From a major V&A exhibition to the look of Mad Men's leading ladies, Grace Kelly is everywhere this spring. Actor Rosamund Pike pulls on her white gloves and travels to Monaco to recreate her timeless style
The chemistry of being a movie star is about maintaining the perfect temperature. From the screen, you need to radiate enough heat to keep the audience's pulses racing, to invite a little fantasy, yet maintain enough coolness to remind them that a fantasy is all it is. Too much heat and they think you're cheap; too little and they don't look long enough to care. The trick is to look approachable without being available.
Grace Kelly, if we can use a modern phrase for a timeless gal, had this nailed. As a gorgeous blonde starlet, she marked herself out as different by way of her cool, somewhat distant air. The director Fred Zinnemann...
The chemistry of being a movie star is about maintaining the perfect temperature. From the screen, you need to radiate enough heat to keep the audience's pulses racing, to invite a little fantasy, yet maintain enough coolness to remind them that a fantasy is all it is. Too much heat and they think you're cheap; too little and they don't look long enough to care. The trick is to look approachable without being available.
Grace Kelly, if we can use a modern phrase for a timeless gal, had this nailed. As a gorgeous blonde starlet, she marked herself out as different by way of her cool, somewhat distant air. The director Fred Zinnemann...
- 3/13/2010
- by Jess Cartner-Morley
- The Guardian - Film News
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