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Dec. 21st, 2007 10:48 pmSo, I should really post about the NYC trip, but this whole entry is going to be 100% Jen-tastic, so... yeah.
I just saw Juno. It was really, really good. There was a part that totally keeps it from being My New Fave, but that's because I hate drama. ... I know. That's crazy talk. But I want things... no, there's no way to explain how I like things to be, so, yeah, I'm crazy. But Jen.
Today in our newspaper, there was a review for "PS I love you." My mom is reading it in the paper and suddenly starts cracking up. "Ohhh, Madi," she said, "You need to read this."
"Swank turns in a passable performance as Holly. It's hard to watch her and not think about how an actress like Jennifer Garner could have given the performance a little more depth, especially if you saw Garner's Catch and Release, a film with a similar theme." -- Rick Bentley
We all know how I love Jen. This is no secret. But... two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank. It just fills me with delight.
Anyway, Jen was absolutely adorable in Juno. She was so poignant and her emotions came across so well and you could see all of Vanessa's motives and just the whole thing was great. I was thoroughly enchanted by her performance.
And I was in Cyrano, too. She may have been better suited in a modern play, but Jen's wit sparkled. And she was beautiful and captivating and... I am a fangirl and teared up when she showed up on stage and could barely take my eyes off of her.
As for my meeting her, I um... I spent about three months formulating what I would say to her when I met her. I wanted to stage door, and I kept thinking, oh, I can say this, or that, or do this.
Then Jen walks out. I was pretty far back, and I almost didn't push to the front, but the same surge of adrenalin-y horror at regretting this moment now and for the rest of my life, I moved to the front, and there she was. "May I please have a picture?" I said, and my voice was... relatively normal and there was no stuttering or anything. "Sure, is your camera ready?" she replied, and what's so funny is that I knew that voice, it was the politely not-entirely-invested voice, but not in a bad way, even though I'm making it sound that way. When other people said stuff to her, she was pleasant and adorable, like, one girl said it was her first broadway show, and Jen was all, "Did you like it? Did it feel like New York?" and it was adorable. I didn't give her too much to work with. Anyway, I nodded dumbly, even though I didn't have my camera and I was entirely not sure where Jess was. But Jess, like a saint, had not only been standing behind me, but also had her camera ready, since she had been paying attention.
So we took the picture and I thanked her and then I left and started squeeing to Jess and then I literally started shaking and my mouth got dry and I called my mom and started to cry.
I wish that I had said more. I keep thinking of other things to say, or that I should've introduced myself, or at least said something, ANYTHING other than what I said. I mean, what I said was passable and not insane or freaky, and I didn't cry or throw up, but still. Wasted opportunity.
Also, I can't say that if I didn't live there, I wouldn't have gone several times. Oh, Jen.
It's my birthday in one hour and eleven minutes. :)
I just saw Juno. It was really, really good. There was a part that totally keeps it from being My New Fave, but that's because I hate drama. ... I know. That's crazy talk. But I want things... no, there's no way to explain how I like things to be, so, yeah, I'm crazy. But Jen.
Today in our newspaper, there was a review for "PS I love you." My mom is reading it in the paper and suddenly starts cracking up. "Ohhh, Madi," she said, "You need to read this."
"Swank turns in a passable performance as Holly. It's hard to watch her and not think about how an actress like Jennifer Garner could have given the performance a little more depth, especially if you saw Garner's Catch and Release, a film with a similar theme." -- Rick Bentley
We all know how I love Jen. This is no secret. But... two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank. It just fills me with delight.
Anyway, Jen was absolutely adorable in Juno. She was so poignant and her emotions came across so well and you could see all of Vanessa's motives and just the whole thing was great. I was thoroughly enchanted by her performance.
And I was in Cyrano, too. She may have been better suited in a modern play, but Jen's wit sparkled. And she was beautiful and captivating and... I am a fangirl and teared up when she showed up on stage and could barely take my eyes off of her.
As for my meeting her, I um... I spent about three months formulating what I would say to her when I met her. I wanted to stage door, and I kept thinking, oh, I can say this, or that, or do this.
Then Jen walks out. I was pretty far back, and I almost didn't push to the front, but the same surge of adrenalin-y horror at regretting this moment now and for the rest of my life, I moved to the front, and there she was. "May I please have a picture?" I said, and my voice was... relatively normal and there was no stuttering or anything. "Sure, is your camera ready?" she replied, and what's so funny is that I knew that voice, it was the politely not-entirely-invested voice, but not in a bad way, even though I'm making it sound that way. When other people said stuff to her, she was pleasant and adorable, like, one girl said it was her first broadway show, and Jen was all, "Did you like it? Did it feel like New York?" and it was adorable. I didn't give her too much to work with. Anyway, I nodded dumbly, even though I didn't have my camera and I was entirely not sure where Jess was. But Jess, like a saint, had not only been standing behind me, but also had her camera ready, since she had been paying attention.
So we took the picture and I thanked her and then I left and started squeeing to Jess and then I literally started shaking and my mouth got dry and I called my mom and started to cry.
I wish that I had said more. I keep thinking of other things to say, or that I should've introduced myself, or at least said something, ANYTHING other than what I said. I mean, what I said was passable and not insane or freaky, and I didn't cry or throw up, but still. Wasted opportunity.
Also, I can't say that if I didn't live there, I wouldn't have gone several times. Oh, Jen.
It's my birthday in one hour and eleven minutes. :)
