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I started watching American Woman on Paramount TV because I like 70's themes. It started off okay but I find the lead actress (Alicia Silverstone) to just be terrible in this role. I'm not alone, if you read any of the reviews. She seems very unnatural in the role... the way an inexperienced actor performs. Even the child actresses in the show are better actors.
I wonder why they chose her? There are Lifetime actresses that coulda blown this outta the water.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Sometimes certain actors are ideal for only one role and can't really be effective beyond that.
CrispyQ
(37,628 posts)Cher's response, when her friends gave her a hard time for being a virgin.
I loved that movie!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)She was quite a trailblazer - one of very few women who got the green light to write and direct in Hollywood at the time by the men who were calling the shots.
Here's a great article about the sexism she has had to deal with over the years:
https://www.theringer.com/2017/2/16/16042696/amy-heckerling-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-clueless-female-directors-ee9568144c24
CrispyQ
(37,628 posts)Thanks for that great link! I really enjoyed the article.
More_Cowbell
(2,199 posts)Since it was a takeoff on Emma. A very successful one.
Phentex
(16,433 posts)and she was good in that role but I think you're right. Her career never took off in a big way.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Aristus
(67,666 posts)That was enough for me.
Phentex
(16,433 posts)now there has to be some acting involved.
I agree she was great in Clueless.
Aristus
(67,666 posts)She was also very good in Blast From The Past.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Video, "Cryin". She was stunningly beautiful. Then Clueless, Execess Baggage and I loved her as Eve in Blast from the Past.
She kind of disappeared after that. I haven't seen her in the new show, I honestly thought she retired from acting to raise her children.
avebury
(11,034 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)with Cary Elwes.