FitSugar ran an interview last week with Michelle Ryan, the new Bionic Woman, in which she discusses how she's working out a lot more since being cast in the role:
Buzz: Were you that athletic before -- did you always spend so much time working out? MR: No, I mean if I didn't have to I wouldn't. I used to dance and swim and do gymnastics but this really has got me into shape, it's like I really have a reason to now be healthy.
Buzz: Has your body changed at all? MR: Yeah, definitely, I'm getting abs and my muscles are getting bigger and I definitely feel like I'm being much more conscious to eat healthier.
Sounds good. Hopefully Michelle Ryan won't develop "actorexia" like former TV action star Sarah Michelle Gellar. FitSugar also has photos of Ryan working out.
Wel, I never watch Eastenders, so I don't know her that much, but I like what I'm seeing - those arms may not be super-buff just yet, but she certainly looks toned (thanks to AlexG for giving me the confidence to use that word) and athletic. Most importantly, there's nothing waif-like about her appearance; hopefully she might be another good example of how great women look when they work out and build muscle. 8)
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2007-10-08 10:37:57
She also manages to do a very convincing western U.S. accent. Most of the time when a British actor plays an American, I think "Ah, there's a British actor playing an American." Minnie Driver, for example (who I LOVE with all my heart), never quite sounds like an American. But Ryan pulls it off.
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2007-10-08 13:48:02
Lingster wrote:
She also manages to do a very convincing western U.S. accent. Most of the time when a British actor plays an American, I think "Ah, there's a British actor playing an American." Minnie Driver, for example (who I LOVE with all my heart), never quite sounds like an American. But Ryan pulls it off.
Good. However, Americans doing British accents rarely sound right either. BTW, do you think that Hugh Laurie is convincing as an American in House?
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2007-10-08 15:33:29
Laurie does the same trick as John Cleese, which is to growl in a monotone. It results in a very nasal sound that is not convincingly American, but is also not convincingly not American.
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2007-10-08 15:56:40
Did Renee Zellweger's accent in Bridget Jones suck as much as I suspected it did?
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2007-10-08 20:43:17
Clive Owen's the same way too, not very convincing as an american. But he's also not a hot girl, so he's just racking up the failures, ain't he?
money and fame notwithstanding.
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2007-10-09 10:11:19
Lingster wrote:
Did Renee Zellweger's accent in Bridget Jones suck as much as I suspected it did?
I never saw it at the time, however, a quick YouTube search indicates that it's not too bad - certainly better than Dick van Dyke's "blimey, guv!" cockney accent in Mary Poppins which sounded like, er, an American taking-off a British accent. Zellweger's is a bit strained, as if she's constantly having to stop herself from slipping back to her native accent, and this accentuates the poshness of it - she speaks rather more "plum in mouth" than most Brits - even most middle-class ones. I'd give her a 7/10.
BTW, Hugh Laurie was good enough in his audition video to prompt the guy doing the casting to remark "That's the sort of guy we need - a regular American guy!" so it can't have been too bad. The problem is that both he and Cleese are Cambridge Footlights old boys and are sooo English that they must have a hell of a job ditching their accents.
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2007-10-10 23:00:18
But her once very full chest is now so very sadly smaller...
