Michelle Monaghan should be the next IT Girl
I don’t know why someone as striking as Michelle Monaghan isn’t having her career lift-off just yet. To a certain degree, she’s everything a movie needs in a leading lady — beautiful, confident, sexy, bright and oozing with charm. But since doing her first few films in 2001, celebrity stardom seems elusive for her. With her looks and her confident demeanor and intelligent aura, she should’ve been top-billing in box office movies already. I see her Ashley Judd in her.
Is she doing the wrong kinds of projects? That I’m not quite sure…I thought Made of Honor (with Patrick Dempsey) was just so wrong for her.
Michelle Monaghan began as a model in the late 90’s and was doing a lot of commercials. She dabbled on TV and movies in 2001 and worked in films like Unfaithful with Richard Gere and Diane Lane. That movie was a big hit, but Michelle’s career took flight when she joined TV’s Boston Public a year later. Over the next few years, she would also be in the cast of some of the most popular movies — Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Bourne Supremacy and Mission Impossible 3. But it was in Kiss, Kiss Bang, Bang with Robert Downey Jr. where I really began to take notice of her.
To say that she is underrated…is putting it lightly. She had scenes in the movie Constantine and Syriana but these were removed when the film came out.
Why isn’t she the next Hollywood IT Girl? It’s long overdue.
Could her upcoming film with Shia LaBeouf finally bring her to that level?
