terça-feira, março 20, 2007

Rachel McAdams


I maybe should have gone ahead and said this when I first thought it, a little over two years ago. Now it will seem like I'm forecasting yesterday's weather, but nevertheless, it must be said.

Take a good look and make sure to remember this face and this name. One or the other, or most likely both, will surely settle confortably into the household's Hollywood-star-vocabulary list.

And I'm way ahead of all of you. In fact, I got a head-start (ok, along with half of huMANity) with 2004's "The Notebook", starring Ryan Gosling (now becoming household material as well) and a hypnotic and phenomenally talented Rachel McAdams.

A red-head in "Notebook" - and a gorgeous one at that - Rachel went jet-black, along with those feline-yet-still-girl-next-door green eyes of hers in the excellent "Wedding Crashers" of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaugh (their best in my book, by the way). And I, once hypnotized, am now in the middle of a blurry mess, gathering my thoughts as I attempt to write this, shellshocked by the black and greens she was sporting and the gold and green starring rather mischievously at me.

I won´t be so bold as to label this a "change of guard" in terms of the new generation of leading ladies which are slowly but surely infiltrating their way into Hollywood, but I don´t hesitate in saying that the Meryls and Julias and Jodies have some serioulsly stiff competition coming their way.