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ACTING OF ACTORS Gone are the days when actresses were simply glamourous accessories to a METHOD film that otherwise belonged to the ‘hero.’ Women protagonists today don’t shy away from portraying reality; characters that require more than just a dazzle of glamour. A Times NIE report

FROM TO DEGLAM DEEPIKA PADUKONE The actress plays the role of Malti in the movie ‘Lakshmi’, which is based on the life of acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal. Directed by Meghna Gulzar, it stars Vikrant Massey in lead role. Padukone reportedly said she is excited about the role because it is a story that’s closest to her heart. “This is not just another project for me. After I met Lakshmi, I realised the pain and humiliation she has been living with. I wish I could portray some of that on screen. For me, the look doesn’t matter if the role is important and something that I believe in,” she told in an interview.

CHECKLIST WHAT YOU LEARN FROM THESE RISK TAKERS Any person who is in show business needs to look good all the time. A lot of effort goes into how they look every day. They do so much to meet the expectations of not only the media but also their fans, even when they are not working. No matter where they are, they make it to the newspapers for being less glamourous... But here is why you should watch these performances:

CAMERON DIAZ  The fact that we have been able to carry movies (‘Pink’ and Actress has captured eyes with ‘Badla’) based on our performance her roles in ‘The Mask’ and ‘There’s Something About Mary’. But when she featured in ‘Being and not just good looks is reason DEMI John Malkovich’, she was not the beautiful star- enough. I admire the role Alia Bhatt Linda Cardellini is best SALMA let that everyone came to know her as. In the played in ‘Highway’ because it was known for her role on the HAYEK MOORE film, Diaz plays Lotte, a pet-obsessed woman who all about the character. You should NBC series ‘Freaks and When Salma Hayek was enlist- One of Bette Midler’s most You probably remember Demi is able to access the mind of actor John watch movies with real portrayal iconic roles was that of Malkovich. In an interview to a tabloid, Diaz Geeks’. She also fea- ed to play Frida Kahlo in the 2002 Moore for her star-studded part, with because it gives you the confidence Winifred Sanderson, head said: “It was not so glamorous but I loved the tured in the 2002 biopic ‘Frida’, the resemblance was witch in the 1993 Disney Patrick Swayze, on ‘Ghost’, but her bru- message it got across.” that the films reflect reality too. movie version of uncanny. The artist is known for her film ‘Hocus Pocus’. tal, hardened role is that of Lieutenant — Taapsee Pannu, actor Winifred and her sisters ‘Scooby Doo’. unconventional looks, especially Jordan O’Neil, on ‘GI Jane’. She said got executed during the Cardellini was cast as her iconic unibrow. Hayek looked Salem witch trials. ‘Hocus about the role in an interview: “O’Neil is  I don’t think I have conventional looks of a good looking actor. Velma Dinkley. For just like Kahlo with the uni- Pocus’ has become a cult an inspiration. I wish I was more like I am a very average-looking guy-next-door and I like to keep my classic for kids, who Scooby Doo, the beautiful brow. her in real. When you get to play image that way. I don’t think it is essential that actors or might not realise that Bette actresses need to look their best to get recognised for their Cardellini was made to look Midler is a talented actress such characters... it feels craft these days. You should watch films that speak about real homely and nerdy, with big and singer aside from playing awesome.” Winifred. “When I look back, I do themes with real people in it because they bring out the best in glasses and Velma’s classic orange feel strangely nice. She is weird but everyone concerned. sweater. “That was such an iconic with her peers, many she is so honest...,” Midler said. — Vikrant Massey, actor ‘Death In The Gunj’ role. I look back to her for her sim- find her to be a bit Barrymore’s character plicity,” she told an online magazine. strange. Bialik may play wears embarrassing out- MERYL SOPHIE MCSHERA this unattractive char- fits that often make her acter on the show, but STREEP She is an English ac- the object of ridicule. tress who plays the in real life she has both Producers also turned her Actress played the role of the plain beauty and brains. Like back into an ugly duckling witch in ‘Into the Woods’. In the film, kitchen maid, Daisy her character, Bialik Robinson (Mason) on for flashback scenes of Streep actually has two looks for The the award-winning pe- really does have a PhD Josie’s actual high school Witch. “I was very unsure that I could pull riod-drama, ‘Down- in neuroscience from days. Did it matter? “Not of the dirty haggard look. But boy! That town Abbey’. Beyond UCLA. She revealed in her plain-maid part in at all. Josie was the clos- was the best role that I ever landed. ‘Downton Abbey’, she an online interview: “I DREW BARRYMORE est I have come to reality. The witch taught me to embrace also took on the part of MAYIM BIALIK love her for the brain She taught me to be less everything in life,” she said in Drisella Tremaine, one of ’s infamously “ugly” Mayim Bialik was on CBS’s ‘The and brawn...That’s what The 1999 movie ‘’ is stepsisters in Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Cinderella’ (2015). Of her a classic Drew Barrymore film. The vain,” Barrymore told a an interview to a evil, mean-girl role, she said, “It was so much fun playing Big Bang Theory’ as Amy every lady is.” movie is about Josie tabloid in 2015. tabloid the evil stepsister in Cinderella. My look was so different. I Farrah Fowler, the frumpy don’t think I could have asked for a better break... If the role neuroscientist who is the love Gellar, who was a is great, who cares about the looks.” Agreed. geeky girl in her high interest for one of the show’s school days but gets to main characters, Sheldon. KAITLIN OLSON Amy is highly intelligent and redeem herself as an Kaitlin is an American actress, known for her role as De- adult when she is told andra Dee Reynolds on ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’. the stereotypical nerdy type. to go undercover as a And, yes, she was a funny woman. She had been described Although she tries to fit in as a “rude, borderline sociopathic character.” She was com- high school student. mitted to that performance, and pulled it off really well. In the multi-faceted, ever-changing (and evolving) role, she JENNA FISCHER () perfectly fits herself into the part. Nothing is really too MAE WHITMAN Yep, you’ve got to know (and love) Jenna Fis- raunchy or gross. Mae Whitman who starred in films like ‘Independence Day’, Lea Michele rose to prominence in her role as Rachel Berry on Fox’s as her plain office-worker character Anything is up-for- but many remember her for her performance as Ann Veal on ‘’. In the first season, Rachel is portrayed as an ambitious singer of Pam Beesly in the ever-popular situa- grabs for the sake Fox’s ‘’. Ann plays the girlfriend of in her high school’s glee club, al- tional comedy, ‘’. She once ad- of that laughable though she is not very popular. De- mitted to a tabloid that it was her this role physical comedy. ’s character, George Michael. In the show, Ann is spite her vocal talents, Rachel has that made her the top actress she is today. “You fall in love known to be rather homely. an overly poor sense of style and “Even though it did leave me looking plain with the character Whitman isn’t much like Ann in her personality is overbearing. (even boring), the role of Pam seems to be not because she is real life. “I am more fun than Michele also said she gained a lot perfect for me... I’m so attached to Pam’s a beauty but be- her. But she is a person whom I of weight, especially trying to adapt journey.” She added: “I just love playing cause the role was to the LA lifestyle as a native New this character so, so much.” It’s not hard worth remember- would like to emulate in real Yorker. “Berry taught me to live to see why. When ‘The Office’ first launched ing,” she said. because she has a strong per- without any inhibitions,” she said. in 2005, Fischer became an overnight sen- sonality,” Whitman said. sation as the plain jane Beesly.

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