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I have 5 favorite actresses. In no particular order:

Lauren Bacall
Meryl Streep
Juliette Binoche
Julia Roberts
Gwyneth Paltrow

If anyone has watched a Bogie and Bacall movie, you know why I love Lauren Bacall. Gosh! To be so womanly, so strong and not really have to try so hard to do so… that’s a trait I’d love to have. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure you’re born with a presence such as Mrs. Bogie’s rather than gaining it.

Meryl Streep, oh yes. She is fierce isn’t she? I have a ton of her movies in my queue on Netflix. I want to watch all of her movies. I watched The Hours which was a very well made movie. Slightly depressing but many movies with a strong feminist view tend to lean toward that way. Meryl is one of those ladies who are so wise. I look at Meryl and I want her to tell me something I don’t know. I want her to tell me it’ll all be okay and I’ll believe her.

Juliette Binoche. If I were to pick one actress I would love to be like, Juliette would be it. She’s smart. She studies. She has lived life. I watch her in movies and I’m stuck. Not because she good and certainly not because she’s the main character. It’s because she’s sincere. She’s so honest. Every part she plays, she brings this innocence to it. It’s like she’s been there before but yet it’s her first time. I watched her in Paris, Je T’aime the other day and she didn’t even have to say anything and I knew. I knew her pain and sadness. She just looked and I knew. I admire that.

I have adored Julia Roberts forever. Queen of romantic comedies. I think I like her because she makes me feel like it can happen to me. And maybe Julia really sparked my interest in movies. I take movies literally. And I blame that on Julia. She makes me feel like if it can happen to her it can happen to me too. There’s a personable factor about her that I love.

The reason why I love Gwyneth is because I always forget that she’s American. I always picture her as Emma or Viola in Shakespeare in Love or Maud in Possession. She makes me believe she’s actually British.

So that’s enough movie blabber for now.