3 photos in galleryQuite by accident, we’ve been ignoring Kate Beckinsale lately. We skipped her Globes outfit because… well, there was an avalanche of stuff, and there was nothing either here or there about it, particularly. But then she hit up a couple Underworld Again: No, Really events, and we decided we’d better wake up and smell the pretty. Because seriously, whether you like the clothes or not, that woman is MAJORLY blessed. Why isn’t she more famous? Hollywood LOVES pretty. Maybe she should stop doing Underworlds.
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I want to vote this one: _ She looks more fabulous than she is
I have to agree. She’s damn pretty, for sure, but for all the starlets for Seth Rogan to make his erection joke on, why her? That should have been zinged toward a hottie with a brain for a great comeback. She just kept laughing like, yeah, that’s me.
Had this vote happened a few days ago, I might have voted a bit more negatively than I did, but I saw her on Chelsea Lately the other night and she seemed so warm and friendly and funny and genuine. I fell in love with her a bit and decided I’d give her a pass for all of the bad movies she’s done.
And hence, it’s made me think that she looks fabulous, even when the outfits are just kind of meh.
Wait, are her legs not crossed in that last photo of the red dress? The other pics must have been extreme. The clothes are fine, and she is what I think of as blandly pretty. While I would love to look that beautiful, it doesn’t really translate well to the big screen.
Bazillions of fanboys disagree on the blandly pretty. Underworld:Yet Another One sells tickets based on Kate in skin-tight pleather, not movie quality.
yeah I have to disagree I have never met a man (my hubby included) who doesnt think she is omg gorgeous
No, they are crossed — the only uncrossed one was from a distance.
I really, really like the first dress–I think making the droopy torso part sheer so it doesn’t obscure her figure is brilliant. But I wish she would have worn her hair up, or even partly up, because with the cut of the dress it’s creating too much floofy volume around her upper half. I understand that would have been even MORE Joliesque, but sometimes you just gotta follow the rules.
The last dress is a really pretty idea that’s cut way too narrow on the bottom, no? Like, if it were a fuller skirt, it would be a super cute dress that I would want for myself to wear to work and things.
I think only guys know this, but Beckensale did quit the Underworlds. The last one starred Rhona Mitra. Guess Kate wasn’t offered Hollywood on a platter, so she signed back on for this one.
Dresses? The red is nice, the others are very bland. The first one is the worst – sparkles can’t save us from the snore…
Rhona Mitra was in the most recent Underworld movie because it was a prequel.
And I know this because I have shameful, shameful love for that series due to the presense of Michael Sheen in the previous three movies.
her husband has directed all of the Underworld movies, that’s why she keeps doing them. Same with Mila Jovavich and Resident Evil
I love Kate, esp. all her British films (her Emma is by far the best, Romola Garai’s ok, but not as good as Kate’s) If you haven’t watched “Cold Comfort Farm” do so immediately, there are a couple of very good reasons: 1. Kate is adorable in a bob and with her original teeth. 2. Rufus Sewell. 3. Eileen Atkins, Stephen Fry and Ian McKellen. Also, she had her daughter with Michael “Adorable” Sheen. She deserves a better career.
Words cannot express how much I love Cold Comfort Farm. That is one of my favorite movies, period.
So agree with you! Cold Comfort Farm is wonderful (and, it’s also got Joanna Lumley in it, too), and she is wonderful in it (She’s great in Last Days of Disco, too). I had such high hopes for this girl, and am disappointed that she’s stuck in the Underworld.
Rufus Sewell before he Botoxed up his pretty face. I used to have such a thing for him — pretty AND a good actor, and then… what was that magician movie? He no longer had a face to act with.
Is that what happened to him? He lost all his meltiness. I miss that Rufus. Don’t these British men know we LIKE all that rugged manliness? (Although I must say I enjoyed Zen a great deal.)
I loved CCF too, one of my all-time favoritest movies ever. I’ve made my peace with Kate Beckinsale, but I was mad at her for a long time. It’s like your best friend in school suddenly became friends with the popular kids and she’s not even the same person anymore.
Seriously, what happened there? More than half the people commenting on this (admittedly sleepy) forum know she can act, so why doesn’t Hollywood seem to know that?
I’m straight as an arrow, but I’d turn for Kate Beckinsale.
She started her career with some decent roles in decent movies. But with the Underworld thing, it’s like she sold herself out for a regular paycheck. She should be doing…MORE. And I hope she will.
And OMG, she’s gorgeous.
She’s so beautiful, I love the Underworld movies for their unchallenging, predictable, but oh-so-pretty – ness. And that cleavage? Is so Beckinsale. I loved loved her Globes dress. Man, she’s gorgeus.
“That’s not Beckinsale, that’s Beckham. She may be confused about which British person she is.”
Ahahahahahaha! Love it.
The first would be perfect on Jolie. The second is merely lovely, but is spoiled by the High Hairdo. The third dress is exquisite, but the clompy beige hoof shoes are incorrect.
She poses like a paper doll, or a model for Butterick or Simplicity.
Agree with all of this.
Also, on the matter of Dress The Third: she could have (and should have) gone up a size.
She is gorgeous, but I’m so tired of the ombre hair thing, Like platform shoes, the ombre hair has to go!
I voted for fabulous just because of her hair. I’m also a little sick of the ombre trend, but that aside, that is some GORGEOUS hair. Jealous.
Agreed, it is fabulous. (I wonder if she takes pre-natal vitamins to keep it that lush.)
I’ve been obsessing over her hair lately (because I think it is perfect) and I am pretty sure it is extensions. The shorter, “Underworld” cut is on top and the full waves of weave are underneath. Jlo had similar hair when she wore that short spangle dress at the Grammys, only hers was much more so in that Jlo way.
I don’t understand why people are negative about her career. (It’s the same thing Jennifer Anistan gets). Same old movies…Underworld is bad, etc. Why is it bad for her to do the movies she thinks are fun instead of pursuing things that are awards bait? Isn’t that what all of us aspire to have? A job that pays the bills but also that we enjoy and allows us a personal life too.
And back to the point….she is beautiful. Nothing wrong with looking pretty.
The first dress is somewhat Jolie-esque, you’re right, but isn’t it awfully similar to one worn by that other British Kate? Pink, sparkly, Jenny Packham? It’s lovely, regardless, and so is she, although I’m kind of tired of the superlong hair that’s either TOTALLY DOWN or SUPER-UPDO. How about that Underworld choppy bob? Haven’t seen the movies, but dig the cut.
Man, I can’t wait til Goldilocks here gets to the “Just Right” closet. So far we’ve seen “Too Loose” and “Too Tight” and neither is doing her any favors.
Oh Kate, I loved you in Cold Comfort Farm, Emma, The Golden Bowl and Much Ado about Nothing. Can you like go back to England and period drama and stop acting in Hollywood flicks? Or at least guest spot in Downton Abbey?
She looks good here, she always looks good.
I have heard the Prom Queen thing said about her several times, and I think it’s pretty mean. She always looks put-together, is that such a bad thing? Certainly it is preferable to nip-slips and leg curtains.
I don’t like the beige sack, because it’s a beige sack, but otherwise it’s all good.
Y’all, as far as her film choices, let’s just remember that her hubby co-created/directed/produced all this Underworld schlock. Probably sticky business to jump ship in that scenario.
Oh, the first dress is a sack with glitter sprinkled on glue, and she’ s talented and gorgeous but she’s making Underworld because (I thought) she was married to the director/producer. As big a mistake as letting the whole “what British person am I?” thing take effect whilst unawares.
But the red dress–I love that dress on her and by itself because I bought that dress in the late 80′s, at a Loehmann’s store. It’s almost exact except for the colour (mine’s a creamy shade of white) and I’d never have worn it with the beige Hollywood hoof shoe that must be dictated by California Law. Proof that she’s susceptible to someone influencing her decisions, which answers all your questions about her career.
She’s undoubtely gorgeous and I really dig her relaxed style. She manages to look very alluring without needing to stick a leg out a skirt slit or showing us three quarters of her boobs. Confident, comfortable and regal looks, prescinding of the diva gowns, uptight poses, dramatic makeup, or very ellaborate hair. Of course good genes help. A fab for me.
God she is beautiful… I really want her hair & her teeth I’m of British decent so I have her old teeth
@ChaChaHeels – “beige Hollywood hoof shoe” says it all! When there are so many awesome shoes in the world why ruin a perfectly good dress with these??
Kate always looks lovely, but rarely exciting or adventurous. I’m sorry she doesn’t express her personality sartorially, given how feisty and fabulous she was in the Cold Comfort Farm days. I’d love to see a glimmer of that earlier Kate.
Her “old teeth”??? What’s up with that?
I imagine all the straight men in the world will disagree, but I find her overproduced (I mean apparently she changed her teeth…) with a very boring princesy style. I always have the impression she’s a beautiful little child playing adult.
All I can think when I see her is TOO MUCH SURGERY!!! Seriously, look at her lovely, normal face in Emma or Cold Comfort Farm, and then look at her Generic Starlet face now. I can’t see anything she’s wearing because my face pulls tight in sympathy.
I feel like the entire world still hasn’t forgiven anybody in the cast of Pearl Harbor. When was the last time you saw Cuba Gooding Jr or Josh Hartnett in ANYTHING?
Can I vote a big thumbs up on that red dress?
When I first saw the beige dress, I thought it was Rita Wilson. Not sure that’s what Kate wants.