Rebecca Hall's performance in this film is great work. She is however too attractive to play the part. Chubbuck was a plain looking woman, perhaps by choice. Rebecca is just not believable as a spinster. Who would not date Rebecca Hall? Given that loneliness is what drove Christine to suicide, a more homely actress may have been a better choice. Just being realistic.
share100% disagree with you. Yes Rebecca is beautiful, but Christine was also an attractive woman from the few pictures I have seen and the short clip also from "Kate Plays Christine", with many people commenting on their surprise with her lack of personal life just by going on her looks. She definitely doesn't look like the stereotypical "spinster-type" that you would expect, I think Rebecca Hall was a great casting choice
shareRebecca Hall did plain herself down a bit and had a remarkable resemblance to the real no frills Christine.
But it was Christine's personality that stood in the way of her having relationships. Not her looks.
I agree with you, just by looking at pictures of the real Christine - she's quite an attractive woman with a lovely thick black head of hair and was even quite fashionable. So her image, not her character/personality, just based on pictures doesn't fit one's ideals of how unattractive spinsters are supposed to be or look like.
She's not even close to being a spinster even, maybe if it was the 1800s or earlier but by the 70s, she is still fairly young. But I guess the combination of many factors including her ovarian problems and limited time to have kids contributed to her feeling that it was the end of her.
I thought Rebecca was ok in the role but she doesn't look like Christine. Christine has an exotic Mediterranean flair about her while Hall looks more Anglo Saxon.
I also thought the real Christine was pretty attractive in an exotic way, wonder if she had any Jewish, Middle-Eastern, Hispanic or Mediterranean background. Her brother said she had symptoms of bipolar disorder, it's sad that she wasn't able to get treatment but not as much was known about it back then and there was more stigma about mental illness. There's an actress named Tammy Trull who would have been better suited to play her.
shareYes, she had an Italian/Greek/Jewish/Middle Eastern look about her.
I'm a girl and I find Italian or Mediterranean faces very attractive and interesting. And Christine fit that attractive exotic Mediterranean ideals I think.
People always assume that attractive or good looking people don't or will never have social issues but it happens.
Yes, it's hard to hide her beauty, but she was totally unglamorous in this role. And she was so high-strung and intense about her career and walled herself off emotionally and socially, so I can totally see her being alone.
And you know, the most gloriously beautiful thing about her is her smile and she rarely did that in this movie.
The way she was lit by the cinematographer made her features look very manly.
Great job all around
I'd bathe her in baby yogurt
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I thought she was very believable for a 2016 Londoner portraying a 1970s American. Yes, she's attractive, but nailed that '70s look as did the rest of the film. Would you prefer to watch someone unattractive for 2 hours? Anyway I don't think the real one was bad looking; I mean she wasn't trying to be beautiful, just a news woman.
She's gorgeous indeed but she done a brilliant job in this film. Her beauty didn't detract from her performance.
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