Eldergays, Tell Me About Greta Scacchi
Eldergays, tell me about Greta Scacchi.
She was in quite a bit in the 1980's and 1990's, in hits such as Heat and Dust, White Mischief, Presumed Innocent, The Player, Jefferson in Paris, Emma, and Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny.
But by the year 2000 her career was practically over. What happened?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 74 | June 18, 2025 3:11 AM
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Having a kid with your first cousin doesn't help your career.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 16, 2025 1:26 AM
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Turned down “Basic Instinct.” Had a kid with Vincent D’Onofrio who’s a hot mess. Fucked her cousin.
Screwed up an otherwise promising career due to her pussy.
Tale as old as time.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 16, 2025 1:29 AM
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She also hinted at the fact that she had spurned Harvey Weinstein, which didn't work to her advantage.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 16, 2025 1:31 AM
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Thank you, Greta. You’re disgusting but I appreciate you.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 16, 2025 1:33 AM
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Who cares - get rid of her.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 16, 2025 1:35 AM
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Her daughter married Sean Penn, which is concrete proof you were an abominable parent.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 16, 2025 1:37 AM
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She's average looking now
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 8 | June 16, 2025 1:48 AM
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[quote] She's average looking now
Average?
She’s your fat, spinster aunt.
Time is a bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 16, 2025 1:50 AM
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She stopped having a mint for dinner.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 16, 2025 1:50 AM
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Greta Scacchi is now Vicki Lawrence.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 16, 2025 1:52 AM
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[quote] Greta Scacchi: ‘I was always being invited to play a male fantasy’
Not anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 16, 2025 1:56 AM
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Never made in past the year 2000
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 16, 2025 1:56 AM
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Had the chops to be a great femme fatale but was more interested in her cousin’s cock.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 16, 2025 1:59 AM
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She won an Emmy as Czarina Alexandra in HBO's Rasputin.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 16, 2025 2:01 AM
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She’s now a fat, pear-shaped Italian woman.
It’s inevitable.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 16, 2025 2:06 AM
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Men and women truly age differently.
Vincent D’Onofrio still looks good, even when he’s fat as shit playing Kingpin on “Daredevil.” Greta, meanwhile, is now an Italian Nona who looks like she’s smuggling a brisket in her girdle.
Vincent can still get 30-something pussy. She couldn’t get felt up by a blind Italian grandpa.
She should at least buy a treadmill and make an effort to look presentable. Currently, she’s a fat, elderly embarrassment.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 16, 2025 2:13 AM
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Incest isn’t the best career move. Mostly.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 16, 2025 2:17 AM
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She convincingly played such a vile, homewrecking bitch in “Presumed Innocent,” that the audience was actually happy when they learned Bonnie Bedillia’s character smashed her head in with a hammer. That’s how detestable the character was. Even though the men were really the problem - she fucked half the dopey cast- she just emanated narcissistic evil.
She would have actually been very interesting in “Basic Instinct.” But Sharon owned that role.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 16, 2025 2:28 AM
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Mentioned this on another thread -- she's co-starring with Bryan Brown in a series ("Darby and Joan") filmed in Australia. They travel around solving crimes. It's on Acorn.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 21 | June 16, 2025 2:33 AM
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R20 Presumed Innocent really is an underrated film. So many good performances; Scacchi, Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Brian Dennehy, Paul Winfield, John Spencer, and, as you mentioned, Bonnie Bedillia
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 16, 2025 2:34 AM
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THIS is the first cousin whose dick she chose over her career....
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 23 | June 16, 2025 2:36 AM
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R22 Yes, both Raul and Bonnie could have earned supporting Oscar noms and no one would have had a problem. They were that good.
It has been sadly forgotten.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 16, 2025 2:39 AM
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R24 One of Raul Julia's best performances
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 16, 2025 2:42 AM
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“Presumed Innocent” is mostly concerned with the stale, courtroom machinations of all the male characters when it’s really far more primal: An evil, feline viper vs. a clever and fed-up mama bear who was pushed one step too far.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 16, 2025 2:57 AM
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She was really gorgeous. Even if she's heavy now there's no excuse for that hair cut and colour.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 16, 2025 3:02 AM
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[quote] Vincent D’Onofrio still looks good, even when he’s fat as shit playing Kingpin on “Daredevil.”
R18=Stevie Wonder
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 16, 2025 3:08 AM
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Oh nevermind I see. R18 is the anti woman troll who makes up half the comments here and in the thread defending Jared Leto for being a rapist.
Makes sense.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 16, 2025 3:16 AM
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[quote] Turned down “Basic Instinct.”
She was as beautiful as Sharon Stone in the mid-90s.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 16, 2025 3:31 AM
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I think she’s happier now she’s not a bombshell
by Anonymous | reply 31 | June 16, 2025 5:38 AM
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Italian cock makes people do crazy things.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 16, 2025 5:56 AM
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Here’s her incest son today.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 33 | June 16, 2025 5:58 AM
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AUSSIE actress speaks out about the decision to have a child with her cousin and how it almost tore her family apart.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 34 | June 16, 2025 6:00 AM
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R33. Poor thing does look a little Appalachian-esque.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 16, 2025 6:02 AM
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Here’s her daughter. She had her with Vincent D'Onofrio.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 36 | June 16, 2025 6:03 AM
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A couple of generations ago even WASPs were marrying first cousins
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 16, 2025 6:25 AM
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Greta was not only gorgeous but also charming.
She had a small part in Flightplan.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | June 16, 2025 6:33 AM
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I’m glad I got rid of saatchi he was aboosive
by Anonymous | reply 40 | June 16, 2025 6:39 AM
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I saw her play Miss Julie in 1992 with the Sydney Theatre Company.
She was excellent.
And the production was infamous for killing a live budgie on stage.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | June 16, 2025 6:39 AM
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She’s no different than the British Royal Family.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | June 16, 2025 7:27 AM
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She’s got great tits, I’ll give her that.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | June 16, 2025 7:27 AM
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She’s doing a Bette & Joan play.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 45 | June 16, 2025 7:28 AM
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The incest son looks like Daniel Day Lewis a little bit.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | June 16, 2025 7:29 AM
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What the hell is a feline viper, R26?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | June 16, 2025 7:53 AM
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She has a small part in the 2008 version of "Brideshead Revisited" with Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon & Hayley Atwell.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | June 16, 2025 7:54 AM
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R39, indeed she did. I spent the rest of the movie thinking she had to be the villain somehow, given her being famous, no way she would only have that minor role and screen time.
But nope, it was all it was.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | June 16, 2025 10:10 AM
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She's worked extensively in her career but she was a lot more interesting than the Hollywood femme fatale roles she was cast in. Polly Walker was very similar.
Look at her stage work - Ibsen, Strindberg, Shepard, Pinter, Coward, Schiller, Rattigan, Sondheim, Shakespeare, Chekov, Williams and Osborne. Any actor would kill to be able to do that range.
Leila George played the younger version of Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer. It was a small role but she was incredible in it. You knew what was coming but it was still a shock.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | June 16, 2025 10:38 AM
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[quote] A couple of generations ago even WASPs were marrying first cousins
Tilda Swinton’s ex-husband John Byrne which whom she had two children discovered in his 60s that he is the result of an incestuous relationship between his mother and his own grandfather.
His daughter with Tilda is an aspiring actress and she has a massive jaw.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | June 16, 2025 11:24 AM
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Oh good, there’s another season of Darby and Joan.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | June 16, 2025 12:15 PM
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She went from fucking on film guys like Charles Dance and Harrison Ford to playing the bag lady at your local Coles.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | June 16, 2025 1:41 PM
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Her narration of Persuasion by Jane Austen in available on Audible and is excellent; romantic and suspenseful.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | June 16, 2025 1:57 PM
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Well she might be matronly now, but her kids certainly inherited her beauty as a young woman.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | June 16, 2025 8:15 PM
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The inbred one looks special.
You’re a good-looking movie star. You can’t find anyone to fuck other than your first cousin? It’s not like she lived in rural Oklahoma. Her options were limitless.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | June 16, 2025 8:22 PM
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I hope that kid doesn't get one of those assignments they give in school whete you have to do your family tree. His teacher will be like no that's wrong that's not how you do it. Then he gets an F.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | June 16, 2025 8:38 PM
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Hey, her current co-star Bryan Brown is pretty hot for his age R53
by Anonymous | reply 59 | June 17, 2025 6:10 AM
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She had a witty anecdote about how, during her pre-movie-career modeling days, she was out in a New York restaurant one night with a bunch of other models. A group of Italian guys were discussing among themselves who would "take" which girl, not knowing that she was completely fluent in Italian (bilingual?) and understood every word they were saying. She described the other models as bimbos who were sitting around talking about their favorite mascara brands.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | June 17, 2025 6:26 AM
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R60 I do think she was smart, just look at the films se accepted and rejected.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | June 17, 2025 1:45 PM
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[quote]Hey, her current co-star Bryan Brown is pretty hot for his age [R53]
He's still married to his "Thorn Birds" co-star, Rachel Ward, who directed a number of "Darby and Joan" episodes.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | June 17, 2025 2:38 PM
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R62 That Thorn Birds with DL fav Richard Chamberlain?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | June 17, 2025 4:05 PM
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R62 now there is a natural beauty who hasn’t ruined her aging face
by Anonymous | reply 64 | June 17, 2025 4:19 PM
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This is a great thread. I’ve always liked her, but I didn’t know much about her.
I think she’s a great actress. Heat and Dust isn’t a great movie but I liked it. Christopher Cazenove was so handsome in the early 80s.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | June 17, 2025 6:25 PM
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I thought she was related to the Saatchi and Saatchi family of advertising fame. Then I took a closer look and realized their names are spelled completely differently.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | June 17, 2025 6:43 PM
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She was good in a small role in the recent BBC version of War & Peace; she definitely has the look of a faded beauty that's been around the block a few times.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | June 17, 2025 6:44 PM
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She starred in one of my favorite Miss Marple episodes, By The Pricking of My Thumbs in 2006.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 70 | June 17, 2025 6:52 PM
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[quote]Mentioned this on another thread -- she's co-starring with Bryan Brown in a series ("Darby and Joan") filmed in Australia. They travel around solving crimes. It's on Acorn.
Thanks for that, R21. We have Acorn for a couple more weeks (my wife wanted to see the latest "Harry Wild") and just watched the first episode. R59 wasn't kidding that Bryan Brown looks great for his age.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | June 17, 2025 11:47 PM
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Is it on anything besides Acorn?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | June 18, 2025 2:03 AM
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[quote]Is it on anything besides Acorn?
It's an Acorn original, so your options if you're in the US are either to get a 7-day free trial and cancel it before you're billed the monthly fee (you can do so through Acorn's website or via Amazon) or to check your local library. The second season is still exclusive to subscribers but the first can be streamed for free on some library-affiliated apps, like Hoopla, or borrowed on DVD.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | June 18, 2025 2:39 AM
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You watched Heat and Dust and decided that Christopher Cazenove was the handsome one?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | June 18, 2025 3:11 AM
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