Number 19: Mira Sorvino as Linda Ash in "Mighty Aphrodite" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)

As you may know by now, dumb blondes are one of my weaknesses. Judy Holliday, Jean Hagen, Jennifer Tilly…when an actress understands how to play such a character and discover the comedy without overdoing it, then I just can’t resist. And Mira Sorvino is no exception (and as I stated ahead of, every single actress who has to kiss Woody Allen should get an Oscar!).

In Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite, Mira Sorvino played Linda Ash, a slow-minded prostitute and porn-actress with an almost unbearable voice and a typical heart of gold. In her performance, Mira Sorvino positive aspects a great deal from Woody Allen’s screenplay – Mighty Aphrodite is one particular of his weaker endeavours and practically nothing in it really excites other than for the character of Linda who is created as the perfect scene-stealer and given 1 hilarious line soon after another. So it was straightforward for Mira Sorvino to steal the display but she did not only turn out to be a vessel for Allen’s traces but as an alternative created a great, unforgettable and hilarious character.  

The largest accomplishment of Mira Sorvino is the truth that she was ready to mix Linda’s experience and life-style with a plausible and intriguing kid-like innocence. Even when she is declaring lines like ‘There was this guy f**king me from driving and there were these two huge guys dressed like cops in my mouth at the same time’, there is some thing so sweet and innocent about her. Her Linda is not naïve in the perception that she doesn’t know any greater – she selected her life-style but is also aware that she would like to modify it. Yes, she is a little bit silly but Mira Sorvino luckily treats Linda with all her regard – one thing that neither Woody Allen nor the film do. The simple fact that Allen actually presents Linda a line like ‘He has to be as sensible as I am’ when she talks about a male for her is almost repellent – up till now Linda has by no means appeared to see herself as sensible or anything at all like that so this line was nothing but a low cost, unnecessary shot at Linda’s fees. But Mira Sorvino superbly survives all this and presents Linda a whole lot of unforeseen depth and proportions – when she tells Larry that she is the only a single in her household with any ambition, it is strangely believable. She is also quite touching when she tells Larry about her youngster which she gave up for adoption or at the conclude soon after she was hit by a man or when she talks about her hopes and dreams – Mira Sorvino understands how to produce a Linda who is both hilariously inappropriate but also fantastically dropped.

But aside from becoming touching, Mira Sorvino is most definitely one more factor – amazingly funny. Throwing out strains like ‘Isn’t is a pisser?’ or ‘I loathe it when a man will come in, wipes out a big dick and waves it all over the joint’ or ‘I just received a modest portion in an Angela Dawnson film!…I get to do it with her!’, she offers a correct comedic tour-de-power performance that is a constant ray of light-weight in an or else dull and insignificant film.

I know this overall performance is not between the most well-known in this classification but I feel that Mira Sorvino is merely great.