. It won't happen again.

She rules

The cast change gimmick was a big mistake. Helena Bonham Carter was delicious dirty fun, but they could have just used her scenes as a Liz Taylor bio flick.

what is RBF r2?

I like her a lot.

I struggled a bit with her taking over QEII. But The Crown made the same mistake that Me And My Shadows did. They should have made a switch a wee bit later.

Aberfan would have been a better place to start.

But in any case, Olivia plays the weariness of the role better than Foy's crisp newness....which I loved, but which I agree wouldn't have necessarily gone well as the Queen gets older.

Her Majesty is no beauty queen.

She should be glad someone with actual humor and life is playing that cold trout.

Bitch stole my dear friend's Oscar.

Why are we supposed to hate Olivia Coleman? I missed the memo.

Who's Olivia Coleman?

Is she any relation to Olivia Colman?

Olivia Colman is amazing. I LOVE her.

I know a lot of people who love The Crown. Not a single person likes Colman's portrayal of her nibs. She's reminiscent of Carol Burnett as Queen Elizabeth. All those tics and exaggerated facial movements and the hilariously overdone speech patterns. It's a terrible performance. Like Streep as Eleanor Roosevelt, it takes you right out of the story.

I love her too. Unless she's filmed kicking puppies, I will always adore her.

Olivia Colman is fucking funny.

And she can also play drama well.

Olivia Colman was in Beautiful People as the mother of a gay son.

R10 Because she stole Glenn's long overdue Oscar with a one-dimensional performance (not her fault--it was the writing and she should have been Supporting with Stone in Leading).

Say what you will, but half way through "The Favourite" I said, she's going to win Supporting Actress. I was damn close.

gary coleman is worse

By now, Gary Coleman is considerably grosser

Oh, Glenn.

Maybe if you spent your time working on your performances instead of trolling the DL, you might have an Oscar.

Claire Foy was too attractive to play The Queen, that's the real issue. Elizabeth is a lovely person and she's smart and capable and interesting, but she isn't a movie star. She looks like a human, not like a model. Coleman fits her because she looks like an actual person, as does Liz. Claire is great but she looks like a porcelain doll.

I don't buy Colman's sweetness. Her oh-shucks-I'm-just-a-clumsy-and-silly-British-working-actress! schtick is so tiring. And she seems to be playing the same character in every role she plays, although do I admit I haven't seen her in many productions.

^Then shut the fuck up and go stream the other things she's done for the BBC. She has great range and is very prolific. Watch Flowers on Netflix.

She is not pageant material.

Claire Foy is pretty, lovely in fact. That doesn't change the fact that Colman looks 25 years too old to be playing QE at 37 years old. She's pitched her performance all wrong as well. I wonder is she is anti monarchist because it seems a bit of mockery? Also, she's like Streep in that she doesn't relate well to the other performers. Her odd precisions place a bit of a glass box around her performance. I made it to Aberfan and no further. Colman's facial isolations turn me the fuck off. She really isn't good in this. Very fine actors can fail you know. Like Lange did in Feud....

*I wonder if she is...

[quote]^Then shut the fuck up and go stream the other things she's done for the BBC. She has great range and is very prolific. Watch Flowers on Netflix.

No I won't because I don't want to see her.

I kind of found her repulsive in The Favorite

[quote]R6 what is RBF

The Royal Butt Fuckers.

Fuck off, Matt at r26. Jessica Lange was brilliant in Feud, far better than the camp clowning that Faye Dunaway did.

When Matt writes with as much insight and style as I do, I'll alert the fool @ r31. Have your psychotic break somewhere else Lange Loon.

I didn't like her in The Crown, I confess: all they gave her to do was grimly absorb yet more bad news in large rooms. But I love Olivia Colman. I love lo look at her face--those huge, expressive brown eyes. They say she'll be nominated for another Oscar for the movie she's done with Anthony Hopkins, "The Father."

[quote]R31 Jessica Lange was brilliant in Feud, far better than the camp clowning that Faye Dunaway did.

Now JUST ONE MINUTE, young lady...!

Yes she is gross. Claire Foy was much more engaging to watch. The cast change soured me on the whole series.

By halfway through season 3 I'd got used to Colman, although I still think she plays HMTQ as too sweet and warm.

However Helena Bonham-Carter and whoever plays Phillip are completely off to the point of being distracting.

Could she play her less old and ugly and bug eyed?

Best thread evah!!!!!!

Just saw The favorites in a flight and surprised she was the only one nominated in the Best Actress. the 3 leads should have been BA nominees and i don’t even think she even the best among the 3. her win should have an *.

I can't believe Sophie won an Oscar.

Hasn't there been a huge uptick in viewers since she took over the role? So I guess few people agree with you OP.

She really knows how to play Numberwang!

[qoute]Claire Foy was too attractive to play The Queen, that's the real issue. Elizabeth is a lovely person and she's smart and capable and interesting, but she isn't a movie star. She looks like a human, not like a model. Coleman fits her because she looks like an actual person, as does Liz. Claire is great but she looks like a porcelain doll.

I heard a Fresh Air interview with the creator of the series. I was somewhat surprised that he said this, but he said the problem with casting for the Queen was that she was not a pretty woman. "She could be pretty at the right angle and in the right light, but she could be very plain the next minute." The implication was that the other actresses who read for the part were prettier than Foy.

He also said he didn't even bother to listen when Foy auditioned the first two times.

Love her. But the best of the new cast are Tobias Menzies as Phillip, HBC as Margaret, and the best of the best, Erin Doherty as Princess Anne and Josh O'Connell as Prince Charles.

Rather than not having Claire Foy go on long enough, they let her go on too long. As someone pointed out, her "crisp newness" worked beautifully for the first season. But they should have stopped with her by the end of the 1950s.

Josh O'Connor, not O'Connell. Sorry.

[quote]Colman looks 25 years too old to be playing QE at 37 years old

Then it's lucky she didn't do it for long, isn't it? By the time of Aberfan, she's playing Queen Lizzie in her 40s, and by the end of series 3, the Queen is in her 50s.

Wasn't she Fleabag's creepy stepmother?

The Crown was boring middlebrow crap. Olivia Colman will always be Sophie from Peep Show to me.

[quote]Wasn't she Fleabag's creepy stepmother?

Yes.

After I watched the favourite, I wondered how rachel weisz and queen anne were supposed to be childhood friends and wiki’d queen anne and confirmed that yeah they are supposed to be very close in age, but olivia colman is so damn old and hardlooking, looked like rachel’s mother, somebody miscast somebody. But in real life , rachel weisz is older than olivia colman. Mind blown.

My first exposure to Colman was in The Night Manager and Broadchurch.

I had no idea she could be funny until more recently.

"Colman looks 25 years too old to be playing QE at 37 years old." Colman doesn't look 62 years old, R26, you silly twat.

"Also, she's like Streep in that she doesn't relate well to the other performers. Her odd precisions place a bit of a glass box around her performance." Oh fuck off again.

"Very fine actors can fail you know. Like Lange did in Feud...." The stupidest thing R26 said in that entire self-satisfied post. What a prat.

[quote]My first exposure to Colman was in The Night Manager and Broadchurch

I loved Broadchurch.

Granny's panties are twisted @ R52. Colman does look 62. Put on your progressives poofter. Jessica Lange STUNK as Joan Crawford. Everybody said so. And she looked 72 playing late forties. Grotesque.

Who's triggered? The know-it-all Cunt at R54.

"Everybody said so." Do you have proof that EVERYONE did? What a way to support your claim! EVERYONE thinks the way I do! And I'm self-satisfied and proud of it!

Stupid. Twat.

According to Prat R54, this is what 62 years old looks like.

Olivia Colman, age 46.

So geriatric!

She looks 67 ish. With some botox. My mom is 67 and looks 15 years younger than Olive Colestove.

Sure, R58. Whatever you say. I'm sure your mommy is much prettier.

Bitch looks OLD.

Sure, R60. So old...

She's not gross at all. She has a wonderful face.What are you looking for, OP? A "great beauty"? So stupid.

I guess it was just a matter of time that tiresome anti-Olivia Colman trolls crawled out from underneath their rocks.

She got better in the Crown once she decided to embrace the bitch Elizabeth had become. Her scenes with Josh O'Connor are a real turning point where she really owned it after that.

but olivia colman is so damn old and hardlooking, looked like rachel’s mother, somebody miscast somebody. But in real life , rachel weisz is older than olivia colman. Mind blown.

The Queen (in real life) was obese and had chronic health problems; that kinds of shit ages you quick! I love Olivia Colman - as someone else noted, I loved her weariness and struggle to connect to the emotions of others, whether it was her son or the people in Wales - and of course her interactions with Phillip & Margaret. Claire Foy is lovely, but as the Queen, she was far less interesting than the people that surrounded her.

She dresses very badly.

It’s a bizarre affectation.

Homely women often dress flamboyantly bad R66. Olivia could play Maude or Glenn Close.

Bitter anti-Olivia troll at R67. Just your garden-variety DL gash.

[quote]I loved Broadchurch.

I liked the first season.

Get the ancient fag at R68 defending his favorite ACTRESS by calling a handsome dude a GASH?? Such misogyny from the eldergays here, with a side of racism. That's DL's empty garden. Almost dead.

KING? Of WHAT, R70? LMFAO!!!!

R67/R70, you're just a butt-hurt GURRRL whose pussy smells.

The Favourite was Emma Stone's show. I really don't understand why Colman got all the critical raves.

That's hardly true, R73. It was all three of them.

I first saw her on That Mitchell and Webb Look, a british sketch show I loved — she was amazing on that.

Since then it seems shes required to be in literally everything coming out of the UK. She’s in danger of being overexposed.

Haven’t seen her in The Crown yet — I’m not caught up with that. I love Claire Foy in thar and cant imagine anyone else in the part.

Forgot to mention, she doesn’t have Claire Fly’s sweet little face but I don’t find her unattractive at all.

Viewership of The Crown is up 40% since Olivia Colman took over.

Because Colman is a huge star in the UK.

But r78, only about 12 million UK households have Netflix. 65 million US households do. So regardless of whether the show uses UK talent and is set (of course) in the UK, you’d think “she’s a huge star in the UK wouldn’t settle the argument.

Wait until Season 5 and Imelda Staunton takes over as the Queen. You will get an ugly, hysterical Queen.

I'm tired of her "Who, little ME? I'm so surprised! Now let me be funny." schtick.

R65, Elizabeth II has never been "obese"!

That wasn't a reference to Lizzie II, r82, but to Queen Anne, the character that Colman played in "The Favourite".

Colman is so bad and unattractive and peculiar in the role of Queen Elizabeth - that I never bothered finishing Season 3. I keep wanting to, but she really is a show killer. Far too old looking to be offering such a misguided performance. She fucked the whole show up. The cast changing is an interesting idea and works best for the more inventive and fluid players. But Colman plays Liz as a completely different human being? With way too many strange attractive acting details. Olivia Colman got it wrong. She's like Streep in Mamma Mia. She's 20 years too old and can't sing.

[quote]The Queen must be so mad that she’s played by the homely Ms. Colman.

Is OP under the impression QEII is some winner in the looks department??

[quote] Her Majesty is no beauty queen.

Not now, but then old women never are.

But when she was young, she was popularly considered to be pretty if not beautiful.

[quote] but olivia colman is so damn old and hardlooking, looked like rachel’s mother, somebody miscast somebody.

Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz are only four years apart in age... and Rachel Weisz is actually the elder of the two.

In real life, Queen Anne looked much rougher than Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, because she had to dress in a much more stately fashion, because she was overweight, and because she had terrible and regularly debilitating health problems.

[quote]R86 when she was young, she was popularly considered to be pretty if not beautiful.

I’m sorry, but any trained makeup artist and expensive photographer can make you look like that.

In real life she looked like this:

Betty Windsor is even NOW more attractive than Olivia Colman.

Whatever, Heather.

The next season the queen will be played by Dr Ruth.

I like her but she looks too middle or lower middle class.