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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 9:00PM • Vulture Marcia Gay Harden answers all the questions about her awesome Oscar win for Pollock on its 20th anniversary
• MNPP Josh O'Connor to make a queer horror film with Francis Lee (God's Own Country, Ammonite)
• Deadline very interesting (if way too complimentary) report on dubbing films into other languages. Daniel Brühl is among the top actors who dub their own performances into multiple languages rather than letting other actors do it and change the performance. It helps that he's fluent in multiple languages of course.
More after the jump including Pose, Regé-Jean Page, Killers of the Moon, a new adaptation of Blindness, and recent showbiz deaths...
• /Film Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon has hired Jack Fisk (aka Mr Sissy Spacek) as its production designer. That's amazing because Fisk always does phenomenal work but has never worked with Scorsese. Leonardo DiCaprio headlines (of course)
• Advocate the trailer for Pose's third and final season is upon us
• Pajiba on Regé-Jean Page not returning for Season 2 for Bridgerton. We're so glad he isn't. So many series have been undone by trying to stay in statis to repeat what's popular rather than actually evolving organically.
• /Film superhero culture somehow hasn't reached the over-saturation mark -- 2020's dearth surely bought the genre a few more years since everyone had a break -- but it must be finally getting there. A new trailer for something called Jupiter's Legacy which looks very self-serious.
•/Film Wolfwalkers, the best animated film of 2020, is getting a brief theatrical release this weekend to celebrate its Oscar nomination.
Theater Will Return
• Deadline This sounds very cool. There's an actor free Off-Broadway show using only light and sound for its storytelling that's based on Jose Saramago's Blindness (such a brilliant novel - you might remember the Julianne Moore film version though that didn't do it justice) opening. The audience is masked and seated spaced apart.
• Playbill you can stream a new Sutton Foster concert at the end of the month but it will cost you $35. She's so wonderful but I wish producers would realize that streaming something at home doesn't really warrant off broadway or deluxe movie theater prices. You're not actually paying to rent theater space nightly or paying the actors for each performance or having the experience of going to an event. You've just taped a concert or are streaming a movie!
RIP
• Larry McMurtry the novelist whose work was adapted into three classic films (Hud, The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment) and who won an Oscar adapting Brokeback Mountain has passed away at 84
• Bertrand Tavernier of A Sunday in the Country, 'round Midnight, and Coup de torchon fame passed away at 79. In his celebrate career he won a BAFTA, Cannes Best Director, and five César Awards
• Gloria Henry, Dennis the Menace's mother in the 1960s sitcom, has died at 98
Reader Comments (23)
Marcia eventually outing who was pissed she won is hilarious.
Hey, doing your own dubbing in different languages is a good thing. Why? $$$$$$$$
Plus, Daniel Bruhl is so hot right now. I wish he was my sugar daddy.
I bought Lonesome Dove a few weeks ago thinking I'd get to it by Christmas. As of today, I'm 300 pages deep. Started it the day after he died. Work of art. Wish I didn't know who starred in the old miniseries, but Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones are probably pretty close to what I would have pictured, anyway.
Interesting to hear that Judi Dench wasn't so happy about Marcia Gay Harden's Oscar win for 'Pollock.' She had just won two years prior, so I don't see why she would have much reason to care.
How much more can we love and respect Marcia Gay Harden after that article?!? ❤️❤️❤️
I LOVE the Marcia interview. WTF Judi Dench??? Haha.
Call me CeCe Peniston when I got the RIP section beacause Finally! Dare we push our luck and ask for a Claudio piece on McMurtry's works and their cinematic legacy?
So Daphne's husband just won't be around anymore? On "business" in London all season?Rubbish.
It's "A Sunday in the Country," not "A Month in the Country." I know that because it's the only Tavernier film I've seen. Quite a lovely one, as I recall.
And yeah, that MGH interview is priceless. Lurv her. And Dame Judi, you're a national treasure but I actually forgot you were even in "Chocolat"...and I saw that movie! (Whereas I remember the other nominees that year very clearly...)
The Judi thing is bizarre. I checked and Dench’s husband died in 2001, so perhaps she was not herself.
What a fascinating interview! I was also on the interviewer’s train of thought (“it has to be Julie!?”), especially because I vividly remember Walters doing an interview about how exhausting a full-on Oscars promo campaign is and that she’d never do it again because of the psychological stress...
Dench has SUCH an impeccable industry record of being loved that I assume (like Harden) that she must have been having a very off-day... she was also firmly in the Miramax machine so god knows what bullshit they were feeding their stars in that period about undeserving competitors and such - especially ironic when Miramax pretty much scammed the system even for their most deserving movies - Chocolat was not one of these and I’d have much rather seen Catherine Zeta-Jones take Dench’s spot...
I love Marcia’s win, her burgundy ensemble that night, and above all the sentiment she expressed regarding Glenn!
However, I think she comes off like utter trash shading Dame Judi Dench who is truly one of the absolute GOATs. Judi wasn’t AA nominated until age 63, when she had to lose to the MAD ABOUT YOU lady and her weak NY accent, got a consolation prize the next year for 8 minutes of screen time (for which she was clearly embarrassed, hence why she said she only felt she deserved a small piece of the trophy), and had her husband die two months before the 2001 ceremony where Marcia felt Judi wasn’t a gracious enough loser. (Meanwhile, Marcia remains abnormally obsessed with her ex from 20 years ago.) I find it pathetic that she’s sharing her paranoia over this perceived slight 20 years later; perhaps she should spend less time watching her triumph on YouTube and dissecting Judi’s reaction. It makes me want to watch Diane Keaton hit Marcia in FIRST WIVES CLUB on repeat.
I also think Judi deserved another Oscar for IRIS, but she was perfectly gracious and appreciative of Halle Berry’s historic moment, and I honestly would give her the edge over Helen Mirren in 2007. (As much as I love Liza and her AA win, I’ll also always remain curious as to what Judi’s Sally Bowles would have looked like on film.)
The only MGH performances I can recall since her win is her solid enough work in MYSTIC RIVER and as Lily Tomlin’s daughter in GRANDMA.
Nothing changes the fact that Julie Walters absolutely deserved that award for her genius work in BILLY ELLIOT.
I must confess, I have spent this season commenting as “Frances Bean” after being cyber-bullied on this very site last year for thinking (and sharing openly) that I thought Jennifer Lopez was characteristically bad in HUSTLERS - but I will hide no more!
Thank you, Nathaniel, for all you do! This site remains endlessly entertaining and compulsively readable! ♥️
I didn't think a simple interview could make me love and respect Marcia Gay Harden even more than i did. ❤❤❤ Give her a Guest Actress Emmy for anything because she's always great !!!
That Marcia interview is a lot of fun!
I love Josh O'Connor and Francis Lee, but it's a bit of a bummer that he makes queer films and casts them almost exclusively with heterosexual actors (Fiona Shaw's tiny performance in Ammonite notwithstanding).
Page was bad in Bridgerton. I can't understand why everyone is acting like it's a huge loss for the show.
Judi Dench was totally fine with Marcia's win. You just have to look at the clip.
Marcia woke up early on the 20th Anniversary of her Oscar win poured a large cup of tea in celebration of the ultimate shock win and proceeded to spill it all over the damn place!
The Marcia Gay Harden interview is wonderful!
Judi Dench would have been the worst choice from that line-up (for a nomination that would never have existed if not for Weinstein's relentless campaigning), but she did win the SAG, so maybe she thought she was going to win a 2nd Oscar that night. I wonder if that is why she's a no-show now when she's nominated.
It seems odd that Rege-Jean Page wouldn't appear. I think it's fine to have characters move from lead to supporting, and to appear in fewer episodes if things can be hammered out. However, he was one of the best parts of the show, and while the show has a "lead" storyline, they also juggle several. I can only assume he really wanted out given the boost he got from the show.
That Marcia Gay Harden interview was a thrill! She's wonderful, and I'm so glad she had her moment. It's pretty wild to think that both time she was nominated she overlooked by SAG and the Golden Globes.
Marcia Gay Harden is simply the best; great article. Thank you for sharing the link, it made my day.
I think we know that Glenn Close will receive at least on vote for the Oscar this year. Thank you, Marcia Gay Harden! Way to have your Damages co-star's back.
Excuse me - I need to read the MGH interview again.
Everyone -- Marcia very clearly states in that article that she doesn't know for sure but it was her 'impression' that Dench was mad. Given that she had no interaction with her that night (that we know of) this is all hearsay so it's strange that people are running with "Dench was pissed!" Dench doesn't seem to care that much about awards and it could be that if she was angry that night it was about something else entirely. Especially since she'd so recently won and literally no one expected she was more than a courtesy nomination that year.
anyway. Love Marcia's frankness and knew you all would enjoy that article :)
P.S. & Joe G -- well apparently he doesn't appear in the book that they're adapting for season 2. each book focusing on a different character from the Bridgerton family (apparently)
Peggy -- i didn't think Page was "bad" in Bridgerton but the acting awards must have been for being so sexy. I can't figure it otherwise. Nobody in that series was doing awards-win quality acting though it is totally a fun series.
Dench's husband of 30 years died two months before the ceremony. That's probably why she seemed "off" that year. I'm surprised she even attended the Oscars, TBH.
Watching the immediate reactions of each of the nominees when the winner's name is called, Dench actually looks happy, it looks like she's saying something complementary about Harden to whoever is seated next to her. People have mentioned that Dench's husband had recently died so perhaps Dench left early or wasn't overly enthusiastic and Harden misread it, or Weinstein was spreading rumors.
Love Marcia's interview and the shock win (we need more of those... except when my favorite is the frontrunner 😉), but I still wish Julie Walters won for Billy Elliott.