“If anything, I pulled back a little bit.”
“It’s gratifying because you could really remove yourself.
That’s all the work with the makeup.
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This is not who’s here today, in any case.
before settling in to talk about her next big movie role.
Is there an actress alive more skilled more eager to remove any trace of themselves from their roles?
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So Close remains winless more so than any other living performer, in fact.
’s mom (Amy Adams) falls deeper into a drug-addiction spiral, leaving him in Mamaw’s care.
But first, yes, thatlook.
Close remembers the cosmetic conversations: “How big should my fake breasts be?
She tore through baggy T-shirts and oversize glasses.
She was very much larger-than-life everybody said that!”
Close studied photographs and intensively practiced the (very) specific Appalachian accent.
“That was what she wore,” she says in sum, after offering a head-to-toe breakdown.
The end result is a testament to her talent, no doubt.
But she is one to embrace it.”
And it is, for Close,work.
She didn’t find Mamaw difficult to shake when she went home after shooting.
Another job, another process, albeit one of the good ones “fulfilling.”
Partly because this character creation went so much deeper than an outfit.
“You have to find a common humanity with them.
Because otherwise, you’re judging them and that will set them apart.”
Close keyed into Mamaw’s fragility, too perhaps the performance’s most lasting impression.
Her bad hip, her struggling family.
The character is resilient, no doubt, but wounded too.
A full human being.
leaving home for the military.
Art, as it goes, had mirrored life.
“He thought that it was her.”
Crazy wig and all.
