"Serious" Actress
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Ellen Page (aka Juno, the preggers teen) has been cast to play Jane Eyre in a BBC Film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic piece of English lit.
She nabs an Oscar nom and now she's getting all high brow and shiz!
The BBC adaptation is being produced by one of the producers of The Other Boleyn Girl.
We're not too sure about this casting choice. We hope Ellen can pull the Jane Eyre part off!
[Image via Mavrix Online.]
Posted: May 7, 2008 at 12:45 pm
If she's a good actress she can pull it off. She was awesome on Trailer Park Boys…
She can do anything she wants, this one.
She can do it!
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Ellen Page has always been a serious actress. Who isn't SERIOUS about their career, except maybe, Paris Hilton?
whoa.. have you seen her act? have you read jane eyre? the casting call is PERFECT!
whoa.. have you seen her act? have you read jane eyre? the casting was perfect!!
I think she can deff pull this off.. she is an amazing young actress.. and i think her career is going to be huge.. and plus shes from ns like me:)
She is a great actress. Smart. She can pull it off.
um Juno wasn't her first role ever you asshole. She always was a serious actress. have you ever seen hard candy? i'm not so sure you can pull anything off, douchebag.
dami!!
1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why would you doubt the girl? She did great in Juno and she has yet to be seen drunk and partying. Maybe she is more Natalie Portman and less Lindsey Lohan! Have some faith Perez!!!
She's great… she can do it!
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I freaking hate that lezbo!
Um, her accents weren't too good when she was on SNL, but I did see promise when she did the "Other Other Boleyn Girl" skit. She'll probably do well.
Another Jane Eyre adaption? The BBC only made one a year or two ago, which was amazin. Why the need for so many?!
OMG…..this girl is great. I'm sure she can do this. Did you see Hard Candy?
She was freaking awesome in that.
Ellen is a great actress. She did a large handful of other great films before Juno. Her range is large. I expect her to be just as great in this as in her other films in this or anything she does. Just be thankful we have a talented young artist who has a great, grounded head on her shoulders.
Ummm read the book, she is PERFECT for the role of Jane Eyre.
hey Perez,
you may have not noticed this, but Obama is winning!!!…I hope you can continue shilling for war mongering Hillary
Perez have you seen "Hard Candy?" If not, you should. Ellen does an AMAZING job in it, I didn't even realize it was her in Juno because she makes the "Hard Candy" character so realistic. It's an awesome movie! Go watch it! ;-D
Ummm serious actress… have you not seen Hard Candy…. thats about as serious as one can get.
i agree, i think this casting choice is poor..
Wow, thanks STUDENT! What a giant douchebag.
Meh. I liked Juno, but what little else I've seen Ellen Page in has been middle-low quality at best. This reminds me of how Sandra Bullock was being hyped as the next big actress after "While You Were Sleeping" and "Speed". Now? Yawn….
i bet she nails it.
excuse me ever seen her in hard candy? and she was much younger then
think about how experience makes a young actor stronger. this girlie can't be typecast!
shes got talent.
they should get a british actress why get an american who probably will do a shit accent and piss the britsh public off
I would turn gay for her anyday
Her Juno Caracter is actng. thats not her, she can do amazing things, just you wait and see!
Hey Perez, go watch Hard Candy. Then you're allowed to talk.
If she can go from THAT to fucking Juno, bitch can do ANYTHING.
xoxo
Why is this nasty dyke all over the place now? Fuck she plays a pregnant teen in one movie and now she's dyking it out all over the place. Get the fuck off my TV and computer screen and out of the magazines! No one gives a shit about you! What's she going to do, play a tomboy loser the rest of her career? Stupid lesbian cunt licker.
I agree, this one can do whatever she wants.
Having read Jane Eyre, she IS perfect for it.
I, for one, would watch that.
I agree with all the above posters: Ellen will totally rock this. I can't wait to see it!!
oh she will definitely pull it off!! in case you didn't notice we canadians are pretty damn talented!!
Are you kidding she is the best actress on the sceen right now.
She played the hell out of Hard Candy.
Let me tell you she is ont going anywhere and will make her mark HW!!
HAve you actually read Jayn Eyre?? She is perfect for the role.
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If she can do An American Crime, she can do anything!
I'm v.v. excited!
Why are they making another Jane Eyre? PBS just showed a BRILLIANT version made by ITV this past January. True, it was a 2 part mini series and not a movie but it was the best version of JE to date.
ELLEN CAN DO NO WRONG… SHE IS AN AWESOME ACTRESS.. SHE ALSO ROCKED ON TRAILER PARK BOYS
Have any of you read Jane Eyre? How does playing the part of a teenage vigilante who cuts off a guy's testicles make this girl capable of playing the role of Jane Eyre?
Jane Eyre=Best. Book. Ever.
She's too pretty to be Jane…but, of course, it's Hollywood. Everybody has to be pretty.
What makes her so perfect for Jane Eyre? Can someone please give some specific reasons? Sorry, I'm just not seeing it. That's one of my favorite books, and I have never seen Ellen Page play a role that makes me think she can capture the essence of Jane's character.
So frickin crazy. I was just thinking about rereading Jane Eyre yesterday!
i think the casting is pretty much perfect jayne eyre was plain and i think mousy (a level english a bit foggy!) just hope she doesn't ravish the accent! she's an awsome actress juno was the best movie i've seen in a long while! i think you have to worry about the producers…the other bolyen girl sucked big style! nowhere near as good as the book! i even turned it off half way through coz it was so bad! my mates (who have also read the book) agreed as well!
i have nothing against this chick but there's no way Jane Eyre could be portrayed by anyone else but a BRITISH ACTRESS; i mean, common' the accent has to be British. there's no way i'm gonna get into it otherwise.
she looks like a young sorgouney weaver.
She was soooo cute in "Juno".
This is my favorite book and I am really nervous about her playing Jane. I have seen several other film versions and I just don't know if she can do it! I have high hopes, though. They also just made an adaptation of 'Jane Eyre' last year. I wonder why the BBC is making another one?
Was the 2006 Toby Stephens version not good enough? Because I thought it was pretty damn perfect.
She will be great. But who will be Mr. Rochester???
Oh blah! I'd like to see how bad she'll bee. She has NO range. The last two films she basically played her self. She's like Jennifer Anniston, and can only do one type of roll not that far off from their real personalities.
Perez you are such a dick! Have you ever even seen her in anything but Juno? Watch HARD CANDY and get a grip on the reality of just Who you are talking about here.
Finally they pick an actress to play Jane who is the same size and looks similar to the character in the book. I read Jane Eyre about 10 times when I was 12. It was the first romance novel! There are some great biographies of Charlotte Bronte out there. She was teeny tiny and only had a couple of teeth. I think a better movie could be made about the story of Charlotte Bronte!
That no-talent bitch is going to ruin my most favorite book ever? Skank! Why couldn't they get Kate Beckinsale or Keira Knightly? They probably couldn't afford to have anyone with actual talent or a REAL British accent. ,,,sigh
Fuck, nevermind. I'm retarded and I was thinking of Scarlett Johanson.
Yep, she's a thespian alright. Living the thespian lifestyle. I wonder if the director will pair her off with another young attractive thespian, so they can have a hot steamy thespian scene together?
This was obviously a casting choice done more for added interest to the project due to Paiges warm moment in the spotlight. It was not made in thoughts of what woule be good service to the filming of a book addaptation. She may be a young talent , but she is not yet ready to pull the weight of Bronte. Her parfomances are of the more juvenile obviously. It is a shame that they are taking such a step back with this literary work filming with stunt casting. This is a classic work , too bad they did not feel the film could stand on it's own and chose such an unworthy and unaffecting leading actress. It will be the first time Jane has been played by such a droll, modern quipping sassy brat ( this is how her presence comes across on film, regardless of how earthy she presents herself to the media). Let's hope her ability to act will be proven with this. Nothing she has done in the past even comes close to what she will need to do to pull this one off. There is no choice but to remain apprehensively dissapointed in this choice until proven otherwise. How sad.
I'm pretty sure Ellen could pull it off in a heartbeat. I mean, does Hard Candy ring a bell? What about Mouth to Mouth? Wilby Wonderful? Marion Bridge? An American Crime? Oh right! You probaby have only seen Juno like many other ~fans. Ellen is a serious actress. Just because she does ONE black comedy does not disqualify her as being such.
shes PERFECT for the part.
omggg she is perfect yto play jane!!
Ellen will surprise you Perez… she is the bomb!!
She is sooooo talented - you have seen nothing yet!
Halifax loves Ellen!!
SWEET! This girl is amazing. I just watched An American Crime and the Tracy Fragments this weekend and she was amazing, as always in them. I cant' wait to see where she goes in her career.
Jane Eyre was ugly, she's pretty nondescript, the casting is perfect.
I'm not doubting her abilities as an actress, but this announcment is disappointing to me. The BBC just did an adapatation of Jane Eyre in 2006 and it was flawless and the best adaptation of the novel I have ever seen! Ruth Wilson, who played Jane, was the best Jane. I really don't think this will work out as a film, because I have been disappointed in all other FILM adaptations. The reason the BBC miniseries works is, not only its AMAZING casting, but its ability to tell the entire story in the extended runtime. I'm hoping for the best, but I really don't see how anyone could do a better job than what they created back in 2006.
whoa perez! give our canadian friend a chance!
ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HER…JANE ARYE???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
please don't butcher a classic with her - this novel cannot turn into that!
Re: Brontes – She's Canadian. Her last name Page even sounds British. Besides, I don't see Americans kicking off all the British import actresses and hiring American actresses while they whine about them not having a 'real' American accent. Pffft. Acting is acting, it's not like someone trying to crash the Royal family, oh smarmy one.
I love Jane Eyre and I like Ellen Page but.. I don't know if I can see where they'd cross over (successfully >.>)
Re: PoisonedPrincess – You're so right, it WAS the best Jane Eyre I've ever seen. I think it was on masterpiece theater. I think Page will do a great job, but really, she's too pretty to be Jane. Right age though.
Look at this picture, people! She's hideous and lame!!!!!
She sucks at acting too! See her on SNL? It was like an amateur high school performance. She looks like a disgusting baby or a improperly developed fetus!
Fuck her!
She's overrated; total one trick pony. I doubt she can pull this off.
WHY? They just put out a version of Jane Eyre barely a year ago that was pretty damn good, plus another version from a few years back. They don't need another one. Besides, couldn't they get someone who is freaking british to actually play the role?
She is so fucking hawt…..you know it's ’cause she's canadian too.
YUM!!
Seriously? have you even seen Hard Candy??? this chick can pull it all of..comedy, drama..she's the real deal.
Re: Brian – Her range is not large. Playing a teenager 5 years younger than here several times is not 'range'. Anyone 20 yr old can play a smart-alecky 16 year old (Hard Candy & Juno?)…
Re: Kcuf haey – No, they don't ring a bell.
I like how ONLY Canadians are singing this LEZBOT her praises. Go get some tans, uglies!
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Why are you such a homophobe ?
Of course she can pull it off. Nice to see somebody besides Keira Knightly or Gwyneth doing one of those kind of movies. Sick sick sick of both of them!
Re: publicity – I completely agree!
OMG she is really pretty compared to her role in Juno
why do american/canadian actresses take a good british film and ruin it e.g the other boleyn girl
she's done drama before…..she's an amazing actress. She's probably done more serious acting than comedies.
At the end of the day, she is a cute LESBO… you go JUNO
Ellen is a good actress. Her take on the English accent won't be as bad as Natalie Portman's or Scarlett's. She's more talented than screwed-face Keira, too [who does a terrible North American accent (check out that movie with Adriend Brody). So what if she's a lesbian? I think Jane heir has been done too many times, anyway.
Re: british girl – i completely agree x
okay, if you have ever read Jane Eyre or seen any of the film/tv adaptations you would know she looks like Jane Eyre. I am sure she can do it. We'll find out soon enough~
Ellen is much too pretty to play Jane Eyre…and has wayyyy too much personality. I think this will be a stretch.
This is fucking ridiculous.. she's canadian for fucks sake how DARE they cast her as a historic english character in an ENGLISH novel when there are soo many great young english actresses who deserve recognition.
She's far to young anyway!
Although.. tbh she is ugly enough
simply watch Ellen Page in 2005's Hard Candy and you will know for sure, she can handle it. I came across this movie about a year ago on HBO. Completely amazing.
Ellen is an INCREDIBLE actress. She is not getting "highbrow" ..she IS highbrow. Have you seen her in "an American Crime"? She is one of the best actresses I know.
Re: RIDICULOUS –
Hahahaha.
If she can play a girl who beats the shit out of a pedophile in Hard Candy, im sure she wont have any problem pulling it off!
Jane is "small" and "plain", with a lot of common sense and yearning for love. I think Ellen Page would be perfect for the part.
Only prob I see is they keep doing remakes…there was just a great one done by the BBC about 2 years ago with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson.
By the way, Toby Stephens is yummy Perez.
I LOVE her, she is SUCH a good actress and makes any part she plays appear so easy and natural. I hope we continue to see her in a more movies!
How come you have never tried to drag Ellen Page out of the closet against her will, Mario? You do it with everyone else and she OBVIOUSLY plays for your team.
Have you even read Jane Eyre? She is perfect casting; Jane was "small and plain" according to Charlotte Bronte.