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Brian Damage · 05-04-2007, 06:17 PM

NEW YORK - Jessica Biel says she still struggles to get respect in Hollywood.

“Parts that I really want aren’t going to me,” the 25-year-old actress says in Elle magazine’s June issue, on newsstands Tuesday. “Like ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. I don’t want to say that there’s nothing I love that I can have. But there’s still the occasional script that the director doesn’t want to see you for. They want that top tier of girls.”

Biel, who began her career on the family-friendly TV series “7th Heaven,” has starred in such movies as “The Illusionist,” “Home of the Brave” and “Next.” In July, she can be seen with Adam Sandler and Kevin James in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.”

Lately, she has been a fixture in the tabloids and on red carpets, sitting front row at Paris fashion week and sending celeb gawkers into a tizzy over her alleged fling with Justin Timberlake.

“The scary thing about having this opportunity is that if it’s ‘your moment,’ that eventually disappears,” says Biel. “I think about reaching for ‘the moment’ but never really achieving it. That way, I’m always striving.”

Asked if media attention makes dating hard, she says, “It makes everything hard because you can’t even go to pick up a prescription without somebody trying to snap a photo of what you have in your Longs Drugs bag.

“Thank goodness I’m a nice person.”

TJL · 05-04-2007, 06:22 PM

Hey Jessica, i know how you can get some respect.

Stop doing crap movies!

I saw the trailer for "Chuck And Larry" last weekend, and the only good thing about it is you parade around in your undies in one scene.

That's not how you get the "top tier" roles.

Tweety · 05-07-2007, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by TJL

Hey Jessica, i know how you can get some respect.

Stop doing crap movies!

I saw the trailer for "Chuck And Larry" last weekend, and the only good thing about it is you parade around in your undies in one scene.

That's not how you get the "top tier" roles.

Exactly my thoughts when I saw the subject of this thread.

I like Jessica, but the movies she's decided to be in are just so bad I've never even attempted to watch them. I've seen parts of the Texas Chainsaw movie she was in, but only about 5 minutes of that, when it ran on one of the Encore movie channels.

But every single time I've seen trailers of a movie she's going to be in, it just looks like that if I went to see it, it would be the stupidest movie I've ever seen. So I don't bother.

I'd love to see her in a decent movie...but she's gotta do HER part too!

qwerty · 05-07-2007, 10:32 AM

She needs to do more roles like the Illusionist to be taken seriously. She wasn't bad in that movie but her role wasn't that big.

Tweety · 05-07-2007, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by qwerty

She needs to do more roles like the Illusionist to be taken seriously. She wasn't bad in that movie but her role wasn't that big.

Thanks for the info, I'll check that movie out. I'm not sure I'd even heard of it, but I just now looked it up at IMDB.

Looks like Jessica was billed 3rd in the credits, according to IMDB. But sounds like there was a big drop off in screen time between the top 2 and #3.

05-04-2007, 06:17 PM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	Jessica Biel struggles to get respect NEW YORK - Jessica Biel says she still struggles to get respect in Hollywood. “Parts that I really want aren’t going to me,” the 25-year-old actress says in Elle magazine’s June issue, on newsstands Tuesday. “Like ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. I don’t want to say that there’s nothing I love that I can have. But there’s still the occasional script that the director doesn’t want to see you for. They want that top tier of girls.” Biel, who began her career on the family-friendly TV series “7th Heaven,” has starred in such movies as “The Illusionist,” “Home of the Brave” and “Next.” In July, she can be seen with Adam Sandler and Kevin James in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.” Lately, she has been a fixture in the tabloids and on red carpets, sitting front row at Paris fashion week and sending celeb gawkers into a tizzy over her alleged fling with Justin Timberlake. “The scary thing about having this opportunity is that if it’s ‘your moment,’ that eventually disappears,” says Biel. “I think about reaching for ‘the moment’ but never really achieving it. That way, I’m always striving.” Asked if media attention makes dating hard, she says, “It makes everything hard because you can’t even go to pick up a prescription without somebody trying to snap a photo of what you have in your Longs Drugs bag. “Thank goodness I’m a nice person.”
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05-04-2007, 06:22 PM	#2
TJL Suburbanite Extrordinaire Forum Star Join Date: Dec 29, 2001 Location: New Jersey - the cradle of civilization Posts: 16,591	Hey Jessica, i know how you can get some respect. Stop doing crap movies! I saw the trailer for "Chuck And Larry" last weekend, and the only good thing about it is you parade around in your undies in one scene. That's not how you get the "top tier" roles.
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05-07-2007, 10:32 AM	#4
qwerty Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Feb 20, 2004 Posts: 226	She needs to do more roles like the Illusionist to be taken seriously. She wasn't bad in that movie but her role wasn't that big.