Genevieve Bujold

She's no Catherine Deneuve or Bridget Bardot, Brigitte Bardot, or Isabelle Adjani

Poor choice of material.

She was great in Coma.

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I never thought she was the best actress, but she gave a good performance in Murder by Decree.

Which is saying something when you are in a film with Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Anthony Quayle, Donald Sutherland, David Hemmings, Frank Finlay, and Sir John Gielgud.

I wonder how Deneuve, Bardot, or Adjani would have done in that role though.

She got the reputation for being "difficult" but in Hollywood, that could just mean that she refused to suck some producer's cock.

I thought she was magnificent in Anne of the Thousand Days, the best thing in it, actually. By that time in his career, Burton had already slid into terminal hamminess.

She had a girlish look, which she aged out of.

Obsession

Probably had the nerve to turn 30.

She turned 80 on Friday. Happy birthday!

Anne...

She was also the original Janeway in ST: Voyager.

She was very unique looking

Coma. Why is that movie never run?

Did she ever move to Hollywood? I thought she would break through more after Anne of the Thousand Days (amazing performance) but she seemed to do a lot more work in Canada and occasionally Europe.

I loved her in a small role in The House of Yes (with Parker Posey and Freddie Prinze Jnr). She played their stern mother of some fucked up children and it made me think she could have had a great career in some of those villainous 1940s noir roles. I would have liked to see her in more indies like that.

Not a good actress at all and not distinctly gorgeous. Don't understand what you all see here...

Says...you, r16.

Posh Spice Beckham piggy nose.

Lillian Hellman @ r18.

Her foxy little face didn't age well, and she resisted the knife (commendably so).

I adore her.

Superb as Anne

Brilliant actress as others mentioned here.

Timing and luck and willingness to suck cock are more important then talent

Her most trenchant performance...

Was she upset when Karen Black got "Airport '75"?

I hated that in Earthquake she had to be slobbered over by Charlton Heston who was old enough to be her dad. Daddy/daughter issues.

Isn't she a Dame yet?

Well, r25, there was also Lorne playing Ava's father.

Not the most attractive

House of Yes

Why does it always come up in these threads about these mediocre B List 70s-80s actresses that they didn't "play the game" or "suck cock," or whatever, as if that's remotely true. This bitch probably sucked cock to even get a role in first place!

R30=Rose McGowan

Remember this classic? She was already showing her age at 42.

She was good in King of Hearts (1966) with Alan Bates and Pierre Brasseur

K of H

Lorne Greene was 6 years older than Ava Gardner. R27 Lorne didn't get to slobber all over Ava, at least not on screen.

I was just pointing out another age discrepancy, r35.

loved her in House of Yes; her delivery of the line about hiding the kitchen knives still cracks me up

I loved her in COMA!!

She aged out of ingenue/carnation on the man's suit roles and either did not have the skill set or motivation to segue into lawyer/judge roles.

Hollywood don't go for booze and dope.

Gen liked the sauce a little too much.

Helen of the Thousands Lays

Some friend went to her narration of symphonic tale of "Peter and the Wolf" in Montreal.

Miss Bujold, apparently having had a few drinks, decided arbitrarily to change Peter's gender to female in this live production after many weeks of rehearsals.

So she started referring to the main character as "Pietra" and using female pronouns when she could remember, but she wasn't consistent and became as confused as everyone else during the course of the show.

COMAS

She's mousey

You don't have to be beautiful to be an actress. You have to be compelling.

And she was.

Well, sometime you need to be sober.

Judy Davis was hardly evah sober.

Tightrope and Coma are great fun flicks to watch on a rainy day/night.

Antigone

Cassandra

I love her in one of my all-time-favorite movies, Choose Me.

Also with Leslie Ann Warren and Keith Carradine.

She was good in Dead Ringers

Choose me used to be something of a cult movie.

R53? I've mentioned it in that context before here on DL.

She was a knock out in her first film, Anne Of A Thousand Days! And nominated for an Oscar. She had the goods so let's remember her glory days. And a French Canadian as well!

R27- TOTALLY 💯 ABSURD

They looked like husband and wife.

Then and now.

She has a great character actress face now.

She turned 80 years old on July 1st, Canada Day.

I watched Earthquake the other night. It's ridiculous and cheesy but so entertaining and Bujold was captivating as ever. The camera loves her.

I loved her in Coma.

Coma is the only reason I've heard of her.

That and turning down the role of Kathryn Janeway after she was all set to do it. Kate Mulgrew rocked that role anyway.

Oh that House of Yes movie with Parker Posey

[quote]She was a knock out in her first film, Anne Of A Thousand Days!

She'd been in several movies before "Anne."

and TV...

[quote]That and turning down the role of Kathryn Janeway after she was all set to do it.

Bujold was playing Capt. Nicole Janeway

She is the reason I am obsessed with Anne Boleyn. My 10th grade English teacher showed Anne of a Thousand Days in class one day and I was hooked on all things Anne Boleyn.

She held her own opposite some titanic actresses in The Trojan Women (Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas). She is mousey but can be commanding when she needs to be.

Hey R65, sorry to disappoint you but Anne is not a gay icon. Nor is Bujold.

[quote]Hey [R65], sorry to disappoint you but Anne is not a gay icon. Nor is Bujold.

And your point? I like Anne Boleyn and I'm gay. I don't need the people I like to be gay icons.

She had a piggy face

I love, love, love her voice and accent. She's unique and not at all another Hollywood clone. Love her.

Broken jaw, speech impediment, tiny body.

Suitable only for butch lesbians and macho heterosexual males.

Her first featured film role was in 1963

[quote] She is mousey

She is four feet high.

She's in Alain Resnais' excellent 1966 film recently revived at the Film Forum in NY.

She was VERY pretty in a quaint way back in the day!

[quote] She's unique and not at all another Hollywood clone.

She failed as an Audrey Hepburn Clone.

She failed as a Capucine Clone.

She failed as a Micheline Presle Clone.

She failed as a Francois Dorleac Clone.

I liked her in any movie I saw her in and thought she was wonderful in Choose Me, Dead Ringers, Coma and Obsession

[quote] She is mousey but can be commanding when she needs to be.

I must have missed those ones.

[quote] She had a girlish look, which she aged out of.

The woman is now eighty!

That is the age of crones.

She looks remarkably similar to Judy G

COMA is currently on HBO MAX.

Also love her accent. She has a remarkable ability to play intelligent woman and bring her character some gravitas despite a bad script. She can lift the material up a notch and rise above the character. Very few actresses can pull this off. Diane Venora is another example. Also, being Catholic makes them less likely to surf the casting couch.

Genevieve Bujold is still a working actress today.

GJ actually lived in a convent? News to me…

Loved her line in HOUSE OF YES where she says “there’s no food or TV so we need to go to sleep.”

Can’t find a clip of the scene, but Great dialogue in that film. It’s all about reincarnating Jackie O. when JFK was assasinated with Jackie O. wearing that pink pillbox hat. Exquisite!

[quote] still a working actress today.

R83 Ten years ago,

Dead Ringers.

Prim & proper. Carole Bouquet at least attached herself to big names.

She had a great run at the start of her career. Worked with great people on good projects.

She aged badly.

De Palma's Obsession is on Mubi and Crackle.

She looks a bit like cold fish Isabelle Huppert.

I’ve always thought she was terrific.

She was extremely pretty in her youth, especially in King of Hearts with gorgeous Alan Bates.

As others have mentioned, her presence always suggests a keen mind, which probably didn’t translate to many of the roles available.

I love that she didn’t fuck up her face, though that also probably cost her some work, but really not that much.

Thankful she never did shit like like Book Club or 80 for Brady, but I’d like to see her now in something good.

Anne of the Thousand Days, she was wonderful. I guess she was unconventional looking, but she was always immersed in whatever performance she gave.

I agree she was quite pretty in her youth.

A spooky Canadian movie she did.

[Quote] Carole Bouquet at least attached herself to big names.

Carole who?

R32 Tightrope is an underappreciated film. Noirish, kinky, sleazy. She was great in this, and played well against Eastwood. I imagine Sondra Locke was pissed he didn't cast her in the film.... it was a good script.

In the next year Bujold carried her noirish, decadent and aging beauty to Choose Me, also a very interesting film capturing the certain Sexual Darkness that was LA in the early 80s.

Just was lovely as a young woman, though always looked like she needed a black circle on the end of the nose.

She was good in "Monsignor."

She was great in Dead Ringers with Jeremy Irons.

She has the cutest mouth I've ever seen. When I saw her in Anne of the thousand days I could not help staring at her. She seemed unbelievably adorable.

Too pretentious and too French Canadian.

She was oddly memorable in the Canadian indie classic, "Last Night." It's a movie about the end of the world, and Callum Keith Rennie plays a sex addict who is spending his last hours on earth living out every sexual fantasy he's ever had. He calls his former French teacher (Bujold), seduces her, and checks that off his list.

Isn't she a murderess?

She is absolute perfection.

That was Claudine Longet r103

R87 - she is funny in that scene but then Irons is just brilliant in his two different performances.

She looks like Judy G

She should have won the oscar for Anne of a Thousand Days. Loved her in that.

She was amazing in Swashbuckler.

Wow. Thank you DL for showing your admiration of her.

I think she is an actress that just didn't survive past the 1970's. Even in the 1980's it was hit or miss.

[quote] Coma. Why is that movie never run?

Because it is EXTREMELY DUMM that they’d make a whole entire movie about a punctuation mark!!!

She cracks under pressure very easily. And that weakness of character shows in her performances. That's why she loses all the great roles.

Her English is exceptionally good even in those early movies, she barely has any accent considering she's French Canadian.

The r84 interview is quite awkward. That journalist is typically…. decisively bubbly. But in Bujold’s calm, serious presence she gets stalled.

“Did you read the book on which this movie is based?”

“No. (pause) Did you?”

She had a good run relative to her talent.

Bujold had a multi picture deal after ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS but turned down certain studio projects (like MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTTS.) I think this soured Hollywood on her a bit.

She was happier doing smaller or foreign films, anyway. Not everyone strives to be a multi millionaire. She just wanted to act in projects that intrigued her.

EARTHQUAKE must have made Bujold wonder where her serious acting career was headed. That blockbuster stuff wasn’t her scene.