Sundry Sunday :: wherein I play a few rounds of performer’s bingo.

Remember this?

The rules are simple: rack up at least five squares looking at one actor’s resume.  This is just a sample board, I may rearrange it in the future to make the squares consecutive for future rounds, I may change the squares, but here are three rounds for starters.

Red: Kelly Macdonald, as previously mentioned.  I’m sure there are other things that could count, but for now, the five.

• Misc. cult classic: Trainspotting as Diane.  I haven’t seen it, but I hear it’s a cult classic.
• (non-Deadwood) HBO series: Boardwalk Empire as Margaret Schroeder.
• Disney (etc.) animated film: Brave as Merida.
• Award winning film: No Country For Old Men as Carla Jean Moss.
• Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows, Part 2 as Helena Ravenclaw.

Yellow: Emma Thompson, who has been in a lot of things and some happened to be consecutive, so go with it even if it’s more than five and she could check off more boxes also.

• Disney (etc.) animated film: Brave as Elinor.
• Award winning film: There are a ton of them. Here.
• Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban onward as Sibyl Trelawney.
• Jane Austen types: Sense and Sensibility, which she wrote as well as played Elinor Dashwood in.
• Comedies that don’t suck: Love Actually as Karen.
• Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice.

Green: Ciarán Hinds, who is also in many other things, of course.

• (non-Deadwood) HBO series: Rome, as Julius Caesar.
• Misc. comic book project: apparently he’s to be a form of Satan in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.  Which will probably not be good, but still, comic book project.
• Musical film: The Phantom of the Opera as Firmin.
• Award winning film: Again, here.
• Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows, Part 2 as Aberforth Dumbledore.

–your fangirl heroine.

Sundry Sunday :: my urban dictionary: performer’s bingo

Def.: When one actor or actress has racked up at least five of what I consider epic career points.

Usage: Kelly Macdonald has been in a cult classic film that has been judged “the best Scottish film of all time,” i.e. Trainspotting, an Oscar-winning film by the Coen brothers, i.e. No Country For Old Men, an HBO Sunday night drama series for which she has received personal award nominations, i.e. Boardwalk Empire, an installment of Harry Potter, and an animated cartoon in which she voices an awesome princess, i.e. Brave; she has thusly achieved a performer’s bingo.

–your fangirl heroine.