Love Quote by Uma Thurman

There is a very Hollywood kind of candor in Uma Thurman admitting she’d “love” to do something like Austin Powers: it’s not just about wanting to be funny, it’s about wanting to be seen differently. Thurman’s image has long been calibrated toward the cool, controlled, and lethal - the icy glamour of Dangerous Liaisons, the mythic poise of Pulp Fiction, the vengeance machine of Kill Bill. Comedy, especially broad, brightly lit franchise comedy, is a public rewrite of that brand.

“Show off my comic timing” is the tell. Timing is the craft word actors use when they want respect without sounding needy. She’s not saying she wants to mug; she’s saying she can play rhythm, pace, micro-pauses, the invisible mechanics that make jokes land. It’s also a subtle complaint: in an industry that loves to typecast women into “serious” elegance or action severity, comic aptitude can be ignored unless you’re already slotted as the funny one.

Austin Powers is a particularly loaded reference because it’s a comic universe built on performance, pastiche, and fearless silliness - characters that require total commitment to stupidity without winking. To ask for that space is to ask for permission to be outrageous, to be unglamorous on purpose, to take up room in a genre where women are often reduced to the straight face or the decorative punchline.

Underneath the breezy phrasing is an actor lobbying for range, and for the cultural capital that comes when audiences realize you’re in on the joke.