Mama Bening Baby Wiig
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 12:30PM 
JA from MNPP here. Have you heard about Imogene? Out next year, it's Kristen Wiig's follow-up to Bridesmaids - actually it's a project she'd been trying to get off the ground for ages that the super duper success of Bridesmaids made possible. It's directed by the duo of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini who made the splendidly sour American Splendor, and is similarly dark in comic tone. Wiig plays the title character whose plan of using a suicide attempt to win back an extra boyfriend somehow, weirdly, backfires, and she's forced to move home and live with her... let's say difficult mother played by Annette Bening.
Bening! So surely you guys have heard about this movie already. Well there are some pictures and a poster online today, which you can see here. There's something reminiscent of Bening's Mars Attacks! character to the look of her character, isn't there? I say that with awe and admiration - that's one of my very favorite Bening performances.
Also in the cast are Matt Dillon and the chipmunk-cheeked croooner Darren Criss from Glee, the latter apparently playing a love interest for Wiig. Cue everybody gaping sack-jawed at the age difference - she's 38 while he's 24 - which hardly merits a mention when its say Methuselah Steve Martin pawing at Toddler Heather Graham or the like.
This is one of my most anticipated movies for 2012. While I love the ridiculous over-the-top characters Wiig hammers away at on SNL she's proven herself really smooth at how she's branching out into a movie career, playing identifiably human characters (so good in Whip It), complicating things when she could just go for an easy bug-eyed laugh.
Annette Bening, Glee, Kristen Wiig
Reader Comments (9)
This is Annette's Oscar--I hope it's one of two to come in the future. She deserves to be a double winner after the tripple defeats from Hank and Port Authority. I love Warren Beatty too, she needs a little, hard, gold man, to read off her name from. Supporting Actress--overdue veteran, make-up Oscar for past sins, funny lady turn, over 50, not a problem for Supporting Actress.
Wiig surely has gay men (the highest) taste in her male co-stars!
Sigh, Darren Criss. I know I should be basking in all of the fabulous actress-y goodness, but, dreamy Darren Criss...
This sounds like a really cool and interesting cast, I kinda sorta can't wait to see it...
omg, now i can't wait to see this!
Unfortunately the other site had to take down the images (per the production company demand). This is the first I'm hearing of this but - Wiig...Dillon...The Bening...older woman/younger man (and isn't that also the case with Dillon and The Bening? Isn't she old enough to be his mom?) I am SO in.
And I'm glad you appreciated Wiig's turn in "Whip It" JA - I thought her one scene in the car was one of the best things about the movie (or one of my favorite).
I forgot to add that American Splendor is one of my all-time favorite movies. That would be a hard achievement to come near, but I'll hope for the best.
Bening and Wiig in a (darkly comedic?) movie directed by Berman and Pulcini, and the plot sounds great - this is one of my most anticipated films for 2012, too. I can't wait.
i'm excited for this film! i just love Annette Bening! ^_^
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