Chris here. We're pretty jazzed about Tom Ford's meta-noir Nocturnal Animals in these parts, even with (or because of) festival reactions are all over the map from negative to positive. Whether or not the film is a potential awards player, it did pick up the Grand Jury Prize in Venice and even the poor reviews call out Michael Shannon as a highlight. However, the buried lede in all of the conversation (and the just-launched trailer) is the buzzed about cameo by The Lovely Laura Linney, whose character shows up like this:
Praise the heavens, she's no longer a supportive wife trapped on a phone! And now she's letting her hair down up. Some takeaways:
- Category is: Oliver Stone First Lady Before She Betrays Him And Country Realness
- She's drowning in hair, pearls, and stiff fabric, yet her face is still luminous.
- The role may be small, but when has she ever gotten to go big even just if it's in costuming? Let's hope it's not just the look because we'd love to see her go wild.
- Linney is playing Amy Adams's mother, which could be as delightfully bonkers as the movie sounds if not for the depressing ageism repeated here. Linney is TEN years older than Adams, but in Hollywood years the math inexplicably adds up.
- But seriously: no husbands to concernedly call, Ninja Turtles to catch, or maiding to be done here. We're stoked to see her back in the game.
Anyway, since Animals isn't hers alone, feast on the trailer and try to decipher what the film is all about: