From the first time she drifted so casually and sexily onto the screen in Brick, batting her hypnotic eyes at our reluctant hero, she might as well have hypnotized me as well. In that amazing film, Nora Zehetner exudes all the qualities of the classic film noir femme fatale, mysterious and irresistable, luring you into her trap with eyes wide open. Me, I'd dive headlong into that glorious abyss quite willingly.
I didn't pick her simply because Rian Johnson's follow-up to Brick, The Brothers Bloom, came out last week. She makes a brief appearance there in one of the crucial opening scenes, and she's as breath taking to me as ever. Nora has remained busy ever since her breakthrough, appearing in 8 episodes of Heroes back when the show was still decent, not to mention a powerful performance in the 2007 mystery, Beneath.
