I love Olivia Colman! There's an amazing clip when she made history by winning two BAFTA awards in one night, and wasted most of her speech fangirling over Matt LeBlanc, who she spotted in the audience, instead of acknowledging her win. And I agree with everyone else, you HAVE to see Broadchurch. Absolutely astonishing show.
There is a lovely interview with Olivia Coleman and Helena Bonham Carter, they are such good friends... I think Olivia Coleman just rocks up and delivers, she's an Oscar winner and amazing actress.
Not many people have a best actress Oscar, Bafta, Emmy and Golden Globe, like Olivia (plus loads more) she has been nominated 156 times and won 66 times, that's a big win ratio, every 1 in 2.3 a win.
@@MandyCaneLane One of the stranger rules of the American Screen Actor’s Guild & its British equivalent (UK Equity) is that members are absolutely prohibited from having the same name. David Tennant’s real name, for instance, is David McDonald. There was already a David McDonald listed on the Equity union rolls when he started acting so he re-christened himself David Tennant when he turned professional. David chose Tennant as his new name because he was a big fan of the Pet Shop Boys & their frontman Neil Tennant.
Olivia's great on these shows, mainly because it's like she doesn't know she's famous. I don't know her but I can almost guarantee she was the exact same person before she became an actor, slightly kooky and awkward but funny and endearing with it. She's a highly respected actor who's been in huge TV shows and films and yet it still seems like if you asked for her autograph or a selfie, she'd be taken aback and say "Me? Why?" She seems so normal. She's a bit weird, but not like Mark Wahlberg weird. Doesn't take herself seriously and that makes her a great chat show guest. She'll tell any story if it's funny, she's not trying to maintain a public image.
In fairness I think Olivia does actually learn her lines even if she didn't research what it's like to be a detective. Famously Marlon Brando had scripts taped all over film sets and even his fellow actors so he didn't have to learn anything, he could just read it. It's why he always had that 'looking off into the middle distance' thing going on 🙂
Mandy, AFAICT Olivia is very professional about acting, just not "method". Graham Norton interviewed Olivia and Helena Bonham Carter about their approach to acting (for The Crown). Olivia said Helena did lots of research and she didn't. Olivia was interviewed about 'her process' to prepare to play Queen Anne in "The Favourite" ①. Olivia said she used the script and some notes from the director and writers. Olivia said something like, "Queen Anne had 17 children, and not one survived. That was the character I was playing." So I think she likely has a lot of empathy and imagination. Olivia worked with Mitchell & Webb on sitcoms and sketch shows. David Mitchell was a writer and leading actor in the sketch shows. Mitchell was interviewed about working with Olivia; I think very soon after she won the Oscar. He said something like "she's great. Sometimes when we can't figure out how to make a sketch work, someone will just say, 'Give it to Colly [nickname], she'll make it work', then we have a break, and she does". I struggle to think of a greater compliment than a writer and star of multiple series of sketch shows happily explaining that's how they do it, "Give it to Colly". ① Olivia Colman won her "Leading Actress" Oscar playing Queen Anne in the movie "The Favourite". This Graham Norton video started with Olivia explaining the "wet sponge" story. That was a scene from "The Favourite" where Olivia was playing Queen Anne and the actresses Emma Stone had to portray an intimate act which was relevant to her becoming Queen Anne's favourite. I think Olivia's 'creative wet sponge idea' demonstrates she does think about how to make scenes work. She isn't passively "going along for the ride". She's a creative contributor. Also a prankster. Best Wishes. ☮
"Best British based Salsa Rom-Com ever".... has me in mind of "Flight of the Conchords" New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-gangsta-rap-funk-folk comedy duo. From BBC tadio, and latterly from a US tour on network TV.
7:04 She's effortlessly charming, uhh hello?! Her sense of humour is infectious, uhh hello?! and she exudes a natural ease and spontaneity, underlied by a well-prepared and adaptable nature, uhh hello?!
I've had conversations with many people who've said they're fans of OC. When I asked them what they think of Peep Show, some of them said they haven't seen it! Why would fans of hers have not seen any of her longest role?
To be fair she was an intrinsic part of The two sketch shows Mitchell and Webb did, and brilliant in Hot Fuzz, she's one of those actresses who is always in work, so even without the crime of not watching Peep Show, chances are if you watch TV in the UK you have seen her in something.
She's a gem. :D I definitely recommend watching Broadchurch - it's one of those shows that flies under the radar for whatever reason. Both Olivia and David Tennant are amazing in it!
Olivia Colman is a national treasure, and no you can't have her, she's our treasure :) YOU HAVE TO WATCH her 2013 AND 2014 bafta award speeches. You will fall of your chair!
Dustin Hoffman te method actor, really drove himself prepping for Marathon Man, he told Sir Lawrence Olivier, who responded with 'My dear boy, why don't you just try acting?'
Olivia is such a wonderful, sweet, and gorgeous person - almost as wonderful, sweet, and gorgeous as you, Mandy :) Interesting career path, too - she started in sitcoms and comedy films before moving into serious roles (her first major serious role, in Broadchurch, was stunning). But back in the days when she was in "Green Wing" and "Hot Fuzz", I doubt anyone would have expected her to go on and become an Oscar winner!
The thing was that she is involved in a lot of different movie projects one after the other and so she can be on the fourth movie afterwards when suddenly the earlier one is released and she can`t remember the names of characters etc, when she`s already moved on to the project after the next one. I don`t think she is disrespectful or unprepared while she`s actually doing them, otherwise directors would just stop hiring her.
You didn't even see that bit where she had to listen to the shipping forecast while the other actors were saying sad lines when she was playing the Queen just so she wouldn't start blubbering 😂
Oh I have agreed with you on actors not putting in effort, the amount of money they're getting paid definitely implies they should be doing at least the basics of leaning lines, but there are so many who go that extra mile and you see it in the end result.
The guy is Robert Webb, he starred alongside Olivia and David Mitchell in Peep Show, and they have worked together numerous times including The Mitchell and Webb situation and That Mitchell and Webb look, It's hard to accurately describe how good an actress she is but she is widely loved in the UK. Oh and for me one of her stand out comedic performances was in Hot Fuzz.
Olivia Colman meant she didn't do much research because she didn't want her interpretation to be clouded by too much information. But she didn't say she doesn't memorize lines. So she could be easier to work with than someone who won't read scripts.
Let’s random in tandem… There is a Friends episode where a gynaecologist is trying to explain to Rachel, how tricky dating can be for a gynaecologist. He says something like “You work in a coffee shop, right? Don’t you get those days where you think “If I have to look at one more cup of coffee….!”” Your medical musings during Karl’s bum exam made me think of it and the Monica monologues reminded me just now.
Yeah, I've heard stand up comedian Bill Burr basically say exactly what you said regarding actresses not appreciating their opportunities and complaining that they have to put some work.
Hahaha I wasn’t gunna say it till you pointed it out but she’s so you 🤣🤣 only seen her in only fools n horses but asif her memory’s that bad I’d be like that if I was an actor haha
I get what you're saying. But I've never heard of any interpersonal issues amongst the friends cast or crew, and whatever methods they chose to use clearly worked for that show, so I have to assume it wasn't really a problem.
When Olivia is saying she doesn't do any research, I think it's self depreciation, watch her in anything, there's no way she isn't fully immersed when playing a role, and wholly professional.
I think a lot of co-stars had issues with Courtney Cox I know a few people have come out and said she is a nightmare to work with, and as a guest on talk shows she has excessive demands. I agree with you, that cast were paid a massive amount of money for the show, so you'd expect her to learn lines, especially as the last season all the cast were paid 1 million dollars an episode, plus they continue to receive a paycheck due to global syndication of the show. That said she has claimed she doesn't remember much of her time on friends due to a bad memory.. make of that what you will.
she takes her work seriously, just not herself. pretty different from CC or whatever. Olivia is 1000 times better than anyone, yet she doesn't talk about her process or prep pretentiously.
She's good friends with David Mitchell. Think she went to uni with him and Robert Webb. She cut her teeth in comedy first, which is obvious when you see what she's naturally like in interview. As for Courtney Cox, there's a few examples of what you're talking about in the bloopers, but Olivia is nothing like her. You definitely have a Phoebe personality, and I'm here for it. Just an additional, random comment for ya.
You could see her bum and EVERYTHING. And his, Robert Webb, his bum and everything was completely visible too. It was a good film if you enjoy looking at either or both of their bums and everything.
Ahhh, what a veritable gem is our dear, dear Olivia Colperson. (I prefer the non gender-biased version of her name. Hehe!. If you ever get to see her award winning film "The Favourite" you should very well see it. Though it is very costumey and theatrical. I can't image the hostess of a hip, young channel like this would be ready for such things. Unless she had some sort of loose connection to the theatre world. Who knows? But it really is a great film. Three outstanding female leads, more hankerchief-like costumes than a snotty whale could wipe its nose upon, and, despite the brutality towards women, the whippings, the faeces covered faces, the animal torture and the awful British cuisine, it really is a jolly hoot. Hurrah! Though I'm thinking it would be more for your viewing than your reviewing. Er, how can you REview something that you haven't viewed before? So to sum up. Olivia Colman = Very good!
I’ve nothing personal against Olivia Colman personally. But there’s something about her work that I just don’t enjoy. I can’t put my finger on why. Maybe it’s because she always seems to be in every program in the U.K. every time I turn the television on. I don’t know. I’m sure the problem is mine and not hers.
i know you like sean locke check out his keep it light stand up not long before he died(r i p ) IT IS BRILLIANT HOW HE PLAYS THE AUDIENCE without a joke😄
First off, your pronunciation of "Colman" as "Coal man", is pretty much how we'd all pronounce it here in the UK. Your ignorance (if confirmed) is no greater or more egregious than ours, so trust me, you needn't worry on that score! Secondly, I was never a fan of hers... probably because she always tended to play characters in productions & genres that I actively disliked. The effect was cumulative. The more I saw of her, the less I liked her. But the UK media loved her, promoted her, rubbed our noses in everything she did...and that just pissed me off & cemented my distain! 🤬 It's a weird thing, when you're aware (logically) that it's the character you dislike... not the actor. But it's really difficult to separate the two, particularly when the media expends so much time and effort telling you that this is an amazing actress! That really turned me against her! If I ever saw her name in a cast list, I'd probably avoid whatever it was, unless there was someone more palatable or interesting headlining. However, I like to think I'm a reasonable person, so I bit the bullet and watched, "Empire of Light" recently, based on it's reviews. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Still, I wasn't entirely convinced... Until now! As I said, when her name comes up, I generally tend to look the other way, so I really hadn't seen any of the clips you included. Long story short: Your reaction vid kinda forced me to actually see the actress behind the media hype and the shitty roles, and softened my opinion. I may finally be open to watching more of Olivia Colman's work now, largely thanks to you. 😁 Trust me, I'd never have watched this much Olivia Colman content, if not for this vid & the fact that I watch almost everything you put out! Lena Dunham, though? Well, that's gonna take a hell of a lot more work!! And don't you f**king dare! 🤬
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I have no idea who Lena is! But glad you were able to see Olivia in a new light! And thank you so much for watching even if you don't like the topic being watched! 🙌🏻🤗💃🏻
@@MandyCaneLane She was one of the guests in one of the clips you included, but I refuse to elaborate further. If you don't know who she is, then I am not about to disabuse you of that luxury. Trust me... you're better off not knowing! 😁
