This is yet another new column that I'd like to introduce, this one profiling an actor/actress associated within a Godzilla movie and giving a little history on them.
The idea is to try and showcase some trivia about the actor/actress and see how they came to be within a Godzilla movie.
For this inaugural edition I'd like to profile Maria Pitillo.
Maria of course played "Audrey Timmonds" within the Godzilla 1998 movie from Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.
Before that Maria was involved in various TV shows and movies, usually playing small parts here and there that made her a somewhat common face at the time.
It was this Godzilla role however that truly put her front and center, for better or for worse unfortunately.
You know for all of the flak that she gets for this Godzilla film, I still believe to this day that much of it was undeserved. Maria did not write the material given to her, Devlin/Emmerich did. They also forced all the cheesiness within her character, and overall made her the most unsympathetic character out of the group.
In my opinion Maria did as good of a job as possible, as the role couldn't necessarily have been better considering the aforementioned items.
I thought she did really well when Nick (Matthew Broderick) came into the scene, truly playing a love-struck ex that suddenly wanted to have him back all while still battling to make a career for herself.
And personally I thought that Maria was (and continues to be) such a cutie. Totally had a crush on her right when the movie came out, and it continues to this day.
Maria must have been doing something right because (at least according to Devlin/Emmerich) she won the role out of hundreds of other actresses. From what I've read she auditioned several times and of course won this part at the very end.
She's never mentioned that she was herself a Godzilla fan before signing on, but of course that's not necessarily a criteria as an actress.
It's a shame she's not doing movies anymore, as should this Godzilla film have become a huge success we'd probably be hearing about her to this day.
Maybe we can get Maria to come out from behind the curtain...
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ReplyDeleteHi Dan it's Fernando. Yeah I saw what happened, I would get the news each day through email alerts hoping that things would pick up. Bummer to hear about this =( Nobody though can doubt the hard work you placed into it. Who knows, maybe she'll change her mind one day...hopefully. Hey do you happen to have at least any updated photos of her? If anything it'd be great to see how she looks like now. Thanks for the update Dan!
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ReplyDeleteHi Dan. Thanks for the all the info, great to find out she's been doing well. I'm tempted to reach out to her and see if she wants to do any new interviews/updates...I'd give her open forum on anything she wanted all day long...but at the end of the day maybe she just wants her privacy.
DeleteIt seems like if she didn't want to open up for even something as basic as wikipedia updates she won't do something like this...frustrating to be so close and yet so far.
But I'll respect her privacy wishes and just leave things be. Who knows maybe she'll change her mind in the future. Maybe she'll get bit by the nostalgia bug and decide one day to go ahead and do something. Hopefully =)
Thanks for all your help again Dan!
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ReplyDeleteThe hate from the Nerdzilla's was what ruined her career and drove her out of the spotlight.
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ReplyDeleteDid anyone every make contact with her?
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ReplyDeleteI have a photo of her from Xmas.
ReplyDeleteBig article about her on her fan page and at wikipedia.
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ReplyDeleteSeth Peterson had a twitter rant a couple of months back about her. Seems she tried to sue Providence creator John Masius for sexual harassment and dragged a bunch of her cast mates to court trying to prove it. Don't know the disposition of that, but it goes a long way towards explaining why she vanished the way she did.
ReplyDeletePeterson also stated that most of the cast and crew hated her on the set of Godzilla. According to him, they actually "hissed" at her when she walked the red carpet.
If the crew hated her that much, one can only guess what got leaked to the press. It does explain all of the hate.
This was all on Twitter a couple of months ago. Don't know if he deleted it or not.
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