“My daughter got her first tooth this week. I woke up with her lying on my chest, snuggling me, and I feel like what a gift to get to explore motherhood through this incredible mother that Agnes is and was [in Hamnet], and then to become one myself, and then to receive this recognition of the incredible role mothers play in our world on this day is something I will never, ever forget,” she said. Source link
As Jessie Buckley became the first Irish woman in Oscars history to be crowned best actress, she made sure to wrap up her acceptance speech with some Gaelic. In Hamnet‘s only Academy Award win, Buckley beat Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), and Emma Stone (Bugonia) to the penultimate prize of the evening. After thanking her husband and eight-month-old daughter, she dedicated the win to the “chaos of a mother’s heart.” Right before the Kerry native departed the stage, she could also be heard saying, “Go raibh maith agaibh, slán,” which Irish reports translate to “Thank you very much, goodbye.” Buckley went into more detail about making history backstage, also commenting on it being Mother’s Day in the U.K. on Sunday: “First Irish woman to win and on Mother’s Day — it feels like some kind of crazy alchemy that all of these things are colliding on a day like today,” she said. “My daughter got her first tooth this week, I woke up …
As Hollywood’s biggest stars gather for the ceremony, the red carpet has once again become a showcase of dazzling fashion Source link
Further back, Barry Fitzgerald scored a win for Ireland at the Oscars in the best supporting actor category in 1945, for his performance in the musical comedy Going My Way, while Brenda Fricker did likewise in the best supporting actress category in 1990, for her part in the biographical drama My Left Foot. Source link
The 36-year-old is up for best actress at the Academy Awards for her performance in Hamnet. Source link
Maggie Gyllenhaal, who helmed The Bride, is revealing why Warner Bros. asked her to cut some of the film’s sexual violence. During a recent interview on The New York Times’ The Interview podcast, the actress-filmmaker opened up about her experience directing her first major studio film and the challenges that came with that, including The Bride undergoing test several test screenings. “There’s sexual violence. There’s violence. Because it’s a big studio movie, we tested and tested it. We had big screenings in malls, where people came to see it, which I had never been a part of as an actress or a director before. So fascinating,” she recalled. “And one of the things that they brought up was the violence: Is it too violent? And I was talking about it with a girlfriend of mine, who said — and she wasn’t being reductive — ‘I wonder if you had been a man making this movie, if you would have had the same response.’” Following the feedback at the screenings, Gyllenhaal said Warner Bros. “asked to take …
Maggie Gyllenhaal‘s The Bride! held its world premiere in London’s West End on Thursday night, and not long after the screening, early reactions to the Warner Bros. film started to hit social media. Those who attended the premiere praised Gyllenhaal’s ambition and risk taking and also star Jessie Buckley‘s performance. There was also praise for co-lead Christian Bale. Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to her directorial debut The Lost Daughter, The Bride! is a brash and imaginative take on Mary Shelley’s classic story Frankenstein. Set in 1930s Chicago, the film centers on a lonesome monster, played by Bale, who recruits Dr. Euphronios to create a companion for himself. The two revive a murdered young woman and the titular bride, played by Buckley, is born. A cracked love story, the monster and his bride then embark on a killing spree, while being pursued by the police. As well as Shelley’s 1818 novel, the film draws inspiration from the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein. Gyllenhaal directs from her own screenplay and produces alongside Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat …
The award-winning Irish actress stars in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s upcoming horror film The Bride! alongside Christian Bale. Source link
Jessie Buckley, this year’s best actress Oscar frontrunner for her portrayal of Agnes Shakespeare in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet and the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is an Irish stage and screen actress who has been described by The Observer as “one of the most exciting actors of her generation,” by Vanity Fair as possessing “both dazzling charisma and a remarkable authenticity” and by The New York Times as having “a reputation for playing complicated roles with devastating power,” adding, “Few other actresses of her generation can gain access to such a wide spectrum of emotions, or seem as willing to risk being disliked for exploring the tougher ones.” Over just a decade on the big screen, Buckley, 36, has already given a host of memorable performances. She earned particular acclaim for her work in 2018’s Wild Rose, in which she played a Scottish ex-con who dreams of being a country music star, and for which she received a best actress BAFTA Award nomination; 2021’s The Lost Daughter, in which …
Hamnet made Bafta history with 11 nominations. Source link
