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Heather Graham is totally fearless

I probably won’t be seeing Heather Graham’s new movie, Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer. It feels like kind of strange because I feel like I watch a lot of movies that happen to have Heather in them. I really don’t think I’ve ever sought out a movie specifically because she was part of it, but a glance over her 74 roles listed in IMDB tells me I’ve seen about 60 percent of Heather Graham’s acting work, and that’s a lot for someone who isn’t on my Top Five List. I’ve come to the conclusion that Heather is a fearless actress. She’s up for anything. Play a single mom stripper named Jade? Sure! A ’70s porn star who has sex in rollerskates? Definitely! A lesbian? Yes – and she’ll do it again and again. Now this means she doesn’t always choose the best roles (or films) to take on, but I think Heather Graham is like a secret weapon. She’s recognizable but doesn’t overpower the character she’s playing. (When I watch Gwyneth Paltrow, I always see Gwyneth Paltrow. Whatever she’s doing, she’s Gwyneth Paltrow and that is all. Even when she’s in Shakespearean drag or singing Cee-Lo.) Heather has great comedic timing, too. She’s not just some girl who is willing to get nude on screen that directors call when they can’t get Julianna Margulies to play a lesbian porno director. (Heather’s next role in Cherry. Seriously – Julianna turned it down.) “The subject of sexuality is definitely fascinating to me,” Heather told PopEater. “I think also men like to write these characters in scripts so if a man can write the part of a lesbian prostitute who’s into porno they’re writing it in! Like I want to do a movie about the survivors of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire and how they were empowered through their tragedy.”

Heather Graham, you totally would play a lesbian porno director right after playing Aunt Opal in a kids’ movie and then do something totally feminist about female sweat shop workers. And that’s why I love you. But she wouldn’t be HG if she wasn’t working on less than three films at one time. Also on the horizon: a 3-D stop motion movie called The Flying Machine and another called Fortune with Catherine O’Hara and Kim Bassinger. She’d also like to make “a female sex comedy.”

“Now that they’re getting a little more balls to make those, se said. “I feel like, if [Bridesmaids] makes money than maybe they’ll be more open.”

I’d see it, Heather Graham!

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