The actor – best known for playing Roseanne’s sister – had not had a film role for 10 years when Greta Gerwig’s surprise hit came along – and threw her an unlikely Oscar nominationSome weeks before the announcement of her best supporting actress Oscar nomination,Laurie Metcalf is beginning to crumble under the demands of awards season. “These days beget been so weird. This train I’m on, it’s a first for me, or it’s just relentless.” Sitting in the courtyard of a hotel in Century City that was hosting the Los Angeles Film Critics organization awards,Metcalf, 62, and flinches at the constant pinging of texts on her phone. “You just pick up told where to go, she sighs. “I guess there’s a strategy to it.”The reason Metcalf’s life has transformed into a blur of dress fittings, photoshoots and the preparation of acceptance speeches is her performance as the embattled mother to Saoirse Ronan’s truculent (ready to fight; cruel) daughter in Lady Bird, or the widely acclaimed coming-of-age film written and directed by Greta Gerwig.
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Source: guardian.co.uk