Dana Carvey's 'The Masters of Disguise', a ridiculously bad film from 2002, worth mentioning only for being the first time I noticed Jennifer Esposito. Well that and this thing about turtles...It's wierd because I'd seen her in things before, like 'Spin City', and more importantly 'Don't Say A Word', but had never even registered that she was even there. I feel like my not noticing her in DSAY is mostly because of the genius of Brittany Murphy, (I barely remember Famke in that film) but she was in Spin City for 2 years...
Anyways! Post Masters I was expecting great things from J-Espo, but it never happened. I've always blamed Eva Mendes and her bogarting all the roles for hispanic women in their age bracket, but I feel like Hollywood just forgot about her. It's easy to argue Mendes the better actress because she's been in so many high profile films, but J-Espo in Spike Lee's 'Summer of Sam' was arguably better than anything Eva's ever done. She even made the Jimmy Fallon disaster 'Taxi' watchable.
She's proven she can do TV, I think I was one of the only 3 people who actually liked her show 'Related', and she's finally getting recognition for 'Samantha Who?', but my point is that she can do better than playing the drunk best friend to Christina Applegate (who coincidentally I also love...) in a 30 minute sitcom.
Eva Mendes imdb page tells me she is currently attached to four high profile films, two out this year.
Jennfier Esposito's imdb page makes me sad.
2 comments:
feh at eva mendes, esposito is much better. i dont get why they are even considered competitors, esposito isnt hispanic and she can act. i still cant remember what that film where she played a cop was called!
LOL right?! And I think the film you're thinking of is don't say a word. Or Taxi...
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