as her desire for more grows and she starts to rediscover herself.
Nicole Rifkin
THE AWARDIST: This performance is unlike any that I have seen from you.
You couldn’t really be thinking about anything other than what was happening in each moment.
Nicole Rifkin
Mari did a really good job at building a set that was very playful.
It really served to help the relationship feel very lived-in and very real.
They seemed so comfortable with you.
Amy Adams in ‘Nightbitch’.Searchlight Pictures
It seemed like such a genuine relationship.
They were the best.
It was interesting because I have to be discouraging them while at the same time encouraging them.
Amy Adams in ‘Nightbitch’.Searchlight Pictures
Don’t do that."
Kudos to the editor because that plays so well.
That was the eating, your face covered food?
Scoot McNairy and Amy Adams in ‘Nightbitch’.Searchlight Pictures
[Laughs] Weirdly enough, no, that is not.
I’m a pretty silly person naturally.
But the more emotional stuff is where I feel more vulnerable about an audience watching it.
Amy Adams in ‘Nightbitch’.Searchlight Pictures
[Laughs]
You’re a mother yourself.
This isn’t a biopic of any kind, but you are feeling things.
I’d like to think so.
Amy Adams in ‘Nightbitch’.Searchlight Pictures
I’d like to think we keep moving forward but two steps forward, one step back sometimes.
[Laughs] But I do know that I’m having really great conversations with people.
The great thing about it, how I feel, is that it is inclusive.
Amy Adams and Scoot McNairy in ‘Nightbitch’.Searchlight Pictures
It’s been nice, the conversations around it it’s deep, it’s nice.
There’s not a lot of superficial conversations that I’m having after people see it.
It’s so fun!
My husband saw the final cut before me in a screening.
I always send him first.
I do I always want his perspective.
[Laughs] And I was like, “No, that’s Mari too.”
That’s such a common experience.
I love how Mari shaped that relationship because that also feels very lived in and very real.
But I knew it was really necessary to just be as honest and truthful as possible.
I just wanted it to feel grounded in her story and in her life and in her relationships.
So I did kind of take the guardrails off a little bit.
Zoe Saldaña in ‘Emilia Pérez’; Kieran Culkin in ‘A Real Pain’; Ariana Grande in ‘Wicked’; Denzel Washington on ‘Gladiator II’.PAGE 114 - WHY NOT PRODUCTIONS; Searchlight Pictures; Giles Keyte/Universal; Aidan Monaghan/Paramount
Even though the presentation might be magical realism, the emotions, of course, aren’t.
That’s all real.
you might’t make that up.
I’ll never get it, but that’s the bar!"
And then the other one is Marion Cotillard inLa Vie en Rose."
Oh, Hilary Swank inBoys Don’t Cry.
Stanley Tucci’s Cardinal Bellini checks for potential eavesdroppers during a private conversation, in ‘Conclave’.Courtesy of Focus Features
These really lived-in characters that just transport you.
Jodie Foster in everything she’s ever done.
Holly Hunter inThe Piano.
‘Conclave’ script page.Focus Features
You’ll keep thinking of them I love it!
Were there conversations about what kind of breed?
Mari had a very clear point of view.
‘Conclave’ script page.Focus Features
It started with my eyes and my hair color.
And then they worked with that with Juno.
Yeah, she had a very clear point of view.
‘Conclave’ script page.Focus Features
But I like it when things unfold like that.
That need for community, it changed so much after I had my daughter.
[Laughs] “You’re not a horrible mom.”
We have to talk about Scoot.
He’s so good.
No!…Well, maybe…
But yeah, I’m trying to think I don’t think we were ever together.
So when casting Husband, he wasn’t necessarily a thought from that film.
You weren’t like, “I want to get him.”
I know lots of people who know him.
I think his work is great.
I know he’s great."
Josh O’Connor in ‘Challengers’.Warner Bros. Pictures
I feel like we fell into it so quickly very comfortable.
And he does such a great job not playing an antagonist.
And so he’s working with the information he has but not being very instinctive.
She wants to be seen without telling him what she needs.
I’ve fallen into that in my life.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Barbara Stanwyck in ‘Stella Dallas’.Everett
Check out Joey Nolfi’s predictions for Best Picture, Director, and Lead Actor and Actress here.
But who will it be?
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So it’s time to craft a new strategy.
Eddie Redmayne at the 2015 Oscars.Kevin Winter/Getty
“With Ridley, we always have costume villages of epic proportions,” Yates says in the video.
“Having a crowd of extras is a challenge because you have a huge quantity of garments.”
And she makes the work easy for the movie’s stars.
“It is an art.”
Watch the video above for more.
His Patrick Zweig struts through every scene with a beguiling swagger, barely concealing the emptiness underneath.
The only difference between them?
She’d lose all four.
this Oscar, this belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS.
It belongs to one exceptional family: Stephen, Jane, Jonathan, and the Hawking children.
“EDDIE REDMAYNE | LEAD ACTOR, 2015 |THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
