Neve Campbell

If it’s true that there are those who are born with a star, Neve Campbell must be one of them. Hers has been achieving success as naturally as taking the first step in her life, although we doubt if she ever came up with those “mom, I want to be an artist” words. From her mother, precisely, she took her last name, perhaps to make it more popular than when Andy Wharhol’s soups appeared. Everything was proposing it and covering stages. Television helped her become a familiar face in millions of homes and the Scream trilogy established her as the new queen of horror movies – “Give me back my crown”, she jokingly demanded Jamie Lee Curtis–. Today she is consolidated in comedy and it seems that her future is set to continue rising whole. But what is it about this freckled slut with the wide smile that makes her different from many actresses of her generation? Talent? It is true that the girl does not do anything wrong, but she has to show more in a great role; as Cameron Díaz or Angelina Jolie have already done . Magnetism? The camera loves her, her eyes seemingly shifting from hers sweetly meeting the lens, but not Heather Graham ‘s . Neither does she have the curves of Elizabeth Berkley , nor the spectacular beauty (with a bit of a scalpel, it must be said) of Denise Richards. However, she excels in the preferences of the public (especially youth), the critics are far from disgusting, and she recently appeared as one of the 50 most beautiful women in America in People magazine . And it is that she has that who knows what, which is special; she has what is called grace.

Predestined for fame, it first saw the light of day in Guelph (Canada) in 1973. Its artistic streak soon emerged and it came to belong to the National Ballet School. She must have been so self-sacrificing that life, being fifteen years old, left her behind to dedicate herself to making more than 800 performances of The Phantom of the Opera . Coming of age, she didn’t think twice about going to a television set and… magic. She starts in a well-known series, Catwalk, and is taken into account in as many telefilms as time allows. Four years of training with cameras give him enough confidence to pack his suitcase and make the leap to Los Angeles. There her fortune would not desert her. On the contrary, within a few weeks she was Julia Salinger in the hit television series Five in the Family , in which she has spent six seasons. It was 1996, a good time also to put his head in the mecca of cinema and debut with Youth and Witches . The role of a young sorceress was a magnificent calling card that Wes Craven took into account when he cast her as the lead in Scream.(nineteen ninety six). The director gave carte blanche to the bloodthirsty character of “Ghostface” to slit the throat, at the first opportunity, to the supposed figure of the film, Drew Barrymore , thus letting Neve’s refreshing light shine. The disturbing phone calls, the mixture of psychological terror with humor and parody, revived the adolescent horror genre and Campbell became the new muse of screaming. The box office and fan phenomenon of the first film caused, shortly after, the repetition of the formula with two sequels Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 3 (2000), and, of course, with the same protagonist and the same success. .

Between shouting and shouting, and divorce in between – now it seems that wedding bells are ringing in her life with the actor John Cusack – she looked for roles that would keep her from being typecast, and agreed to play a stoner, presumably stoned (later she reveals herself as a woman fatal, cold and calculating), in Wild Games (1998). She is the best of a semi-erotic thriller that was talked about more for some torrid scenes than for its quality. In any case, you shouldn’t look for Neve to show more of her skin than what is considered “decent”, since her contracts are always accompanied by a clause specifying that no nudity is allowed.

In 54 (1998) he gave a more “glamorous” image. She here she moved in the libertine atmosphere of sex and drugs of the well-known New York discotheque of the seventies. She later voiced Kiara in The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride (1998). But it wasn’t until he made two comedies, Tango para tres (1999) and Drowing mona (2000), that he saw higher-flying goals. In the first he reveals himself with the tight interpretation of a young woman who curbs her feelings towards an architect who believes he is gay. With a comic vision, hidden behind many long-suffering roles, she surprises in Drowing Mona , a black comedy yet to be released in our country. With similar expectation we will have to be attentive to Panic(2000).

These are the last steps of greater importance for a career on the rise, in which he accumulates merits and considerations. Neve’s purpose is to continue on paths different from those of her beginnings, although she declares herself sad to have to say goodbye to the roles that launched her to stardom: “But I’m very excited to live in new times.” And we to enjoy them. Because we trust that you will uncover the jar of essences to definitively decipher that I don’t know what hooks us and causes us to say “baby, you are worth a lot”.