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Hey Jessica-

How's it going girl? Congratulations on your Oscar nomination for The Help, well deserved. Also, congratulations on your other films that were released in 2011; The Debt, Take Shelter, Tree of Life, Wilde Salome, Coriolanus and Texas Killing Fields. Really, all remarkable performances.

Oh, and so excited for 2012, where we get to see you in; Mama, Wettest Country, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Terrence Malick's new project and Killing Bin Laden as well as what IMDB is calling an "Untitled International Thriller." Oh and we learned you just signed up for a double feature with Joel Edgarton entitled The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers. Exciting.

You see the problem though Jess, don't you. Let's take a quick count ... 15 movies. 15 movies in two years. Your pal Terrence? Tree of Life was only the fifth film he has directed, and he has been at this since 1973. Or what about your boy Sean Penn? 15 films since 2000.  That's twelve years, not two.

See Jessica, you are not Trishelle from Real World:Las Vegas. This is not a 'strike while the iron is hot' sort of thing. You are super talented and will remain super talented and everyone will want to work with you, forever.

So please take a vacation. Go somewhere tropical or somewhere cold or just hole up and read a book but whatever you do, please do it soon.

If for no other reason, you are starting to make the rest of us look really, really lazy. And no one likes that in a person.

Have fun on Oscar night, go with Armani Prive!

xx,

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