Parker Posey

I don’t think she’s underrated. She’s yet to give the epic, serious performance she’s obviously capable of, imo.

I don't think she's underrated. It's amazing how many films she's made showcasing her quirky personality.

[quote]I don’t think she’s underrated.

[quote]I don't think she's underrated.

Synchronicity, R1

She is called the Queen of Indie. How is she underrated?

I find her one note and over the age of 35, often annoying. She has some good roles now and then.

Overrated

But it’s a PERFECT NOTE, R5. Range is NOT a virtue, despite what uppity fans and critics think.

As for an epic, serious performance: her arc on Louie was one of the best performances in TV history, and no one is allowed to disagree with me on that.

OK, Hyperbole Harry. You really know how to animate a conversation.

Underrated as she's never had the one breakout role.

It was all downhill after As The World Turns.

R8 = Blocked

Her face is not helping her.

R12 Seriously? She's hot as hell.

Yeah I think she's gotten plenty of credit for the work that she's done. I like House of Yes.

This thread is nothing without pica.

Pic.

She's great on Netflix's Lost In Space reboot. One more season of that still to come!

I want to see more of her.

I felt sorry for her in the Singer Superman. She was too old for a moll role.

AIR RAIAAAAAAD!

I love her as a bitch in dazed and confused.

R19 Not at all. I thought she was perfect.

R9 That…isn’t what underrated means.

We need a Parker Posey/Janeane Garofalo movie.

I knew her back in her SUNY Purchase days. She was a doll. We chatted a few times at parties. That’s all I’ve got.

And she was gorgeous.

She is freaking brilliant

Doe she ever wear wigs? Or own any?

Who doesn't love her and Shirl in Hell on Heels?

"Hutch! What you wanna keep on sleeping with Rosanna for?"

OK I had no idea such a treasure exists, R28. Milles mercies!

R28 She talks about it in the book. Shirley came in to the trailer with a box with her wig in it, and wondered why Parker was using her real hair.

My crush.

She has very nice teeth.

On Fallon.

^ American

that was meant for R33

R36 Looks like she got veneers.

Years ago, I watched the TV movie she did with Shirley MacLaine about Mary K and I thought she was great (as far as her post-90s indie arthouse queen reign goes).

I’m excited for her to play Freda Black. She has a crazy life story and I think Posey will do the part justice.

I’m not a Ari Aster fan, but I recognise how in-demand he is and it’s cool she has a role in his latest film.

I would love to see her collaborate with Mike White. I feel like they’re from the same food group.

She’s cringe in everything I have seen her in but she’s pretty.

This was funny.

She was pretty epic in Hal Hartley’s Henry Fool. The deadpan style with that undercurrent of sadness fit her perfectly.

Annoying and off-putting in everything I’ve seen her do. And with large and masculine feet.

R42 Hey now.

She was excellent in "Broken English".

She’s done consistently good work her entire career, but was exceptionally brilliant in Search Party.

I am a huge Parker Posey fan. I think she’s fantastic. I’ve admired her work ever since “Party Girl”.

Parker, myself and a friend hung out one time, only for an hour or two, at the old Tuesday night Beige Party at B Bar on the Lower East Side, early 2000s. So much fun!

No love for Clockwatchers?

R46 What was she like? Tell us more.

House of Yes is neat.

Clockwatchers is a really good little known film.

The most unfortunate...

Talked to her on the street once downtown - she was lovely.

"Party Girl" was one of my favorite movies eons ago.

Last time I watched it, I didn't think it held up that well, but she was very good in it.

I've shared this story a few times on DL, but it never gets any traction. I was an invited guest of film producers at Sundance in 2017. Parker was staying in the same chalet (probably 9 of us total). It's very different being in the same home with someone for x4 days (x2 of those we were all snowed in,) v having a few drinks with them in a bar randomly. I can't say she wasn't nice, but she would essentially ice all of us out after arranged social functions until she was ready to reappear. Then she would sashay in the kitchen or living room and semi-holler, "Parker is here!" We all just kind of went with it, because she's Parker Fucking Posey, But I remember asking the guy who brought me as a guest what the fuck was going on with her. Her dog (who has since passed away) also made x3 other dogs in the house deathly ill. All that to say, she did do a cucumber eye mask with me by the fireplace one night. (Hi, Parker, if you're reading this!)

[quote]Her dog (who has since passed away) also made x3 other dogs in the house deathly ill.

OMG!

what traction would you expect for the anecdote?

R56 People begging him for details, I guess?

Parker is okay, but I can't believe she managed to lose Busy Bee. If she hadn't, Beatrice would have taken Best in Show, because those other dogs were fat-ass losers. Freaks!

Hmmm. I've always thought she was overrated.

In her book and stuff she often seems to be short of money. Maybe the type of films she makes don't pay well. She lives in what seems to be a very ordinary one bedroom apt in the West Village. I may be way off target but this is what I gather.

Did Parkey ever scissor with Chloë Sevigny? Or, did they avoid each other at events?

Parker and Chloe were friends and used to live in the same apartment building. I don’t know if they still are friends.

Also, for the person upthread who surmised she has trouble with money—indie films really, really don’t pay much. Chloe has been in the same boat for most of her career, but like Parker she’s occasionally been in larger, mainstream productions. Unlike Parker, Chloe has consistently done modeling and gotten endorsement deals (I don’t know if ‘endorsement’ is the word for it) throughout her career, which have paid way, way more than the independent film work she’s done.

Chloe...

Bizarre ^^^

That is a very, VERY loose impression of Chloe.

Parker and Chloe are queens.

She's the type of actress who always seems to do, more or less, what she wants. She's done a handful of paycheck movies here and there, but very few. I respect that.

Parker is way more attractive than Chloe.

[quote]No love for Clockwatchers?

LOVE that movie! I actually have the movie poster framed because I loved the tagline: "waiting for your life to change can be a full-time job."

R54 I want the full story.

Great IG account.

One trick pony

She was great in Personal Velocity, Clockwatchers, and the House of Yes. She’s sort of the same in her movies—snarky, witty/banter-y and very cynical. But it fits to have a character like that in many movies, although usually as an ensemble or minor character.

Looks so hot here.

She’s so funny in will & grace.

R74 When was she on Will and Grace?

She is funny and can do drama and she is still beautiful and real looking.

She has like three expressions: "bored", "mouth agape bored", and "smirk bored". Can't stand her.

R75 she’s in a couple of diff episodes as Jack’s boss Dorleen at Barney’s.

R74 She was cringe but jack and will were great around her.

She'd look great with a bald head.

She and Julie Bowen could do a Samantha/Serena send-up. I think they look a lot alike. Here is a picture of the two of them together.

I've always thought Parker Posey and foreign Broadway's Ruthie Henshall favor. Variety thought so too.

Posey along with Elizabeth Shue and Phoebe Cates were among my most fevered crushes as a young gayling. Like how cool would they have been to have as an older sister.

R54 here again...I had the chance to smoke some weed with Parker and Rory Culkin after their Sundance film premiere. Rory was definitely over the whole publicity charade (and he's tiny...smaller than me, and I'm 5'6"). Also, we were barred from taking pics of one with Parker in the chalet; we'd all been warned about this ahead of time by her agent. I did bring a 'Scream 3' DVD for her to sign for a sick friend, and she signed that on the last day whilst also signing Tori Tori Spelling's name simultaneously. She said she'd seen Tori sign her name so many times she knew how to sign it. And she actually did!

R84 How tall is Parker?

R84 here again...sorry for the typos. R85, Parker is probably about 5'5". She was wearing a lot of boots, so it was hard to tell. 'The Young Pope' had just premiered and we all watched that in the chalet while we were snowed in. Someone asked if she'd ever met Jude Law, and she said just in passing, but that she'd love to fuck him. In a living room full of gay men, we all laughed and seconded her.

R86 Does/did she wear wig? Or have veneers?

R86 No biggie with the typos, we understood fine. I always thought she was around 5'5/5'6.

Toni Colette is the underrated Clockwatcher. I like Parker Posey, but she’s the same in every movie.

Oh my god, enough with the stupid autistic wig obsession.

Can wigs be autistic?

Go to bed autistic.

She also did a voice on The Simpsoms.

Loved her in Scream 3.

Also

R94 Yep. Better than Courteney.

She's the only major reason to see Scream 3.

Oooh, I just rewatched “Clockwatchers” and loved it even more.

I watched clockwatchers because of this thread. Very fun. Love the scene when it’s 4:59 and the camera oscillates between the four of them as they stare at the clock, Lisa Kudrow’s slight change in facial expressions was too good!

She's very nice. Surprisingly thoughtful. Goes out of her way.

R100 Tell me more, tell me more.

Posey in Scream 3 is on my personal ballot for supporting actress that year. I'd have to review the contenders, but I might even give her the win.

Her chemistry with Courtney Cox is off-the-charts.

My only gripe is she didn't get a death scene worthy of her performance.

I rewatched Hpuse of Yes because of this thread and it was even funnier than I remembered. I'm going to try Clockwatchers now

She is absolutely hilarious in High Fidelity.

She’s devastating in her arc on Louie, as I mentioned at the beginning of this thread. That, to me, is perhaps the crown jewel of all her performances to date.

R105 It certainly is one of them.

Bump.

R105 True.

Any truth the bestiality video rumor?

Technically, you can't have a Masters in Parker Posey unless you've seen "Clockwatchers"

“Do you ever feel like you’re floating? You’re not connected to anything or anybody? I feel like I could vanish and no one would even notice. Not for weeks.”

Dorlene the Whore-lene

Parker's working on two new films, one by Ari Aster.

Happy 53rd Birthday!

I have loved her since "Dazed and Confused." Fun sighting story: When I lived in Chelsea in the mid-90s, I saw her at the Books of Wonder children's book store. She was perched on a very high ladder (the legs folded out -- like a very tall step ladder -- so she could sit on top of it). She was sitting on the top step, reading books from the vintage book section -- and spreading out each book as she read it so that she cracked their bindings!! I was shocked because a) it was Parker Posey and she was right in front of me (although 20 feet in the air), and b) she was treating these antique books like they were magazines in a dentist's office! I'm sure she was just being an airhead and that she wasn't trying to destroy property. But still... She had fallen off her pedestal in my estimation (so to speak).

[quote]R105 She’s devastating in her arc on Louie, as I mentioned at the beginning of this thread.

Does she play one of Louis CK’s sexual assault victims?

(Do they even go into all that?)

"Hutch, what you want to be sleeping with Rosanna for?"

Did Ms. Posey have anything to say about her former employer Louis C.K. when he was in the #MeToo spotlight, or did she just keep her mouth shut, hoping for future jobs from him?

Lost In Space: Season Three will be out soon.

r118, I believe It was released last week.

I ran into her in a laundromat in Dublin (I swear I'm not making this up, she was dating an Irish guy, this was about 1999). She was friendly and talkative and funny. Love her.

Poosey.

Bump.

She was annoying as fuck in Josie and The Pussycats and everything after that

I loved her in “Scream 3”. It’s too bad they decided to kill her, I think she’d have made an interesting addition to the survivor cast and had made up for killing Randy.

I used to LOVE her. She was great in House of Yes and Party Girl, but somewhere along the way she got too self-conscious about "aren't I being funny now?"

I thought she was AWFUL in Best of Show, so shrill and trying way too hard.

I know she had drug problems, but she lost your deft touch with comedy.

R125 She never had drug problems.

The original manic pixie dream girl

Ran into her walking her dog on the street years ago in the village. She was lovely. I noticed the dog because it was so cute (little white fluffy thing) and then looked up and it was Parker Posey.

[quote]She never had drug problems.

Brand new interview.

New interview.

I don't know her

She knocked over a drink case in the union square Whole Foods once while running around with a gay. I missed what actually happened but when I turned around to see what the commotion was about she and her gay were yelling at a white frau, Vita-waters everywhere.

She's on The Walking Dead now, apparently

Honk!

R133- To be fair, who hasn't knocked over a drink case at the Union Square Whole Foods while running around with a gay?

She got her start on As The World Turns. It's wild how many big names came from that era of the show...Parker, Meg Ryan , Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore.

Follow Rob Roth on IG, he's the gay that Parker is often seen with in NYC. He was at her house today in is stories.

^ wow he's a real 1980s East Village throwback. Some people get stuck in a time and a place and he's one of them.

Her best performance was House of Yes.

she was also great in a movie in which she plays a nutty gurl who had an affair with a French guy in New York - she follows him to Paris and when she gets there she realises she's lost his address - she's so good but the other gurl is miscast and it drags it down.

My favorite performance of hers is Clockwatchers.

[quote] It's wild how many big names came from that era of the show...Parker, Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore.

That show (and sister show Guiding Light) had a good casting director, Betty Rea. I'm forgetting some of the gems she found for Guiding Light but Sherry Stringfield was one of them.

New interview.

I can't stop looking at the tip of her nose.

R144 - Thanks for posting that article!

Another one.

Yet another one.

Parker Posey had a hell of party last night. No wigs were flipped, but she really flips mine.

Video.

She's funny, and coincidentally I'm watching Best in Show, right now.

Nice.

She'll be on Seth Meyers in a few minutes..

Seems perfect for a White Lotus role

My only Parker Posey story, and I've told it here before:

When she was dating Ryan Adams in 2007, she came with him to my college town, when he was on tour with his group The Cardinals. I didn't go to the show, but a friend came into town to see it. We had dinner a few hours beforehand, and sat in the window alcove of a now defunct restaurant, just down the street from the venue.

My friend and I were catching up, when she noticed a familiar figure across the street. "Oh my god! It's Parker Posey!" she said. And it was indeed Parker Posey, walking up the street opposite us.

Part of me wanted to run after her, just to tell her how much I love her work (especially in "House Of Yes", & the Christopher Guest films), but more than that, I respect her and figured she gets that all the time. And I DID NOT want to queen out on FUCKING PARKER POSEY during what may have been her one and only ever trip to my home state. I have no regrets, but damn I wanted to meet her.

The linked article is a review of that May 2007 show, thrown in for fun.

Parker, you've been coming back too frequently. What is it with you and this obsessive need for validation on DL? At least break up your threads by a couple of years. For God's sake Gordon Lightfoot just died.

Have you done anything about your body odour issue yet? That would come a long way here.

Yet another new interview.

I'd love to see Parker out of her comfort zone and portray outspoken rocker chick Chrissie Hynde, I think she'd be great.

Years ago, Gina Gershon played a rocker who resembled Chrissie, this was on a short-lived series. But Gina is actually also a rock singer, so it wasn't much of a stretch.

Parker could play Chrissie with the songs lip-synched,, she doesn't need to sing.

No mention of her in The Daytrippers? Her Woody Allen movies we can forget about it.

I love her, and the only bad thing I've ever heard about her was from someone who was next to her on a flight and said she had BO.

Happy Belated 55th Birthday, Parker!

[quote]Happy Belated 55th Birthday, Parker!

MARY

AIR RAID!

She's going to be on the new season of The White Lotus.

She played a great Dr. Smith on Lost in Space, - wacho selfish, manipulative nutjob Dr. Smith, not the silly queen with back problems from the 60's.

Will we be getting a Parker Posey wig reveal? She looks great in wigs(e.g. Lost In Space).

Parker would make a good Marianne Williamson. I would love to see here in a dark version of that. The Bitch From God.

She was wonderful in the small role of Connie Bradshaw in “Tales of the City.”

used to see her around union sq in nyc donkey years ago.

Is she a lezzie?

R38, cinesnatch, called it years ago that she was going to work with Mike White!