Genevieve Bujold
Robert Spencer 
Why wasn't she more famous?
She was in some famous films in the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's- The War Is Over, King of Hearts, The Thief of Paris, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Trojan Women, Earthquake, Obsession, Murder by Decree, The Moderns, and Dead Ringers.
Then flops. Why?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 116 | July 2, 2023 8:39 PM |
She's no Catherine Deneuve or Bridget Bardot, Brigitte Bardot, or Isabelle Adjani
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 3, 2022 4:31 PM |
I never thought she was the best actress, but she gave a good performance in Murder by Decree.
Which is saying something when you are in a film with Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Anthony Quayle, Donald Sutherland, David Hemmings, Frank Finlay, and Sir John Gielgud.
I wonder how Deneuve, Bardot, or Adjani would have done in that role though.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 3, 2022 4:38 PM |
She got the reputation for being "difficult" but in Hollywood, that could just mean that she refused to suck some producer's cock.
I thought she was magnificent in Anne of the Thousand Days, the best thing in it, actually. By that time in his career, Burton had already slid into terminal hamminess.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 3, 2022 4:41 PM |
She had a girlish look, which she aged out of.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 3, 2022 4:54 PM |
Probably had the nerve to turn 30.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 3, 2022 5:00 PM |
She turned 80 on Friday. Happy birthday!
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 3, 2022 7:42 PM |
She was also the original Janeway in ST: Voyager.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 3, 2022 8:10 PM |
She was very unique looking
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 3, 2022 8:11 PM |
Coma. Why is that movie never run?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 3, 2022 8:16 PM |
Did she ever move to Hollywood? I thought she would break through more after Anne of the Thousand Days (amazing performance) but she seemed to do a lot more work in Canada and occasionally Europe.
I loved her in a small role in The House of Yes (with Parker Posey and Freddie Prinze Jnr). She played their stern mother of some fucked up children and it made me think she could have had a great career in some of those villainous 1940s noir roles. I would have liked to see her in more indies like that.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 3, 2022 8:49 PM |
Not a good actress at all and not distinctly gorgeous. Don't understand what you all see here...
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 3, 2022 8:50 PM |
Posh Spice Beckham piggy nose.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 3, 2022 9:00 PM |
Her foxy little face didn't age well, and she resisted the knife (commendably so).
I adore her.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 3, 2022 9:10 PM |
Brilliant actress as others mentioned here.
Timing and luck and willingness to suck cock are more important then talent
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 3, 2022 9:24 PM |
Her most trenchant performance...
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 3, 2022 9:31 PM |
Was she upset when Karen Black got "Airport '75"?
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 3, 2022 9:33 PM |
I hated that in Earthquake she had to be slobbered over by Charlton Heston who was old enough to be her dad. Daddy/daughter issues.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 3, 2022 9:34 PM |
Well, r25, there was also Lorne playing Ava's father.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 3, 2022 9:38 PM |
Why does it always come up in these threads about these mediocre B List 70s-80s actresses that they didn't "play the game" or "suck cock," or whatever, as if that's remotely true. This bitch probably sucked cock to even get a role in first place!
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 3, 2022 9:49 PM |
Remember this classic? She was already showing her age at 42.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 3, 2022 9:56 PM |
She was good in King of Hearts (1966) with Alan Bates and Pierre Brasseur
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 3, 2022 10:03 PM |
Lorne Greene was 6 years older than Ava Gardner. R27 Lorne didn't get to slobber all over Ava, at least not on screen.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 3, 2022 10:11 PM |
I was just pointing out another age discrepancy, r35.
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 3, 2022 10:16 PM |
loved her in House of Yes; her delivery of the line about hiding the kitchen knives still cracks me up
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 3, 2022 10:23 PM |
She aged out of ingenue/carnation on the man's suit roles and either did not have the skill set or motivation to segue into lawyer/judge roles.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 3, 2022 10:39 PM |
Hollywood don't go for booze and dope.
Gen liked the sauce a little too much.
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 3, 2022 10:42 PM |
Helen of the Thousands Lays
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 3, 2022 10:48 PM |
Some friend went to her narration of symphonic tale of "Peter and the Wolf" in Montreal.
Miss Bujold, apparently having had a few drinks, decided arbitrarily to change Peter's gender to female in this live production after many weeks of rehearsals.
So she started referring to the main character as "Pietra" and using female pronouns when she could remember, but she wasn't consistent and became as confused as everyone else during the course of the show.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 3, 2022 10:50 PM |
You don't have to be beautiful to be an actress. You have to be compelling.
And she was.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 3, 2022 11:02 PM |
Well, sometime you need to be sober.
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 3, 2022 11:04 PM |
Judy Davis was hardly evah sober.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 3, 2022 11:05 PM |
Tightrope and Coma are great fun flicks to watch on a rainy day/night.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 3, 2022 11:10 PM |
I love her in one of my all-time-favorite movies, Choose Me.
Also with Leslie Ann Warren and Keith Carradine.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 3, 2022 11:18 PM |
She was good in Dead Ringers
| by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 3, 2022 11:21 PM |
Choose me used to be something of a cult movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 4, 2022 2:48 AM |
R53? I've mentioned it in that context before here on DL.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 4, 2022 3:16 AM |
She was a knock out in her first film, Anne Of A Thousand Days! And nominated for an Oscar. She had the goods so let's remember her glory days. And a French Canadian as well!
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 4, 2022 3:30 AM |
R27- TOTALLY 💯 ABSURD
They looked like husband and wife.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 4, 2022 3:31 AM |
She has a great character actress face now.
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 4, 2022 3:34 AM |
She turned 80 years old on July 1st, Canada Day.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 4, 2022 3:36 AM |
I watched Earthquake the other night. It's ridiculous and cheesy but so entertaining and Bujold was captivating as ever. The camera loves her.
I loved her in Coma.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 4, 2022 3:44 AM |
Coma is the only reason I've heard of her.
That and turning down the role of Kathryn Janeway after she was all set to do it. Kate Mulgrew rocked that role anyway.
Oh that House of Yes movie with Parker Posey
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 4, 2022 4:21 AM |
[quote]She was a knock out in her first film, Anne Of A Thousand Days!
She'd been in several movies before "Anne."
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 4, 2022 4:24 AM |
[quote]That and turning down the role of Kathryn Janeway after she was all set to do it.
Bujold was playing Capt. Nicole Janeway
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 4, 2022 5:23 AM |
She is the reason I am obsessed with Anne Boleyn. My 10th grade English teacher showed Anne of a Thousand Days in class one day and I was hooked on all things Anne Boleyn.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 4, 2022 5:28 AM |
She held her own opposite some titanic actresses in The Trojan Women (Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Irene Papas). She is mousey but can be commanding when she needs to be.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 4, 2022 7:24 PM |
Hey R65, sorry to disappoint you but Anne is not a gay icon. Nor is Bujold.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 5, 2022 6:57 PM |
[quote]Hey [R65], sorry to disappoint you but Anne is not a gay icon. Nor is Bujold.
And your point? I like Anne Boleyn and I'm gay. I don't need the people I like to be gay icons.
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 5, 2022 6:59 PM |
I love, love, love her voice and accent. She's unique and not at all another Hollywood clone. Love her.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 21, 2022 9:48 PM |
Broken jaw, speech impediment, tiny body.
Suitable only for butch lesbians and macho heterosexual males.
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 21, 2022 9:59 PM |
Her first featured film role was in 1963
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 21, 2022 10:07 PM |
She's in Alain Resnais' excellent 1966 film recently revived at the Film Forum in NY.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 21, 2022 10:12 PM |
She was VERY pretty in a quaint way back in the day!
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 21, 2022 10:38 PM |
[quote] She's unique and not at all another Hollywood clone.
She failed as an Audrey Hepburn Clone.
She failed as a Capucine Clone.
She failed as a Micheline Presle Clone.
She failed as a Francois Dorleac Clone.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 21, 2022 10:41 PM |
I liked her in any movie I saw her in and thought she was wonderful in Choose Me, Dead Ringers, Coma and Obsession
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 22, 2022 1:48 AM |
[quote] She is mousey but can be commanding when she needs to be.
I must have missed those ones.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 22, 2022 1:56 AM |
[quote] She had a girlish look, which she aged out of.
The woman is now eighty!
That is the age of crones.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | October 22, 2022 3:05 AM |
She looks remarkably similar to Judy G
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 22, 2022 3:13 AM |
COMA is currently on HBO MAX.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 22, 2022 3:38 AM |
Also love her accent. She has a remarkable ability to play intelligent woman and bring her character some gravitas despite a bad script. She can lift the material up a notch and rise above the character. Very few actresses can pull this off. Diane Venora is another example. Also, being Catholic makes them less likely to surf the casting couch.
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 22, 2022 3:45 AM |
Genevieve Bujold is still a working actress today.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 22, 2022 1:34 PM |
GJ actually lived in a convent? News to me…
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 22, 2022 1:38 PM |
Loved her line in HOUSE OF YES where she says “there’s no food or TV so we need to go to sleep.”
Can’t find a clip of the scene, but Great dialogue in that film. It’s all about reincarnating Jackie O. when JFK was assasinated with Jackie O. wearing that pink pillbox hat. Exquisite!
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 22, 2022 1:59 PM |
[quote] still a working actress today.
R83 Ten years ago,
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 22, 2022 9:23 PM |
Prim & proper. Carole Bouquet at least attached herself to big names.
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | June 22, 2023 11:26 PM |
She had a great run at the start of her career. Worked with great people on good projects.
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | June 22, 2023 11:28 PM |
De Palma's Obsession is on Mubi and Crackle.
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | June 22, 2023 11:45 PM |
She looks a bit like cold fish Isabelle Huppert.
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | June 22, 2023 11:54 PM |
I’ve always thought she was terrific.
She was extremely pretty in her youth, especially in King of Hearts with gorgeous Alan Bates.
As others have mentioned, her presence always suggests a keen mind, which probably didn’t translate to many of the roles available.
I love that she didn’t fuck up her face, though that also probably cost her some work, but really not that much.
Thankful she never did shit like like Book Club or 80 for Brady, but I’d like to see her now in something good.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 93 | June 23, 2023 12:04 AM |
Anne of the Thousand Days, she was wonderful. I guess she was unconventional looking, but she was always immersed in whatever performance she gave.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | June 23, 2023 12:08 AM |
I agree she was quite pretty in her youth.
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | June 23, 2023 12:16 AM |
A spooky Canadian movie she did.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 96 | June 23, 2023 12:39 AM |
[Quote] Carole Bouquet at least attached herself to big names.
Carole who?
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | June 23, 2023 2:52 AM |
R32 Tightrope is an underappreciated film. Noirish, kinky, sleazy. She was great in this, and played well against Eastwood. I imagine Sondra Locke was pissed he didn't cast her in the film.... it was a good script.
In the next year Bujold carried her noirish, decadent and aging beauty to Choose Me, also a very interesting film capturing the certain Sexual Darkness that was LA in the early 80s.
Just was lovely as a young woman, though always looked like she needed a black circle on the end of the nose.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | June 23, 2023 2:57 AM |
She was good in "Monsignor."
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | June 23, 2023 3:01 AM |
She was great in Dead Ringers with Jeremy Irons.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 100 | June 23, 2023 4:39 AM |
She has the cutest mouth I've ever seen. When I saw her in Anne of the thousand days I could not help staring at her. She seemed unbelievably adorable.
| by Anonymous | reply 101 | June 23, 2023 4:50 AM |
Too pretentious and too French Canadian.
She was oddly memorable in the Canadian indie classic, "Last Night." It's a movie about the end of the world, and Callum Keith Rennie plays a sex addict who is spending his last hours on earth living out every sexual fantasy he's ever had. He calls his former French teacher (Bujold), seduces her, and checks that off his list.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | June 23, 2023 5:00 AM |
She is absolute perfection.
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | June 23, 2023 5:41 AM |
That was Claudine Longet r103
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | June 23, 2023 6:16 AM |
R87 - she is funny in that scene but then Irons is just brilliant in his two different performances.
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | July 2, 2023 3:03 AM |
She should have won the oscar for Anne of a Thousand Days. Loved her in that.
| by Anonymous | reply 108 | July 2, 2023 3:27 AM |
She was amazing in Swashbuckler.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 109 | July 2, 2023 4:12 AM |
Wow. Thank you DL for showing your admiration of her.
I think she is an actress that just didn't survive past the 1970's. Even in the 1980's it was hit or miss.
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | July 2, 2023 3:17 PM |
[quote] Coma. Why is that movie never run?
Because it is EXTREMELY DUMM that they’d make a whole entire movie about a punctuation mark!!!
| by Anonymous | reply 111 | July 2, 2023 3:20 PM |
She cracks under pressure very easily. And that weakness of character shows in her performances. That's why she loses all the great roles.
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | July 2, 2023 3:36 PM |
Her English is exceptionally good even in those early movies, she barely has any accent considering she's French Canadian.
| by Anonymous | reply 113 | July 2, 2023 5:14 PM |
The r84 interview is quite awkward. That journalist is typically…. decisively bubbly. But in Bujold’s calm, serious presence she gets stalled.
“Did you read the book on which this movie is based?”
“No. (pause) Did you?”
| by Anonymous | reply 114 | July 2, 2023 6:03 PM |
She had a good run relative to her talent.
| by Anonymous | reply 115 | July 2, 2023 6:06 PM |
Bujold had a multi picture deal after ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS but turned down certain studio projects (like MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTTS.) I think this soured Hollywood on her a bit.
She was happier doing smaller or foreign films, anyway. Not everyone strives to be a multi millionaire. She just wanted to act in projects that intrigued her.
EARTHQUAKE must have made Bujold wonder where her serious acting career was headed. That blockbuster stuff wasn’t her scene.
| by Anonymous | reply 116 | July 2, 2023 8:39 PM |
