As we discovered when comparing the careers of Shia LaBeouf and Michael J. Fox, as well as Leslie Mann and Madeline Kahn, it’s hard to be original. It’s even harder to be a breakout talent who forges an trajectory that defies categorization and precedent. In the case of Our Idiot Brother star Zooey Deschanel, her career has matched one other raven-haired thespian’s rise to prominence: That would be Andie MacDowell.
Now, it’s only fair to note the differences between these two before we pigeonhole them in French Lieutenant’s Woman-style generational parallelism. Deschanel is an acclaimed songstress with the hip outfit She & Him, and she didn’t exactly come to represent out-of-nowhere screen stardom as Andie MacDowell did in 1989 — even if her breakthrough role was similar. Furthermore, MacDowell’s status as a consummate leading lady is a bit different (or more realized, I should say) than Deschanel’s burgeoning draw as a comic-romantic actress. Still, their three biggest similarities line up pretty well.
Fashionplate credibility
Before MacDowell stormed the Sundance circuit, she populated the pages of Vogue with modeling gigs, working with titans like Richard Avedon, Irving Penn and Herb Ritts. Deschanel never made a career out of her fashion instincts, but she is certainly as defined by her vintage hipster cuteness (twee-ness, to invoke an exhausted but necessary word) as she is by her acting and singing abilities. She’s a ribbon-adorned paperdoll with a heart pendant. You might even say MacDowell and Deschanel built their It Girl foundations on different takes of the same high-brow glamor.
Indie breakthrough
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Source: http://www.celebrities.com/celebrities-gossip/is-zooey-deschanel-the-new-andie-macdowell/
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