Elizabeth Olsen has picked up steam in the film world in the past few years, and for good reason. Ever since Martha Marcy May Marlene, she’s been booking some great roles and is earning a great reputation in Hollywood. Turns out, that’s largely because she’s a team player and really likes group work – and hates actors who don’t feel the same way.
From Dazed and Confused:
“I’m obsessed with teams. When I was in sixth grade, I realized that mine and my siblings’ initials spelled the word ‘TEAM’. T-rent, E-lizabeth, A-shley, and M-ary-Kate. So I bought us all little trinkets that said ‘TEAM’ so we could always remember that.”
LOL, that’s sorta cute. And about working on films…
“All these weird people that probably shouldn’t ever be in a room together, who have to work together and get one thing done. It’s the best,” she said.
“Sometimes I can’t stand the bullshit of actors. You know, when they’re more interested in ‘getting in the zone’ than they are about showing up and doing their job and remembering that film is a group activity. When you’re an actor, it’s not about you. It’s about a team.”
Hmm, I don’t know if I agree with it. Sure, it’s about the team insofar as the chemistry has to be on and people have to, you know, not be dicks. Still, you have to sort of embody your role and really dig deep into it, which I think is a very different experience for everyone and often a solitary one. I get what she means generally, though. Actors are major bullshitters. They’re in the business of professional bullshitting, in fact.
Elizabeth Olsen is still the best Olsen, right? We all agree there?
Yes, she is. If she continues to work on quality films, there is no reason she can’t eventually win an Oscar.
She looks like holy hell! That’s one bad nose job. These verbal commercials on Evil Beet are holy hell too. It’s like there’s 4 of them playing at once and you can’t understand what the f they are saying. Please ditch these stupid audio ads. I don’t come here much because of them.
If you click around, you’ll notice that her nose looks bigger/smaller depending on the angle of the shot. Martha Marcy May Marlene was finished in late 2010. Looks like the same nose in this still:
http://fordonfilm.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/martha-marcy-3.jpg
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Elizabeth Olsen should try asking herself the basic question: What is a ‘team’?
It’s meaningless corporate bullshit.
Teamwork is just a form of manipulation. It is how very intelligent people get the average fool to sacrifice his own self-interest and happiness for something that does not even exist.
You cannot ‘see’ a ‘team’. You cannot ‘touch’ a ‘team’.
You can only ‘see’ and ‘touch’ individuals.
The irony of this word ‘team’ is that every individual who makes up the ‘team’ exists only to advance their own self-interest. Why do actors go to work? The very same reason that we all go to work. To earn money. Why do we want to earn money? To spend it on the things that we individually choose to as a result of our individual labors. There would no point in working if we worked for the benefit of other people. What would be the point in somebody going to work and then handing over their pay check at the end of week so somebody else can reap the benefits?
All individuals are motivated purely by self-interest.
Let me tell you something. I love individuals. I can see the world in their eyes when we are alone one to one. I loathe groups. Groups are toxic and the larger the group – the more toxic it becomes.
There is no such thing as a ‘team player’ either. The individual stands alone for his own sake. He is not joined by the hip to another. He is not an object of sacrifice. He is not chained to collective action. The individual is an end into himself.
If people stopped thinking of themselves as robots who are all part of a team and started facing up to reality instead – articles such as this might actually begin to make sense.
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