June 7th, 2011
12:51 PM ET
'Lost' creator: January's 'X-Men' acting sucked“Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof didn’t specify if he’s a fan of January Jones’ work on the acclaimed series “Mad Men,” but he sure didn’t like the actress in “X-Men: First Class.” The movie, which earned $56 million at the box office over the weekend, stars Jones as Emma Frost, along with James McAvoy as Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender as Magneto. Those last two actors Lindelof appreciated, as he tweeted on June 4, “Dug FIRST CLASS though, especially Fassbender, McAvoy and the best deployment of the PG-13 single-use eff-bomb I have ever seen.” But Jones? Not so much. “Emma Frost's THREE mutant powers: Telepathy, Transformation to Solid Diamond and last but not least, Sucking at Acting,” Lindelof wrote. “Hangover” star Zach Galifianakis also hasn’t been easy on the 33-year-old mom-to-be. He said in an interview in May that he once had to tell Jones to "f-–ing be nice."
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As a public figure, I probably wouldn't outright state that someone sucked at acting, but that's just me. But yeah, January sucks. I don't want her to suck; she's really pretty. But I get the feeling that that sort of ice queen aura about her in Mad Men carries with her in everything she does. She was by far the worst SNL host I've ever seen. Granted, not everyone is cut out for that sort of thing, but I just really disliked every skit she was in. No wonder Fred Armisen dumped her.
I'm going to lay the blame at the director's feet on this one.
After all – her expressions were great. She could emote. He just didn't tell her how to emote verbally.
So she did some great acting – when she didn't speak.
Instead of telling her to be nice, he should have been telling her to be mean on the screen.
Here's the deal, she is from South Dakota, I am from South Dakota. Let me give you some insight. We have many pretty girls here and if we don't like you, it's not because your pretty, it's because your a sn@tch. She has talked on the Daily Show about how she brought home a Jewish boyfriend and it was the talk of the town...um no....we are some of the most carefree people, outside of hippies, that you will ever meet. Like in all other places there will be the few people that have a problem with people that aren't like them, but for the most part no one cares here about anything other than 1. What kind of gun you shoot. 2. What kind of truck you drive. 3. How old your kids are. 4. What kind of beer you drink. Now, not all of this happens at the same time. We are not an episode of my Big Redneck Wedding! But those four topics take up most of our conversation. Not how many girls we hate because they are pretty and not how Jewish someones boyfriend is. JJ is an actress that is in way over her head, I wish I could get a great paying job that I wasn't qualified for just like she did, but whatever.
Well, if there's anyone who would know about suck, it's Damon Lindelof and the rest of the "Lost" crew. The only thing they managed to achieve was bilking enough out of the public to pay for a 6 year long Hawaiian vacation. But holding "Lost"'s laughably bad acting (and bad writing, direction, camera work, etc.) as an implied standard against which others may be judged, sadly, qualifies even slime mold colonies for an Emmy.
They told her she had to suck to get the job and she misunderstood. . .
Lindelof's writing is what sucks. Those guys owe us a proper season 6 of Lost.
At least Damon Lindelof is very familiar with things that suck. He's been responsible for many.
you sir are an idiot. you show blows and you have the nerve to say an actress in a hit movie sucked? go DIAF and remove your terrible excuse for entertainment from the records of history and our minds. you are truely useless to criticize ANYONE after the crap you made us watch. you couldnt even give us a damn plot you had to change it constantly. GFY
You know what else sucked? Lost. Not just the finale, the whole show. Lost totally sucked.
@S1N – Thanks! I really needed a good laugh and you've provided it.
Tell me what young actor/actress under 25 can act today? I mean seriouslly act. Chances are you can't. Today its all about all looks.
Dakota Fanning
Hugely disappointed in her casting as Emma Frost. WTH? I don't care how dorky that sounds, btw. I also really didn't get the casting of Jennifer Lawrence as Raven, and her character made no sense. Too much creative license with this one ~ all those months of anticipation to see this film and it fell flat for me. 😦
Damon Lindelof's writing sucks, so perhaps these two should team up and continue outputting mediocrity together.
Face it, she sucks, just not in the right way!
Lindelof has managed to define schadenfreude in a way that is astounding.
This comment made my night 🙂
She's not a good actress at all, but she's perfect for the part she plays on Mad Men. A cold, beautiful, emotionally detached woman. On Mad Men she's sort of a Grace Kelly type and it works on that show, but I don't see her playing the kiinds of roles an actress like Meryl Streep would be offered.
If its spewing u r not doin it right. Lessons ?
We wondered same thing. Where are all the regular posters ? We see a couple sometimes, not all tho. They are funny. They talk to each other like friends 2. They musta found a chat room or new blog. We hope they come back.
So this guy finally comes out of "radio silence" to knock someone else? Go back into hiding you troll.
So the guy who forced his show to jump the shark on a repeated basis, is knocking someone else's work. That's classic. Well, I guess since he is an expert in sucking, he feels he can give an opinion
Damon, someone just needs to slap your ugly face with a fish. Why you haven't been run out of town on a rail or tarred & feathered yet is beyond my comprehension. Carlton can join you too.
So the guy who co-created the worst show in television history and has since distanced himself from the product has something to say about an actress playing what has long been a one-note villian role for the last 30 years?
Not only is it unprofessional of him – but Jesus, you created LOST. Stones and glass houses, buddy.
Bwaaa haaa haa haa!!!! Though it wasn't the worst show until the last season when he and Carlton copped out 100%.
And Damon's ability to write a non-cop-out finale sucks as well. This guy has no credibility since LOST ended. He can go straight to the gates of hades for all I care.
Lindelof, BIG MISTAKE.
This is the reason Lost failed.
You said a mouthful there, dude! 100% agree.
She was horrible on SNL. Crappy actress. No personality.
There is scene at the end of Unknown where her hand is in a hole in the wall and she is trying to dismantle something that is about to explode. She has all the animation of a housewife who is trying to find a jar of jam in a dark cupboard. It explodes.
Yes, I concur- she was absolutely dreadful in X-Men, the worst thing in an otherwise amazing movie.
Also, I couldn't see what all the fuss was about her, facially she is hardly the stunning actress she is cracked up to be, in fact I just don't understand the hype all around her at all!
I hope she retires from acting with the birth of her child..seriously, she won't be missed.
I think she gets roles because her name is catchy and attractive sounding.
I agree, her name makes her sound like a character from a James Bond movie.
She was the WORST guest in the history of SNL. Lame!!
I agree completely, Paul...and I'm old enough to have seen every single SNL. January wins WORST EVER. Don't think they even used it in summer reruns. She blew a great opportunity...
I do watch Mad Men.. JJ is certainly not my favorite character and since it not fair to judge as actor by the character they place, I've read interviews with her. She is bland, boring, and about as dumb as they can get. I dunno.. maybe her cast mates will say something nicer but I am not a fan.
who cares what this dork thinks, he screwed Lost's ending big time!
OMG don't remind me! 😦
I didn't know Jones was in X Men; glad I decided to wait for the dvd – movies don't have fast forward buttons.
Read the interview on her in ALLURE and whether or not she is a good actress or not, she in totally unlikeable.
If he doesn't like her acting, then he just shouldn't hire her. Ridiculing someone who isn't a part of a project you are working on is just mean-spirited. I loved "Lost", but this is just turning me off to the show and to any future projects he may have.
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Not fair to really judge her since I don't even know her, but the impression she gives off is that of an ice queen. Has anyone ever seen her smile? It's like she has no joy. Kinda sad.
Why does every day seem like get-down-on-January-Jones day?! I mean it – every time she is mentioned, she's getting bashed. She is a wonderful actress and is gorgeous.
Besides that, X Men is hardly to be held up as a showcase for great acting skills anyway.
And, by the way, Damon Lindelof, Lost was one of the most poorly written tv shows of all time. I have made it a point to avoid any show you have been associated with since then. If you say someone is a lousy actor, I would automatically think they actually had to be pretty good.
What is good writing to you? Jersey Shores? Lost's writing, along with everything else, was a main reason the show was so highly acclaimed. Perhaps you didnt like the way the plot ended....but the writing itself...was flawless. And who are you kidding? January Jones may be the worst actress on any screen today.
Agreed. Lost was the most over-rated piece of crap ever!
@Andrew...Good writing? How about Watchmen (the book, definitely not the movie!)
Was she great enough in the movie to bother mentioning it? No. But was she bad enough to bother mentioning it? No. She did fine with what little she was given.
The real question is, so what if this guy had a hand in creating Lost? How does that make us care a flying rat's butt about his opinion? Need I remind about opinions? About how everyone has one, and what else everyone has? Seriously, Lost was cool and all, but this guy was barely one small part of why. Oodles of actors, writers, and others made it what it was. This guy's credentials total exactly to, he had a take on The Prisoner where everybody got to the island in a plane crash, rather than being kidnapped there, and he got lucky because they made it into a show. Big. Fat. Whoop.
Close the flapping lips, please, and deflate the head.
Glad someone said this. Totally agreed. I think she's being unfairly piled on here. The character is supposed to be cold and come off one dimensional. I don't think she was cast because they thought "great actress". I think she was cast because they had seen her work in Mad Men and thought she was a good fit for Emma Frost. I wish I was semi-famous so I could get headlines for saying that I thought McAvoy overplayed his part or that Jennifer Lawrence was nothing special or etc. about this movie.
She is one bland, boring actress. I don't think she even has a personality. Her "acting" is terrible in Mad Men.
She is EXCELLENT on "Mad Men". I don't see what the problem is.
just go see X-Men. Just watch it and then you'll understand. I promise.
Haven't seen it yet but is Jones as bad as Halle Berry as Storm in the first X-men?
No she's not as bad as Halle Berry's Storm, but only because she doesn't have nearly as much screen time.
January Jones basically has one look "stoic", that's it and she dated Kutcher, so, not a fan!! hate that guy,
I think she was a good choice for the role. Emma Frost is a bit of an ice queen so her poor acting made her seem cold and distant. i thought it worked.
Yes, her acting was atrocious.
But that's the only major disappointment in the film. I loved the cameo and wouldn't stop laughing minutes after it ended. "Go f- yourselves"... Haha.
Yep, she was dull and fembotty but passable as an evil minion. Bacon was simply miscast. He tried but he doesn’t have the gravitas to be the anchoring villain in a major XMen movie.
Bacon was fine, it's just the script didn't have him do anything. He never came off as a menace or someone that would be a problem for Magneto and Xavier.
she does nothing for me and her acting sucks..if they needed a blonde that badly they could*ve called charlize theron..
She is still good to look at unlike some of the jealous b!t<hes that would only negative things to say about her. Right suzie?
OH yes Ringo has had my weiner many times.
Yea, she was pretty boring in First Class. Although a lot of that movie turned out to be surprisingly boring so she kinda fit.
Never liked her acting, very dull and wooden.
Did someone say Weiner?
She's not only a bad actress, apparently, she is not a very good person. Rumor has it that the father of her unborn child is very married. I read an article about her where she said that the girls at her high school hated her because she was pretty!I doubt very much that was the reason they hated her.
Suzzi, where did you hear that? It makes sense- she's not revealing the father and her ex from SNL has said it's not him. I read that article too, seems she's full of herself!
I read the same thing...and thought the same thing. Guess she thought she was the only pretty girl in school.
I went to her HS and no one hated her for being pretty. They hated her because she was a snob. And she wasn't a good actress then either. I don't doubt for a second that she said those words though.
Wow, she's ticked off a few people, I guess!
What part of the movie did the EFF bomb get dropped? LOL – sorry – I must have missed that one !
Wolverine (cameo) told them to F off.......
Really? Did you leave to pee? There is NO WAY you missed that if you were in the theater.
"...and the best deployment of the PG-13 single-use eff-bomb I have ever seen." I couldn't agree more; that was freakin' hilarious! The whole theater I was burst out laughing and couldn't stop for nearly a minute!
It was brilliant.
I don't watch Mad Men but I've seen her in two movies – X Men First Class and Unknown – and her acting was flat both times. I thought it was just me being hard on her. I totally don't understand how she gets cast in these roles???? There are so many talented actresses in Hollywoood, especially black actresses and this is the person that they give the plum roles to...this baffles me. Aside from her perfermance, I loved X Men First Class and I hope to see it again.
Especially black actresses. Thanks for the reverse racism. Seriously, I thought we'd have one article where no one threw in the race card. Oh, well, next time.
As for JJ–Hollywood has a long, long history of hiring not-so-great actresses. So, what? We're talking about the X-Men (and the worst one in that series) as if the acting is topnotch.
Silly.
I can't really comment on her acting, as I haven't seen enough to judge... but flat acting award should go to Kristen Stewart. I am mystified that no matter the movie, no matter the character, and no matter the scene, she is the same. I cannot understand how she lands so many movie roles, it seems they could save money and just digitally insert her in any movie, change the clothes, and poof... new movie, same Kristen.
There is no way this movie can be the worst X-men movie. Have you seen X3, where they killed Cyclops out of annoyance because the actor got a bit part in Superman? I honestly thought they were going to hand wave it at the very end, so I didn't pay much attention until the credits rolled. I had to watch it twice, and it certainly didn't get better upon closer inspection.
Or are you saying that First Class is going to be the worst in the new trilogy?
Niki-we get you don't like Twilight. You should really try to watch something else. Might surprise you.
I like Twilight, but have to agree that Kristen Stewart is a terrible actress. I've been trying to figure out why she keeps getting work myself, and I can only surmise it's becaue the kiddies like her. But anything else she's been in besides Twilight has bombed, so maybe they'll get the hint and stop casting her.
As for the black actresses comment. Puh-lease. Get over it. There are more roles for black actresses than Asian, but you don't see them whining all the time.
@KeeKeeDee Reverse racism is tolerance. Racism is racism, even if it's against "your own people."
I'm afraid that Emma Frost has to be played by a white woman hon. It's how her character began when she was first written up in the Uncanny X-Men comic book and it's always been portrayed that way to the point where having anything other than what appeared to be a tall blue eyed blond Uber-WASP Boston Brahmin look in the role just wouldn't make sense to the audience in question. Now Mystique could have been a woman of colour before her transformation, to make things interesting; though like Storm who originally looked more like Iman but with blue eyes before they settled on Halle Berry well...
She looked and acted like a fem bot. Thats ok because Professor X was pulling off his groovy Austin Powers impression.
Yeah baby!
Prof. X pick up line – " Hey, love, just watch this mutation down here." But seriously, I saw this yesterday and Jones is a terrible actress.
I can't speak for X-Men, being I have not seen it yet. But, she is very good on Mad Men. She has the sixties, self medicated, just pretend everything is perfect, house wife down to a science.
Then by all other accounts, it sounds as though she's not acting, but just that much of a genuinely dullard (if not phony) person.
Her character on Mad Men has no emotional range just like her acting.
"She has the sixties, self medicated, just pretend everything is perfect, house wife down to a science"
As all women should....
@Flex, but that's the point – (Along with watching her in Mad Men since its beginning) I've watched her in interviews, (to a lesser extent, have seen her in magazines), hell, google her and look at all the pictures, she comes across as the same rather cold person as she does in Mad Men. I'm really beginning to think she she's not acting in any of these places but simply being herself – which is distant, awkward, and cold. Not necessarily a bad person, but not a good image for an actor.
Maybe she actually IS self-medicated and pretending that everything's all right.
She acted the sane exact way she does in Mad Men, the same way she acts in everything. If it were Jane Lynch they'd give her the Oscar.
Jane Lynch as Emma Frost? Bahah. I'd pay twice as much to see it.
Yeah man, she was terrible. She's not even that hot, I don't understand why they cast her...
I feel sorry for her. Nobody likes her. She's beautiful at first glance, but then she starts to look plain until they show her body, which is in perfect form. They should have cast Charlize Theron or anybody with a personality.
He's right! She's a terrible actress.
Where are all the trolls ? Why so few congressman weiner jokes ?
We're having a conference under our bridge at the moment. Stay tuned.
If her acting sucked that bad she needs to hook up with congressman weiner.
She can't act her way out of a bucket. Any more wooden and they'd have to send her for annual termite checks. She sucks BIG TIME.