That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. I'd always felt that was not going to be a strong point. 'The odd thing for me is the focus on looks which happened in the States. She knew she was lucky, but she also knew she was out of her depth - not with the acting, but with the stuff that surrounded it. But I was hungry for the learning experience and didn't feel secure enough to say no. but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough. 'It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn. Though she knows Sabrina was a mistake, Ormond has no regrets. Then came a remake of Sabrina, in which director Sydney Pollack misguidedly steered her into Audrey Hepburn's ballet pumps. Legends of the Fall, where she played the love interest, was quickly followed by First Knight, a hilarious turkey in which a trumpet-sleeved Ormond was Guinevere, torn between Sean Connery and Richard Gere. 'I'm not being negative about it, but I'm hedging my bets.'Ĭertainly, the timing was unfortunate. 'They seem to be very sure things are going to be a success,' Ormond told Vogue in 1995.
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Looking back at her earliest interviews, conducted amid a swarm of excitable movie execs and publicists, with superagent Michael Ovitz himself on hand to fetch her glasses of water, you note a rich seam of ho-hum scepticism. On-set admirers called her 'formidable' and 'flinty' and 'honest' unnamed sources grumbled about 'attitude'. There were sacrifices she didn't want to make. At 29, Ormond hadn't submitted rapturously to the star machine. It's got to! What comes up must come down.'Īnd it's true: she did know it was coming. And you know the negative stuff is coming. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. 'I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. 'For sure, you don't believe the good stuff,' says Ormond, referring to the hullaballoo that surrounded her in 1995 when Legends of the Fall, First Knight and Sabrina all opened more or less simultaneously. But one role she's simply not interested in is that of victim. Or rather, there would be if she would only play along with it, cast herself as The Fallen Star, or The Girl From Surrey Who Thought She Was Audrey Hepburn. There is something rather Hilaire Belloc about Julia Ormond's story, something a little cautionary. Like Davis, Ormond enjoyed a spectacular launch in Hollywood, buoyed by gallons of publicity rocket fuel: a dazzling ascent swiftly followed by a tumble back to earth at the end of a blackened stick.
Instead, she went off at a different angle and became the new Geena Davis. F ive years ago, the smart Hollywood money was on Julia Ormond becoming the new Julia Roberts or the new Meg Ryan.
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