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2013-03-19 04:15:38 UTC
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/09/the-real-tuesday-weld/
Excerpt:
"Weld was Kubrick's first choice for Lolita, but she turned him down,
later claiming "I didn't have to play it. I was Lolita."
Weld is as famous for what she could have been as for what she was. In
addition to Lolita, Weld was first choice for the lead female parts in
Bonnie and Clyde, Rosemary's Baby, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice,
Cactus Flower, and True Grit, turning them all down. Critics at the
time accused her of exercising poor judgment, but according to Weld
herself, the real reason for her choices was more complicated.
"Do you think I want a success?" she said in a '71 New York Times
interview. "I refused Bonnie and Clyde because I was nursing at the
time, but also because deep down I knew it was going to be a huge
success. The same was true of Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue or
whatever it was called. It reeked of success."
Despite her pinup origins, Weld has shown herself to be one of the
most singular film acting talents of the last 50 years. According to
critic David Ehrenstein, "Tuesday Weld's genius is that she never
seems to be acting. She always looks like she is simply that way,
whether the film be…Sex Kittens Go to College, or (Sergio Leone's
epic) Once Upon a Time in America."
Excerpt:
"Weld was Kubrick's first choice for Lolita, but she turned him down,
later claiming "I didn't have to play it. I was Lolita."
Weld is as famous for what she could have been as for what she was. In
addition to Lolita, Weld was first choice for the lead female parts in
Bonnie and Clyde, Rosemary's Baby, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice,
Cactus Flower, and True Grit, turning them all down. Critics at the
time accused her of exercising poor judgment, but according to Weld
herself, the real reason for her choices was more complicated.
"Do you think I want a success?" she said in a '71 New York Times
interview. "I refused Bonnie and Clyde because I was nursing at the
time, but also because deep down I knew it was going to be a huge
success. The same was true of Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue or
whatever it was called. It reeked of success."
Despite her pinup origins, Weld has shown herself to be one of the
most singular film acting talents of the last 50 years. According to
critic David Ehrenstein, "Tuesday Weld's genius is that she never
seems to be acting. She always looks like she is simply that way,
whether the film be…Sex Kittens Go to College, or (Sergio Leone's
epic) Once Upon a Time in America."