Zooey Deschanel is one of those people who I literally fall in love with after watching them for 5 minutes. I've really only seen here in "Hitchiker" and that "Once Upon a Mattress" they had on ABC a while back, and about 5 minutes of "Elf", and to be honest, I wasn't all that impressed with her acting ability. Did that stop me from being gaga over her, though? No, it certainly did not. So why am I so attracted to her? Well, when it comes to people who do this to me, I see something of a pattern. They are generally approximately my age. Give or take 10 years maybe (mostly give, cause I'm not attracted to that many 12 year olds). They don't have to be stunningly beautiful, but they do have to look "interesting", and I don't know how else to describe it. Whenever I'm inexplicably attracted to somebody, it's because they look "interesting". Does this make sense to anybody else?
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I suppose. I really liked Zooey in "The New Guy." You should check it out.
Posted by GForce (Member # 9584) on :
I said I wasn't impressed with her acting ability, but when she stared at Arthur at that party and said "Let's go to Madagascar", my heart melted. Perhaps that was a weird time for it to melt, but like I said, inexplicably attracted to the girl.
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
Yeah, she's super hot. I can't explain it either.
Posted by seven (Member # 5367) on :
LOVE her in Almost Famous but thats all I've seen her in.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
She's been my celebrity crush for some time now.
Her singing voice is like something out of an old Bing Crosby movie, and she's cute.
Posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (Member # 7476) on :
Hmm, I thought I was the only one with a super secret crush on her.
Posted by GForce (Member # 9584) on :
With a name like Wowbagger, how could you not be a Deschenal fan?
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
One of my favorite films is the quietly understated 'All the Real Girls', and she's great in it. It's a movie I love and heartily recommend.
Also: She's playing Janice Joplin, you know. I wonder if they'll try to make her ... I don't want to say "ugly" because that's the last thing Janice Joplin was...... But certainly she wasn't striking in the same kind of cute way that Zooey Deschanel is.
Posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (Member # 7476) on :
Actually it was elf that got me....
Posted by GForce (Member # 9584) on :
When is this Janis Joplin movie coming out?
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
2008 according to imdb.
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
"Failure To Launch" was a fairly unremarkable movie otherwise, but Zooey Deschanel stole every scene she was in. I think she's absolutely adorable.
Posted by Tarrsk (Member # 332) on :
Dark hair, biiiig dark eyes, girl next door kinda look (but not in a Kirsten Dunst way)...
Yeah. She's got it.
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
My old roommate had an *obsession* with ZD. He had all of her movies and big pictures of her and stuff--he was a theatre major.
I still think she's positively adorable--but she definitely looks SMART, too, which is what makes her stand out from the others. Her and Anna Paquin are probably my fav. young actresses.
Posted by Cactus Jack (Member # 2671) on :
Crap, she was in Failure to Launch? I should have watched it when my wife rented it. I'd have got brownie points w/the wife, and got to she Zooey steal scenes.
I'm dissapointed with this thread, though. I thought I had this girl all to myself.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
I loved her in Eulogy, but she was rat@$$ crazy in Weeds. Still completely adorable.
Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
I love her as well. Her older sister Emily I think is just as attractive.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
I liked her well enough in Hitchhiker's, but I think my primary actress crush right now would have to be Amy Acker -- or possibly just the character she plays in Angel.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
Which character she played in Angel?
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Fred
Posted by Tarrsk (Member # 332) on :
Winifred "Fred" Burkle.
Posted by GForce (Member # 9584) on :
Amy Adams is another actress like that. That speech she gave to Will Ferrel at the bar in Talledega Nights. . . Well, I would've pledged myself to her right there.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
I just didn't know whether you meant Fred or Illyria.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
My exhausted mind last night read this topic as "Zoog Disneychannel." Not sure why.
--j_k
Posted by Occasional (Member # 5860) on :
I can totally see that JTKirk. Now I see that everytime I look at the post name. By the way, I was "smitten" by her when I saw Hitchhickers Guide because of her less than hollywood slut looks. When I saw her in Elf, complete with singing voice, I was hooked. Guess I will be looking for more movies with her in it. Not the best actress, but someone worth watching.