Rate Kate Bosworth's performance as Lois Lane

[gothicFLAVOURS]

Bosworth as Lois is a no-no. If they make a sequel get another actress for Lois

[Darkhawk77]

Bosworth was absolutely terrible as Lois Lane. :down

[XCharlieX]

No, Bosworth was good. And for continuity sake who the hell would change in mid stream.

[M.O.Steel]

i liked what she did with the material...i didn't like the lois lane of the movie though.

[Super Kal]

she was okay, but she defninitly wasn't Teri Hatcher...

[Antonello Blueberry]

I felt Bosworth gave a very mature performance. I didn't think of her age at all. The problem was this Lois lacked spunk. She came off more spunky in the novel, but it looks like most of that either wasn't filmed or was cut. I did LOVE her interaction with Supes, and KB and BR have some really good chemistry...really good.

My problem was she was just...I don't missing something. I loved the direction of her character, but she seemed...joyless.

I have to agree. Lois Lane was always a fun characer, I always thought that Kal El fell in love with her because of that.

[xwolverine2]

poor:(

[Dr. Fate]

Kate didn't do much for me, despite being cuter than Margot Kidder (who also never did much for me).

[ec86]

Kate is a good Lois Lane, better than Margot Kidder at any rate. Lois is in emotional trouble and Kate shows that very good.

[Super78]

Kate was very sexy.

I wanna f*uck her!!!!

[Retroman]

A little bit off topic but i couldn't help but bring this up. Its a little shocking to see the before-and-afters.

Extreme Measures
COVER STORY: Drastic thinness has become the beauty ideal – and it's having an alarming effect on girls everywhere
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 06:00AM EST

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In 2002, fresh off her Blue Crush breakthrough, the actress – a champion equestrian as a teen – appeared slender but fit. As a leading lady at a premiere in June, her face, bust, arms and waist were notably thinner in 2006.

At a party for designer Zac Posen in New York City on Sept. 14, the scene was fashion meets young Hollywood. There was Kate Bosworth looking whisper-thin in a black dress, dancing to Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack" and smoking cigarettes. There was the always minuscule Mary-Kate Olsen, who stopped by just long enough to puff a cigarette and pose for a few photos. At the center was Posen, 25, a current red-carpet favorite who has dressed a range of young actresses, from the plus-size Marissa Jaret Winokur to the sub-zero Bosworth. "I like women's bodies – I emphasize them in my clothing," Posen told PEOPLE on Sept. 21. "Healthy women are much sexier."

And yet the questions of who is healthy and what is sexy cut to the heart of a renewed debate that is currently raging everywhere from message boards to movie sets to modeling agencies. What makes this controversy new is that for the first time both designers and stars have been put on the defensive: In Hollywood, stylemakers like Bosworth, 23, and Nicole Richie, 25, are setting troubling new standards for thinness, while in the fashion world, frail-looking runway models drew gasps at New York City's Fashion Week.

"In the past, some young models have had issues with eating disorders – but they were rapidly singled out and left with very little options other than to address their problem," says David Bonnouvrier, head of DNA Model Management. "The latest trend of skinny models, however, has allowed many of these young women to continue working, living in total denial." Adds Dr. Ira Sacker, a Manhattan-based eating disorder specialist and the coauthor of Dying to Be Thin: "I have a lot of A-list celebrities as clients, both actresses and models, and what they are telling me is that the pressure to be thin has never been greater. Why? Because whoever is thinner gets the job, and the competition is enormous."http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9721/naamloosgk7.png
KATE BOSWORTH

THEN: Bosworth (left, in 2003), who has always maintained she's "naturally small," once worked out five hours a day to pack on close to 20 lbs. of muscle for her surfer girl role in Blue Crush.

NOW: She recently turned heads at New York's Fashion Week – not for her style, but for her startling frail look. An insider who saw the 23-year-old actress told PEOPLE, "She's so small, it's frightening."
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[DogofKrypton]

A little bit off topic but i couldn't help but bring this up. Its a little shocking to see the before-and-afters.


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Hideous. No other words come to mind.

And that article, proclaiming that look as the "beauty ideal" is laughable. To whom is this "ideal"? The females who do it to themselves? Just because these "actresses" choose to turn themselves into sickly-looking individuals, does not mean people find it attractive. The media shows picture after picture, and right away it is "assumed" that people like it. Sorry, it makes me sick to my stomach to see women who look like that.

[The Kid]

oh god... what is she doing to herself?

[Retroman]

Hideous. No other words come to mind.

And that article, proclaiming that look as the "beauty ideal" is laughable. To whom is this "ideal"? The females who do it to themselves? Just because these "actresses" choose to turn themselves into sickly-looking individuals, does not mean people find it attractive. The media shows picture after picture, and right away it is "assumed" that people like it. Sorry, it makes me sick to my stomach to see women who look like that.
Couldn't agree more.

[DogofKrypton]

Couldn't agree more.

This just goes to show how far off-base Hollywood, and the media, is when it comes to what people find "attractive".

[Showtime]

Wow they went from semi-cute and even beautiful to aliens and corpses.

[Retroman]

Yup. Look at Nicole Richie.:(
This just goes to show how far off-base Hollywood, and the media, is when it comes to what people find "attractive".
The sad thing is that a lot of these ladies are so desperate to stay in the public eye that they'll go continue to extreme lengths (unhealthy) to look this way.

[Showtime]

Yup. Look at Nicole Richie.:(

The sad thing is that a lot of these ladies are so desperate to stay in the public eye that they'll go continue to extreme lengths (unhealthy) to look this way.

It's an infatuation, a discease, kind of like my fixation on Cape Cod Reduced Fat Chips. :wow:

[ec86]

the problem is.. many women and especially kids wanna look like Kate did at that time. Haha, great, if Kate is going to be thinner and thinner, THEN they will talk about her, yea

[Retroman]

It's an infatuation, a discease, kind of like my fixation on Cape Cod Reduced Fat Chips. :wow:
Sounds yummy.:woot:

the problem is.. many women and especially kids wanna look like Kate did at that time. Haha, great, if Kate is going to be thinner and thinner, THEN they will talk about her, yea
She can't get any thinner than she is now. Can she? When i see that it makes me want to order take out or something.

[Gmanofsteel]

She was awful, totally miscast.
I agree completely :up:

[Bad Superman]

Kate was very sexy.

I wanna f*uck her!!!!

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[TheComicbookKid]

That post is misleading. I don't like the super skinny chicks, but come on. The first pic is where she purposefully put on weight for a role. Believe it or not SOME PEOPLE ARE NATURALLY SKINNY OMG. The media just wants to find skinny people to call anorexic.

Compare Renee Zellwegger(mispelled?) in Diary Jones movie to how she naturally looks and you can say she has lost too much weight.

Kate may have an eating disorder, but stop trying to force a story. Find me a non- Blue Crush picture where she isn't that skinny and I'll shut up.

[TheComicbookKid]

double post. sorry.

[JBElliott]

Sucked!

[DogofKrypton]

That post is misleading. I don't like the super skinny chicks, but come on. The first pic is where she purposefully put on weight for a role. Believe it or not SOME PEOPLE ARE NATURALLY SKINNY OMG. The media just wants to find skinny people to call anorexic.

Compare Renee Zellwegger(mispelled?) in Diary Jones movie to how she naturally looks and you can say she has lost too much weight.

Kate may have an eating disorder, but stop trying to force a story. Find me a non- Blue Crush picture where she isn't that skinny and I'll shut up.

You should just do so right now. She DOES look disgusting, and no one has to prove ANYTHING to you.

It's obvious you're just Someone Attempting to Play Here anyway.

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I give Kate a 7/10 she is a good actress and she played the role well...it's just that she is too young and cute to play Lois and the character was written as spunkless. Which wasn't her fault but she was still miscast, but this was far from being a Katie Holmes debacle as she is a better actress.

[TheComicbookKid]

You should just do so right now. She DOES look disgusting, and no one has to prove ANYTHING to you.

It's obvious you're just Someone Attempting to Play Here anyway.

I don't even know what that means. I was just saying that that the girl might never look like she does in Blue Crush even if she puts on more weight.

I believe what I belief. I certainly hope she doesn't have an eating disorder. My sister had one and isn't not anything to play with.

[House_of_El]

Her performance was that of Margot Kidder's.

[ariellem]

I absolutely hated Kate Bosworth as Lois: too young-looking, too whiny, too nasty, too skinny, not smart enough, no apparent chemistry with Routh whatsoever other than in the scene when she takes off her shoes. Lois should NOT look like she would have been in high school when she had her kid! She seems more like his annoyed babysitter - having to pick him up; having to drag him along; wanting to go outside to smoke when she should be sitting by his bedside, making sure he's OK...

As I posted in one or two other threads on this board, I'm a longtime Superman fan who grew up with Reeves (George - that's not a bad spelling for Christopher!) reruns until the Superman movie came along. Dean Cain was a dreamy Clark. I loved Noel Neill, Phyllis Coates, and Teri Hatcher as Lois - lots of spunk, lots of wit, lots of screen chemistry with their respective Clarks/Supermen. I don't remember what I thought of Margot Kidder when I was a kid (the first Reeve movie came out when I was in 2nd grade or so), but watching her now I find her great as the smart reporter and definitely "into" her Clark/Superman, but a bit too neurotic and squeaky (and smoky!) for an ideal Lois. Lois should NOT look like a supermodel, but she should definitely be attractive if not beautiful. She should NOT look anorexic. She should look healthy and be smart and every bit worthy to have Clark/Superman after her. A bit neurotic and leap-before-you-look is fine (Teri Hatcher was wonderful as Lois, and the Reeves-era Loises got tied up an awful lot because of their naivete/recklessness), but don't go too far on that and get to slapstick. The comedy should be secondary to the drama/romance/action of the story. The best of all worlds would be to have a Superman fan in the part, but I'll live if she's not.

Hadn't seen pictures of Kate's Blue Crush-era self before. It's like seeing two different people. In the Blue Crush photos she looks very thin but not creepily so as now (like Nicole Ritchie and Lindsay Lohan). She actually looked OLDER back then, and peppier, and more appropriate for the Lois role! Not as skinny, not over-tanned, not skanky-looking, and just generally healthier and brighter all around. I want to ditch current-Kate from the series entirely, but if we could bring back Blue Crush-Kate then I'd be willing to give her a second chance. I think she looks MUCH better (and healthier) as a brunette or at least not with that bad, pale bleach job as now. Have her grow her own hair out to shoulder length or so, dye it, and we'll try for Round 2.

If that's not an option, then I hope she goes - it doesn't work as-is.

So who do I think would be a much better Lois to Routh's Clark/Superman?
Parker Posey (loved her as Kitty, but she could also switch with Kate or just ditch Kate altogether - thought she and Routh were a million times better together than Kate and Routh)
Teri Hatcher (check out the YouTube video clip of her with Routh onstage - they interact very naturally and casually, as Lois SHOULD with someone - Clark - she has known for so long)
Rachel MacAdams (McAdams?) - hadn't come up with that idea myself, but another poster suggested it and I concur that she could be great with Routh
Rene Russo (why couldn't Lois be rather a bit older than Clark? He's very mature for his age, and in the movies he doesn't seem to have met her before he gets to Metropolis...)
Shakira (is she too "pretty"?)

Favorite Star Trek suggestions for Lois:
Jennifer Lien (Kes - fantastic, deep voice; can look serious as well as sensitive/hurt)
Chase Masterson (our favorite Dabo girl, Leeta - great comic timing; sweet as can be; can do romance; old enough to have had a kid; too tall/gentle to play Lois?)
Jennifer Hetrick (Vash - see her scenes opposite Picard and Q - she'd be a fab reporter; old enough to have had a kid; not sure about her with Routh specifically, as I haven't seen her soft side much)
Roxann Dawson (B'elanna - can do the temper and the maternal bit as well as the problematic decisions)

Suggestions that weren't in my other posts:
Reese Witherspoon (tiny, but not fragile-looking most of the time; spunky, very bright, sympathetic, sweet yet determined; she IS a mom in real life, so that side should be believable)
Lindsay Lohan (spunky, for sure, and bright but scatterbrained; we'd have to get the pre-anorexic/pre-drugs look or it wouldn't work)
Winona Ryder (fabulous actress; has the Lois look already; not sure if she could be soft enough for us to really believe her & Routh together)
Rosario Dawson

Scarlett Johanson (one "n" before the "s" or two?) is an excellent actress, and she's sure feisty, but I have no desire to see her opposite Routh. I find her a bit too snobbish. Then again, she's versatile ("Lost in Translation")...

Don't know that I've seen Zooey Deschanel in anything, but she certainly looks from the postings here like a young Lois would.

A poster elsewhere suggested Keira Knightley or Natalie Portman. Based on her "Pride & Prejudice" I think Keira would also do a good job as Lois opposite Routh. So would her shorter doppelganger, Natalie Portman (see Natalie as the kid who helps the assasin out, her first movie?, for a non-Star Wars look). Of the two, I'd prefer Keira.

Using Courtney Ford herself - well, that could get a bit weird for Routh and Ford. Would hate to break them up via SR:sequels. She's very pretty and would look fine as Lois but I've never seen her in anything other than the "Denial" trailer. Up to them, of course... It has worked for some Hollywood couples but not for others.


My original commentary on the movie and possible/wishful recasting for all characters is in two parts, if you care to get the whole story. Be forewarned, both posts are very long-winded.
http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=250006&page=3 and
http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10333742#post10333742

[TheComicbookKid]

I understand but Singer gave the best explanation for her youthful appearance. The trilogy is going to take a long time so he wanted someone who would look the right age by the end.