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On Feb. 26, Los Angeles will become whatLa La Landpromises: A city of stars.
But before the envelopes are opened, we’ve got inside intel on the nominees.
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But that’s where her extraordinary vulnerability comes in.
F, that’s painful."
Amid all the buoyancy and romance ofLa La Land, Stone turns that pain into grace.
Ben Rothstein; Stephanie Branchu; NICK WALL; Dale Robinette; Guy Ferrandis
Her mixture of melancholy and hopefulness makes Mia first and foremost relatable.
That’s an instinct that Stone, luckily for us, can’t shake.
“I hope I never lose that.
I can’t ever lose that.”
“She edited her interviews,” Portman says.
It’s a little bit of a detective story, imagining what she wouldn’t want out there."
“We understood how collectively traumatic it was which is obviously only an iota of what she felt.”
Portman captures Jackie’s pain, our pain, in a searing, unforgettable performance.
She has as many career Oscar nominations as Katharine Hepburn and Marlon Brando put together.
But that shouldn’t diminish what a fascinating tightrope she tiptoes in Stephen Frears' dramedy.
“It’s like talking to a university professor,” Grant says.
To say nothing of our enthusiasm for watching her.
“Oh, God, those elegant, mellifluous tones,” Ruth Negga says.
“I could listen to her all day.”
“She speaks so articulately and not in a peacocky, show-off way,” Negga says.
“I didn’t go out there with a barrage of questions,” Negga says.
“All I wanted to do was sit with her and just be with her and her energy.
I think we just both cried for about an hour.”
Watching Negga’s performance, audiences have had the same reaction.
She’s also the target of a sexual assault in the film’s very first scene.
“In a way, it gives you the good cards.”
And Huppert certainly knows how to play them.
