{"id":2584,"date":"2010-09-15T00:46:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T07:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/09\/teresa-palmers-kick-butt-fantasies\/"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:50:42","slug":"teresa-palmers-kick-butt-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/15\/teresa-palmers-kick-butt-fantasies\/","title":{"rendered":"Teresa Palmer&#8217;s Kick-butt Fantasies of Angelina Jolie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&amp;objectid=10673633\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New Zealand Herald<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Teresa Palmer casting her spell<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"credits\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/jacqueline-smith\/news\/headlines.cfm?a_id=481\" target=\"_blank\">Jacqueline Smith<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- ARTICLE BODY - START --><\/p>\n<p class=\"leadIn\"><strong>Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice star Teresa Palmer leaves behind some awkward years as she heads up the Hollywood starlet ranks, writes Jacqueline Smith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: none\" class=\"articleImage three\" id=\"articleImageSmall\"> \t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"javascript:ExpandArticleImage();\" onclick=\"s_objectID='articleimage';\" class=\"eventBind\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nzherald.co.nz\/webcontent\/image\/jpg\/060910SPLSORC1_220x147.jpg\" alt=\"Teresa Palmer thought that being from Adelaide might make a film career an unrealistic option and then she was hand-picked for &lt;i&gt;Wolf Creek&lt;\/i&gt;. 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Photo \/ Supplied\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"enlargeOverlay enlargeOverlayBig eventBind\" style=\"opacity: 0.9; display: inline\"><span><!-- --><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tvar bigImgSrc = \\\\\\'http:\/\/media.nzherald.co.nz\/webcontent\/image\/jpg\/060910SPLSORC1_460x230.jpg\\\\\\'; \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t$(\".enlargeOverlay\").css({opacity: 0.9}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tfunction ExpandArticleImage() { \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ if the big image hasn\\\\\\'t been loaded yet load it and give this function as the callback \t\t\t\t\t\tif ( !$(\"img.articleImageBig\").attr(\\\\\\'src\\\\\\')) {\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"img.articleImageBig\").load(function(){ExpandArticleImage();});\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"img.articleImageBig\").attr(\\\\\\'src\\\\\\',bigImgSrc);\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageSmall\").hide(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig .eventBind\").attr(\"href\", \"javascript: return false;\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig\").animate( { width:\"460px\" }, { queue:false, duration:500 } ); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig .articleImageBig\").animate( { width:\"460px\", height:\"230px\" }, 500, null, function() { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig .enlargeOverlayBig\").show(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig .eventBind\").attr(\"href\", \"javascript: ContractArticleImage();\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tfunction ContractArticleImage() {\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig .eventBind\").attr(\"href\", \"javascript: return false;\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig .enlargeOverlayBig\").hide(); \t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig .articleImageBig\").animate( { width:\"220px\", height:\"147px\" }, { queue:false, duration:500 } ); \t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig\").animate( { width:\"220px\" }, 500, null, function(){ \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig .eventBind\").attr(\"href\", \"javascript: ContractArticleImage();\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageSmall\").show(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t$(\"#articleImageBig\").hide(); \t\t\t\t\t\t});  \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t<\/script>It&#8217;s hard to believe Teresa Palmer was less than a babe at school, but she insists she did her time as the nerdy kid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having dealt with her own awkward stage, Palmer says she was able to identify with the nerdy hero of her latest film the <em>The Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>She recently fulfilled another fantasy by playing the kick-butt Angelina Jolie-style character in <em>I Am Number Four<\/em> &#8211; dressed top to toe in leather, beating people up and riding a motorcycle. But what is most exciting about that film is she is not only the tough-chick, but the Australian tough-chick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was so refreshing because I haven&#8217;t been allowed to be an Aussie so far in my career. But they decided that my character, who is an alien, was placed in Australia as a young girl and grew up as an Australian, so I got to keep my accent &#8211; even my Adelaide one, my very thick South Australian accent,&#8221; she says proudly.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/entertainment\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&amp;objectid=10673633\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at The NZ Herald<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New Zealand Herald Teresa Palmer casting her spell By Jacqueline Smith Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice star Teresa Palmer leaves behind some awkward years as she heads up the Hollywood starlet ranks, writes Jacqueline Smith. 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