Who Would Play You?

Who Would Play You?   By Laurie Beth Jones

While discussing the Academy Awards with friends the table topic became “Who would you want to play you in a movie?”

I had to think about it.  Charlize Theron?  Cameron Diaz?  (I am very young, fit and skinny in my own mind.)  Sally Field if she was taller and blonde?

One friend said “Halle Berry.”  We all agreed this would be a great choice talent wise.  I pointed out gently, I thought, that she might want to choose someone the same race?  She snapped back “It’s called ACTING for a reason!”

I think it is eerie, don’t you, how some actors can morph into the charaters they play so much that their physical features change?  Sean Penn, for example, has a face made of putty.

Meryl Streep.   She can go from a tall, overweight, awkward Julia Child to a fit, glamourous and snake mean Fashion Boss in an instant.

I wonder what skill they have to allow another persona to inhabit them, become them, and vice versa. If you were married to an actor, how you would know when he or she was telling the truth?  (Little wonder that most Hollywood marriages don’t last.  They fall in love with each other while playing one role, and then don’t do so well when roles change.)   Which one is the true you?

So, in this short blog, I will raise two questions:

Who would you want to play you in a movie?

Would your movie be a comedy, tragedy, buddy film, quest, adventure film, romance, or all or none of the above?

Laurie Beth

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