Camilla Belle

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  1. Scarlett Johansson,  Hitchcock, 2012.    Thirty-two years after his death, Alfred Hitchcock’s back in business! With two films headlined by UK actors (Anthony Hopkins, Toby Jones) in bad impressions and fat suits. This is the first before the cameras  – Hopkins making Psycho. And telling Scarlett’s  Janet Leigh: “You can call me Hitch. Hold the cock.”  As Janet Leigh was just two years older than the dowdier Vera Miles (played by Jessica Biel), most actresses were up for either role…

  2. Jessic Biel,  Hitchcock, 2012.    …the candidates included  , Dianna Agron, Camilla Belle, Abbie Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, Natalie Dormer, Sarah Gadon, Ashley Greene, Kate Mara, Brit Marling, Gwyneth Paltrow,Chloe Sevigny, Mary Elizabeth Winstead., Reese Witherspoon, Evan Rachel Wood… plus  Jessica Biel (chosen for Vera Miiles)  and January Jones, who was also up for the role of Tippi Hedren in the Hitch-making-The Birds TV  drama, The Girl, seen first in October 2012.  (Timothy Spall was booked as her Hitchcock, finally portrayed by Toby Jones opposite Sienna Miller)Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Black Christmas, 2006.     Booked elsewhere, she couldn’t get free to become Heather Fitzgerald in “the deviled-ham rehashing” [Jim Ridley, Village Voice] of the 1974 horror, aka Silent Night, Evil Night.

  3. Rose Huntington-Whitely, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 2010.       In the chase  to replace – not the Mikaela role,  but Megan Fox… after her hassles with the franchise director Michael Bay. She compared him to Hitler (and Napoleon) and producer Steven Spielberg told him to sack her. The Victoria’s Secret model became Carly, Shia LaBeouf’s new squeeze. Also considered: Gemma Arterton, Katie Cassidy, Brooklyn Decker, Ashley Greene, Lucy Hale, Amber Heard, Julianne Hogue, Rose Huntington-Whitely, Anna Kendrick, Miranda Kerr, Blake Lively, Heidi Montag, Bar Refaeli, Sarah Wright.
  4. Emma Stone, Gangster Squad, 20112.     The City v Public Enemy #1, circa ’49. Apart from Sean Penn’s uproarious make-up as Mickey Cohen (befitting his worst rôle), we’d seen it all before. Only better. Stone won (and wasted) his moll from the belle Belle, Lily Collins, Maggie Grace, Ashley Greene, Aly Michalka, Teresa Palmer, Emmy Rossum, Amanda Seyfried.
  5. Scarlett Johansson, Hitchcock, 2012.     Hitchcock’s back in business! With two films headlined by UK actors  (Anthony Hopkins, Toby Jones) in bad impressions and fat suits. This is the second one – Hopkins making Psycho. And telling Janet Leigh: “You can call me Hitch. Hold the cock.” 
  6. Jessica Biel, Hitchcock, 2012.        As Janet Leigh was just two years older than the dowdier Vera Miles, most actresses were up for either role :Belle, Diana Agron, Abby Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, Natalie Dormer, Sarah Gadon, Ashley Greene, January Jones, Kate Mara, Brit Marling, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chloe Sevigny, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Reese Witherspoon, Evan Rachel Wood.

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