In thatfour-hour TV marvel, she played a seemingly cold-to-the-touch suicidal woman in small town Maine.
The Emmy-winning performance is a master class in making an unsympathetic character into someone still utterly dynamic.
It could be partly my taste.
Its just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
And that was an ongoing debate between all of us working on it.
McDormand found herself having very similar conversations with McDonagh while working onThree Billboards.
Martin and I, again, had some of the same conversations about vulnerability, she says.
I believed there were places where Mildred simply cant access her emotions.
So why be afraid of that?
Everybody is fing crying in movies all the time, even the men!
For me, thats not Greek tragedy, its a therapy session.
Its about neuroses and not pain and rage.
Theres something healing about tears.
So I was interested in her being locked out of her own humanity.
The actress cites the final moments of the reigning Best Picture Oscar winner to illustrate her point.
You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other.
And its bold, its deep, its complex, its profound.
And they do not fing cry!
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouriopens in theaters on Nov. 10.
