Another honoree, Danielle Deadwyler of 'Till,' said that despite personally being overlooked for an Oscar nomination, 'Award season has given us the opportunity to share the themes, the goals, the intentions of our film,' describing the journey as 'Nothing but a win in every sense of the word.'
’s father in, “The responsibility felt massive,” noting that the character was “A Jewish Stanley Kowalski with a PhD.”
Quan, always full of energy, reflected on his journey back to acting decades after leaving his child stardom behind, having spent many of the intervening years in behind-the-scenes capacities on film sets. “That acting bug that I buried for so long slowly crawled its way back to the surface,” he said, and when he was asked to play Waymond in, “All of those experiences that I’d had, I brought all of them into that character.
Quan’s costar Hsu spoke about the emotional climax of her performance and the film, when her character confronts her mother, and said, “I’ll never forget that scene.”Deadwyler, asked what it was like to be the subject of “Oscar snub outrage” and if she had “felt the love,” responded without hesitation, “Oh, every day! Award season has given us the opportunity to share the themes, the goals, the intentions of our film.
Irishwoman Condon provided a funny discourse on the difference between “feckin” and “fuckin'” , before more seriously analyzing her character and her experience on a male-dominated set . Then Butler, for whom the vast majority of attendees had shown up, based on my reading of the room, spoke about the challenges of playingwithout just doing another “impersonation.” He also spoke about the gift of getting to know and befriend the Presley family, including Presley’s recently deceased daughterThe seven other honorees then returned to the stage and fielded a wide variety of questions from Karger.
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