Abbie Cornish As Anne (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
The casting of Abbie Cornish as Anne, the wife of Woody Harrelson’s Chief Willoughby, has received a lot of attention in the immediate aftermath of the 2017 Best Picture nominee Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and its problematic white redemption arc. While Cornish’s performance is flawless, it’s strange to see her in a role where she’s married to someone much older than herself.
Abbie Cornish (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns)
Superman Returns is wrongfully ridiculed as a bad superhero film more than a decade ago, but Bryan Singer’s loving homage to Richard Donner has some really good things going for it. Regrettably, Kate Bosworth’s casting as Lois Lane is difficult to justify; not because she gives a bad performance (though she’s no substitute for Margot Kidder), but because she was too young for the role. When filming started, Bosworth was only 22 years old, which would have been okay if this was a Superman origin story about Clark Kent’s first meeting with a young Lois Lane. Superman Returns, on the other hand, picks up five years after Superman has left Earth, establishing that he already had a relationship with Lois before he ever left.
Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns)
