Amanda Fuller


Acted like her, played her and talked like Brittney very well but did not look anything like her.
They did a good job on casting the mother

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I kinda feel sorry for her...because she's strongly disliked for the roles she chooses. At least for this one, Brittany... and on Last Man Standing. (And yes...she's a bad fit for both.) If she reads peoples' opinions...it's gotta hurt. She needs a better agent or something ...to help her find appropriate roles. So she can read some nice reviews.

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I think she's fine on Last Man Standing and the people who stuck with the show are mostly (if not all) used to her by now. It's typical though that when they change an actor, the new one gets criticized harshly.
As far as being Brittany, I admit she doesn't look a thing like her, but I think she tried to do her best with what she was given.

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Regardless it seems like or by the looks of things (for better or worse or rightly or wrongly), Amanda Fuller's career "highlights" thus far all boils down to in effect, being hired to impersonate other people (first, Alexandra Krosney and now, Brittany Murphy).

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Yeah, that's what actors do.

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But that shouldn't necessarily "define" ones otherwise still early career. And even so, on both occasions, Amanda Fuller has been heavily criticized.

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You're hilarious! Everyone hates her more than ever and they should. She was a terrible choice for this movie and a terrible choice on LMS.

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She's NOT disliked for her part on LMS. In fact, fans of that show have long forgotten Alexandra Krosney who played her part in season 1.

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And how do I know for sure that this isn't simply your own personal opinion!?

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Someone is high. We hate her more than ever on Last Man Standing. Each season gets worse with her.

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Actors are always going to get some bad reviews, and be attacked by the media (a point made clear in this movie). Success invariably attracts as much negative and jealous attention as it does positive attention. Actors have to have thick skins, and learn to ignore the negative opinions, or they will be destroyed. Another point made clear in the movie.

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I'm not familiar with her work but she did amazing work on this movie

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Not sure if Amanda did amazing work...because it was hard to get past how wrong she was for the role.

Amanda was a terrible choice to play Brittany. People often thought that Brittany was anorexic ... and Amanda was simply not thin enough. As someone else said...she would be good playing Mariah Carey. Whoever cast this movie ...should have at least picked an actress with the right body type. Not a full figure actress. Too distracting.

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Brittany was chubby in the early part of her career. She only became scary thin once her health started going downhill.

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Here's a little "archive" regarding Amanda Fuller's work on Last Man Standing:
https://www.facebook.com/BringBackAlexandraKrosney

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Based on what I've seen - only clips because I don't live in the US - she didn't act anything like her either.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/09/08/five-moments -that-tell-you-more-about-brittany-murphy-than-lifetimes-debacle/

Lifetime’s “The Brittany Murphy Story” doesn’t think much of Brittany Murphy. The grim, made-for-cable biopic, which premiered on Saturday, depicts the singer-actress as dowdy, insecure, and codependent, ignoring her considerable talent and zeroing in on her mysterious, creepy relationship with Simon Monjack (Eric Petersen), the paparazzo-turned-screenwriter who would eventually become her husband.

Amanda Fuller, the actress tasked with playing Murphy, is handicapped not only by her lack of physical resemblance to Murphy but also by an inability to capture Murphy’s incandescence. It would’ve been a tough task for any actress. Trying to embody another, better-known performer — one whose ticks and talents are almost inimitable — presents a considerable challenge. Fuller in particular didn’t seem up to it.

There was an ineffable something about Brittany Murphy. She was fragile, her eyes ever-threatening to tear, her speaking voice often a feathery lilt, but the songs that rang out of that tiny birdlike body were unnervingly powerful. She could convincingly play psychotic, in films like “Girl, Interrupted” or “Don’t Say a Word,” but she’d also weave a bit of that wild-eyed, unhinged act into a comedy role to great effect. She was part Wendy, part-Pan, often giving interviews as though she were on holiday from a private, ominous Wonderland. All those delicate disparities, all that versatility and vulnerability, should’ve guided Fuller’s onscreen portrayal.

The real tragedy of Lifetime’s rendering is not in the sad goings-on that preceded Murphy’s death but in the complete absence of the joy and oddness and passion that made Brittany Murphy. Lifetime reduces her to a giggling, antidepressant-popper whose career is over almost as soon as it begins. While this isn’t surprising — what are Lifetime Original Movies, if not reductive and salacious? — it’s yet another way to sell short a young woman whose rumor-plagued career overshadowed her promise. Five years following her untimely passing, she still deserves better.

Because the best way to honor actors is to revisit their work when they’re gone, here are five moments, all under 15 minutes, that tell you more about Brittany Murphy than 100+ minutes of watching “The Brittany Murphy Story” did.

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No she didn't look anything like her but if you close your eyes, especially at the beginning she sounded just like her.

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she looked like a chubby Kathy Lee Gifford in this movie.

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https://spiritedbliss.com/celebrity-doppelgangers/5/?as=2100019383593&bdk=a2100019383593&ch=bt&nogdprc=1

5. Lili Reinhart and Brittany Murphy: The CW’s teen mystery series Riverdale hasn’t seen a day without Reinhart’s sweet face, which is oddly reminiscent of the late Brittany Murphy’s. With them both boasting upturned noses and flirtatious smirks, some say Reinhart is the “spitting image” of Murphy.

https://images.boredomfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/bolt/2020/01/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-02%20at%204.04.26%20PM-768w.jpg

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