Age: 42
female
Greta Gerwig is an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and director based in NY. She has collaborated with Noah Baumbach on several films, including Greenberg (2010), Frances Ha (2012), for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, and Mistress America (2015). Gerwig made her solo directorial debut with the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film Lady Bird (2017), which she also wrote, and has also had starring roles in the films Damsels in Distress (2011), Jackie (2016), and 20th Century Women (2016). Greta Celeste Gerwig was born in Sacramento, California, to Christine Gerwig (née Sauer), a nurse, and Gordon Gerwig, a financial consultant and computer programmer. She has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Gerwig was raised as a Unitarian Universalist, but also attended an all-girls Catholic school. She has described herself as "an intense child". With an early interest in dance, she intended to get a degree in musical theatre in New York. She graduated from Barnard College in NY, where she studied English and philosophy, instead. Originally intending to become a playwright, after meeting young film director Joe Swanberg, she became the star of a series of intellectual low budget movies made by first-time filmmakers, a trend dubbed "mumblecore". Gerwig was cast in a minor role in Swanberg's LOL (2006) in 2006, while still studying at Barnard. She then appeared in many of Swanberg's films, and personally co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced one entitled Nights and Weekends (2008). She has worked with good quality directors such as Ti West (The House of the Devil (2009)), Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress (2011)), or Woody Allen (To Rome with Love (2012)) but success and (international) recognition did not come until Frances Ha (2012), directed by Noah Baumbach, a film she also co-wrote. Both tall and immature, awkward and graceful, blundering and candid, annoying and engaging, Greta has won all hearts in the title role of Frances Ha(liday). In 2017, she wrote and directed the highly acclaimed, semi-autobiographical teen movie Lady Bird (2017), set in 2002-2003, and starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Timothée Chalamet. In 2011, Gerwig received an award for Acting from the Athena Film Festival for her artistry as one of Hollywood's definitive screen actresses of her generation.
Greta Gerwig
Hannah Gaines
for Hannah Gaines in The Manchurian Candidate
Suggested by lancasterdoddfrank
Set in 2024. Special forces team gets captured in a Sub-Saharan African country by Chinese forces who are actually working as minor partners for a U.S. far right Christo-fascist thinktank called the Manchurian Institute, which is fronted as a U.S.-China foreign affairs thinktank by Korean War veterans following the war. Brainwashing scene rips off Parallax View and includes showing clips from Alan Lomax archives of church singing from the 80s. Involvement of American fascist conspiracy goes way further in this version than previous adaptations. Twist is that they were ultimately responsible attempting to assassinate moderate Republican presidential candidate and the Chinese were minor allies. Unclear throughout whether Eugenie character is involved with the brainwashing and works for the Manchurian Institute or not. Republicans and Democrats explicitly mentioned. Jordan is a Democrat who is frequently tagged as a socialist, Shaw is a Republican. Themes of national delusion, patriotism, jingoism, mass surveillance, PTSD, disinformation, separation of church & state, near-peer war, AI, dreams, domestic fascism. Ray and Jocelyn relationship inspired by Mary Matalin and James Carville. Stuff taken from both films and book. Ends with characters talking about how a forthcoming Congressional hearing and new coverage will expose it all and one character jokes about how no one will therefore no what really happened. Relationship between Mrs. Iselin and Raymond explicitly incestuous.
