Movie Star Statistics… (con’t)

Continued post from Tae Kwon Do blog 

According to AmIAnnoying.com, The top 10 actresses in entertainment for 2006 are, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, Kirsten Dunst and Jennifer Aniston. What I wanted to know was how many of these 10 know martial arts? What discipline do they study? What have they used in film?

Drew Barrymore is easy….come on now you gotta do better than that. Charlies angles…

Reviewer: Meerkat Mere words cannot describe just how awful this movie is. While I was certainly not expecting Shakespeare in the Park, I did expect something resembling a storyline and dialogue that sounded like it was coming from people with more than two brain cells to rub together. I’m sure the audience is supposed to just ignore the Matrix-wannabe fight scenes, but this just went too far out. I’m all for the “girl power” idea that Drew Barrymore thinks she is portraying in this movie, but back flips and martial arts moves in four inch stilletos? Puh-leeze! The only bright spots of this mish-mash of a movie are Bernie Mac and Demi Moore - who unlike the present angels, looks like someone who actually could kick some a## (trust me, the present angels are so ditzy and insipid, you are praying that Demi Moore will succeed in killing them). But even the only two characters that don’t make you want to retch look embarrassed at some of the dialogue they are forced to speak in this ridiculous movie. The first movie was silly, but had a few fun moments… this one is just plain bad unless you’re a fourteen year old boy in search of a T&A fest courtesy of amazon.ca

 

Of course you can put Cameron Diaz right next to Drew Barrymore in Charlies Angels but here goes a little more:

CAMERON DIAZ is the most luminescent newcomer to silver screen in the 1990’s.  At age 21 and only with her modeling experience under the hood, Diaz landed a potentially sky-rocketing role opposite rising superstar comedian Jim Carrey in The Mask.  With her foot well in the door of Hollywood films, she was next afforded the chance to kick Hollywood ass in the feature film version of Mortal Kombat.  For this role, Diaz would require martial arts training.  But luck would send Diaz down a different road after she injured her wrist karate-chopping her trainer’s head.  Diaz instead returned to some high-paying modeling jobs and found smaller, low-paying roles in independent films.  Cameron states, “I think that definitely your chances of coming across material in independent films–material that is more interesting and more challenging–is more likely than in big-studio films.  You always have to leave your doors open to independent films so you have that opportunity.”  courtesy of Best of Cameron Diaz

Of course you have Halle Berry in the roles in both X-Men and as Catwoman where she uses Capoeira:

Halle Berry’s action movie Catwoman opens Friday, and the body-whipping, fluid style of fighting she uses in the film is inspired by the Brazilian martial art of capoeira. Day to Day producer Shereen Meraji reports on the martial art that’s become the new hot thing in Hollywood. courtesy of NPR

Then you have Charlize Theron

Trying to get into the shoes of her character, the deadly assassin Aeon Flux in science fiction/action drama “Aeon Flux” (2005) based on the MTV animated series of the same name, Charlize Theron’s role is a challenging one, full of martial-arts beatdowns and high-impact gymnastics. Though, she is well-prepared for that.

Trained as a ballerina for 12 years, she combined her already embedded dance prowess with working with a Cirque de Soleil gymnast to hone gymnastic, trampoline and acrobatic skills, and spent four months learning various martial arts such as karate, judo, Capoiera and Krav Maga.

Once injured her neck early on the film’s shooting and had to be rushed to a hospital, she intended to finish the film because she always feels responsible. “Aeon is pretty self-destructive, and sometimes thinks of herself as quite indestructible,” but Theron can get into that while at the same time also find something that challenges her as an artist not to mention her built long, lean muscles as a result of the training she underwent. courtesy of ACESHOWBIZ

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