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Woman Crush Wednesday
Happy May, everybody! As we celebrate flowers blooming and weather warming from afar/self-quarantine, one thing we can still celebrate and embrace same as ever is Woman Crush Wednesday. Today’s WCW is an exceptionally talented actress and producer who for years has given us memorable performance after memorable performance. So, without further ado, let’s give it up for our WCW (who is neither a freak, nor a geek), the incredible Linda Cardellini!
WHO’S THAT GAL: Linda Cardellini
WHY WE’RE CRUSHING: Cardellini will be back as Judy Hale in the second season of Netflix black comedy Dead To Me, which drops on the platform this Friday, May 8th. Season one ended dramatically with Judy and Jen Harding (Christina Applegate) standing over the dead body of Judy’s ex-fiancé, Steve (James Marsden). Season two of the show is sure to be full of even more shocking and entertaining turns, and it is already getting positive reviews. TV Line recently wrote that “Applegate and Cardellini’s frenemy chemistry remains off the charts, and the twists are as jaw-lowering as they are uproarious” and TV Guide praised it as one of the top shows to watch this week. Since the show began, Cardellini and Applegate received rave reviews for their performances and chemistry, so we absolutely can’t wait to see both in action and taken to the next level in their show’s newest season.
WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER BEFORE: Cardellini’s professional debut was in 1996, when she played Sarah in eight episodes of the series Bone Chillers (which was based on the children’s horror-fiction novels of the same name), and from there, her career quickly took off, with a film debut just one year later in comedy Good Burger alongside a young Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. She went on to get multi-episode arcs or guest spots in shows like soap opera Pacific Palisades, UPN sitcom Guys Like Us, and ABC sitcom Boy Meets World before landing the leading role of Lindsay Weir on cult classic and star-studded (before they were stars!) teen comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks, which lasted from 1999 to 2000 (gone too soon!).
From there, Cardellini went on to star or appear in plenty of big-name, popular titles on screens big and small, such as television shows ER, Mad Men, and New Girl, and films like 2001 comedy Legally Blonde, 2002 live-action adventure-comedy Scooby-Doo (as well as the sequel in 2004), 2005 romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, 2015 action blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron (as well as the final Avengers film, Avengers: Endgame, in 2019), 2015 comedy Daddy’s Home (and its 2017 sequel), and Academy Award-nominated 2018 biographical comedy-drama Green Book, you know, just to name a few. And believe it or not, this is only just scratching the surface of Cardellini’s extensive list of work, but by the time we’ve listed them all, she’d probably have ten more amazing new things coming out (so if you aren’t on it already, hop on the Cardellini Fan Train because it is only speeding up and continuing to take off from here).
WHERE YOU’LL SEE HER AGAIN: If you binge all of Dead To Me and have already somehow worked your way through all of her impressive filmography, then you’re in luck, because Cardellini has a movie set to be released through VOD on May 12 by Vertical Entertainment. Cardellini will star as Mae Capone, wife of Al Capone (Tom Hardy) in biographical crime drama Capone, which centers on Al after his 11-year sentence at the United States Penitentiary, Atlanta as he suffers from syphilis and dementia. For even more from Cardellini, you can keep up with her on Twitter and Instagram.
