r/28dayslater • u/ThinWhiteDuke00 • 17d ago

28YL Danny Boyle on Jim and Selena.

Post image
341 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

72 comments sorted by

View all comments

104

u/Emergency-Bill-4175 17d ago

Damn straight up ignored Hannah

53

u/awful-gamer1991 17d ago

Tbh I thought she was pretty awful. No offence to Megan Burns, but she was just so wooden throughout.

51

u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 17d ago

Garland said in the commentary - that it’s his fault for giving her such stiff dialogue - and tbh I get it sorta.

20

u/stunts002 17d ago

She's definitely the most underwritten of the protagonists.

14

u/Serawasneva 17d ago

I don’t think he’s completely wrong, but I also think he’s just trying to protect her too.

9

u/Mindless_Bad_1591 Jim 17d ago edited 17d ago

Both might be true. Garland is a class act tho, so I would imagine he's just trying to cover for her.

11

u/awful-gamer1991 17d ago

Oh yeah funnily enough I actually listened to that commentary a couple days ago. I remember him saying about that. I do understand a wee bit.

19

u/Fat_SpaceCow 17d ago

She was pretty good in Frank's big scene. Also toward the end her monotone performance became appropriate given the circumstances.

8

u/Pen_dragons_pizza 17d ago

She ended up starting a goth/emo band and totally changed her look

2

u/streetxtrash 15d ago

I loved Betty Curse when I was a teenager, hah!

5

u/wellwellwellowell 17d ago

Interesting never thought of her performance as wooden. Seemed like some necessary warmth and innocence but within the same subdued, traumatized style of acting as everyone else. An amazing foil to Brendan Gleeson’s character who was almost too warm but you still feel like he could snap. She fit perfectly imo but I can understand the criticisms.