A Lady of Quality
Kristin Scott Thomas, whose immaculate performance in I’ve Loved You So Long won high praise worldwide, sat for a tribute last night at Santa Barbara’s Lobero theatre. Pete Hammond pitched the questions. On top of everything else in her backpack (brains, class, beauty, immense talent), KST is modest, self-effacing and very funny. She’s the best. The Academy folk who couldn’t be bothered to watch the ILYSL screener (and therefore didn’t nominate her for Best Actress) need to hang their heads in shame.
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Her English Patient costar Ralph Fiennes turned up at the finale to present her with the festival’s Cinema Vanguard award.
A small party at the Biltmore Santa Barbara, a sublime old-world establishment, followed. I told KST that SBFF director Roger Durling and I had caught her in the Broadway production of The Seagull performance last November. She said she hasn’t yet seen An Education, the breakout dramedy featuring her Seagull costar Carey Mulligan . She said that plans are afoot to shoot a film version of The Seagull with the same Broadway cast.
I told her I’ve read Matt Greenhalgh‘s script for Nowhere Boy , the young John Lennon biopic in which she’ll play Aunt Mimi, and found it quite sharp and, as far as I could discern, grounded in the reality of ’50s Liverpool culture. We talked very briefly about P.J. Hogan‘s Confessions of a Shopaholic (Disney, 2.13), in which she plays a supporting part “very broadly,” she said.
“Are you the man who compared my [I've Loved You So Long] performance to the work of Steve McQueen?” she asked. Yes, I said, “and then you gave me a shout-out in People magazine for having said that.” Actors get hit on day and night — they can’t be expected to remember who wrote or said what.
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It doesn’t surprise me that she’s much more well-received by the French than by the Americans or Brits. Hollywood has such a phobia of older actresses, it’s really sad and embarrassing.
She’s a great actress.
Her chances would have been improved by an earlier and wider release than late October – it maxed out in the US at around 50 screens, and total US gross is a paltry $2.5 million…nobody really championed her performance the way that Cotillard’s was promoted in the media, again helped by being an earlier release.
For all its faults, at least the Academy remembered Melissa Leo…and Richard Jenkins.
She’s adorable, but is definitely in a Valerie Harper phase, that is slightly distracting.
Funny that Clint could have made three Gran Torinos in the time it took Redford to film a couple arguments in New York to begin THW.
She’s a class act. Her Oscar snub just goes to show that Cotillard’s win last year was an anomaly. The real reason La Vie En Rose got an acting nod — and won — was because Cotillard played a self-destructive celebrity (add to Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote, Ray Charles, blah blah blah). Not that she wasn’t deserving, but that’s the only reason the Academy took notice. Dinking Scott Thomas proves that they still have a phobia about sub-titled movies in general.
I second Jeff’s raves. One of my favorites, for some time now. It looked like she was sort of fading away for a while there career-wise, so it’s been a real treat this year to see her in these two great French movies and be so fantastic on stage. Hope she does more and more theater.
We really sort of have Anthony Minghella to thank for her in some way, no? I can’t reall remember but in 4 Weddings she was sort of a goofy character actress…seems like daring casting on Minghella’s part. I’m sure he was pressured to go with someone else. Just spitballing here, don’t really know the particulars.
This was the snub I was most disappointed about by a mile.
“Hollywood has such a phobia of older actresses, it’s really sad and embarrassing.”
A couple of problems here.
KST is 48, and she is a smokin’ hot woman no matter what her age, and hardly an ‘older” woman by any standard.
In the context of Oscars and snubs (the theme of the thread), the Academy has far less of a “phobia” about older actresses than do film producers, directors, and the writers who don’t create enough parts for them.
$2.5 million isn’t at all bad for a foreign-language film. Better than most.
“$2.5 million isn’t at all bad for a foreign-language film. Better than most.”
My comment was in context of exposure for Oscar consideration…La Vie En Rose opened in June 2007 in the US, maxed out on 178 screens, with a domestic gross of $10+ million…worldwide total gross of $86 million…
ILYSL opened here late October…US gross to date $2.5 million…worldwide total gross $17 million…
Which one landed not only an Oscar nom, but a win for the leading actress?
It doesn’t surprise me that she’s much more well-received by the French than by the Americans or Brits. Hollywood has such a phobia of older actresses, it’s really sad and embarrassing.
She’s a great actress.
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