I heard from NU107 just recently that there has been a poll for the top 100 sexiest hollywood movie actors and actresses. Apparently, as much as a lot of people are vouching for Halle Berry topping the list, she placed #06. Guess who topped?
Surprisingly, it’s Keira Knightley.
Keira who? She’s the love interest of the oh-so-gay-but-still-oh-so-cute Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Carribean, with King Arthur as her most recent movie. You may also relate her to Winona Ryder as she amazingly looks a lot like that…err…kleptomaniac.
But of course, Star Wars fanatics knew her better. And being an ex-fan (I actually researched and concocted pseudo-intellectual analysis on the technical side of Tatooine racing pods and Anakin’s possible reason of falling into the dark side even before Episode 2 was shown–back in high school; I was that geeky), I can say that Keira’s roots travel back to around 1999 when one of her earliest movie stints was doubling for Natalie Portman as Padme in Star Wars Episode 1, The Phantom Menace. She bested Portman and is now probably even more famous than the girl who didn’t know better than to flash a fake I’m-21-ID on a nightclub when she was around 18, forgetting that she’s so famous because of George Lucas that everybody, even the nightclub bouncers, knew she was only 18 (yes, of all the exemplary brain cells Portman’s had, she actually had not much room for common sense). Knightley’s the perfect model for I-used-to-be-an-extra-now-I’m-a-star stories worthy of a spot in Oprah.
But of course, her fame can be attributed to her abundance of common sense, picking movies that might actually enhance her Hollywood image; if it fails to though, at least she would be lucky enough to have kissed Orlando Bloom. Portman didn’t want those kinds of movies. She wanted movies with heart (therefore arriving to the big screen with movies such as Anywhere But Here and Where the Heart Is), and those who impose the fame (fans) apparently don’t watch them. He he.
But at least, the underdog is now on the top. Portman was an underdog too, you know, before she hit it big with SW. I mean, she used to help me reply to half of the fan mails I get before she was finally discovered at a pizza parlor (one of those times she snuck out of the job and took a breather–and she got discovered) by one of those Revlon agents. Believe it or not, I used to be a Mouseketeer, so I got a lot of adoring fans back then. Which also explains why I hate Britney–it was her fault that the Disney Mouseketeers club was branded to be raising dimwitted bimbos because of her existence in the club, so naturally, I had to leave. As if tolerating her existence wasn’t enough, I had to deal with her reputation too.
Anyway, back to Portman. There–she used to do my fan mail replies before when she decided to brainwash the Revlon agent to get her some acting agent instead. Soon after that I let her have my fan-mail letter templates after she got some traffic. She got more famous than me, but hey, I’m not bitter. After all, I don’t want to bump into Britney again and rub elbows with her when I’m finally walking those red carpet galas.
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Speaking of another underdog, I posted this comment over at Marcelle’s blog days ago:
I think I should know that too. I’m from Cavite and every banner here screams Jasmine Trias.It’s just hateful how commercialism takes a toll on things. On one side, it’s almost okay to patronize someone who was somehow given her (compiled tv appearance) 5 hours of fame on International TV, since it does give inspiration to most “masa” Filipinos. But considering the facts that: one, technically, she’s a loser (well, what’s Fantasia Barrino doing at the top if she wasn’t?), and two, the Philippines is making a huge star out of someone who probably did not even consider admit she was half-filipina if not for our own media whores who unearthed the fact because of her obvious surname; it’s killing me to see banners like “Welcome Jasmine Trias, daughter of (her dad’s name), class ‘61″ on some proud school’s entrance doors. Or her Smart banners everywhere.
JD says Filipinos love Jasmine Trias because we love underdogs. I don’t know. I think we’re all just social climbers. *laughs*
