Apex Mountain
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- Asked whether this is Hathaway's Apex, the first answer is no; Rachel Getting Married, Ocean's 8 (admitted recency bias) and 'intercellar' (as transcribed) are floated.
- The correct answer is declared to be that this is her Apex, since she becomes a top star with her whole career ahead; this is accepted, and she gets 'the Dark Night' (as transcribed) because of it.
- Emily Blunt's Apex is said to be happening right now, with A Quiet Place leading into Mary Poppins; one panelist is nervous about Mary Poppins.
- A tangent debates whether anyone under 40 knows Julie Andrews' Mary Poppins, and one panelist shames musicals.
- For Meryl Streep a yes is offered; one panelist recounts fighting with her husband over calling this Streep's greatest performance.
- Sophie's Choice is called the iconic example, and Streep is argued to be the best actor ever, male or female.
- Her best performance is said to have to be something like Sophie's Choice, though she lacks a Vito Corleone-type mainstream role, with Miranda the closest.
- A March 2009 column called her the best actor ever; she is compared to LeBron for durability, and Adaptation and The Hours back to back are praised.
- Stanley Tucci: absolutely his Apex, with a joke that his Apex is his cookbook.
- Simon Baker is called rough, now making a lot of money on a CBS show as The Mentalist.
- A case for Adrian Grenier is first rejected because Entourage was his apex, then accepted because this came during Entourage, putting him on the mountaintop.