Eldergays, Tell Me About Greta Scacchi

Having a kid with your first cousin doesn't help your career.

Turned down “Basic Instinct.” Had a kid with Vincent D’Onofrio who’s a hot mess. Fucked her cousin.

Screwed up an otherwise promising career due to her pussy.

Tale as old as time.

She also hinted at the fact that she had spurned Harvey Weinstein, which didn't work to her advantage.

Thank you, Greta. You’re disgusting but I appreciate you.

Who cares - get rid of her.

Her daughter married Sean Penn, which is concrete proof you were an abominable parent.

Was she a diva?

She's average looking now

[quote] She's average looking now

Average?

She’s your fat, spinster aunt.

Time is a bitch.

She stopped having a mint for dinner.

Greta Scacchi is now Vicki Lawrence.

[quote] Greta Scacchi: ‘I was always being invited to play a male fantasy’

Not anymore.

Never made in past the year 2000

Had the chops to be a great femme fatale but was more interested in her cousin’s cock.

She won an Emmy as Czarina Alexandra in HBO's Rasputin.

She’s now a fat, pear-shaped Italian woman.

It’s inevitable.

R5 = Detective Goren

Men and women truly age differently.

Vincent D’Onofrio still looks good, even when he’s fat as shit playing Kingpin on “Daredevil.” Greta, meanwhile, is now an Italian Nona who looks like she’s smuggling a brisket in her girdle.

Vincent can still get 30-something pussy. She couldn’t get felt up by a blind Italian grandpa.

She should at least buy a treadmill and make an effort to look presentable. Currently, she’s a fat, elderly embarrassment.

Incest isn’t the best career move. Mostly.

She convincingly played such a vile, homewrecking bitch in “Presumed Innocent,” that the audience was actually happy when they learned Bonnie Bedillia’s character smashed her head in with a hammer. That’s how detestable the character was. Even though the men were really the problem - she fucked half the dopey cast- she just emanated narcissistic evil.

She would have actually been very interesting in “Basic Instinct.” But Sharon owned that role.

Mentioned this on another thread -- she's co-starring with Bryan Brown in a series ("Darby and Joan") filmed in Australia. They travel around solving crimes. It's on Acorn.

R20 Presumed Innocent really is an underrated film. So many good performances; Scacchi, Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Brian Dennehy, Paul Winfield, John Spencer, and, as you mentioned, Bonnie Bedillia

THIS is the first cousin whose dick she chose over her career....

R22 Yes, both Raul and Bonnie could have earned supporting Oscar noms and no one would have had a problem. They were that good.

It has been sadly forgotten.

R24 One of Raul Julia's best performances

“Presumed Innocent” is mostly concerned with the stale, courtroom machinations of all the male characters when it’s really far more primal: An evil, feline viper vs. a clever and fed-up mama bear who was pushed one step too far.

She was really gorgeous. Even if she's heavy now there's no excuse for that hair cut and colour.

[quote] Vincent D’Onofrio still looks good, even when he’s fat as shit playing Kingpin on “Daredevil.”

R18=Stevie Wonder

Oh nevermind I see. R18 is the anti woman troll who makes up half the comments here and in the thread defending Jared Leto for being a rapist.

Makes sense.

[quote] Turned down “Basic Instinct.”

She was as beautiful as Sharon Stone in the mid-90s.

I think she’s happier now she’s not a bombshell

Italian cock makes people do crazy things.

Here’s her incest son today.

AUSSIE actress speaks out about the decision to have a child with her cousin and how it almost tore her family apart.

R33. Poor thing does look a little Appalachian-esque.

Here’s her daughter. She had her with Vincent D'Onofrio.

Her daughter is stunning

A couple of generations ago even WASPs were marrying first cousins

Greta was not only gorgeous but also charming.

She had a small part in Flightplan.

I’m glad I got rid of saatchi he was aboosive

I saw her play Miss Julie in 1992 with the Sydney Theatre Company.

She was excellent.

And the production was infamous for killing a live budgie on stage.

Once or every night?!

She’s no different than the British Royal Family.

She’s got great tits, I’ll give her that.

She’s doing a Bette & Joan play.

The incest son looks like Daniel Day Lewis a little bit.

What the hell is a feline viper, R26?

She has a small part in the 2008 version of "Brideshead Revisited" with Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon & Hayley Atwell.

R39, indeed she did. I spent the rest of the movie thinking she had to be the villain somehow, given her being famous, no way she would only have that minor role and screen time.

But nope, it was all it was.

She's worked extensively in her career but she was a lot more interesting than the Hollywood femme fatale roles she was cast in. Polly Walker was very similar.

Look at her stage work - Ibsen, Strindberg, Shepard, Pinter, Coward, Schiller, Rattigan, Sondheim, Shakespeare, Chekov, Williams and Osborne. Any actor would kill to be able to do that range.

Leila George played the younger version of Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer. It was a small role but she was incredible in it. You knew what was coming but it was still a shock.

[quote] A couple of generations ago even WASPs were marrying first cousins

Tilda Swinton’s ex-husband John Byrne which whom she had two children discovered in his 60s that he is the result of an incestuous relationship between his mother and his own grandfather.

His daughter with Tilda is an aspiring actress and she has a massive jaw.

Oh good, there’s another season of Darby and Joan.

She went from fucking on film guys like Charles Dance and Harrison Ford to playing the bag lady at your local Coles.

Her narration of Persuasion by Jane Austen in available on Audible and is excellent; romantic and suspenseful.

R54 Thank you!

Well she might be matronly now, but her kids certainly inherited her beauty as a young woman.

The inbred one looks special.

You’re a good-looking movie star. You can’t find anyone to fuck other than your first cousin? It’s not like she lived in rural Oklahoma. Her options were limitless.

I hope that kid doesn't get one of those assignments they give in school whete you have to do your family tree. His teacher will be like no that's wrong that's not how you do it. Then he gets an F.

Hey, her current co-star Bryan Brown is pretty hot for his age R53

She had a witty anecdote about how, during her pre-movie-career modeling days, she was out in a New York restaurant one night with a bunch of other models. A group of Italian guys were discussing among themselves who would "take" which girl, not knowing that she was completely fluent in Italian (bilingual?) and understood every word they were saying. She described the other models as bimbos who were sitting around talking about their favorite mascara brands.

R60 I do think she was smart, just look at the films se accepted and rejected.

[quote]Hey, her current co-star Bryan Brown is pretty hot for his age [R53]

He's still married to his "Thorn Birds" co-star, Rachel Ward, who directed a number of "Darby and Joan" episodes.

R62 That Thorn Birds with DL fav Richard Chamberlain?

R62 now there is a natural beauty who hasn’t ruined her aging face

HUGE tits

r63 Of course.

This is a great thread. I’ve always liked her, but I didn’t know much about her.

I think she’s a great actress. Heat and Dust isn’t a great movie but I liked it. Christopher Cazenove was so handsome in the early 80s.

I thought she was related to the Saatchi and Saatchi family of advertising fame. Then I took a closer look and realized their names are spelled completely differently.

She was good in a small role in the recent BBC version of War & Peace; she definitely has the look of a faded beauty that's been around the block a few times.

She starred in one of my favorite Miss Marple episodes, By The Pricking of My Thumbs in 2006.

[quote]Mentioned this on another thread -- she's co-starring with Bryan Brown in a series ("Darby and Joan") filmed in Australia. They travel around solving crimes. It's on Acorn.

Thanks for that, R21. We have Acorn for a couple more weeks (my wife wanted to see the latest "Harry Wild") and just watched the first episode. R59 wasn't kidding that Bryan Brown looks great for his age.

Is it on anything besides Acorn?

[quote]Is it on anything besides Acorn?

It's an Acorn original, so your options if you're in the US are either to get a 7-day free trial and cancel it before you're billed the monthly fee (you can do so through Acorn's website or via Amazon) or to check your local library. The second season is still exclusive to subscribers but the first can be streamed for free on some library-affiliated apps, like Hoopla, or borrowed on DVD.

You watched Heat and Dust and decided that Christopher Cazenove was the handsome one?

I did r74.

Who else in it was handsome?

Shashi Kapoor was always sexier.

The DL Icon Committee reviewed Greta’s recent application for permanent icon status. Unfortunately, it was denied due to turning down “Basic Instinct,” the lack of any exciting hits or bombs (we love both), a dearth of truly cunty public comments and behavior and, of course, the incest.

There will be a lunch for all nominees at Applebee’s hosted by our 2025 winner, Vicki Lawrence, which Greta is welcome to attend. Cash bar, of course.

Thank you for your interest, Greta.

Shashi Kapoor was sex on a stick…when he was young.

R77: She starred in the above-mentioned "White Mischief" (1987), an old DL favorite with a great cast, including Charles Dance, John Hurt, Joss Ackland, Sarah Miles, Trevor Howard, Murray Head, Geraldine Chaplin, and Hugh Grant. Not enough to warrant icon status, I guess?

Her character, Diana, only had to disrobe for her elderly husband at night, who would, from his bed, sigh "You are exquisite." The film also has lots of quotable moments.

I love White Mischief

[quote] Vincent D’Onofrio still looks good, even when he’s fat as shit playing Kingpin on “Daredevil.”

Ugh.

Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder, because I think he looks like a gross and unappealing pig.

She actually might make a good Miss Marple herself now.

I’ve always found The Happy Valley Set interesting, r80. Especially the drug addicted Kiki Preston and her antics.

R82 Yes, and we're due for a new one.

Very good also as the enigmatic Icelandic (or is she?) artist who takes up with Tim Robbins's character in "The Player."

She was memorably good as Emma's former governess Mrs. Weston in the 1996 "Emma"--it's a tricky role, because she's Emma's substitute mother and just adores her, but though she sees her flaws (unlike Emma's father), she can never bring herself to mention them.

Was she elegant?

She's terrific in "The Red Violin".

R42,

Every performance. So 7 or 8 budgies a week bit the dust for Strindberg.

She fucked her cousin

"A group of Italian guys were discussing among themselves who would "take" which girl, not knowing that she was completely fluent in Italian (bilingual?) and understood every word they were saying."

That cunt stole my bit!

R9. - I saw a photo of her from 1994 - even by then she was totally average looking.

I just finished watching Animal Kingdom. Her daughter Leila George was really good in the flashback scenes playing a young Smurf.

But married to Sean Penn? Red flag warning.

Let herself go

It really is sad.

She went from Merchant-Ivory films and Harrison ford blockbusters to doing small bits in bad horror films. It wasn't until Darby and Joan did she have some respectable work.

If I remember correctly, she didn't want kids, but Vincent D'Onofrio pressured her into having one. And pretty much once she had the kid (Leila George) d'onofrio split. She sounded bitter about that.

Maybe the kid is married to skeevy Sean Penn because she didn't have a positive male role model growing up and her mom probably didnt want her 🤔