Glenn Closeis not exactly in love withShakespeare in Love.
“I’ve never understood how you could honestly compare performances,” Close said.
“I remember the year Gwyneth Paltrow won over that incredible actress who was inCentral Station.
I thought, ‘What?’
It doesn’t make sense.
Publicity, how much money did they have to put it out in front of everybody’s sight.”
(Shakespearetriumphed unexpectedly over frontrunnerSaving Private Ryan, widely considered the superior film then and now.)
Close may well get her eighth nod forHillbilly Elegycome next year.
Though the film itself has beensavaged by critics, hertransformative performancehas been singled out for praise.
But Close isn’t exactly enthusiastic about potentially receiving her first Oscar amid a global pandemic.
“I mean, that would be ironic, but that’s what life does, right?
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