Rose Byrne In Neighbors Is Your SXSW Breakout So far, this - TopicsExpress

Rose Byrne In Neighbors Is Your SXSW Breakout So far, this years most buzzed about South by Southwest performance hasnt come from an unknown actor on the cusp of a breakout, but a famous actress with a string of box-office hits on her resume: Rose Byrne. The 34-year-old star straight-up steals Nicholas Stollers Neighbors right out from under Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Dave Franco and Christopher Mintz-Plasse with a go-for-broke energy that should have her name mentioned on a surfeit of summer best-of lists come Labor Day. (Best Performance, Best Slow-Motion Strut, Best Recitation Of Take It Sleazy.) I worked with her on Get Him to the Greek. I think shes literally Meryl Streep, director Nicholas Stoller told HuffPost Entertainment at SXSW on Sunday, one day after Universal debuted a work-in-progress cut of the comedy. She can do every kind of character and none of them are like who she is exactly. From the very beginning, when we were talking about this couple, she was at the top of our list. Byrne and Rogen star as that aforementioned couple, Kelly and Mac, new parents who have their lives thrown into further disarray when a fraternity house run by Efron and Franco moves next door. Neighbors tracks the escalating war between the two residences, as well as Byrne and Rogens slow realization that they are no longer young and cool. (A hilarious conversation between Rogen and Efrons characters about whether Michael Keaton or Christian Bale is really Batman puts the generational divide in pop-culture context.) Within that set-up, Byrnes character is allowed to express just as much immaturity and confusion as her onscreen husband, yanking Neighbors out of the familiar pool of male-driven, arrested development comedies which have risen to prominence in the last decade. Read More...More on SXSW bit.ly/1kbl14l