Now that Elizabeth: The Golden Age has been released in some parts, reviews are pouring in. Unfortunately from what I have come across, the reviews seem to be quite bad, granted not as bad as one could imagine, but still it seems the second coming of Queen Elizabeth didn’t quite live up to expecations. :/ Hear are some of the less harsher ones, and I have scanned the two page review in the October 19th issue of Entertainment Weekly, view those here.

From – Entertainment Weekly
In the midst of all this 1980s-style Masterpiece Theatreism, meanwhile, one young performer sticks out as a reminder that Elizabeth: The Golden Age is, after all, a picture also made with a concern for today’s younger tastes in self-actualization. As her majesty’s royal favorite, Bess, Cornish (soon to appear in Stop Loss opposite Ryan Phillippe) comes across at every moment as a modern girl testing her girl power. Peach-toned and Australian like Blanchett, and poised in E2 for larger future fame the way Blanchett was in E1, the 25-year-old Cornish is a star with Now appeal synthesized into a production no longer sure what it wants to say about Then.

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Following in the footsteps of Nicole, Naomi and other great Australian actresses, 25-year-old beauty Abbie Cornish, Cate Blanchett’s co-star in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, might surprise those who see Shekhar Kapur’s historic epic, because few people will have seen the actress’ amazing performances in the Aussie dramas Somersault and Candy. (A few more people may have seen her in Ridley Scott’s 2005 comedy A Good Year but not too many more.)

In The Golden Age, Cornish plays Bess Throckmorton, Queen Elizabeth’s first lady-in-waiting, who has an affair with Clive Owen’s Sir Walter Raleigh, much to the ire of the queen who also had her eye on the dashing adventurer, and when ComingSoon.net spoke to the young actress recently, we were pleasantly surprised by her eloquent responses to our questions.

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MoviesOnline features a fabulous The Golden Age related interview with Abbie, which includes all kinds of interesting bits about the actress and her upcoming projects.

MoviesOnline sat down with Abbie Cornish at the Los Angeles press day for her new movie, “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” directed by Shekhar Kapur from an original screenplay by William Nicholson (“Gladiator”) and Michael Hirst (“Elizabeth”). Reprising the roles they originated in seven-time Academy Award-nominated “Elizabeth,” Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush return for a gripping historical thriller laced with treachery and romance. Joining them in the epic is Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh, a dashing seafarer and newfound temptation for Elizabeth.

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Rising Aussie star Abbie Cornish was shocked by the public hatred she faced when linked romantically to co-star Ryan Phillippe and blamed her for the break-up of his marriage to Reese Witherspoon.

Cornish told our LA reporter Peta Hellard yesterday that she took six months away from acting to step out of the limelight after the experience.

“That was scary,” Cornish, 25, said. “I kept thinking, ‘Don’t pay attention to what they write’.

“With the media now, and especially the internet, there is not much you can do.

“I do find it strange that they express dislike and judge without having access to the truth – they say and do anything about anyone and it only generates hate.”

Cornish also denied reports she would be the next Bond girl – a suggestion made by fellow Australian actor Rose Byrne.

“It wasn’t a statement as much as it was a bit of a joke – poor Rose,” she said. “I’m not doing the Bond film.”

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