Greta Scacchi - Why did her career go down the shitter?

She still works, of course. But she was everywhere in the 80s and early 90s. She was beautiful but also a good actress. I realized how far she had fallen many years ago in Flight Plan (with Jodie Foster) where she such a small role that i thought she would be one of the villains or something. But no, it was jiust a very small role.

The interview is lovely but does nor address the elephant in the room of her career decline.

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by Anonymousreply 19November 14, 2023 12:51 AM

She appeared in some good films such as Heat and Dust, Presumed Innocent, Jefferson in Paris, and The Red Violin, but I think dating her first cousin didn't help her career.

by Anonymousreply 2November 13, 2023 11:48 PM

^ Ugh...such a self-indulgent actor.

by Anonymousreply 3November 13, 2023 11:48 PM

I just saw her as the fat old daughter of the gay cop in Netflix Bodies, but had forgotten her as Odysseus' wife Penelope in the NBC miniseries The Odyssey. I watched it endlessly as a kid and is def the role I associate her with. Her face reminds me of the Sprouse brothers as well, somehow making eyebags sexy.

by Anonymousreply 5November 13, 2023 11:51 PM

She had an affair with her first cousin and got knocked up.

by Anonymousreply 6November 14, 2023 12:00 AM

She was stunning in white mischief. She looks unrecognizable now

by Anonymousreply 7November 14, 2023 12:03 AM

r1 Are we supposed to know who that is?

by Anonymousreply 8November 14, 2023 12:07 AM

R8, yeah Vincent D'Onofrio (one of Greta's boyfriends) is pretty well known from Law & Order: SVU & the first Men in Black movie. He was also Kingpin in the Netflix Daredevil show as Kingpin.

by Anonymousreply 9November 14, 2023 12:10 AM

She looks related to Susan Sarandon

by Anonymousreply 10November 14, 2023 12:11 AM

lol, subtract one of those Kingpin references from R9

by Anonymousreply 11November 14, 2023 12:12 AM

I can’t believe her daughter married Sean Penn.

by Anonymousreply 12November 14, 2023 12:14 AM

She looks related to Brenda Blethyn.

Is she still related to Sean Penn?

by Anonymousreply 13November 14, 2023 12:14 AM

She has (had? I don't know if it was renewed) a series on Acorn called "Darby and Joan" where she and Bryan Brown solve mysteries in Australia.

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by Anonymousreply 14November 14, 2023 12:15 AM

She went from Merchant Ivory films to begging for work while being married to her first cousin.

What a fall from grace.

by Anonymousreply 15November 14, 2023 12:30 AM

I watched the Darby and Joan series (one season). It was well done, worth watching, and the scenery was breathtaking. They travel around in an RV.

by Anonymousreply 17November 14, 2023 12:35 AM

Gone is the glamor. She now looks like a nutritionist.

by Anonymousreply 18November 14, 2023 12:36 AM

So stunning beautiful in White Mischief. My favorite movie of all time.

by Anonymousreply 19November 14, 2023 12:51 AM

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