…the first thing I flashed upon was her activist + advocacy footage in Louie Psihoyos and Ric O’Barry‘s The Cove.
I’m sorry…actually I’m not sorry that I totally ignored Heroes (2006–2010), and that I’ve always hated the Scream franchise (2011–2023) with every fibre of my being, and that I also blew off Nashville (2012–2018), the ABC/CMT musical drama series. Panettiere starred or was prominently cast in all of these.
Everyone presumes that when a celebrity dies at a young age, it’s almost certainly because of drugs or booze.
The Cove wound up winning the Best Feature Documentary Oscar on 3.7.10, but it felt like a touch-and-go thing for a long while because a legend had grown that women wouldn’t go see it because of the dolphin-slaughtering footage. HE constantly pushed and pleaded for the Oscar win, and then lo and behold it actually happened.