"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
Are you kidding me?!? Of course she can pull it off….shes an EAST COASTER!!
She was decent in hard candy, sucked on snl and juno was gay. But I'd still let her lick my butt hole.
yet another american trying to do a "british" accent. As if Scarlett Johanssen's attempt wasn't shocking enough. Why can't they find a good British accent to do a British role?
… Perez, you wouldn't be asking that question.
She's a good actress…I so bet she can pull it off. Ellen Page was amazing in Juno, and who saw Hard Candy? It was disturbing, put her performance was so freaking good I doubt she could let this role down.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
THE BEST JANE EYRE EVER IS RUTH WILSON, FROM THE 2006 BBC ADAPTATION!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
she'll pull it off, shes awesome
"serious" actress? what the hell?
have you seen hard candy, or an american crime, or mouth to mouth? not comedies.
jesus.
why does the world need a yet ANOTHER remake of Jane Eyre?!?
Vre, Perez! I think you might be forgetting Hard Candy if you think she can't pull off Jane Eyre!!!
Re: helen – Are you British? Should I say, yet another British person who can't be bothered to find out if a person is Canadian or American?
I really don't understand why Americans playing British people pisses people off so much. We just had a bunch of Brits playing the American founding fathers in "John Adams" and we didn't complain. Granted, they were around when it was the British colonies but still. Practically half the cast of "Band of Brothers" was British and most of us had nothing but praise for them. Isn't Liam Neeson (Irish) playing Lincoln? I'm sure he'll do great. As long as a person is convincing in a role, I don't care where they're from.
Re: :s – SHE'S NOT AMERICAN!!!!!
Re: publicity – You desperately need to see Hard Candy before you can judge this actress. She is capable of a lot of things her seniors couldn't handle. Bronte will be a cake-walk for her.
she SO can. she and jane eyre are both so spunky!
HEY FUCK YOU ASSHOLE.
4 words…Hard Candy..see it
44 - rach says – reply to this
Have any of you read Jane Eyre? How does playing the part of a teenage vigilante who cuts off
Um, because Perez was questioning her ability to play a "serious" role.
page has an extremely deep voice for a woman, and based on what i saw on snl, she doesn't have a feminine bone in her body. she can play a tomboy well, but that's about it. jane eyre may have been small, and plain, but she was feminine in every sense of the word. i will not be seeing this film with page in the role.
are you kidding me? ELLEN PAGE IS THE BOMB FO SHIZZ!! you obviously havent seen her in action. she's one of the best actress of our generation..that is for the future and shizz
yawn. the bbc has done this one to death, this is just a ploy to cash in on her flavour of the month status. can't see her pulling off the understated character at all. Americans aren't as good with the British dramas, wish they'd leave it alone.
perez some of this shit you say, i swear to god. how about you watch some films page did BEFORE juno, then make you're ignorant comments. and i don't even like her that much. your un-researched comments just piss me off.
Ellen Page is great. I'm looking forward to working with her soon. Did you see Hard Candy? She was great in that.
find "hard candy" the film….if ellen can do this, she can pull it off…she rocks.
Would you rather have Cyrus doing it?
The nomination was well deserved.
FINALLY a young actress who takes her job seriously.
perez, i love you, but ELLEN IS AWSOME!
say one mroe negative thing about her, and i will take you off my 'favorites'
lol, seriously.
i would go gay for her.
Re: Allen – i agree 1,000% with u!
Of COURSE she can!
I just got around to seeing Juno, and barely! got! through it! I think Ms. Page is scarcely believable as an actress - I think she delivered some overly crafted hipster lines in a snarky manner. She comes off as being full of herself. She is cute, though, and Xeno only knows she'll get more roles thrown at her because of her perky tits - I mean personality. Be interesting to see if she jumps out of the machine "They" have been been forcing her into and tries a real role… Juno felt like it tried TOOO hard. And don't get me started on "Hard Candy"… I had to keep switching that POS off.
Just curious: Is there anyone on here who just really doesn't give a flying squirt if they're FIRST on here? WTF is up with that? Are you guys five? That is all…
ummmm
didnt the bbc just do a jane eyre adaptation?
Have you not SEEN Hard Candy??? This girl can do anything.
Loves it! She will be Bronte perfection! She's pretty much perfect for the role of Jane — her looks fit Jane to a T and she's a great actress! She'll totally pull it off!
Re: RIDICULOUS –
…because fucking ENGLAND is such an overlooked little underdog of a country and, you know, needs recognition…
Yeah, hardly.
THE WORLD KNOWS WHAT THE HELL ENGLAND IS! Stop being so damn insecure.
Ellen Page is Canadian. If you're gonna argue recognition, Canada sure could use the recognition more than fucking ENGLAND. Oh and I'm sure you really care about all those poor little actresses.
Have you read Jane Eyre? Perfect match.
Jane Eyre was one of my favourite books when I was a child, I certainly hope she does it justice. The book is very complex … I will be rooting for her!
wow, the 80th production of Jane Eyre, what a career move!
I understand you probably don't have time to read books, what with all the celebrity cock you suck, Perez, but try reading Jane Eyre before jumping to conclusions. For someone who is most famous for drawing cum on celebrity whore's faces and an apparent obsession with the letter "z" and misspellings, I'm going to guess reading is not your strong suit. So just watch Ellen Page's other work. Hard Candy is a far cry from Juno. Not every single actress is a talentless cum dumpster, just most of them.
She better have a good fucking British accent, or I will be terribly disappointed. Jane Eyre can't have a bad accent, and she CANNOT have an American accent.
have you read jane eyre??? she'd be perfect
She's ugly enough to play Jane Eyre
Re: Carrie –
I'm English. Sorry, I had meant to write north american but I forgot the north. I similarly don't like it when Brits play americans. Regardless of how good an actress she is, when people start referring to the accent they have to master as "British" I assume they are going to be bad. There is no "British" accent. Scarlett Johanssen just sounded like Dick Van Dyke in the Other Boleyn Girl. Portman got closer, but still no cigar. It's just really insulting that the BBC, to whom we pay all our licensing fees, can't even find some home grown talent to star in Jane Eyre. If it were any other broadcaster, I wouldn't be so fussed. But since the British Broadcasting Corporation gets all our money from our licenses and some of our taxes too, you would have thought they could be more loyal to British actresses. I wouldn't expect you to understand if you're not British though.
You've obviously never seen any of her other work.
She could definately pull of jane Eyre. has the right look for it. Has she had a nose job? It looks so… small and sculpted??
she was actually QUITE the actress in juno. she was so good at being a dryly cynical 16-year-old, in fact, that most people don't give her much credit.
i agree with missmeow — this casting is PERFECT!
Helen- i dunno, Renee Zellweger did a pretty good accent in Bridget Jones. I'm a brit and agree that it is a tad annoying when americans are cast in British roles in british films, but if they can execute it then fair enough. I personally though Natalie and Scarlett were great in the other Boleyn girl. People have said keira Knightly should have played ann rather than Natalie portman, but natalie is the better actress be a mile (think Keira gets too preoccupied with doing that annoying pouting thing with her mouth to remember how to act…)
hey….. ellen page is a brilliant actress. I just adore her acting.
go b*tch about other people… leave her be.
I like Ellen Page, I think she's talented.
But Juno was waaaay over rated, and her performance was meh.
Too bad.
Re: :s –
Ellen Page is Canadian, not American.
SO THAT MEAN I CANT HIT RITE.
Future lesbians of America-unite! She only plays herself in movie roles-as wise ass bitch, who needs a beat down!
Of course she can!
She's good but why is ANYONE remaking Jane Eyre????
It has been done a dozen times this decade!
Why is serious in quotes? She's a great actress and have no doubt she will pull this role off beautifully…ok bitch?
looooove Ellen Page, she can pull it off for sure! Go Canada! I just hope she never turns into a skany hollywood star like everyone else… go Ellen!
UGH why are they making another film adaptation of Jane Eyre? One was released a few years ago and it was the best so far. No need to make another one. :/
She's cute and funny, but this is probably not a good part for her. Jane Eyre is a classic character, and not just anyone can play her. Ellen can't top Ruth Wilson in the PBS version, who was essentially flawless.
ew she ruines everything. this is my favorite book of all time and she has NO sparkle and does not deserve to play this part. i'd LOVE to hear her with a british accent and not acting like a sarcastic know it all bitch.
They just did a newer adaption of Jane eyre for the BBC back in 05 or 06! Why another one? there are more re-makes of that story then there are prequels and sequels to Star Wars!
bottom line: Another one is not needed!
Re: AWP –
So happy to see another J.E 2006 fan on here! I actually ended up buying it on Amazon I loved it so much.
It really was such an incredible version. It was able to do what so many of the other adaptions havent been able to do because of time constraints. Though, I dont think its just the length that makes this movie total greatness - its the cast. They were simly incredible.
Toby's Mr Rochester is now only second on my "list" to Richard Armitage's Mr. Thorton from North and South (If you havent seen it - do it now.) And to think, I once thought I would stay forever loyal to Colin Firth's Mr Darcy.