Marisa Tomei is in my opinion, just one of the most beautiful ladies around. I think she's great, and very genuine and talented, and at 47 years old, looks both amazing and (at least to my untrained eye) very natural. This isn't to rag on any actress who feels the need as she ages to get a little work done, because that is her prerogative and her face/body and she can do whatever she damn well pleases with it. I just happen to think that particularly in Tomei's case, things like the lines around her eyes which a plastic surgeon would piss himself over, add to her physical beauty and also, demonstrate a life filled with laughter. Stuff like that makes me happy.
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| She's great. |
It is a well known state of affairs in Hollywood that there will often be a great divide between the attractiveness of a lead actress in a film or TV show and the attractiveness of the lead actor. Fall down the TV tropes rabbit hole if you have an evening to kill, but they spend a lot of time discussing couples where the discrepancy is noted in the plot. In many ways, if an actress has any sort of career, it is likely that at least a few times, she is going to get pair up with someone mismatched for her, and it will be par for the course for the film.
In Tomei's case, I feel like she has had more than her fair share of mis-matchings, especially recently. And it makes me sad. Why should poor Marisa have to keep making out on screen with all these uggos?
Proof:
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| So much face. |
Film: Cyrus (2010)
She was paired with: John C. Reilly.
Notes: John C. Reilly looks like Shrek. He even mentions it in the film!
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| Despite what I said above, this is a pretty good reason not to support plastic surgery. |
Film: The Wrestler (2008)
She was paired with: Mickey Rourke.
Notes: Mickey Rouke is, for me, one of the most difficult to look at men in Hollywood. He also looks like he smells like garbage and perverts.
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| Moist. |
She was paired with: Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Notes: Where Rourke smells perverse, Hoffman looks like he smells like the bottom of a milk carton. And like if you touched him he would be moist.
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| I'm sad this exists. |
Film: Wild Hogs (2007)
She was paired with: Not even sure!
Notes: I couldn't bring myself to research this movie in any great detail, so I am not sure which of this gross men poor Marisa Tomei had to pretend to like while filming it. I hope it was William H. Macy, because while he might even be the most objectively ugly, he isn't as generally unpleasant as the rest of the cast.
It hasn't been all bad for Tomei, for example in 2004's Alfie, she got to share the screen with all this:
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| Damn. He even had all his hair then! |
And she is an actress that if anything, has had her career pick up in her forties, with more challenging and high profile roles than ever before - at least since her big break through in 1992 with My Cousin Vinny, a film that, you guessed it, paired her with one fine fox of a man:
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| Harry! |
-Marg
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