Liz and I went to college together. It’s fun to see her in films. She always wanted be an actress so there’s an added joy of knowing she’s a good girl who got what she wanted.
However, reading she’s likely to play Laura Bush makes me a little sad. Not that Liz should have passed on the probably high-profile and lucrative gig, but the thought of anyone taking on that role – let alone someone I like – is just unsettling.
UPDATE: I should probably clarify this a bit. I just feel the wounds inflicted by the current administration are raw and considering we are still very much mired in the muck of W’s presidency, a movie depicting the life o’ Bush is not something this country truly needs. It’s the same way making a movie about 9/11 felt unnecessary to me. At least so soon afterwards. The horror didn’t/doesn’t need to be dramatized.
But she gets to play it against Josh Brolin’s Bush! Ha!
It reminds me of that ridiculous show that came out right after Bush was elected: That’s My Bush. Does anyone remember that? I miss the days when we all thought he was just a big fucking joke.
Can I just say how much love I have for Slither? And how amazingly she creates a saccharine-sweet, endearing and genuine character in the middle of the most ridiculously 80s-esque B movie I’ve seen since, well, the 80s.