[wannabe]

It would help if she got roles for popular movies! I mean, geez, how many people ever heard of Natalie Portman before Phantom Menace?

I'd seen her in LiS and that's it. Thought she was 12, so though I recognized she was going to be very appealing to the eye when she grew up, I didn't put any more thought into it. Didn't know she was Meg. Didn't know she was Eliza (saw a couple episodes with my niece). Only after seeing her appear in semi-provacative magazines did I start looking into her, and only started CARING about her because of interview snippets on those pics that got me interested in reading the rest of the interview, which revealed to me that, not counting the fame, we had similar upbringings and very similar values. What little there is to read about her dad, I can see myself doing pretty much the same things he's done in regards to his child-rearing style.

(Oh, I also saw NATM, but only because several friends assured me it was actually funny.)

I've since seen a few of her movies, and I can't say I'd ever have watched any of them otherwise. Heck, I don't recall even HEARING about most of them.

If LiS hadn't been so poorly received (I liked all but the last 5 minutes - flying THROUGH a planet? Hello? WTF were you thinking?) and they'd made the other 2 they were wanting to, I daresay Lacey would be a lot more well-known. Since she was 15-16, additional movies would've seen her growing up and she'd've easily shed the child-star baggage she still has to deal with.

OTOH, being less-famous keeps her more grounded, and therefore more attractive to someone like me. Jerks are a real turn-off.